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160636154Venice, Zan. Zanetti, 5422 (=1606). Small 4to. Later marbled paper over earlier blue paper-covered boards, paper spine over earlier cloth spine. Binding somewhat worn. Woodcut title-page and woodcut vignette at end, depicting two lions under a tree. Old owner's stamp to title-page and to second and last leaf (""D.L.W. - David Weissappel). Some marginal annotations in old Hebrew script. Last half of leaves turned brown, otherwise a bit brownspotted. Top-corner torn off last leaf, but this corner is present, and there is no loss of text. Fairly well preserved and complete copy of this early Hebrew book. (51 ff.)
163355772Amsterdam: by the Author 1633. First edition. Modern calf. Good-. Quarto 19 by 14.6 cm. Collation: asterisk4 A-2G4. 8 240 pp. Woodcut printer's device at title; 4 half-titles; printed marginalia. Text in Latin. Recent full polished calf to style spine with raised bands. Text lightly toned with damstaining/spotting especially at outermost leaves; occasional slight chips or small tears at margins; one leaf with perforation resulting in loss of several letter on each side of page; small perforation in blank field at title. A fairly good copy.<br /> <br /> First part only of the first Latin edition of this classic work on Jewish apologetics written by the celebrated rabbi religious thinker and printer-publisher Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657. The work was first published in Spanish at Amsterdam in four parts between 1632 and 1651. By providing a harmonization of all the apparent contradictions within the Hebrew Scriptures he hoped to encourage converso Jews of Iberian descent who had lost touch with their religious heritage to make the return to rabbinic Judaism. The present volume deals with the Pentateuch Five Books of Moses; the second volume treats the Prophetic books and the Hagiographa Writings. The work was first published a year earlier in a Spanish language edition.<br /> <br /> The work attempts resolution to no less than 180 seeming discrepancies in the Pentateuch. The breadth of Menasseh's encyclopedic knowledge is vast the Conciliador contains citations from 221 Jewish and 54 non-Jewish authorities. "No reader could fail to be impressed by the amazing range of titles which the author proudly appended to the work" Roth. References: Kayserling p. 69; C. Roth A Life of Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi Printer and Diplomat Philadelphia 1945 p. 88. Silva Rosa 16. <br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: Conciliator sive De convenientia locorum S. Scripturae quae pugnare inter se videntur. Opus ex vetustis & recentioribus omnibus Rabbinis magnâ industriâ ac fide congestum. Amstelodami. Auctoris typis & impensis. M.D C XXXIII. by the Author unknown
163155459Amsterdam: printed by Menasseh ben Israel for Henricus Laurentius 1631. First edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Octavo 16.8 by 11.4 cm. Collation: aleph-lamed-zayin8 = 296 leaves. 612 i.e. 592 pp: p. 464 erroneously numbered 484 465 as 485 and so on throughout. Two column text in unvocalized Hebrew; every fifth verse numbered in the margin. Title within architectural border; half titles with letterpress ornamentation for the Former and Latter Prophets. Contemporary vellumwith exposed thongs edges stained blue; yapp fore-edges; front joint cracked but holding strong. Intermittent light toning to text outmost leaves a bit more darkened; very occasional small stains. Title-page slighltly trimmed 4 mm at bottom edge; expert marginal repairs at bottom corners of 2 leaves; 1 leaf re-margined at fore-edge with no loss of text else a very good copy with crisp clean text.<br /> <br /> First Hebrew Bible published in Amsterdam printed by the rabbi diplomat publisher and religious thinker Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657 one of the most distinguished members of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam and the first Jewish printer in the Northern Netherlands. The Amsterdam printer and publisher Hendrick Laurensz Lauretius provided the financing for this edition along with two other Bible editions and two editions of the Hebrew Psalms printed by Menasseh between 1631 and 1646. "These publications were not only made for the local market but mainly for international trade. Thanks to this financial help Menasseh was able to organize his printing office in a more professional way" Fuks hiring a Jewish compositor Judah Leb ben Mordecai Gimple from Posen and a gentile compositor Bartholomeus Laurensz. <br /> <br /> The printing activity of Menasseh was especially important in the steadily growing productions of the Hebrew press in the Northern Netherlands. Fulfilling the needs of the Sephardic community for Jewish ritual texts eliminated the need for expensive imports from Venice and Poland. Menasseh undersood that the relatively cheap paper and tools available in Amsterdam made it possible to compete in quality and prices with the Hebrew presses of Poland Italy and Basel. "Gentile publishers and booksellers in Amsterdam such as Jansonius and Laurentius were quick to see the opportunity of the opening Eastern European market and financed several of Menasseh's publications" Fuks. Menasseh was the first to introduce in the Netherlands waybertaytsch types for Yiddish publications along with illustrated Hebrew books. He was also the first Jewish printer to adopt the Dutch pocket-book format made famous by the Elzeviers.