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176040177Nurnberger Nuremberg Nuremberg: Nürnberg Raspe 1760. Fine. Nürnberg Raspe Nurnberger Nuremberg Nuremberg 1760 10 x 17 cm relié First edition illustrated with 20 figures battle scenes at the end of the work. Gothic round typeface. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Tawny morocco title label. Blind title. German binding. History of the war between Prussia and its allied states and Austria and its allied states. It was Frederick II who triggered the hostilities between the two nations by attempting to seize Silesia this war took place within the conflict of the Austrian succession. Nürnberg Raspe hardcover
1716279London: J. Walthoe et al. 1716. First octavo and first illustrated edition. Armorial Fine Full Morocco. Good. First illustrated and first octavo set of The Works of Ben Johnson in beautiful armorial fine full morocco. Ben Johnson was Shakespeare's contemporary and rival considered second only to the Bard in importance and eminence by modern scholars during the reign of James I. Though at the time the distinction of superior literary merit was less clear.<br /> <br /> Set Condition: Good detached front board on Vol. I Scarce set to find complete.<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1716 by J. Walthoe et al. in London. First octavo edition and first illustrated edition of The Works of Ben Johnson. Large paper edition. Rebound early 19th century by John Clarke in the style of 17th century fine French bindings for Rev. Theodore Williams of England 1785 -1875. <br /> An armorial full morocco fine binding. Covers with centered coat of arms of Thedoore Williams tooled in gilt. Raised spine bands separate compartments lavishly tooled and ruled in gilt; two compartments with gilt lettered and decorated morocco spine labels. All board edges ruled in gilt. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and turn-ins ruled in triple gilt fillets with corner fleuron devices. Endpapers refreshed. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2". Copper engraved plates and woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Collated and complete in six volumes including all 12 plates inlcuding frontispiece: <br /> <br /> Vol I: 512 pages 5 leaves of plates. Every man in his humour; Every man out of his humour; Cynthia's revels or The fountain of self-love; Poetaster<br /> <br /> Vol II: 2 448 pages 4 leaves of plates. Sejanus: his fall; Volpone or the fox; The silent woman; The alchymist<br /> <br /> Vol III: 488 pages 1 leaf of plates. Catiline's conspiracy; Epigrams; The forest; Entertainments masques speeches & c<br /> <br /> Vol IV: 455 1 pages 2 leaves of plates. Bartholomew Fair; The staple of news; The devil is an ass; The magnetick lady or Humours reconcil'd<br /> <br /> Vol V: 2 432 pages. A tale of a tub; The sad shepherd or A tale of Robin Hood; Under-woods: consisting of divers poems; Mortimer's fall; Masques<br /> <br /> Vol VI: 2 414 10 pages. Masques; Horace's Art of poetry translated into English verse; The English grammar; Explorata or Discoveries made upon men and matter; The new inn or The light heart; Epilogue<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Volumes are Good overall. Front board detached in Volume I. Refreshed endpapers.<br /> <br /> Exterior and Binding: Volume I with front board detached and back board three-fourths detached may detach during shipment. Several volumes with vertical cracks down spine. Heavily rubbed joints cracking. Rubbed and worn extremities. Areas of soiling and darkening of leather.<br /> <br /> Interior: Descriptive note of set adhered to front pastedown of Volume I. Pages are generally clean and bright and off white to lightly toned. Light to sporadic foxing. Several areas with professionally repaired tears and neat marginal paper restoration. Some pencil writing and partially erased pencil writing on blanks. A few passages with marginalia in pencil in a 19th century hand. A few plates with very light offsetting. Other signs of light handling like some bent or nicked corners or light creases. No ex libris marks or former owner bookplates.<br /> <br /> PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> Theodore Williams 1785 - 1875 was the son of James Williams of Westmoreland Jamaica. He was the Vicar of Hendon for sixty-three years. As a young man he collected a magnificent library which he had sumptuously bound. The majority of his collection were bound by Charles Lewis or John Clarke often in the style of 17th century fine binding. His library was sold at auction in London in 1827. He lived almost another 50 years post-sale. An uncommon example of a cured bilbiomaniac - an example to which I cannot relate!