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188031077Lipsiae: Ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz 1880. 8vo 22.4 cm 8.8". 1 f. 82 pp.; manuscript notes bound in. <br><br>This "textum masoreticum" book of psalms i.e. the traditional Hebrew text was edited by masoretic scholar Seligman Baer 182597 and theologian Franz Delitzsch 181390 as part of their Masoretic Bible series published by Tauchnitz between 1869 and 1895. A truly => unique copy this particular volume is thickly interleaved with variously sized sheets and tabs containing the fastidious manuscript notes of published author => Walter Robert Betteridge D.D. 18631916 a notable faculty member in the Old Testament Department of the Rochester Theological Seminary who swathed page after page in minute inked marginalia and added yet more bulk with clippings from related texts annotated of course.<br>Â Â Â Â Among the doctor's publications was an article on "The Accuracy of the Authorized Version of the Old Testament" 1911 including the Hebrew psalms.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Donated by Mrs. Betteridge to the seminary library with institutional bookplate noting this on rear pastedown. Recent black moiré silk spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Ex-library with bookplate on rear pastedown as above pressure-stamp on title-page call number in lower margin of second leaf; paper brittle dust- or sometimes soot-soiled at edges and prone to chipping. Replete with scholia this is => a stunning testament to one scholar's study of the O.T. Ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz hardcover books
39481Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 5605. 8vo 5 volumes. 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Each volume inscribed at the head of the English-language title "To my beloved wife from her affectionate husband" the first volume with a later family annotation. Contemporary purple morocco spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt in the second and fourth repeating gilt decoration in others marbled edges marbled endpapers.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Solomon Nunes Carvalho each cover stamped in gilt<br/> <br/>Rare large-paper association copy of the first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English.<br/> <br/>More than any other person of his time Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts institutions and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest Jewish community in the history of the Jewish people. Printed in 1845 this edition of the Pentateuch in five volumes included a vocalized Hebrew text of each of the Five Books of Moses together with an English translation and notes as well as the haftarot prophetic readings. Leeser actually began working on The Law of God in 1838. Among the factors involved in his decision to begin systematically working on a translation was the recent opening of Rebecca Gratz's Sunday School which met for the first time in March 1838 in Philadelphia and was desperately in need of appropriate study material. Students were compelled to use the King James Bible for want of a Jewish alternative. Religiously objectionable passages in other texts provided by Protestant organizations were either pasted over or torn out by Gratz's staff. Leeser who supported the Sunday School and was its chief academic resource person felt compelled to find more suitable texts for the students. The impetus for Leeser throughout was always his desire to provide the Jews of America with an English text of the Bible that was produced by one of their own and was not tainted by conversionist motivations. This copy with provenance to Solomon Nunes Carvalho who was a noted American painter photographer writer and inventor best known for traveling with John C. Fremont on his fifth expedition through Kansas Colorado and Utah. He published an account of that journey titled "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition" 1860 and was considered a pioneer in travel photography. Isaac Leeser the hazzan of Congregation K.K. Mikveh Israel married Carvalho and his wife Sarah Miriam Solis on October 15 1845 in Philadelphia where Carvalho's father had a workshop.<br/> <br/>Rosenbach 569; Singerman 884; Goldman 7; Lance J. Sussman "Another Look at Isaac Leeser and the First Jewish Translation of the Bible in the United States" Modern Judaism Vol. 5 No. 2 Gershom Scholem Memorial Issue. May 1985 pp. 159-190. Printed by C. Sherman unknown books