<br /> <br /> Notes on publication date and issue: The title is dated 1630 in Arabic numerals; the colophon notes the date of completion in Hebrew characters as 5 Adar 5391 = 7 February 1631 along with the printer's apology for being unable to provide the index of pericopes promised on the title-page due to lack of printing material. Darlow and Moule describe this issue as Variant A with a Latin imprint appearing in the cartouche beneath the Hebrew title.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: early entry in brown ink at front paste-down with short Greek inscription Theos. dated 1700; old Latin inscription in black ink at top margin title in reference to Hebrew roots; date of 1812 beside Yiddish entry penned in black ink within imprint cartouche at title; old entry in German penned in black ink at verso title beneath which is an oval cartouche in imitation of the one at the title in which an owner has penned in black ink the Hebrew imprint information regarding Hendrick Laurensz as it would appear in the Varient B issue; old library shelf marks at rear paste-down; recent owner entry in blue ink in Hebrew at front paste-down. References: Darlow and Moule 5123a; Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld no. 152; pp. 105; 111f.; Steinschneider no. 453; Vinograd Amsterdam 22.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: חמשה חומשי תורה פרשיותיו פתוחות וסתומות ×¢"פ ×”×¨×ž×‘× ×–"ל ומדוייק בחסירו' ויתרות להעתק ס"ת ×¢× ×œ×•×— בסופו מועיל לסופרי' ×•× ×‘×™××™× ×¨××©×•× ×™× ×•××—×¨×•× ×™× ×•×›×ª×•×‘×™×: × ×“×¤×¡ בבית ×ž× ×©×” בן ישר×ל ז׳׳צל והוגה בעיון × ×ž×¨×¥ על ידו ×©× ×ª ישמחו השמי×<br /> Amstelodami sumptibus Henrici Laurentii 1630. printed by Menasseh ben Israel for Henricus Laurentius hardcover
163191764Robert ALLOT John BEALE | Londres 1631 | 20 x 32 cm | Relié
169555736Amsterdam: Be-veit ha-meshutafim Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer/ Moses Wiesel 1695. First edition. Hardcover. g to near fine. Small folio 30 by 18.8 cm. Collation: aleph-vav4 zayin2 = 26 numbered leaves. Full period brown paper boards re-backed with a brown leather spine with raised bands.<br /> <br /> Letterpress title-page with ornate floral woodcut device; additional engraved title-page mounted depicting Moses and Aaron along with six small biblical scenes within round borders all against an architectural background. Engraved folding map at rear mounted; main title with woodcut vignette; 14 half-page engraved illustrations in the text.<br /> <br /> This gorgeously illustrated work is the first edition of the famous and highly influential Passover Haggadah printed in Amsterdam in 1695. Simply known as the Amsterdam Haggadah this edition stands as among the most imitated and copied haggadahs in history and was the first to be illustrated with copperplate engravings. Previous illustrated haggadahs had used woodcuts. The popularity of these illustrations can be attested by the huge numbers of reprint editions over the centuries. There are 14 finely printed large in-text engravings plus the full page engraved title page showing Moses Aaron and Adam in the Garden of Eden. Some of these images illustrate the traditional content of the Passover seder and/or the exodus story while some are other biblical stories less directly related. Images include: the Rabbis of Bene Brak discussing the Passover story the four sons Abraham smashing the idols of his father Abraham welcoming the three angels Moses slaying the Egyptian overseer the rescuing Moses from the river Moses and Aaron coming to Pharaoh w/ staves turning to snakes the ten plagues the Egyptian army drowning in the Red Sea the Exodus the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai the eating of the Pascal Lamb King David composing his psalms and finally an exterior view of the Holy Temple with the cityscape of Jerusalem in the background. All images are captioned underneath with relevant passages in Hebrew. The engravings were all created by Abraham ben Jacob a German convert to Judaism who had moved to Amsterdam although some sources over the years misattributed them to financier Moses Wiesel 6 of which were adaptations and/or modifications of previous images by Swiss artist Matthäus Merian 1593-1650 from his original work "Icones Biblicae" 1625-30.<br /> <br /> In addition to the in text engravings there is famously a phenomenal fold-out engraved biblical map of the holy land. Measuring a total of 19.5x11.5" the map shows the land of Israel the Sinai desert and Egypt in landscape orientation looking eastward towards the top of the map. It traces the journey of the Israelites starting with the Exodus from Egypt through the desert and into the Land of Israel. The map is detailed showing the areas of the twelve tribes important locations and cities as well as geographic features including the Red Sea Mount Sinai the Dead Sea the Sea of Galilee and many others. The map is decorated with additional illustrations near the bottom and includes a key. This beautiful work also by Abraham ben Jacob is considered among the earliest if not the first map of its kind to be printed within a Hebrew publication. It is now known to have been heavily based on the previously printed 1620 map in Hebrew by Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq and Abraham Goos 1590 - ca. 1643 which itself was based on the map of 1590 by Christian Kruik van Adrichom Adrichem printed in Latin.