<br /> <br /> ABOUT BEN JOHNSON <br /> <br /> Benjamin Jonson June 1572 – August 1637 was an English poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humors. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour 1598 Volpone or The Fox c. 1606 The Alchemist 1610 and Bartholomew Fair 1614 and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded by most modern scholars as the second most important English dramatist after William Shakespeare during the reign of James I.<br /> <p>Jonson was a classically educated well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy personal and political artistic and intellectual. His cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era 1603–1625 and of the Caroline era 1625–1642.<br /> <br /> In 1616 Jonson received a yearly pension of 100 marks about £60 leading some to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate although the royal family never formally granted him the title.<br /> <br /> There are many legends about Jonson's rivalry with Shakespeare. Thomas Fuller relates stories of Jonson and Shakespeare engaging in debates at the Mermaid Tavern. That the two men knew each other personally is beyond doubt not only because of the tone of Jonson's references to him but because Shakespeare's company produced a number of Jonson's plays at least two of which Every Man in His Humour and Sejanus His Fall Shakespeare certainly acted in. Jonson's most influential and revealing commentary on Shakespeare is the second of the two poems that he contributed to the prefatory verse that opens Shakespeare's First Folio. This poem "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us" did a good deal to create the traditional view of Shakespeare as a poet who despite "small Latine and lesse Greeke"60 had a natural genius. The poem has traditionally been thought to exemplify the contrast which Jonson perceived between himself the disciplined and erudite classicist scornful of ignorance and skeptical of the masses and Shakespeare represented in the poem as a kind of natural wonder whose genius was not subject to any rules except those of the audiences for which he wrote.</p> . J. Walthoe, et al. unknown
1756140939597London: Printed for D. Midwinter 1756. First Edition Thus. Very Good. First edition thus complete in 7 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf with morocco title labels and raised bands to spine. Very Good. Lightly marked with joints worn with several starting to split wear to edges heavier at spine ends. Title label missing on Volume III and partially perished on Volume I. Damage affecting the first 20 or so pages of Volume 7. A handsome set. Printed for D. Midwinter unknown books
1756140939597London: Printed for D. Midwinter 1756. First Edition Thus. Very Good. First edition thus complete in 7 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf with morocco title labels and raised bands to spine. Very Good. Lightly marked with joints worn with several starting to split wear to edges heavier at spine ends. Title label missing on Volume III and partially perished on Volume I. Damage affecting the first 20 or so pages of Volume 7. A handsome set. Printed for D. Midwinter unknown
179374371793 Sans lieu (Lyon) ni nom d'éditeur, 1793, 3 tomes rel. en 3 vol. in 8 de XVI-384 pp. ; (2) ff., 364 pp. ; (2) ff., 280 - 61 pp., rel. milieu XIXe demi-percaline marron, dos ornés de roulettes dorées, bon ex.
171549239Amsterdam: Jan Boom 1715. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto. asterisk4 a-f4 -blank f4 A-3F4 = 235 leaves. 54 415 1 blankpp. Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs boards somewhat bowed spine darkened early manuscript title in Hebrew and Latin at spine. Old owner entry at top margin title memorial label at front paste-down. A very good copy amply-margined with fine crisp text throughout.<br /> <br /> Important edition of this Aramaic version of the biblical books of Chronicles attributed to Joseph ben Hiyya d. 333 a Babylonian amora and head of the Pumbedita academy near present-day Falluja Iraq. "Ben Hiyya was also distinguished in biblical exegesis and left an Aramaic translation of parts of the Bible which is often quoted. It is not to be assumed however that Joseph translated the whole Bible though the Aramaic translation of the Books of Chronicles is ascribed to him. Enc. Jud. The editio princeps edited from an Erfurt manuscript by Matthias Frederick Beck and accompanied by substantial annotations was published at Augsburg in 1680. "After this David Wilkins gave the public an edition from a Cambridge manuscript of which the text was more pure and more complete. The critic should unite both these editions the former for the value