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19288323Blue moire with pictorial pastedowns to covers. Previous owner's inscription to rear of board dated 1951. A total of 15 colored plates with tissue guards and 13 Hebrew poems opposite. A nice clean copy without any other markings. 8.25 x 8.25 in Miller-Lynn Publishing Co. hardcover
RARE edition of the Hebrew text with German translation of the following biblical books: Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Proverbs, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah. All books translated by Salomon Jacob Cohen (1772-1845, also: Shalom ben Jacob Cohen, Cohn, Salomon Hakohen) - a German-Jewish Hebrew scholar, teacher, writer and Bible translator, an important representative of the Haskalah movement in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. 195x115mm. 316 double pages (93+36+54+66+67; altogether 632 pages). Black board Hardcover. Cover slightly stained. Cover rubbed. Cover corners bumped and peeling. Cover edge peeling. Spine missing. Inner cover and title page slightly dirty. Page 23 of the Book of Job detached from binding with slightly worn edges. Binding somewhat loose. Pages yellowing, slightly wavy and age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare edition of the biblical Wisdom literature, with both the original Hebrew text and German translation, is otherwise in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This book's cover is very worn, loose or missing. If you'd like, we can send this book to be rebound for an extra charge.
SET IN THREE VOLUMES. 24.5x17.5 cm.24+542+14+569+14+617 pages. Hardcover. All volumes: cover and spine are slightly dirty and scratched. Corners of book are slightly scuffed. Edges of book are slightly dirty. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
FOUR VOLUME SET. [ALL VOLUMES]: 290x220 mm. [XII+572] + [546] + [742] + [748] pages. Hardcover. Cover rubbed and curved. Cover corners slightly bumped and slightly worn. Spine rubbed. Spine edges bumped and rubbed. Inner cover and few pages stained - NO damage to text. Pen inscription on front whitepage. [VOL.I]: Spine upper edge torn. [SUMMARY]: Else all volumes in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
TWO VOLUME SET. SIGNED BY EDITOR - the distinguished scholar of Hebrew and Jewish languages, Shelomo Morag, WITH DEDICATION to George Mandel (author of one of the articles in the collection), dated Nisan 1987. This comprehensive two-volume collection on contemporary Hebrew contains articles IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH by the preeminent 20th-century scholars of Hebrew, from the pioneer of the revival of Hebrew in the modern era Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, to contemporary leading scholars in the field, such as Shelomo Morag, Yishai Tobin, George Mandel, Uzzi Ornan, Chaim Rabin, Haim Blanc, Edward Ullendorf, Aaron Bar-Adon, Ora R.Schwarzwald, Monica S.Devens, Werner Weinberg, Holly Semiloff-Zelasko, Shlomo Ariel, Shmuel Bolozky, Yehiel Hayon, Lewis Glinert, Robert L.Cooper, Jack Fellman, Shimon Shur, and many others. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 240x165mm. XVIII+743 pages. Softcover. Cover, cover corners/edges, spine and spine edges/hinges rubbed. Spine edges slightly bumped/wrinkled. [VOL.I]: Editor's signed dedication on front pre-title page upper corner. Some pages bottom corner slightly bumped/wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare two volume collection of studies on contemporary Hebrew semantics by the leading authorities in the field is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
2026x-100969197XCambridge University Press 2026. Hardcover. New. 266 pages. 6.00x0.75x9.00 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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2025x-1108495583Cambridge University Press 2025. Hardcover. New. 372 pages. 6.00x0.88x9.00 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1871060590Edinburgh: Edmondson & Douglas 1871. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. EDINBURGH : 1871. First published the previous year. Hardback. Red cloth; printed paper-label to spine. Untrimmed edges as issued. Yellow end-papers. No owner name or internal markings. Tight bright and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED. xxxi 156 pages. Index. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmondson & Douglas. V. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Edmondson & Douglas hardcover
8vo., 'Preacher's' Edition, with occasional neat underlining, two neat late nineteenth century signatures on blank preliminary; attractively bound and cased in publisher's original 'preacher's' roan portfolio with folding yapped edges and closing flap with pencil holder (empty), sides with double gilt frame border, owner's initials blocked in gilt on upper board, back with five bands ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, chocolate endpapers, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. bright, crisp example of a 'preacher's' version, printed in large type to facilitate oration in public. COPIES WITH ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO ARE VERY SCARCE.