<br /> <br /> Text throughout is printed in Hebrew with smaller text in Rashi script underneath containing famous commentary on the Passover Haggadah by acclaimed Portuguese Rabbi and scholar Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel 1437-1508. The verso of the title page contains the order of the Passover seder with brief instructions in both Ladino Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Judeo-German a nod to the subtitle of Haggadah which references the both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions.<br /> <br /> This copy with binding in beautiful condition with being professionally restored includining spine re-backed to style. Book block tight. Interior with some staining to pages throughout from use. Binding in very good to near fine inteiror in good condition overall. Hebrew title: סדר הגדה של פסח ×›×ž× ×”×’ ××©×›× ×– וספרד <br /> Alternate transliterations: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah Seder Hagadah sel Pesah<br /> <br /> References: Friedberg 278 Fuks HTN II 521; Yudlov Haggadah 93; Vinograd Amsterdam 627; Ya'ari no. 59; Laor 876 Map; Nebenzahl pp.138-1389 Map; Yerushalmi plate 59-62; Rosenau "Vision of the Temple" p.135 146-7. Be-veit ha-meshutafim [Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer]/ Moses Wiesel hardcover
169555262Amsterdam: Be-veit ha-meshutafim Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer/ Moses Wiesel 1695. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Small folio 29 by 18.5 cm. Collation: aleph-vav4 zayin2 = 26 numbered leaves. Additional engraved title page engraved folding map at rear; main title with woodcut vignette; 14 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary quarter calf over dark brown pastepaper boards skilfully rebacked. Images of Moses and Aaron at engraved title excised the seven small engraved vignettes along with letterpress text of engraved title and imprint mounted on old paper. Old marginal repairs at main title resulting in slight loss of initial letters along right margin and several leaves; slight strictly marginal worming and occasional tears. Stained throughout sometimes heavily though not impairing legibility. Map mounted to reinforce tears with virtually no loss of text or engraved imagery apart from printed border at right side. A fair copy at best; despite all defects the half-page engraved illustrations have survived intact with minimal staining. Housed in new maroon buckram slipcase.<br /> <br /> First edition of this gorgeously illustrated work now referred to simply as the Amsterdam Haggadah. The first such work to be illustrated with copperplate engravings it ranks among the most imitated of the Jewish manuals for the Passover seder. The popularity of these illustrations can be attested by the huge number of reprint editions over the centuries. Fourteen finely printed half-page engravings appear throughout the text. Some of these images illustrate the traditional content of the Passover seder or the Exodus story while others reference other biblical tales. Images include: the Rabbis of Bene Brak discussing the Passover story the four sons Abraham smashing the idols of his father Abraham welcoming the three angels Moses slaying the Egyptian overseer the rescuing Moses from the river Moses and Aaron coming to Pharaoh w/ staves turning to snakes the ten plagues the Egyptian army drowning in the Red Sea the Exodus the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai the eating of the Pascal Lamb King David composing his psalms and finally an exterior view of the Jewish Temple with the cityscape of Jerusalem in the background. All images are captioned with relevant passages in Hebrew. The engravings were all created by Abraham ben Jacob a German convert to Judaism who had moved to Amsterdam although some sources over the years misattributed them to financier Moses Wiesel 6 of which were adaptations and/or modifications of previous images by Swiss artist Matthäus Merian 1593-1650 from his original work "Icones Biblicae" 1625-30.<br /> <br /> In addition to the in text engravings there is famously fold-out engraved biblical map of the Holy Land in a notable format. Measuring a total of 19.5 by 11.5" the map shows the land of Israel the Wilderness of Sinai and Egypt in landscape orientation looking eastward towards the top of the map. It traces the journey of the Israelites starting with the Exodus from Egypt through the Sinai and into the Land of Israel. The map is detailed showing the areas of the twelve tribes important locations and cities as well as geographic features including the Red Sea Mount Sinai the Dead Sea the Sea of Galilee and many others. Additional illustrations appear near the bottom along with a legend. This beautiful work also by Abraham ben Jacob is considered among the earliest if not the first map of its kind to be printed within a Hebrew publication. It is now known to have been heavily based on the previously printed 1620 map in Hebrew by Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq and Abraham Goos 1590 - ca. 1643 which itself was based on the map of 1590 by Christian Kruik van Adrichom Adrichem printed in Latin.