Judaísmo

Basel Switzerland: Froben (in officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium), 1559. Hardcover. Good. Fine Froben printer's marks on titlepage and colophon, large figurative initials at head of each section as used in Froben editions from 1515 [cut by Faber from designs by Hans Holbein the Younger] + smaller historiated initials throughout.. Folio rolled pigskin on wooden boards, floral borders surrounding rolls of Biblical scenes with texts & the Virtues, spine with early manuscript title and 4 double raised cords, title also faintly written at foot of central front cover compartment (pigskin lacking along lower half of front hinge repaired with vellum underlaid, all cords firmly attached, some light stains & damage to pigskin more on upper than lower cover, lacks all brass clasps/corner ornaments) [12] +886 +[34]pp index. Fine early coloured armorial bookplate, with neat library shelf marks on pastedown and at top of title, lower gutter of first 24 leaves damaged by former… Leer más

Size:24.5*20.5cm. Good, a little creased as shown. With Consular Service Shanghai stamps as shown.

134 pages, size 247x165mm, many cartoons related with Chinese and Westerns. all the articles seems concerns their life in China.
Good+, about 1920s. Judaica
Printed by The Shanghai Times.

Bagdad: al- Furat press, 1924 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Arabic text, 224 p. with several full page photographic plates. Detailed history of the jews in iraq by a jew Iraqi scholar. Contemporary hard cover binding. Occasional minor marginal worm holes without text affects. Rare..

Rare. Size: 147x80 cm. Original rubbing on thin paper (maybe Bible paper because of its very fine quality). was attached to thick paper to make a hanging scroll. Some wear on the thick paper, but very good on the thin rubbing paper. There are two red stamps on middle-right of the scroll, which probably is the stamps of former owners. This stele in 1489 is the first document found and also a very important document to describe the history of Judaism and Jewish people in China. Its contents are in three sections; one explains the origin and history of Judaism, another describes the rituals and worship of Chinese Jews around the time of the stele construction, and the last tells that there were 70 surnames families of the Kaifeng Jewish community, several surnames being the officers of Chinese Emperor, a Zhao surname among them being a past imperial audience. The Zhao surname was also the surname of the emperors of Song Dynasty（AD 960--AD 1279） in China, and can only be bestowed by emperors… Leer más

Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801962471 . Signed and briefly inscribed by Kahane upon front free endpaper. xii, 338 pages. Index. "The inside story, by its founder, of the militant organization determined to defend Jews in whatever manner necessary." - dust jacket. "I am not ashamed to admit it. I do not understand the Jew. I am at a loss to understand a man so clever in business, so keen in science, so intellectually bright in debate - and so incredibly stupid when it comes to saving himself." - dust jacket. Book tight and square with moderate wear and bump to upper corner of front board. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; JDL, Jewish Defense League, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Jews in the United States - Politics and Government, Soviet Jewry, Black Panthers, Chaya Squad,; Signed by Author(s) .

Berlin: Verlag Schwellen, 1923. First Edition . Original Decorative Half-cloth. Very Good. Folio-oblong. Issachar Beer Ryback. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 31 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS with captions in yiddish. Front-cover: on the leftside one strip (5cm wide) with some discoloration. (for binding see our photos) Edges with truly insignificant occasional foxing . "Bilder - Verzeichnis" reproduced in facsimile. A very good , clean and fresh copy AS RARELY SEEN - A SCARCE ITEM of JEWISH ART in the Russian Avantgarde Style.

Forward by Rabbi Avraham Soltes. Light blue cloth portfolio, upper cover with gilt titling, in a matching clamshell box with gilt titling on cover and spine. WITH 11 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, titled, numbered, and SIGNED BY CHAIM GROSS. Text printed in red and black. ◆In mint condition.In this jubilant exploration of faith and community, prominent Jewish artist and émigré Chaim Gross (1902-91) presents a joyful mix of animated figures, bright colors, and decorative lettering in a series of lithographs illustrating the 10 holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Displaced from his small village in the Carpathian Mountains during the First World War, Gross in 1921 immigrated to America, where he studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He specialized in sculpture and printmaking, employing the method of direct carving he helped pioneer and for which he would predominantly be known. Following the Second World War, Gross became increasingly interested in Jewish subjects, and travelled to Israel… Leer más

Jerusalem: Makor, 1974. Original faux-leather Boards. Near Fine. 4to. Some 300 and more pages for each of the 6 volumes. Series A and B. Complete with the very rare " Page Index By Rabbi A I. Sherry" - Series A contains: Vat.Ebr.130, Vat.Ebr134, Vat.Ebr.108, 109 and 110. Series B contains Vat.Ebr.111, 119, 114, 118 und 112. UNCENSORED TEXTS! 2 volumes with an insignificant mark of a few cm - one on upper right corner of title , the other on front end paper. Vol 5 uncut and front hinges reinforced. IN GENERAL A FINE COPY FRESH AND CLEAN VERY RARE COMPLETE SET.