38544Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman for the Editor 5605. Five volumes 8vo. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Contemporary black morocco covers elaborately tooled in gilt spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments yellow endpapers gilt edges expert repairs to joints and tops of spines.<br/> <br/>Provenance: M. Nathans name in gilt on the upper covers<br/> <br/>The first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English: in an elaborate contemporary binding.<br/> <br/>More than any other person of his time Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts institutions and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest Jewish community in the history of the Jewish people. Printed in 1845 this edition of the Pentateuch in five volumes included a vocalized Hebrew text of each of the Five Books of Moses together with an English translation and notes as well as the haftarot prophetic readings. Leeser actually began working on The Law of God in 1838. Among the factors involved in his decision to begin systematically working on a translation was the recent opening of Rebecca Gratz's Sunday School which met for the first time in March 1838 in Philadelphia and was desperately in need of appropriate study material. Students were compelled to use the King James Bible for want of a Jewish alternative. Religiously objectionable passages in other texts provided by Protestant organizations were either pasted over or torn out by Gratz's staff. Leeser who supported the Sunday School and was its chief academic resource person felt compelled to find more suitable texts for the students. The impetus for Leeser throughout was always his desire to provide the Jews of America with an English text of the Bible that was produced by one of their own and was not tainted by conversionist motivations. This binding is consistent with similar bindings on gift books of the era published and bound by Lippincott. This example with provenance to M. Nathans likely Moses Nathans 1811-1873 a prominent congregant of Philadelphia's Congregation Mikveh Israel.<br/> <br/>Rosenbach 569; Singerman 884; Goldman 7; Lance J. Sussman "Another Look at Isaac Leeser and the First Jewish Translation of the Bible in the United States" Modern Judaism Vol. 5 No. 2 Gershom Scholem Memorial Issue. May 1985 pp. 159-190. Printed by C. Sherman for the Editor unknown books
19856343London: Facsimile Editions 1985. Edition limited to 500 copies. Very Good/Fine facsimile of "Ms Kennicotti" held in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University a finely decorated manuscript of the Hebrew Bible that resembles in some ways the Book of Kells in the use of animal figures and and intricate marginal decorations although the style comes from the Ibero-Islamic tradition rather than the Celtic one. The manuscript was copied out twenty years prior to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 by Moshe Ibn Zabara and Yosef Ibn Chaim containing the entire Tanak together with the Radak commentary and Sefer HaMichlol. It is known as the "Kennicott Bible" after Benjamin Kennicot 1718-1783 the English clergyman and Hebraist who acquired the manuscript for Oxford University. An exceptionally beautiful facsimile five and a half years in the making it is printed on deluxe paper stock intended to reproduce the appearance of the original vellum. The gold highlights in the facsimile illustrations were applied by hand. The commentary by Bezalel Narkiss and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin provides a scholarly yet approachable historical context and artistic appreciation. A remarkable production!. 34 cm; 2 volumes 444 leaves facsimile; 97 pages commentary. Hebrew and English. Each volume in sturdy blindstamped leather bindings housed in custom velvet-lined blue cloth folding case. Slight surface mark on lower board of facsimile; surface scratch on lower board of commentary folding case a little dusty closure strap somewhat distressed else fine. Extra shipping charges will apply. [Facsimile Editions] hardcover books
195032929Jerusalem: Hebrew University 1950. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in a very good soiled dust jacket with a few small tears. xvi 207 pp. Illus. with 26 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Semi-jubilee volume. A collection of articles by friends of the University and members of its faculty. Foreword by Albert Einstein with a nice photograph. Hebrew University hardcover books
194832940Jerusalem: Hebrew University 1948. Third edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy tiny tear to spine. xiii 216 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w folding plans. 8vo. Errata slip laid in loose. Hebrew University unknown books
19681327661New York: Funk and Wagnalls 1968. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 256; G/Fair; ivory/pink/gray pictorial spine with black and blue text; dust jacket has several chips to edges; exterior slightly sunned; some light smudges due to handling; price clipped front flap; cloth has small moisture stained area to rear head edge; otherwise clean exterior; sturdy boards; text block shows minor spot to exterior fore edge; edges overall lightly toned; tight binding; illustrated; interior clean;. 1327661. FP New Rockville Stock. Funk and Wagnalls hardcover books
1857311893Vienna: Jos. Schlesinger Library 1857. Text in Hebrew and English. 875 3pp. Thick 12mo. Near contemporary binding of celluloid over cloth with bone and metal decorations and metal clasp. Light surface rubbing to covers text toned. Text in Hebrew and English. 875 3pp. Thick 12mo. Jos. Schlesinger Library unknown books
19551324242New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1955. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 394; G-/Fair; beige spine with black text; dust jacket shows several chips to edges; slight sun toning to spine; price clipped front flap; cloth has light wear to exterior; some dings and wear to edges; strong boards; text block has light shelf wear to exterior edges; interior has some underlining as is; previous owner's name to ffep; some ink writing to rear endpaper; cracked front gutter;. 1324242. FP New Rockville Stock. Yale University Press hardcover books