RARE final report of the excavations of the large fortress of Horvat 'Uza, which was originally built in the Iron Age and re-used with modifications in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and the smaller frontier outpost of Horvat Radum, which was abandoned at the end of the Iron Age. The results of the excavation of part of a newly-discovered Iron Age settlement (no. 24) are also presented. These excavations, which spanned the years 1982-1988 and 1996, were carried out as a joint venture by the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University and the University of Waco, Texas, under the direction of Itzhaq Beit-Arieh and Bruce C. Cresson. This publication contains the contributions of several specialists in their fields and covers the architecture, stratigraphy, pottery, epigraphic finds, numerous small finds, archaeobotanical and archaeozoological remains, and an historical overview. Contains numerous b&w illustrations. 275x225mm. VI+347 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt lettering and illustration/symbol on front cover and spine. Jacket edges/corners wrinkled. Jacket spine bottom edge slightly peeling/worn. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare important contribution to the knowledge of the Judahite defense system on its eastern border during the last days of the kingdom in the First Temple Period and the nature of its relationship with Edom, is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
67752, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback,Pages: 671 p., Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:40 col., 31 tables b/w.; Language(s):French, English, German *new. ISBN 9782503616896.
2025x-1009616595Cambridge University Press 2025. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 5.50x0.56x8.50 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
RARE critical edition of a biography of the renowned blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer Al'-Ma'ari (973-1057), known as a 'pessimistic freethinker' and a controversial rationalist of his time, who cited reason as the chief source of truth. This biography was written by an eminent 17th-century Syrian man of letters Yusuf Al-Badi'i (d.1662). Contains a b&w plate. 245x175mm. 176 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine yellowing and stained. Cover corners and edges worn. Spine worn. Spine edges and hinges bumped and peeling. Spine rear hinge upper edge cracked. Cover coming loose from binding between front cover and title page. Light water-stain on extreme pages bottom corner/edge. Title page partly missing. Extreme pages browning. Small stain on plate; plate bottom edge water-stained - NO damage to text. Pages yellowing and rough-cut as published. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare critical edition of an influential text in the history of literary criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic culture is otherwise in good condition.
RARE Ladino - French/German dictionary with scientific introduction dealing with phonetics and word-formation by Dr.Samuel Romano (1906-1941), submitted as doctoral dissertation under the philologist Prof.Peter Skok to the University of Zagreb before the author's untimely death in the Holocaust. This important contribution to the study of the Bosnian dialect of Judezmo (or 'il Gidyo', as this Sephardi Jewish language was affectionately called by its speakers in Bosnia) had remained in manuscript form from 1933 until now, and thus was virtually inaccessible to those interested in the language. Finally available to scholars of Ladino, this photocopy of the original manuscript contains the author's portrait and a foreword by Professor David M. Bunis of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 290x205mm. XIV+12+322 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine slightly stained/dirty. Cover edges and spine yellowing. Cover corners and fore-edge and spine edges slightly wrinkled. Small stain on English title-page. [SUMMARY]: This important contribution to the study of Judeo-Spanish language in general, and to the Bosnian dialect in particular, is in good condition
1902AUB-8565Neuchâtel, F. Zahn, libraire-éditeur 1902. Bel exemplaire relié, reliure pleine toile ornée, fort in-4, XVIII + 856 pages avec table, avant-propos du traducteur placé en tête de la première édition, introduction de G. Secretan et table des planches + 355 pages avec table des ill. et 2 index.