of its learned notes and the latter for its full and accurate text†The Biblical Repertory. <br /> <br /> The Coptic scholar David Wilkens 1685–1745 was born of Prussian parentage in Memel Lithuania. Little is known about his education in Germany probably in Berlin or how he acquired his knowledge of ancient and Semitic languages which was extensive rather than profound. He referred to the antiquarian Ezechiel Spanheim the elector of Brandenburg's ambassador in England from 1701 to 1710 as his former teacher. By 1707 Wilkins was studying at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and had encountered a group of clerical protectors in London. In 1709 engaged in preparing a history of the patriarchs of Alexandria which remained in manuscript and the editio princeps of the Coptic Bohairic New Testament the Novum Testamentum Aegyptium 1716 he left for the continent. He called on scholars examined manuscripts in Vienna Rome and Paris and stopped in Amsterdam in 1714 to see to the publication of his first works -- an edition of the Aramaic paraphrasis of the books of Chronicles and an Armenian version of the apocryphal third epistle to the Corinthians 1715 -- and of John Chamberlayne's polyglot edition of the Lord's prayer to which he contributed. Wilkins was an industrious scholar. In the three years he spent as librarian at Lambeth he made important contributions to the cataloguing of manuscripts. In 1721 he edited the Anglo-Saxon laws in 1725–6 the complete works of John Selden and in 1731 the Coptic Pentateuch. His main work was his Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae an account of British church councils from 446 to 1717. Wilkins had many detractors -- John Gagnier the professor of Arabic at Oxford who deplored his incompetence in Arabic and Hebrew Edward Harley who described him as ‘a very great scoundrel’ and the cantankerous Thomas Hearne who as librarian at the Bodleian had watched him turn from a young man ‘of a civil Courteous and modest behaviour’ into ‘a vain ambitious man of little judgement tho' great industry’ ready to ‘do anything in the World for a little Money’ Alastair Hamilton: "Wilkens David" -- ODNB online.<br /> <br /> Provenance: From the library of G.H.A. Juynboll 1935-2010 the celebrated scholar of Islamic Hadith literature with his printed memorial label at front paste-down. Hebrew title: ×ª×¨×’×•× ×©×œ דברי ×”×™×ž×™× ×¨××©×•× ×™× ×•××—×¨×•× ×™× ×™×¡×“×• ר×ש ישיבה בסורי×<br /> <br /> References: The Biblical Repertory 1834 6:248-249. Brunet 3:574 - "Livre recherché et peu commun". Enc. Jud. 10:229. Le Long Bibliotheca sacra 1723 1:92B. Le Long-Masch 2.1 p. 48: “Multo correctior est editio ac praecedens Beckiana.†long note in which the relation with the never published version by Clarke is discussed. Cf. D&M 2416: The editio princeps of the Targum on Chronicles printed from an Erfurt MS. and edited with a Latin translation by M. F. Beck Augsburg 1680-3 2 vols 4to. The present edition is “a more complete form of the text from a Cambridge MS. . edited with a Latin translation by D. Wilkins. Jan Boom hardcover
178919810Berlin: Hevrat chinuch ne'arim 1789. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Sm. folio. 2 pp. per leaf there being 64 leaves with Hebrew pagination thus there are 128 pp. Printed in double columns. Brown boards with brown leather spine. This work is extremely rare as OCLC only lists 4 libraries in the entire world that own this work. This is a commentary on the Talmud on the Tractate Baba Metsia the entire orders of Moed Nashim Nezikim and Kodashim. Text is entirely in Hebrew printed in "Rashi Script". Scuffing to boards and yellowing to pages due to age but text is clear and pristine. Boards detached but present. Exterior in fair interior in good condition. Hevrat chinuch ne'arim hardcover
1721215234Hamburgi : Impensis Viduae Liebezeitiæ & Theodori Christoph Felgineri 1721. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy bound in later 19th c. leather over the original boards. Raised bands. Some light dust-dulling to the spine ends. Panel edges somewhat worn and rubbed as with age particulaly at corners. Pages dust-toned with tanning and shadow staining to margins and scattered foxing. Text is legible throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description: 317 17p ; 21.5 x 17cm. Subjects: Karaites -- Tanakh -- Judaism -- Jewish studies -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800. Notes: Title page in red and black. Includes bibliographical references and index. Errata listed on final leaf. Text in Latin and Hebrew. Other names: Liebezeitiæ vidua de printer. Trigland Jacobus 1652-1705. Felginer Theodor Christoph printer. Hamburgi : Impensis Viduae Liebezeitiæ & Theodori Christoph, Felgineri hardcover
