A Jewish Iconography by Alfred Rubens. Limited deluxe edition with a comprehensive index with plates and prints of Jewish iconography. London, 1954.
160, xvi pages, [75] plates. Limited edition of 500 copies, with a pre-sale booklet.
White, half-cloth and parchment binding. Top edge gilt. Very fine condition.
An Essay Towards the Recovery of the Jewish Measures and Weights, Comprehending Their Monies, by Help of Ancient Standards, Compared with Ours of England. By Richard Cumberland. London, 1686. First edition.
[7] leaves, 140 pages, [2] leaves [1 folded chart], tables. 16.5 cm.
Weights and measures in the Holy Scriptures compared to other measurements. Folded chart with illustrations of ancient Jewish coins. Tables comparing various measurements in the book itself.
Leather binding, minimal aging stains. Very fine condition.
Ketavim B’Sefer. Illustrations, essays, and letters regarding Jewish life in America by Hillel ben Zev Malachovsky. Philadelphia, [1902]. Only edition.
98, [2] pages. 20 cm. Quality paper. Interesting work, in a sharp tone, regarding Jewish life in America. Poem at the end of the book opposing Chassidim. Uncommon.
New binding. Very fine condition. Goldman 1123.
Otzar HaSefer HaIvri by Yeshayahu Vinograd, published by the Institute for Computerized Bibliography. Two volumes. Jerusalem, 1993-1995. Unique copy. Special paper.
Section one. Indexes. Bibliophile edition. Copy 30 of 100, with a list of pre-subscribers.
Section two. Printer locations.
Set of the noted bibliographic work featuring a list of books printed in Hebrew from the beginning of Hebrew print in 1469 through 1863. Includes more than 32,000 works with much bibliographic information about each book. Many useful indexes.
Original luxurious bindings, half-leather and cloth. Very fine-excellent condition.
* Reshimat Sifrei Chachmah V’Sifrei Tefillot Shenidpisu B’Hotza’at Shlomo Belforte V’Chavero. Leghorn, [1934].
[15] leaves, 16 cm. Two titles pages in Hebrew and Italian on the binding. This is an elegant book catalog with prices, printed in various colored ink, with facsimiles and an illustration of the globe. Along with [4] pages of sale conditions in Hebrew and Italian from 1937.
Paper jacket, minimal stains, and a few worming holes. Fine-very fine condition.
* Biblioteca Espanola-Portuguesa-Judaica. Catalog of Judaic books in Spanish and Portuguese printed by A. Rosenthal. Oxford.
68 pages. 21 cm. Paper jacket with title page text. Facsimile. Catalog #35.
Colored paper jacket with light tears, without its back. Fine condition.
Assortment of 11 research books regarding synagogues, with colored plates and illustrations, Europe and Israel. 1901-2003.
[1] History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. London, 1901. Historic work regarding the ancient synagogue in England, marking the 200th anniversary of its establishment. Deluxe edition, not for sale. 201 pages. Plates, documents.[1] Synagogale Alterumer. Berlin, 1922. 470 pages.[1] The Ancient Synagogue of El-Hammah. Jerusalem, 1935. 99 pages, plates. Dedicated by the author.[1] De Synagoge in Ballingschap en disapora. Holland, 1978. 215 pages, colored pates. Tear in the jacket.[1] The Synagogue, Brian de Breffny. London, 1978. 215 pages. Colored plates.[1] Synagoga, Kultgerate unk Kunstwerke (exhibition catalog), Germany 1960-1961. Dozens of plates, some colored.[1] Gedenkstatte Synagoge Michelbach, 1984.[1] The History of the Westminster Synagogue, 2003.[1] The Federation of Synagogues, 1987.[1] The Synagogues of Bar’am; Jerusalem Ossuaries. Jerusalem, 1987. 103 cards with pictures and descriptions of the items. From the Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art.
Overall fine-very fine condition.
* Het Eerste Boek Mozes. Genesis. Amsterdam, 1931. Hebrew-Dutch dictionary on the weekly Torah readings of Genesis.[3] 221 [1] pages, 22 cm. Large, unique work. Original binding.
* Het Hebreeuwsch Alphbet. 30 printed lessons for the study of Hebrew, on separate leaves. [Amsterdam]. Joachimsthal’s Boekhandel, uitgevers en Drukkerijberijf N.V. [1938-1940]. Missing lessons 27-28.
* 500 First Words for Adults, published by the Department of Education and Culture in the Diaspora, Dutch branch.
31 [1] pages, 22 cm. The National Library has similar editions of this work that were printed in Jerusalem, however this one is different. Detached paper cover.
All the books are in fine condition and not in the National Library.
List of Passover haggadot printed in all countries, over four hundred years, by Shmuel Wiener. Petersburg, 1901. Only edition.
[1] 12, 54, VII pages, 28.5 cm. Hebrew and German.
Detailed list of 884 Passover haggadot printed between 1500 and 1900. Prominent bibliographic work by a noted bibliographer. Despite the many years that have passed since this list was composed, and despite the many new bibliographic works that have been created, this work is still used extensively and is very relevant.
Simple binding. Tear in the blank margins of the title page without loss. Fine-very fine condition.
* Textbooks and children’s books printed in Eretz Yisrael between 1890-1928, bibliography by Avraham Yaari. Jersualem, 1929. 42 pages. 28.5 cm. Very fine condition.
Flauij Josephi, dess hochberühmpten jüdischen Geschichtschreibers, Historien und Bücher
First German edition of sections of Josephus Flavius’s works, translated by Conrad Lautenbach, with the addition of dozens of woodcuts and magnificent title pages. Frankfurt am Main, 1569. Rare.
Three sections in one volume:[6], 342, 183, [13], xvii, [missing 9]. 36 cm. Special print title pages for sections two and three, dozens of woodcuts, some signed.
First German edition of some sections of the writings of historian Josephus Flavius. Includes The Antiquities of the Jews, regarding Jewish history until the Great Revolt (Josephus was a commander in the Galilee and later a historian in Rome), and two additional sections about Jerusalem and the great rebellion taken from The Jewish War. This edition, with Lautenbach’s translation, served as the basis for dozens of additional editions that were published over the next centuries.
Leather-covered wooden boards with many decorations, original. Restored spine. Missing clasps. Reinforced title page. Minimal worming holes. The bottom corner of the last leaves of the end section were restored, affecting solitary letters. Missing the nine last leaves with indexes. Fine condition.
Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes Against the Jewish People, by Max Weinreich. New York, 1946. With the signature of Albert Einstein.
First edition of the book examining the role played by German scientists in the destruction of the Jewish people. On the endpapers, the handwritten signature of Albert Einstein. As is known, despite Einstein’s standing, the Nazis took away his scientific position and later even cancelled his German citizenship.
Cardboard cover. Very fine condition.
Rav Tzair, Masechet Zichronot. The writings of “Rav Tzair” (Chaim Tchernovitch). New York, 1945. A dedication to Albert Einstein.
“Rav Tzair” (Chaim Tchernovitch) was a friend of Albert Einstein. The last chapter of the book focuses on his visit to Einstein, and he ends with the blessing “Blessed is He who gives of His wisdom to His creations.” On the last page of the book is a photograph of the two men. The author dedicated this copy to Albert Einstein.
Regular binding with jacket. Very fine condition.
Board with numbered pieces for cutting and pasting, depicting a family at the Passover Seder. Published by the Education Department of the JNF in the 1940s?
[1] posterboard sheet. 56×76 cm. With instructions and numbers regarding assembly.
Light tear in the fold. Fine condition.