19111340163London: J.M. Watkins 1911. Third Edition Revised. Hardcover. 12mo; G; blue spine with gilt text; third edition revised; no jacket; cloth shows modest exterior wear; some rubbing to corners; intact boards; spine slightly sun faded; text block exterior edges shows slight wear; previous owner's name to title page; ex-library label to front pastedown; two small ink check marks to front pastedown; sticker remnants to ffep; illustrated; interior shows light tone to few edges; minor chip to tail edges to last few pages; ex-library stamp to rear pastedown; pp 49. 1340163. FP New Rockville Stock. J.M. Watkins hardcover books
18005749Roedelheim: Wolf Heidenheim 1800. First printing of a mahzor that was popular with the Jewish communities of Poland and Germany. It went through several printings in the first half of the 19th century. The editor Wolf Heidenheim established a printing press at Roedelheim in 1799 and immediately began his edition of the Mahzor with a Hebrew commentary by himself and a German translation. He based the text on a surviving Medieval manuscript dated 1258 as well as on the earliest Italian and German editions. 21 cm; volume 6 only of 9 of the liturgy for festivals this volume covering services for the evening of Yom Kippur. Text primarily in Hebrew. Preface in Yiddish. Bound in utility marbled boards worn ; pages evenly toned. Occasional stains especially on title page. Inscription in German on front blank dated 1828. Inscription in Hebrew at base of title page. Good overall. Wolf Heidenheim hardcover books
195545769Jerusalem 1955. Paperback. Very Good. Jerusalem: n.d. 1955. 47p. Softcover. 23cm. <br/><br/> Jerusalem paperback books
186335178San Francisco: Bell & Lampman 1863. 111pp. Disbound with a bit of loosening last leaf detached. Good. <br/><br/> Bishop Colenso's work is an amalgam of "blunders of the grossest description" but is nevertheless "important and dangerous" for its "attack upon the veracity of the Bible" particularly because the source of the assault is "a high dignitary in the Christian Church." <br/> Thus the Hebrew Wood Chopper defends the Pentateuch against Bishop Colenso's calumnies. He uses the remarkable sudden and unpredicted growth of California in the preceding fifteen years to refute Colenso's attack on the Pentateuch for implausible chronology. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Singerman 1802. Cowan 618. Not in Stern CA Jewish History. Bell & Lampman unknown books
1863216836Vienna: Philipp Bendiner 1863. First edition. With 2 folded leaves of plates. xliv 192 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary leather backed boards. Spine defective moderately foxed and stained. Good plus copy. Uncommon. First edition. With 2 folded leaves of plates. xliv 192 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Philipp Bendiner unknown books
195726201Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Black and white photographs fold-out diagrams. First edition. Very good in a good a few small chips damp stain on rear panel dust jacket. . Israel Exploration Society hardcover books
192952425San Francisco 1929. Paperback. Good. 93p. Wrappers browned and worn and splitting at fold. 26cm. Former owner's name. A few markings in the margins. <br/><br/> paperback books
192254569Halle a. S.: M. Niemeyer 1922. First Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary cloth bound up from the original fascicles with 1918 & 1922 prelims & note to binder. Bookplates of Jewish historian linguist and biblical scholar Max L. Margolis with his ownership signatures. Some browning to gatherings of one section else about fine. First Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. M. Niemeyer unknown books
1901264334London: Colonial 1901. hardcover. very good. Color frontis plus one plate. x 400pp. 8vo cloth t.e.g.; lightly rubbed some pages unopened. London and New York: The Colonial Press 1901. Internally fine a very good copy.<br/><br/> Colonial unknown books
16921327694Lipsiae: Johannis Casparis Meyeri/Gottfried Liebezeit 1692. Fifth Revised edition. Hardcover. Two works of Judaica bound together in a single volume: Henrico Opitio Heinrich Opitz with B. Wasmuthi. Hazer leshon ha-qodesh: Hoc est atrium linguae sanctae. Lipsiae: Johannis Casparis Meyeri 1692. Fifth Revised edition. 156 pages. Henrico Opitio Heinrich Opitz. Novum Lexicon Hebraeo-Chaldaeo-Biblicum. Lipsiae: Gottfried Liebezeit 1692. 1095 pp. Hebrew 62 pp. Chaldaean. Square quarto in full vellum binding with faded hand-written titles on spine. All edges tinted blue. Pagination restarts with each part. Text in Hebrew and Latin. Condition: Very Good. The binding is shaken with some shelf-wear and bumping. The spine and boards are sunned and somewhat warped and there are some splits at hinges and gutter. Medium age-toning and some foxing. Scattered marginalia some of which are in Hebrew and some of which appear to be lists of occurrences of particular Hebrew words in the Hebrew Scriptures. Dimensions 7 x 8.125 x 3.125<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> shelved case 4. 1327694. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Johannis Casparis Meyeri/Gottfried Liebezeit hardcover books