1740214172Hamburg Germany: Hermann Heinrich Holle 1740. Hardcover. Fair- Leather has some pieces missing in spine general wear all around pages are darkened with moderate foxing and staining on pages all material present and available for reference. Leather boards with decorative embossments on cover and back gilt text on spine. 1650 pp. Highly decorative text and printing. Bw frontispiece. Text in German; The five versions are printed in parallel columns: Catholic Luther Reform Yiddish Dutch.; The Yiddish is in roman characters; it is highly Germanized. Hermann Heinrich Holle hardcover
1729000182Dublin Ireland: S. Powell 1729. Extremely rare set of both volumes. This two volume set shows the ravages of its almost 300 year history. Full calf binding. Volume I: Contains: Volpone; or the Fox; Catiline his Conspiracy; Bartholomew Fair; Sejanus his Fall. Conditions: Disbound: front and rear boards detached; book is split at pages 142/143. Pencilled date 1818 inside front cover with pencilled note 2 vols fep has name and date not sure if it's 1810 or 1870; bookseller's pencilled notations. Volume II: Contains: Epicoene: or the Silent Woman; Every Man in his Humour; Everyman out of his Humour; The Alchemist. Conditions: pencilled price on fep; initials on title page; Disbound: front cover detached; book split at pages 188/189; rear cover is attached. We noted some pencilled brackets line and marginalia on page 189. Full calf bindings have five raised bands on spine worn corners and considerable rubbing. Volume one has half of the title block on spine with gilt titles helpful to know what was there if you choose to restore these rare books the title block is missing from volume two. There are some tanned bands to inside of cover edges and edges of fep; we speculate that this tanning was caused from a brown paper covering at some point in the book's 300 year history. Truly rare books we were not able to locate another two volume set. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. S. Powell Hardcover
1732AQ20588London: Printed for W. Feales 1732. 2 96; 96; 100; 35pp 1. Each of the plays has a separate dated title page pagination and register. With an engraved frontispiece and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed lower joint split loss to head of spine corners bumped. Internally clean and crisp occasional inked highlighting to terminal catalogue. A collection of dramatist Ben Jonson's 1572-1637 most popular works; including his comic masterpiece The Alchemist 1610 - one of the only Renaissance plays besides the works of Shakespeare to have achieved longevity and remain popular with audiences throughout the intervening centuries. The three plays are subjoined by 'A true and exact catalogue of all the plays and other dramatick pieces that were ever yet printed in the English tongue in alphabetical order: continu’d down to April 1732' also issued separately. The list compiled by bookseller William Feales ‘Where may be had Variety of Plays’ though rather comprehensive is of limited bibliographical scope as it provides only the titles with no regard for authorship or publication details. That said it does furnish each entry with an abbreviation denoting the genre: 'Those Plays that have this Mark are Acting Plays: Those with C. stand for Comedy T. for Tragedy T.C. for Tragi-Comedy O. for Opera and F. for Farce'; an intriguing early eighteenth-century publishing curiosity clearly calculated for a commercial rather than scholarly readership. ESTC T79993. 12mo. Printed for W. Feales unknown
170133078Fulda 1701. Hardcover. fair. 4to. 185 leaves. Black cloth. Red edges. Illustrated title-page with Moses and Aaron on the sides and David killing Goliath at the bottom. Commentary on selections of the Zohar and other kabbalistic texts by Mordacai Ashkenazi published with the aid of his teacher Abraham Rovigo. These two kabbalists were both secret followers of the messianic claimant Sabbatai Sevi. Despite Sabbatai's conversion to Islam in 1666 and death in 1676 many of his followers continued to believe in him and worked to spread their particular heterodox brand of Judaism in defiance of the rabbinic establishment. As cover for his Sabbatian agenda Ashkenazi claimed that “Eshel Avraham†was simply a new interpretation of the Kabbalah based on his prophetic dreams. Ultimately this book is an important example of the success of the early eighteenth century Sabbatian underground to print books under the nose of the rabbinic authorities before it came out into the open with the printing of Nehemiah Hayon's “Migdal Oz.†Text in Hebrew. Backstrip missing but the book is still intact. Bottom corner chipped. Title-page torn and bottom strengthened. Slight worming to front leaves. Overall in fair condition. Steinschneider 4299:1. <br /> Samuel Wiener Bibliotheca Friedlandiana 991. hardcover