1978N4285Jerusalem: Makor 1978. Limited Edition . Original Half Leather. Near Fine. Folio -. A LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION OF 390 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NR.222 A FINE COPY. <br/> <br/> Makor hardcover
1974N4242aJerusalem: Makor Publishing Ltd 1974. Original Full Leather. Near Fine. 4to. Limited numbered Facsimile edition of the Hebrew Manuscript edition of 1300 copies. 532pp for the 2 volumes. Synthetic leather bindings. Complete with the introductory brochure by Prof. Sarna. Head of spine slightly hardly visible rubbed on vol.1 bottom spine of vol.2 with minimal loss please see photo otherwise a very good and fresh copy. <br/> <br/> Makor Publishing Ltd hardcover
8vo; 1095 + 500 pages; Original Publisher's Cloth. Large 8vo. 1095, 500 pages. Volumes I & II are in English, Volume III is in Hebrew. Includes a bibliography of baron's works. Contents include: From Zudecha to Yahudi Mahallesi: The Jewish Quarter of Candia in the Seventeenth Century (by Zvi Ankori) ; Premiers Temoignages Epigraphiques Sur les Juifs en France (by Bernard Blumenkranz) ; The Hasmonean Revolution Politically Considered (by Martin A. Cohen) ; Christian Translators of Mamonaides' Mishne Torah into Latin (by Jacob Dienstag) ; H. M. Baratz and his View of Khazar Influence on the Earliest Russian Literature, Juridical and Historical (by Douglas Dunlop) ; Garcia de Orta--A Militant Marrano in Portuguese-India in the 16th Century (by Walter J. Fischel) ; Jewish Influence upon Arthurian Legends (by Kurt Leviant) ; Taamrat Emanuel's Note of Falasha Monks and Holy Places (by Wolf Leslau) ; The Attitudes of the Early Karaites towards Christianity (by Leon Nemoy) ; Hermann Cohen and Heinrich Graetz (by Erwin I. J. Rosenthal) ; A Frankish Document from Prague (by Gershom Scholem) ; East European Workers in Germany during World War I (by Zosa Szakowski) ; Young German Intellectuals on Romanticism and Judaism--Spiritual Turbulence in the Early19th Century (by Uriel Tal) ; Professing Jews in Post-Expulsion Spain and Portugal (by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi) ; Unpublished Materials on the Relations of Austrian and German Jews to the Central Governments (by Arthur Zuckerman); etc. Nice, clean copies in Very good condition. (FEST1-119)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 21 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to The Awakener. Includes April (33 pages) , May (33 pages) , June (33 pages) July-August (73 pages) , September (36 pages) , October (37 pages) , November (36 pages) , Issue from 1907 (39 pages) . Not to be confused with the Tel Aviv reprint of the first year. Early Hebrew periodical which features many of the periods most well-known Hebrew writers. This periodical featured commentary on current affairs and literature, and greatly influenced the young Jews of the highly-influential Second Aliyah. (EJ, 2008) . The editor, Y. H. Brenner is considered a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature. Brenner (1881-1921) was initially from Russia, but escaped to London after deserting the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese war. It was in London that Brenner became instrumental in the Hebrew literature movement and Zionism. This culminated in his emigration to Palestine where he rose to prominence before his murder in the 1921 Jaffa riots. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Hebrew literature, Modern -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide (OCLC: 45947005) . Ex-library with no markings. Most issues are unbound with significant edge wear. Some loss of text in November issue, but others are Good. Overall Good- Condition. (YID-30-27)