<br /> <br /> Text throughout is printed in Hebrew with smaller text in Rashi script underneath containing famous commentary on the Passover Haggadah by acclaimed Portuguese Rabbi and scholar Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel 1437-1508. The verso of the title page contains the order of the Passover seder with brief instructions in both Ladino Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Judeo-German a nod to the subtitle which references both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: Full page of text appx. 1500 words in neat Hebrew cursive at front endleaf which discusses aspects of the Haggadah text; inscription in German at front endleaf by Isidor Adler who mentions his friend Hermann Mechlenburg dated March 1906; old annotations throughout in at least two hands. In one notable instance the Hebrew phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah be-hamburg next year in Hamburg! has been added in fine block characters above the traditional phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah bi-yerushalayim next year in Jerusalem. Hebrew title: סדר הגדה של פסח ×›×ž× ×”×’ ××©×›× ×– וספרד <br /> Alternate transliterations: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah Seder Hagadah sel Pesah<br /> <br /> References: Friedberg 278 Fuks HTN II 521; Yudlov Haggadah 93; Vinograd Amsterdam 627; Ya'ari no. 59; Laor 876 Map; Nebenzahl pp.138-1389 Map; Yerushalmi plate 59-62; Rosenau "Vision of the Temple" p.135 146-7. Be-veit ha-meshutafim [Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer]/ Moses Wiesel hardcover
1640743L20London: Richard Bishop and Robert Young 1640 1641. Fine Binding. Very Good Indeed. 12" by 7.5" . None. A beautifully bound scarce collected edition of Ben Jonson's works. In a fantastic recent binding with a custom slipcase. From the library of Allen and Beryl Freer. The Freers were avid art collectors and acquired quite the selection over the twentieth century of works mostly bought from the artists. Allen organised many exhibitions of artists he admired and published several works on art. With Allen Freer's bookplate to the front pastedown. Freer's handwriting to the front free endpaper 'Ex collection H J Massingham'. ESTC reference no: S112456. Greg 1073; STC 14753Collated lacking A8 further celebrations of Ben Jonson and B1 Title page to 'Every Man in His Humour.'. With the title page engraved and signed 'Gulielmus Hole fecit' and the frontispiece signed 'Ro: Vaughan fecit' provided in a very good facsimile on laid paper. Collated using The BL's copy. With the signatures: A3-A7 B2-B6 C-2K6 2L4 A-T6.This second collected edition of Jonson's works was entered to R. Bishop on the 4th March 1639. Separate title page for 'Every Man Out of His Humour' dated 1640; 'Cynthias Revels' dated 1640; 'Poetaster' dated 1640; 'Seianus His Fall' dated 1640; 'Volpone or The Fox a Comedy' dated 1640; 'Epicoene or The Silent Woman' dated 1640. Part 2 begins with 'Epigrammes. I. Booke' dated 1640. Separate title page to 'Part of the Kings.' dated 1640; 'Masques At Court' dated 1640; To the verso of title page is a hand-written verse which begins 'O She is wilder & more hard with all/ then bird or beast or tree or stony wall./' It is monogrammed 'W: S:'. This verse was likely written in 1660 as the excised signature at the top of the verso is dated 1660. Contemporary inscription to the tail of B4r 'John Noble His Book'. Prior owner's inscription to the title page of 'The Alchemist a Comedy' 'The Fox the alchemist and the silent woman Elizabeth Congreve'. Excised contemporary inscription to the final leaf. Recently rebound in a full morocco binding. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Recent ownership inscriptions to A3 A4 B4 Y4 and T6. Internally firmly bound. Repair to the fore-edge of L6 and M1 not affecting text. Minor repair to the top corner of R4-S6 not affecting any text. Repair to 2P2 to the bottom six lines of the leaf affecting half of several words. Repair to 2P4 affecting three lines fourteen from the bottom. Lacking A8 B1 and the title page and frontispiece are provided in facsimile. Pages are bright. Scattered spots from A-E of part II. Very Good Indeed Richard Bishop [and Robert Young] unknown
163191764London: Robert ALLOT John BEALE 1631. Fine. Two plays by the ""greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries""Ian Donaldson Robert ALLOT John BEALE London 1631 20 x 32 cm Relié First edition. Binding inspired by Seventeenth century Cambridge panelled boards spine with five raised bands framed by double fillets in blind boards framed by double fillets in blind outer corners of central frame decorated with small fleurons tools in blind decorated roll inside central frame decorated roll in blind on edges all edges gilt a corner and edge and lower spine-end slightly rubbed some chafing on boards a small hole p. 8 affecting part of a letter. Very scarce first editions of The Staple of News and The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson master of comedy and satire who appears alongside Shakespeare as the most celebrated playwright of the English Renaissance. These two delightful satires of the modern world were performed by the Kings Men respectively in 1626 and 1616. As Jean-Christophe Mayer observes Shakespeare and Jonson had clearly understood that the present was beginning to take on a quite particular importance for their contemporaries who would as the years went by become avid consumers of current events. in Modernité représentation de lhistoire et présentisme dans le théâtre shakespearien. The printed press was barely