173927896Jessnitz Saxony-Anhalt: Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham 1739. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes folio published between 1739 and 1742. Woodcut printer's device at titles; woodcut endpieces in first volume. Hebrew text opens from right to left; leaf numbers in Hebrew characters. Hebrew chronograms yield Jewish dates of publication 5499-5502. Brown library buckram scuffed at extremities spines lettered in gilt. Endleaves renewed. A good set. See foliation and condition notes for each volume below.<br /> <br /> Scarce eighteenth-century edition of this seminal compendium of Jewish law halakhah. Compiled between 1170 and 1180 while Maimonides was living in Egypt the Mishneh Torah is regarded as the author's magnum opus. It is the only Medieval-era work that surveys the full panoply of Jewish observance including those laws that are only applicable when the Jerusalem Temple is in existence. The present edition is the first to contain Judah Rosanes' commentary Mishneh le-melekh. "Mishneh Torah" The Repetition of the Law is an appellation originally applied to the biblical book of Deuteronomy; the subtitle "ha-Yad ha-Hazakah" The Book of the Strong Hand plays on its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen is represented in Hebrew letters as Yud 10 Dalet 4 which forms the word "yad" hand. Maimonides sought to provide a complete statement of the Oral Law so that a person who mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book. Contemporary reaction was mixed with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the Talmud itself. Maimonides responded to these criticisms and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise: One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers since he surely knew their views and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation.<br /> <br /> Vol. 1: 1 title 8 234 102 3 ff. Repairs at title page with very slight loss of text at verso following leaf and the final leaf. Text embrowned often heavily in first half with some light marginal dampstains throughout. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least three hands.<br /> <br /> Vol. 2: 1 title 148 112 2 ff. Marginal repairs to first and last two leaves no loss of text. Moderately dampstained throughout with some mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; three old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation.<br /> <br /> Vol. 3: 1 title 221 169 ff. Repairs at bottom margin to title with loss of some text below imprint and at final lines of rabbinic approbations at verso and at bottom margin following leaf with some text loss and obscuration by translucent paper tape. Small marginal repair at final leaf. Light dampstaining in first half; remaining text with mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; two old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation.<br /> <br /> Vol. 4: 1 title 135 138-154 157 1 ff. Marginal repairs to title and final leaf no loss of text. Sporadic light embrowning and marginal stains. Old manuscript entry in Hebrew at title.<br /> <br /> A complete set with only minimal text loss in a few places -- a very usable scholar's copy. References: Vinograd Jessnitz 46; Fürst 2: p. 295; Zenker p. 583<br /> <br /> Title in Hebrew: ×ž×©× ×” תורה ×”×•× ×”×™×“ החזקה ×œ×”× ×©×¨ הגדול ×”×’×ון ×¨×‘×™× ×• משה בר מימון זצ׳׳ל ×¢× ×”×©×’×ª הר×ב׳׳ד זצ׳׳ל ופירוש הרב מגיד ×ž×©× ×” וכסף ×ž×©× ×” להג×ון המשביר ×¨×‘×™× ×• יוסף ק×רו זצ׳׳ל ומגדל עוז והגהות ×ž×™×ž×•× ×™×™×•×ª ופירוש ×¨×‘×™× ×• עובדי והרב המוסמך מדר׳׳ל ן׳ חביב על הלכות קידוש החדש ×¢× ×›×œ הצורות השייכות להלכות ×לו ולהלכות שבת וסוכה ×•×¢× ×ž×•×¨×” ×ž×§×•× ×¢×œ דברי הרב המגיד וכסף ×ž×©× ×” ×’× ×©×ª×™ מפתחות גדולות ורחבות ×חת על סדר ×”×¤×¨×§×™× ×•×חת על דרך ××œ×¤× ×‘×™×ª×” ×œ× ×—×¡×¨ דבר מכל כפי ×שר × ×“×¤×¡ ב×משטרד×<br /> <br /> Rabbi Moses Maimonides the Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death he is generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other works include "Kitab al-Siraj" a commentary on the Mishnah "Kitab al-Fara'I" a book on precepts and the celebrated philosophical work "Dalalat al-Ha'irin" known in Hebrew as the "Moreh Nevukhim" The Guide to the Perplexed. In this latter work Maimonides attempted a philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham hardcover