Berlin: Chovevei Hashira Ha'ivrit, 1923. SPECIAL limited and Numbered Edition . Original Vellum. Fine. 8vo. Joseph Budko. Text in Hebrew. Complete Set of four volumes: Vol. 1: "Shirim" (Poems), Vol. 2: "Seforim Divrei Sifrut" (Literature), Vol. 3: "Targum Mekutzar shel Don Kishot, Ish Lamansha le-Miguel de Cervantes" (Shortened translation of Don Quichotte, Man of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes). Vol. 4: "Targum Wilhelm Tell le-Friedrich Schiller" (Translation of Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller). Volumes 1 and 2 are original works by Bialik in Hebrew, volumes 3 and 4 are Bialik's translations . FIRST EDITION ( of which the regular edition of 3000 copies was published in green cloth binding). With book decoration and 19 original wood cuts by Joseph Budko and an etching-portrait of Bialik by Max Liebermann This work was published in the year of Bialik's 50th birthday, during the very few years Bialik spent in Berlin between 1921- 1924 after… Leer más

Vilna, 1867. First Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 8vo. 1867 for the first volume and 1876 for the other 3 volumes. First volume printed by S.I. Fin & a. Zvi Rosenkrantz. 3 other volumes at the printing house of the Widow and Brothers Rom. Some 1200pp for the 4 volumes. THE VOLUMES ARE: 1-LEHRE DER STATIK, DYNAMIK, MASCHINENKUNDE UND AKUSTIK. 2- BUCH DER CHEMIE 3-BUCH DER W?RME UND DAMPFKRAFT. 4- BUCH DES MAGNETISMUS- ALL 4 BOOKS IN HEBREW WITH TITLE PAGES IN HEBREW, RUSSIAN AND GERMAN. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY HUNDREDS OF ENGRAVINGS. ALL VOLUMES BOUND IN MODERN HALF LEATHER BINDINGS WITH MARBLED BOARDS., AN EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE SET WITH MARVELOUS ILLUSTRATIONS. A VERY GOOD SET

Frankfurt & Berlin: J.J. Speier, 1765. First Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. 1. Theil und 2. Theil bound together. 124pp+123pp.First part called "'Ir Heshbon," on Arithmetic and Algebra; the second part : "Berure Middot," on Geometry. MODERN HALF LEATHER BINDING WITH MARBLED BOARDS. Title page with stamp, , some old handwriting and markings. Upper corner of title page some 3 cm missing and replaced with old repair. Pages with some browning and occasional minor soiling. First pages of the second part trimmrd to text. Last page of the second part with repair to edges, End papers with some old writing and minor soiling . OTHERWISE VERY GOOD.AN EXTREMELY RARE AND INTERESTING WORK of MATHEMATICS in HEBREW. (this work is mentioned in Zeitlkin, Bibliotheca Hebraica....)- Elijah ben Moses Gershon Zahalon was a Jewish Talmudist, mathematician and physician living in Pinczcow, Russian Poland.

Argentine (Strassburg), Joannem Knoblouch (Knoblauch),1508.

4º. Bound in well-preserved contemporary full pigskin over wood. Profusely blindtooled with rolls and ornamental stamps. Spine with 3 raised bands. Original brass clasp and catch. Light spotting to front cover. On top of front cover clalligraphed in ink: "Psalm". Ff (4) + Ff CXXVI + F (1) + last blank (lower righ of the blank has lost a part of the paper). Title-page printed in red inside vertikal woodcut borders and with a large woodcut depicting King David playing the harpe. The following three leaves (Calender) printed in red and black. The woodcut initial "P" in "Psalterium on title-page rubricated. Large rubricated woodcut initials. The first in different colours of gold, red and blue. One initial unfinished. The Latin text surrounded by the German text on each page. Printed on good heavy paper with broad margins, clean and fine.
A fine and exellent example of a work from the famous Knoblauch-Press in Strassburg, being an early printed… Leer más

Land Marks Press,, 2021.. Edition. 14 folios, each 8.5 inches high x 22 inches wide. 12 folios archival pigment printed on archival rag paper. 2 folios letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on BFK Rives. Housed in custom portfolio box. Numbered. Signed by the artists. This is a limited edition of 15 copies, signed by the artists. Prospectus: "This new limited edition artist's book addresses collective experiences of loss and isolation, and explores notions of private, civic, and global space, refracted through the medium of books, and inspired by 'four cubits,' the Jewish concept of personal space. Employing a shared repertoire of images developed through virtual communication, each artist worked alone in her studio - Andi Arnovitz in Jerusalem, Lynne Avadenka in Detroit and Mirta Kupferminc in Buenos Aires - to create their individual book pages." Artist information included in prospectus. Lynne Avadenka, project: "'The House Is in the Book:… Leer más

Amsterdam: Uitgeveij Contact, 25 juni 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Hard cover, pp 253. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT, no dust jacket. First edition of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. Small Octavo. One of 3000 booklets printed 75 YEARS AGO ON JUNE 25th 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor. Title on the front board and the spine. A 'good - 'copy; Some foxing of the boards. The book has had a professional restoration. The original spine has been re-attached to the renewed binding. The text Anne Frank Het Achterhuis has faded but is still visible. Pages are slightly tanned after 75 years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in… Leer más