in its infancy when Jonson wrote The Staple of News: the first play mocking the feverish appetite for information among readers staging games of speculation and inflation around news of every kind. He then continued his sharp description of his contemporaries in The Devil is an Ass: Satan sends one of his demons to London to recruit new souls. But this poor devil finds himself so thoroughly outpaced in every old vice and every old trick of hell by modern usurers ruffians and swindlers of high and low degree alike that he no longer knows where he stands allows himself to be duped and returns to the dark empire reviled and mocked by all. Ernest Lafond. These rare imprints follow Jonsons First Folio 1616 a landmark in English literary history as the first printed edition of an authors works supervised by the author himself. Jonson was moreover instrumental in the publishing of Shakespeares First Folio which opens with his verses To the Reader and also contains his eloquent tribute To the Memory of My Beloved the Author Master William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us. The two plays in the present volume were published simultaneously with a third Bartholomew Fair to form a collection that never came to fruition: The lack of a general title page on this collection has led scholars to offer several theories seeking to explain how and if it was ever sold to readers see Greg 3:1075-76; Creaser 2014. One theory is that copies of the edition may have been sold as a supplement to Jonsons 1616 Works DEEP 5074-5075. Alternatively copies of the collection but also of the individual plays in it may have been distributed as private gifts by Jonson. . It is also possible that the plays were intended to be sold separately despite the use of continuous signatures in the collection and the use of continuous pagination in Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass. Another possibility is that Jonson prevented copies from being sold by the publisher Robert Allott and likewise prevented other works from being printed for the collection in 1631 because of Jonsons dissatisfaction with John Beales printing of the three plays in it. The three plays in the collection were issued again in 1640 Database of Early English Playbooks. A fine association of two Jonsonian comedies issued by Allot who would go on to publish the celebrated Shakespeare Second Folio the following year. ESTC ; STC 14753.5. A bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration 456. 1631 ; 457. 1631. Robert ALLOT John BEALE hardcover
16336497Leiden: Elzevir 1633. First bilingual edition. Very Good. Octavo 16 cm.; 48 234 22 pages. Woodblock initials and vignettes. In marbled boards circa 1900 renewed endleaves spine artlessly reinforced in cloth worn at edges. Paper label apparently original. Provenance: Salomon Jakob Florsheim exlibris. Some light foxing. Reference: Willems 377; Blackmer 120. <br /><br />Hebrew text of "Ma'asot shel rabi Benjamin" accompanied by a Latin translation. This "travelogue" first published in Hebrew in 1543 and in Latin in 1575 recounts the author's journey through the Middle East and Central Asia in the 12th century. Da Tudela traveled from Spain through southern France Italy Greece Constantinople Cyprus Palestine Egypt on to Baghdad and visited many of the local Jewish communities. He is remembered as the most important traveler of Jewish origin in the Middle Ages. The narrative is an prime source for the history of the Jewish traditions in the Mediterranean area. He even described the lighthouse of Alexandria collapsed in 1326 one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Elzevir hardcover
1695045340Amsterdam: Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb 1695. Hardcover. Good Condition. Early marbled paper covered wooden boards backed in vellum. Spine perished and vellum largely lacking paper chipped and torn from boards corners cracked with some loss of wood. Binding structure still more or less intact browning to page edges old stamp to title and final leaf. 1 33ff. Scarce Cabalistic commentary on Ecclesiastes. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 045340. Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb hardcover
1695045340Amsterdam: Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb 1695. Hardcover. Good Condition. Early marbled paper covered wooden boards backed in vellum. Spine perished and vellum largely lacking paper chipped and torn from boards corners cracked with some loss of wood. Binding structure still more or less intact browning to page edges old stamp to title and final leaf. 1 33ff. Scarce Cabalistic commentary in Ecclesiastes. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 045340. <br/><br/> Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb hardcover books