176849937Fiyorda Furth: Hayim Ben Tzevi Hirsh 1768. Second edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Square octavo. 54 leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth over marbled paper boards decorated with gilt. Decorative woodcut border on the title page. The scarce second edition of Rabbi Aaron ben Mordecai of Rödelheim's born ca.1695 Yiddish translation of the two known Targumim of the biblical book of Esther. The first of the Aramaic Targumim Aramaic Translations or paraphrases of the books of the bible is more common and well known while the second targum is noted for its embellishments on the Biblical account with considerable additional apocryphal material not always evidently related to the Esther story. The Yiddish text here is printed throughout in the traditional Vaybertaytsh script. This is the Rabbi Aharon's most notable work and the first addition was originally published in 1718 in Frankfurt.<br /> <br /> Binding with light rubbing to extremities. Back board lightly bumped along the side edge. Interior with some chipping/fraying to the edges of the first two leaves resulting in some minimal loss of text. Pages throughout with some sporadic soling or dampstaining. Some chipping and fraying to the final leaf as well. Binding in very good interior in good condition overall. Quite scarce. Hebrew title: ספר מצח ×הרן על מגילות ×סתר ×ª×¨×’×•× ×¨×שון ×•×ª×¨×’×•× ×©× ×™<br /> Author: ×הרון בן מרדכי של רודליי×<br /> Publication: ×הרון בן מרדכי מטריביטש<br /> Alternate transliterations: Sefer Mezach Aharon<br /> Bibliographic references: Vinograd Furth 387<br /> Bought at the Parke-Bernet Galleries auction from the Michael Zagayski collection May 12th 1970. Catalog of sale no. 3046 #68 page 36. Original typed slip with auction information laid in at the front cover of the book. Hayim Ben Tzevi Hirsh hardcover
179319197Lyon: s.n. 1793. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary pastepaper wrappers lined with printing waste rear panel of Vol III detached. In excellent original condition uncut. First edition of this strange work of mystical theology and “astral light.†The author who Brunet calls a madman rambles almost incoherently about the fall of man and the resulting supernatural forces that operate in and around humanity. He claims that Adam’s sin caused faith to be at odds with reason and the “abuse†of reason further distances humans from God. His focus is on the different degrees of light in the universe—natural magical astral supernatural celestial and divine—and how to harness them for good. He encourages the pious to reject materiality and “gross bodies†and seek truth in the magnetism and light abounding within the spirit realm. Amidst this intangible theosophizing he interjects some radical dogmatic opinions including the non-existence of hell and the immaculate conception of Mary. <br /> <br /> Dutoit-Membrini 1721-1793 was a Swiss pastor and founder of the mystical quietist cult of Inner Souls in Lausanne. His life was marked by periods of debilitating sickness after each of which he emerged progressively more committed to Catholic mysticism. He finished this book shortly before his death which may explain its narrative quality.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates 6 copies in the U.S. NY Public Yale Chicago Harvard Michigan Texas.<br /> <br /> Quérard Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées II: 449; Brunet Les Fous 62-63; Caillet 3480; Dorbon 1432. s.n. unknown
1786336Berlin: Bi-defus Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim; Jüdischen Freyschule 1786. First edition. After leaf 10 numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. Binding rubbed and bumped light foxing throughout. Ink stain on title page. Overall a good copy. First edition. After leaf 10 numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. 4°; 2 1041 leaves and one folded engraved page of geometric diagrams. Waltsch’s work on geometry trigonometry and astronomy woth his commentary to Maimonides’ Sanctification of the Month. Bi-defus Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim; Jüdischen Freyschule unknown
1765N4664Frankfurt & Berlin: J.J. Speier 1765. First Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. 1. Theil und 2. Theil bound together. 124pp123pp.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. <br/> <br/> J.J. Speier hardcover