196422787London/New York/Toronto: Abelard-Schuman. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1965 c.1964. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. good solid copy slight bumping to top corners; jacket lightly rubbed and a bit soiled very slight paper loss at several corners. INSCRIBED in Yiddish and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. See note at end of this description. Historical novel dramatizing the murder of Uriah the Hittite by King David "the climax of one of the ageless dramas of the Old Testament." Scarce novel also known as "The Hittite Must Die" by one of Israel's most distinguished men of letters who died in August 2004. He worked in many genres -- including drama children's literature poetry essays and literary criticism -- but was perhaps best known for his historical novels several of which are metaphorical examinations of problems facing modern Israeli society. Initially a leftist his political views underwent a great change after the Six-Day War; he served in the Knesset as a member of the Likud Party from 1977 to 1981 but broke with the party over the decision to return the Sinai to Egypt and subsequently was a co-founder of the right-wing Tehiya party. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1988 in recognition of his contribution to Israeli literature. NOTE regarding the authorial inscription: although I do not myself read Yiddish a bookselling colleague has kindly provided me with confirmation that the inscription does in fact include the author's signature and that it appears to have been described in New York City "Manhattan" in 1967. Please contact me if you would like to receive a scanned image of the inscription prior to purchasing the book. Signed by Author . Abelard-Schuman hardcover books
1995198461995. Softcover. VG. Grey wraps. 24 pp. Bw plates. unknown books
182714103Basileae: Typis G. Haas 1827. 8vo. I vol. in 2. 1564 pp. <br><br>This edition with the vocalized text. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule. Contemporary sheep dry and rusting. Text foxed. Not a great copy but certainly decent enough. Typis G. Haas unknown books
1949043214Stuttgart: Virtembergicum Institutum Biblicum 1949. Aduvantibus W. Baumgartner et el. Edidit Rud. Kittel; textum masoreticum curavit P. Kahle. Editio quinta typis editionis tertiae expressa. xl 1434p. 2 maps original black cloth in very nice condition. Virtembergicum Institutum Biblicum unknown books
6820319th Century Esther Scroll Manuscript HEBREW MANUSCRIPT. 19th Century Esther Scroll Manuscript or the Megillah. N.p. N.d. ca: 19th Century. Manuscript scroll in Hebrew of the book of Esther on vellum. Two parts stapled together. 57 1/2 inches x 15 1/4 inches; 1445 x 385 mm. Hebrew manuscript text in black ink in ten columns. Second column from the right is larger text bearing the names of the sons of Hamon. With some dampstaining and toning to vellum. The 5th and 6th columns from the right with some loss of text ink due to offsetting to verso of the scroll. This text while lighter is still mostly legible. "A "Scroll of Esther" megilat ester is a manuscript copy of the biblical Book of Esther which recounts the story of the salvation of the Jews in the Persian Empire read in synagogues on the Evening and Morning Services of the holiday of Purim." The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. UC Berkeley. Esther scrolls also known by the Hebrew term Megillot sing.: Megillah ''scroll' are copies of the Biblical book of Esther transcribed on parchment scrolls to be read publicly on the feast of Purim the anniversary of the Jews' deliverance from the threat of annihilation by Haman. Thus they are at once Biblical and liturgical texts. The Perfect Scribe And An Early Engraved Esther Scroll Eva Frojmovic. HBS 68203. $1000 hardcover books
194024599New York NY: American Friends of Hebrew University 1940. A small folding 6-sided flyer approx. 3 1/2" x 5 3/4" size. Cover with a black and white illustration of "Professor Ernst Wertheimer one of fifty-two noted refugee Jewish scientists and scholars now on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem" The appeal for support includes statements from Chaim Weizmann Felix Frankfurter Felix M. Warburg and Albert Einstein who writes "If Hebrew University would be provided with better means we could avoid the sad result of having many of our gifted refugees in remote corners - their gifts becoming fruitless and of no value. Our youth ever hungry for education would know that they have a place where they could study without being treated as unasked guests - or worse. Our own sense of self-respect and dignity - if has not been warped through external influences - must impel us to vigorous support of our University." Printed under the auspices of the American Friends of Hebrew University in NY; the president of the Friends was A.S.W. Rosenbach. With a list of other officers & directors of the group as well as the officers of Hebrew University. Text with a chronology of important events in the development of H.U. and a history. A little light wear & soiling; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. American Friends of Hebrew University Paperback books