169048858Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre; Henry Bonwick 1690. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Two parts quarto published in 1690 and 1691. A-Z4 pi4 b4 Aa4 Bb/CC4 Dd-Gg4 = 124 leaves. 16 196; 4 31 1 blankpp. Text in Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns. De Turcarum liturgia with separate title page dated 1690 and pagination. Contemporary vellum neatly rebacked. Old library stamp at bottom margin title front blank endleaf detached occasional oxidation spot and mild toning else a very good copy crisp and amply margined.<br /> <br /> First Hebrew-Latin edition of the first modern Hebrew work on geography the author’s most famous and important book. Abraham Farissol or Peritsol was a learned Jew from Avignon who compiled his cosmographical works at the court of the Estes in Ferrara. The present text was composed in 1524-25 and first published in Hebrew at Venice in 1586. The Latin translation and notes in the present edition were prepared by the English orientalist and librarian Thomas Hyde 1636-1703 with the assistance of R. Isaac Abendana working from a manuscript which Hyde located in the Bodleian Library. “Each of its 30 chapters deals with a certain geographical area or subject. In addition many cosmological and historical matters are also treated. The author collected all the evidence he could regarding Jewish settlements in each country. The inclusion of a description of the New World makes Farissol the first Hebrew writer to deal in detail with the newly-discovered America. The 14th chapter of Iggeret Orhot Olam which deals mainly with the settlements of the Ten Lost Tribes is of special interest. According to Farissol’s introduction to this chapter it is clear that what moved him to undertake this investigation was the appearance in Italy in 1523 of David Reuveni many of whose descriptions are included in this work†EJ 6.1185. Reuveni was "an adventurer who aroused messianic hopes in the early 16th century" EJ 14.114. The appended work is a tract on Islamic customs by Albert Wojciech Bobowski a Polish Christian who converted to Islam after his capture by the Ottoman Turks. Adopting the name Ali Ufki Bey he served as translator court musician at Topkapi and as a notator of Ottoman classical music. Bell F26. Christian Hebraism Cat. Harvard 1988 no. 39. ESTC R27480. Fürst Bibliotheca Judaica 1.276. Heller 17th Century pp. 1176-1177. Sabin 60934. Smitskamp PO 372. Vinograd Oxford 4. Wing F-438. Cf. Alden European Americana 1.187 Venice 1586; Heller 16th Century pp.732-733 ed. 1586. Full title beginning in Hebrew: ×גרת ×רחות על×<br /> Id est Itinera mundi sic dicta nempe cosmographia. Latinâ versione donavit et notas passim adjecit Thomas Hyde. Calce exponitur Turcarum liturgia peregrinatio Meccana aegrotorum visitatio circumcisio etc. Sheldonian Theatre; Henry Bonwick hardcover
16724649Paris, Pierre Le Petit, 1672, 9 X 16 cm., relié, 550 pages. Avec ce que Philon Juif a écrit de son ambassade vers l'empereur Caïus Caligula. Traduite du grec par Monsieur Arnaud d'ANDILLY. Quatrième édition. Plein veau, dos à nerfs orné, tranches jaspées. Des épidermures et craquelures, coiffes abîmées, coupes et coins émoussés. Très peu de traces sur les feuillets.
16724650Paris, Pierre Le Petit, 1672, 9 X 16 cm., relié, 550 pages. Traduite sur l'original grec revu sur divers manuscrits par Monsieur Arnaud d'ANDILLY. Quatrième édition. Plein veau, dos à nerfs orné, tranches jaspées. Des manques de peau, épidermures et craquelures, coiffes abîmées, coupes et coins sérieusement émoussés. Notes à la plume sur une page de garde. Très peu de traces sur les feuillets.
161249853Hannoviyah Hanau: Hans Yakop Hena 1612. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Quarto. 9 92 leaves. Rebound in modern dark brown leather boards with gilt lettering red label and raised bands on the spine. Title page illustrated with historiated woodblock lettering at the top and encircled by text borders. Missing the final unnumbered initial leaf containing approbations and the final two leaves index. <br /> <br /> First edition of this compendium of Kabblistic topics by Prague rabbi Shabtai Sheftel ben Akiva Horowitz 1565-1619. Illustrated throughout with a total of 15 prominent and intriguing Kabbalistic woodblock diagrams and charts in black as well as some small tables. Among the specific subjects the work provides commentary and analysis of the work of previous Kabbalists including "Iggeret ha-Te'amim" Letter on the Accents by 16th century rabbi Aaron Abraham ben Baruch Simeon ha-Levi the writings of Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero aka the RAMAK 1522–1570 Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar.<br /> <br /> Text throughout in Hebrew printed in two and three-column formats in multiple size fonts and some of the text in Rashi script.<br /> <br /> Binding with some light scratches to the covers. Title page with some staining some small worm holes reinforcement along the gutter and most notably a repaired tear along the left margin resulting in some loss of border text and text on the verso. Repaired marginal tears also on the 2nd and 3rd unnumbered initial leaves with no loss of text. The large diagram on the leaf 8 has been trimmed in the margin resulting in minor loss of the image on the left side. Closed tear to leaf 18. Pages throughout with some age toning occasion minor chipping to the edges and some sporadic water stains and smudges. Binding in very good interior in very good- condition overall. Hebrew title: ספר שפה טל<br /> Author: שבתי שפטל בן ×¢×§×™×‘× ×”×œ×•×™ הורוביץ<br /> Publication: ×”×× ×© ×™×קופ ×”×¢× ×”<br /> Alternate transliteration: Shabtai Sheftel ben Akiva ha-Levi Horowitz<br /> <br /> Bibliographic References: Vinograd p.162 Hanau 13; Steinschneider col. 2241; Cowley 630. Hans Yakop Hena hardcover