1743A4NB5NLVOA3M1743. 2 CALVIN Jean. Lettres de Calvin a Jaque de Bourgogne Seigneur de Falais & de Bredam & à son epouse Jolande de Brederode. Imprimées sur les originaux.Amsterdam Jacobus Wetstein 1744. Title in red & black with engraved vignette folding genealogical table. 3 C. A. Discours apologico-pathetique sur les vertus principales de L'eau de la Reine de Hongrie ou sur les moïens de faire triompher le bonne foi & par celle-ci rétablir & affermir en Europe la paix stable & durable qu'on lui a annoncé & garanti de la part des puisances qui ont accedé à la Pragmatique Sanction. Avec quelques remarques sur la prétenduë refutation des recrits circulaires de la cour de Vienne. Par Monsieur A.C. .The Hague Gerard de Mee 1743.4 FLEURY Andre´ Hercule de subject. Extrait de l'oraison funèbre de feu Mr. le Cardinal de Fleury tel qu'on l'a reçu de Strasbourg avec les remarques tirées de l'entrétien de deux officiers François à leur retour de la Bohème chargés de misere & de maladie.Strasbourg no publisher 1743. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf spine labels with title and shelfmark. Ad 1: One of two probably simultaneous issues of the rarer of the first two French editions all dated 1743 of a chronicle of the kings of England that covers the period 1066-1603 first published in English in 1740. Robert Dodsley 1703-64 was a poet playwright and bookseller. Other sources ascribe it to Lord Chesterfield. Dodsley could not have written a work showing so much wit and literary force DNB. The present French translation is attributed to Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron.Ad 2: Letters from Calvin addressed to Jacques the Bourgogne and Yolande de Brederode written between 1543 and 1553. They offer a case study in the interaction of politics and personalities that shaped the European reform movement in general and the position of Calvin in connection with the worldly powers of Europe in particular. Jacques de Bourgogne who encountered evangelical ideas in Louvain married into one of Holland's most prominent protestant families was denounced as a heretic for receiving a Reformed preacher at his chateau in Brabant sought refuge in Cologne Strasbourg and Basel and finally settled with Calvin's help in a village near Geneva. De Bourgogne's odyssey is exemplary for the upheavals experienced by a generation that heeded the reformer's call preferring exile to renouncing their new faith under pressure in their native lands.Ad 3: Very rare first and only edition of an up-to-date account of the political situation at the courts of Europe in the 1740s. The goal of the author described only as A. C. and not identified is to achieve a stable peace in Europe and to guarantee the authority awarded in the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. This was a legal mechanism designed to ensure that the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Emperor Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa. It was part of the law of the house of Austria. Hungary which had an elective kingship had accepted the house of Habsburg as hereditary kings in the male line without election in 1687 but had not accepted semi-Salic inheritance. The Emperor-King agreed that if the Habsburg male line became extinct Hungary would once again have an elective monarchy. The Kingdom of Bohemia also followed this rule. Ad 4: Extremely rare extract of the funeral oration for André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury French Bishop of Fréjus 1653 - 29 January 1743 and cardinal who served as the chief minister to Louis XV. The additional remarks are abstracted from a conversation between two French officers on their return from the Bohemian campaign. Fleury found the nation poorly prepared when in 1733 war was forced upon France. Library bookplate on inside front cover. Binding worn some parts of the spine gone front hinge slightly cracked otherwise in good condition. unknown
172255261Offenbach Germany: Israel Ken 1722. Second edition. This is the copy of the Rabbi David Paul-Bernard Drach 1791-1868 who converted to Catholicism in 1823 and managed the library of the Propaganda Fide in Rome. The front endpaper has a note that is signed and dated by Drach: "Etudie et annote ce volume; supplee lets mots ronges par les vers et corrige les fautes typographiques." Notes to margins. Introductory note by Drach lauding the book: "Le calendrier juif dont les calculs sont d'une exactitude admirable etait deja en usage du temps de Rabbie Gamliel pas consequents a l'epoque ou le Verbe eternel caro factum est et habitavit in nobis." <br /> <br /> 8vo. 40 in Hebrew letters numbered leaves i.e. 80pp. re-cased in later vellum with leather strips. Engraved title page. Fascinating work on the Jewish calendar its estimation calculation of the New Moon methods of chronology et.al. Also contains a few pages on the Christian calendar. This work is one of the most profusely illustrated works of Hebraica and Judaica with charts ephemerides sketches and illustrations throughout. One volvell attached. In Hebrew. First ten leaves with one inch holes from bookworms. The rest of the volome with minor circular bookworm hole. Some loss of text on first ten leaves. "The volvelles as well