1st Hebrew edition. Original boards. 8vo. 232 pages, 19 cm. In Hebrew with additional German dedication page and occational word in German. 1st Hebrew edition of Goethes Faust. Title translates to Ben Avuyah: A Poem about the Merits of Life. Meir Letteris (1800-1871) was an Austrian Jewish scholar and the foremost poet of the Galician Haskala. He published a working translation of Goethes Faust using the character of Elisha ben Abuyah instead. Ben Abuyah was a controversial rabbi and religious authority from the period immediately following the destruction of the Second Temple. His views were considered heretical by the other Tannaim, leading to Talmud references to him falling under the name "The Other One. (Wikipedia, 2018) . Second title page notes (in German) : Goethe's Faust: eine tragoedie in eniner hebraeischen Umdichtung von Max Letteris. SUBJECTS: Hebrew drama -- Translations from German. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide (OCLC: 41217024) . Ex-library with usual markings. Wear to boards. Very light soiling to tile page. Overall good+ condition. (RAB-65-17-LRX)
Marbled later boards8vo. 168 pages. First edition. Volume 1 only. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Literature Jewish. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Rosenthal (1843-1917) was born in Latvia. As a result of the pogroms of 1881 Rosenthal reached the conclusion that the solution to the Jewish problem in Eastern Europe lay in emigration from Russia and in agricultural settlement. In 1882, he and his followers established a Jewish settlement in the United States, in Louisiana. This settlement was destroyed by a flood, and he resettled in the Dakotas, and there was also unsuccessful. Rosenthal also edited a section of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and was the head of the New York public library's Slavonic department (Slutsky, EJ) . Ex library with usual markings and bookplate, edgeworn, very good condition. (AMR-16-10A) xx
Marbled later boards8vo. 168 pages. First edition. Volume 1 only. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Literature Jewish. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Rosenthal (1843-1917) was born in Latvia. As a result of the pogroms of 1881 Rosenthal reached the conclusion that the solution to the Jewish problem in Eastern Europe lay in emigration from Russia and in agricultural settlement. In 1882, he and his followers established a Jewish settlement in the United States, in Louisiana. This settlement was destroyed by a flood, and he resettled in the Dakotas, and there was also unsuccessful. Rosenthal also edited a section of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and was the head of the New York public library's Slavonic department (Slutsky, EJ) . Ex library with usual markings and bookplate, edgeworn, very good condition. (AMR-16-10B)
Spine rebacked. 8vo. 168 pages. First edition. Volume 1 only. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Literature Jewish. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Rosenthal (1843-1917) was born in Latvia. As a result of the pogroms of 1881 Rosenthal reached the conclusion that the solution to the Jewish problem in Eastern Europe lay in emigration from Russia and in agricultural settlement. In 1882, he and his followers established a Jewish settlement in the United States, in Louisiana. This settlement was destroyed by a flood, and he resettled in the Dakotas, and there was also unsuccessful. Rosenthal also edited a section of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and was the head of the New York public library's Slavonic department (Slutsky, EJ) . Edgeworn, flaking, good condition. (AMR-16-10C)
(FT) Hardcover, 12mo, 32 pages, portrait, 15 cm. In Hebrew. 1st edition. Totsaah meyuhadah meha-Hashkafah shanah 3 Cover title. The author (née Paula Jonas) , was the lexicographer Eliezer Ben Yehudahs 2nd wife, marrying him shortly after the death of her sister, his first wife Devora (née Jonas) . Adopting the Hebrew name Hemdah, she learned Hebrew fluently in record time, became a reporter for his paper [Hatzvi -- The Deer -- a weekly newspaper], and in time took over as editor, in order to allow Eliezer to concentrate on his research of the lost Hebrew words that the reborn tongue required . Hatzvi was the first Hebrew paper to report what was happening throughout the land. For this paper Eliezer needed to coin new Hebrew words for objects and verbs that did not exist in the days of the last Hebrew commonwealth (Junior Judaica, Encyclopedia Judaica for Youth, 1992) . OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Harvard, Princeton, NYPL, Stanford, UC-Berkeley) . Slight browning and wear to edges of pages. Otherwise, very good condition. (Rab-40-27)