162711886Basel: Azeleah 1627. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 8vo. 68 leafs. 3/4 leather over black paper covered boards. String ties. Printed on high quality thick cotton rag. Illustrated title page. Early book on Hebrew Grammar and Language. Covers and Spine are worn. Hinges starting. Abrasions on cover. Back slip is chipped. Inscriptions and stamps on inside covers. Minor rippling throughout. Minor foxing throughout not affecting text. Interior in good condition. In Hebrew. Binding in poor inside in good condition. Bet Eked V.3 P.979 #733. Azeleah hardcover
1640217317London: Anonymous 1640. Very Good Minus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A complete play published only a couple of years after the death of Ben Johnson a playwirght famous for his colourful life that included murder and for being a contemporary of William Shakespeare. This play is compelte in its own right with title page persons that act prologue Acts and Scenes from Acts 1 - 5 and the epilogue. It paginates from page 67 - 113 I2 - Q2 Almost certainly publsihed originally in a book of the Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume. This volume would have contained three plays followed by three sections each with separate pagination containing A Tale of a Tub within this latter section. The title page of this play has 7 ink near contempoary lines running in parallel dividing the text into sections and underlining the place and date of publication. A number of the page corners are slightly rounded and turned with slight loss perhaps most noticeable to the title page no loss of text p 97 - 113 have one worm tract two thirds of the way up the leaf of 2 cm to the margin of the page in no way affecting the text. There is a little loss to the front margin of pp 75 and there is a light stain to the lower margin of pp 77 - 90. Scattered slight foxing. Slight ink dashes in ink to the margins and occasional ink underlining of the occasional word of pp 84 86 88 89 93 94 95 96 and 98 The title page has split from the tail of the play but remains attached for half the length of the spine from the head. The play holds together by the original cords though of course is lacking the original boards. Normal age toning. A surprisingly well preserved contemporarneous copy of a 17th century play. Anonymous hardcover
164038515London. Good. 1640. Softcover. Disbound. The final comedy of Ben Johnson. The title page shows a publisher's typo showing the date of 1440 instead of 1640. Decorative front endpage/wrap detached included. Dampstain to gutter and a few professional repairs. Missing the majority of p. 49-50. ; quarto; 64 pages . paperback
16401299690London: Richard Bishop 1640. Second Edition. Other. Title page only from 'The Alchemist' part of the second folio of Ben Johnson measuring 11.25" x 7.25"; JG consignment; shelved case 0. 1299690. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Richard Bishop unknown books
16401315045London: Printed by Richard Bishop and Robert Young and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard 1640/1641. Second Folio Printing. Hardcover. Folios 2 volumes; VG; rebacked with new calf spines burgundy labels with gilt lettering previous boards preserved; marbled endpapers; both volumes have previous owners name and information on sfep; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> For volume 1 the subsidiary plays each have separate dated title pages. That to "Poëtaster" has imprint "London printed by Robert Young. M.DC.XL.". "Epigrammes" begins new pagination and register; otherwise pagination and register are continuous. Most of the parts have special title page with imprint: London Printed by R. Bishop 1640. "Poëtaster" has title page with imprint: "London Printed by Robert Young M.DC.XL.".; The title page is engraved and signed "Gulielmus Hole fecit".; Signatures: A-Kkk6 Lll4; 2A-2T6.; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> For volume 2 it consists of two volumes 2 and 3 the former intended as a continuation of the first volume published in 1615. Vol. 2 was edited by the author vol. 3 by Sir Kenelm Digby. The three plays comprising volume 2 "Bartholmew sic Fayre" "The Diuell is an asse" and "The staple of nevves" each have separate title page with imprint ". printed by Iohn. Beale. for Robert Allot . 1631"; "; Signatures: A6 B-M4 Aa-Cc4 2D-H4 2I6 N-Y4 Vol. 3 B-Q4 R2 S-X4 Y2 Z4 Aa-Oo4 Pp2 Qq4 2A-K4 2L2 2M-R4 3A-P4 3Q2 3R-V4. Closed tear to L4;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> CK consignment; shelved case 0. The first printed by Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke was a 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio with corrections and emendations; it has sometimes been termed "the second edition of the first folio." The second volume was printed by James Dawson for Thomas Walkley in 1641 lacks a general title page and the order of the parts varies in published editions. This volume contains later works most of them unpublished or uncollected previously.;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> ESTC Citation No. S112456 ESTC Citation No. S111824. 1315045. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed by Richard Bishop [and Robert Young], and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, in St. Paules, Church-yard hardcover books