as hand diagrams and tables were some of the tools used not just for calculating and identifying pivotal dates and worshipping times for Jews but also for ascertaining Christan holidays. This knowledge was a critical aid for protecting Jews from the danger posed by their having different worshipping times and habits from the dominant culture. The headings on the wheel denote the arrival of the new moon which marks the start of the Jewish month and the cycle of the sun. Whereas calendars appear in general to be a “convenient way to coordinate human movements with natural time†as Elisheva Carlebach points out the Sefer ‘Evronot demonstrates that the methods for doing so are culturally and historically shaped. The wheel computing information with each push of a finger demands interaction from the reader in order to yield knowledge not just to use but to live by." Ref: brevigrapher.interactive book. <br /> <br /> Furst I 99 & 360 Steinschneider 4988.4. Israel Ken unknown
176560978Amsterdam, 1765. 4to. Contemporary vellum spine with marbled paper covered boards. Simple and worn, but tight and functional. Split in the inner stitching, but leaves still attached. With brownspotting and signs of use throughout. Small tears to some blank margins. Two leaves more worn to the lower margin, just touching one engraving and a line of text, resulting in very minor loss. Titl-page within woodcut printed border. Illustrated throughout with 14 large (7,7 x 11,5 cm) woodcut illustrations and 13 large illustrated woodcut initials (ca 3,2 x 3,2 cm). 33 ff. In spite of its signs of frequent use, the book is in very good condition for this type of work, which is usually in extremely poor condition.
176560978Amsterdam 1765. 4to. Contemporary vellum spine with marbled paper covered boards. Simple and worn but tight and functional. Split in the inner stitching but leaves still attached. With brownspotting and signs of use throughout. Small tears to some blank margins. Two leaves more worn to the lower margin just touching one engraving and a line of text resulting in very minor loss. Titl-page within woodcut printed border. Illustrated throughout with 14 large 77 x 115 cm woodcut illustrations and 13 large illustrated woodcut initials ca 32 x 32 cm. 33 ff. In spite of its signs of frequent use the book is in very good condition for this type of work which is usually in extremely poor condition. <br/><br/><em>A beautifully illustrated and very rare 18th century Haggadah setting forth the order of the Passover Seder; fully complete with 14 large woodcut illustrations inspired by the "Amsterdam Haggadah" from 1695. The commentary by Rav Leone Modena found in this Hagadah the famous “Tzeli Esh†is an abbreviation of Don Isaac Abrabanel’s voluminous commentary “Zevach Pesach†first published during the author’s lifetime in Constantinople in 1505. The translation of the “Tzeli Esh†into Yiddish is by Solomon Zalman ben Moses Raphael London 1661-1748 author and translator who was active between 1709 and 1735. Leon de Modena or Yehuda Aryeh Mi-Modena 1571-1648 is considered the most famous Venetian Rabbi of the 17th century. He was a Jewish scholar born in Venice into a family of migrants from France after the French expulsion of Jews. He was well respected but his reputation within traditional Judaism suffered both due to his criticism of emerging sects within Judaism but also because of his addiction to gambling and seeming lack of stability. He is famous for his criticism of the mystical approach to Judaism and his attacks on the Kaballa but his international fame mainly rests upon him being the interpreter of Judaism to the Christian world. He was the first since Josephus and Philo to write a Jewish text to non-Jewish readers Historia de gli riti Hebraici 1637 which was widely read by Christians and extremely influential. The editor Naftali Hertz ben Alexander Ziskind Levi Rofe of Emden “set up his press in Amsterdam in 1726. He complemented his printing equipment with that purchased from the Isaac Templo press after it was closed down. He was a physician by profession as evidenced by his moniker Rofe. He was granted title of doctor of medicine from the University of Harderwijk in 1716. He pursued his medical practice as well as printing and bookselling. He was a member of a small group of Jewish intellectuals interested in scientific disputes. He tended to publish alone as well as in cooperation with others but above all with his son-in-law Kosman ben Joseph Baruch who was also involved in the book trade. Their cooperation lasted from 1742 to 1766 and resulted in many works being published.†The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art The Center for Jewish Art </em> hardcover