16412403London: Printed by William Stansby and Printed for Richard Meighen 1641. First edition. First volume printed 1616 second volume printed 1640 but dated 1631 1640 and 1641. Three folio volumes in two 290 x 190 mm. Contemporary brown calf with black and red morocco gilt lettered labels. Both volumes expertly rebacked retaining original spines. Collates complete according to Pforzheimer with the exception of initial and final blanks lacking in Volume I. Volume II with The Staple Newes bound before The Divell is an Asse Part IV bound before Part III and D3 bound before D2. Moderate soiling wear and signs of use throughout. Title page and first two leaves of Vol I with slight loss of upper corner slightly affecting image on title page lower corners absent from 401 439 539 and 779 not affecting text. Long marginal tears to C3 and D3 of Volume II. Cosmetic blemishes aside a very good and well margined copy in a contemporary binding.<br/><br/>"This book. is a handsome specimen of typography. It reflects great credit upon its printer Stansby who was an apprentice and then successor to John Windet and himself a master printer. Such work entitles him to a front rank among the printers of the reign of James I. Jonson is said to have prepared the plays for the press himself and one or two matters of editing. certainly appear to show the author's hand. At the end of each play for instance is a statement telling when it was first acted and by whom whether the king's or the queen's servants. The names of the actors are also given. All of the works not included in the first were intended for a second volume which however did not appear until after Jonson's death in 1640" Grolier 100 English.<br/><br/>Grolier 100 English 17. Pforzheimer 559. Pforzheimer 560. STC 14751. Printed by William Stansby [and] Printed for Richard Meighen unknown books
1692WRCLIT70282London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin . 1692. 12264281-368371-2371-382393-7444pp. Folio signed in 4s; 14.5 x 9.25"; 368 x 237mm. Modern paneled dark brown calf raised bands gilt spine labels with earlier gilding to all edges. Engraved portrait of Jonson engraved by Elder after Vaughn. Portrait and title a bit foxed inky marginal smear to E31r; some old spotting to C2-4 3A4 and 4C4-4D4; 3C1-2 on inferior paper and tanned as usual; top edge of 3Y3 shows a bit of slight fraying; other occasional marginal smudges dusting or trivial spotting; otherwise generally a very good crisp copy. Third and last folio edition but the first in one volume adding "The New Inn" and "Leges Convivales" which were not included in the collected editions of 1616 and 1640. The characteristic poor paper and tanning of 3C1-2 often extend to 2Z2-3 which are here relatively unblemished. The final two leaves are turned over to the "Leges Convivales" with its own title and imprint. This copy although in a modern binding measures somewhat larger than the Hagen-Pforzheimer copy which is noted as in original calf. ESTC R15282. PFORZHEIMER 561. Printed by Thomas Hodgkin ... hardcover books
1641LS18142London 1641. Fair. Folio extract. 66pp. The complete play. Disbound and stained. <br/><br/> unknown
1616010148London: Printed by W. Stansby and to be Sold by Rich. Meighen 1616. Book. Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 12 1015 1 blank with engraved allegorical title by William Hole Pforzheimer state A. Lacking the rare initial blank as with Pforzheimer's copy. Volume 1 1616 pages measure 10 3/8" by 7". a small-paper copy. The title to Every Man Out of his Humour has no border and reads LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY for Iohn Smithwicke rule M. DC. XVI. The Dedication recto G2 is signed "By your true honorer Ben Jonson". Line 6 verso reads "PVNTERVOLO.; the catchword on recto G5 is "Naked" on verso "Where"; recto G6 begins "Where I want arte" ; and eighth line from bottom on versoG6 reads "But why enforce I this as fainting no". The title to Cynthia's Revels is in compartment with LONDON printed by W. Stansby 1616. The tirle for Poetaster p. 277 is in compartment and reads LONDON printed by W. Stansby for M. Lownes 1616. Bound in contemporary calf the late 18th c. bookplate of S.P PeachTockington at front paste down. About Very Good front cover separarting yet held by cords boards rubbed with a peeling lacquer at spine not quite obscuring the label. Internally tight and clean without foxing and with only a few spots of scattered browning. An unsophisticated copy of the earliest edition of Jonson's Works later volumes were published in 1640-41. Pforzheimer 560. Printed by W. Stansby and to be Sold by Rich. Meighen Hardcover
16169030996London: William Stansby 1616. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Compiled and edited by Johnson published in two sizes. This is the small-paper edition originally 7 x 11 1/4 inches trimmed here to 6 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches with no loss of text. Rebound in dark green morocco with five raised bands on spine; spine and covers stamped in gilt. Contains 842 of roughly 1025 original pages including all plays: Every Man in his Humour Every Man out of his Humour Cynthias Revels Poetaster Seianus Volpone or The Fox Epicœne or The Silent Woman The Alchemist and Catiline as well as epigrams and Jonson's poetry collection "The Forrest." Missing engraved portrait title and contents page along with five of seven introductory dedication pages. Missing engraved title pages to all plays but "Poetaster" along with the Entertainments Panegyre Masques and Barriers which comprised the last 173 pages of the book. Two pages of introductory dedication have been rebound as final leaf. <br/><br/> William Stansby hardcover
