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1802H16739Hudson NY: Sampson Chittenden & Croswell 1802. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 5 x 3.25 inches original leather backed marbled boards black gilt spine label very good contents tanned occasional waterstain last blank flyleaf and pastedown with old browning tidemark of long-ago waterstain. Has engraved title page as well as letterpress title page; the engraved title is slightly trimmed at the upper edge. A polemic addressing some of the pitfalls of a democratic republic foretelling the rise of a demagogue including the need for truthful information to be imparted to an informed public and the "baneful tendency of favoritism in a free republic." A polemic in the style of Matthew Carey but with some interesting anti-semitic content in its historical considerations: a diatribe against Absalom "Moses reviled as a monarchist" "The ingratitude of the Hebrew Republic toward the family of Gideon" "Sudden transitions from Republicanism to Monarchy in the instances of the ancient Hebrews and modern Britons" -- some of the chapter headers. Ezra Sampson a Congregational minister was born at Middleborough Mass. Feb. 12 1749. He graduated at Yale College 1773 and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Plympton Mass. Feb. 1775. He also officiated as chaplain in the Revolutionary army and was settled at Hudson N.Y. by 1796. While there he became associated with Rev. Harry Crosswell in the editorship of The Balance one of the first literary journals in the United States 1801-4. He edited for a year 1804-5 the Connecticut Courant and became judge of Columbia County in 1814. He died in New York City Dec. 12 1823. Shaw & Shoemaker 3045. Sampson, Chittenden & Croswell hardcover
182838188Salzburg: Arnsteinii et Filiorum 1828. Second edition. Hardcover. fair. Small quarto 12 117 leaves 2 67 leaves 84 leaves; 5 in text illustrations. Contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering on green and brown labels on spine. Latin and Hebrew title-pages plus title-pages before each of the 3 sections. Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed." First published in 1791 in Berlin and then in 1800 in Salzburg. Translated from Judeo-Arabic by Samuel ibn Tibbon. Commentary by Moses Narbonni and a contemporary commentary "Givat Hamoreh" printed anonymously but actually by the maskil Solomon Maimon. Edited by Isaac Abraham Euchel one of leaders of the moderate wing of the Berlin Haskalah. Prefaces by Narbonni and Maimon. Errata pages after the first and third sections. Explanation of philosophical terms. As with Moses Mendelssohn's Biur project this work exemplifies the moderate strain within the late 18th century German Haskalah which attempted to reform traditional Judaism using the medieval Jewish philosophical tradition exemplified by Maimonides. Text in Hebrew. Head and tail of spine with wear and chipped at head and green label. Leather broken just below brown label and at joints of spine. Corners and boards rubbed. Endpapers with offsetting in corners. Very light and sporadic foxing throughout. Binding in overall fair to good- interior in good condition. Title page info: "Auctore R. Mose Majemonide Arabico idiomate conscriptus a R. Samuele Abben Thibbone in Linguam Hebraeam translatus novis commentaris uno R. Mosis Narbonnensis ex antiquissimis manuscriptis depromto; altero anonymi cujusdam sub nomine Gibeath Hamore adauctus nunc in lucem editus cura et impensis Isaaci Eucheli. Solisbaci in officina arnsteinii et filiorum. MDCCC."<br /> <br /> R. Moses Maimonides Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death but 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 work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj Kitab al-Fara'I a book on precepts and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted 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. Arnsteinii et Filiorum hardcover
1866020129New York: North Clear Creek Gold and Silver Mining Co. Very Good. 1866. Ephemera. Two items of ephemera from the North Clear Creek Gold and Silver Mining Company in Colorado. Includes a 3pp pamphlet 8" x 11" and an unused stock certificate with content on both sides measuring 6" x 10". Pamphlet has minor creasing and a small 1/8" tear along bottom edge; stock certificate is bright and crisp. Ephemera from a New York-based investment company with property in the Gregory and Central City mining districts of Colorado. The pamphlet contains a report to the stockholders of the Company and was written by Theodore Moses who was sent to examine the mining claims owned by the Company. A diagram is included of the Gregory and Foot & Simmons lodes. The ten dollar stock certificate is in unusually fine condition. As of December 2019 copies found at Yale and AAS not including stock certificate. . North Clear Creek Gold and Silver Mining Co. unknown books
184230652Berlin: Published by the author 1842. First edition. Hardcover. g to g. 1. Talmud Babli - Babylonishcer Talmud Tractat Berachoth Segensprüche. Berlin: Eigenthum des Verfassers 1842. Elephant folio. 7 16 1 24; 1 87 numbered in pairs = 174 pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With both German and Hebrew title-pages each printed in red and black ink. Light foxing throughout. Fore-edge of German title-page crudely repaired with non abrasive tape. Mold stain to upper margin of the last 10 leaves not affecting text. Text in Hebrew Aramaic and German. German title reinforced at fore-edge; Hebrew title and dedication leaf repaired at versos. Top trimmed tightly with some loss of headlines. Occasional spots or smudges else text generally clean.<br /> <br /> First edition all published. Scarce scholarly commentary and German translation of the first book in the Babylonian Talmud tractate "Berachoth" Blessings. Compiled and translated by archaeologist and Talmudic scholar Ephraim Moses Pinner. The “Pinner Talmud†bears a dedication to Czar Nicholas I of Russia and contains an extensive introduction table of contents and subscribers list. The work includes the traditional printed Talmud page with the text in the middle and the Rashi and Tosafot commentaries on the side with a Hebrew “Biur†commentary and etymology section added to the bottom of the page. Facing each Aramaic page is a German page including a translation and commentary. Also included in the rear are the commentaries of Rosh Maimonides Marshal and Marsha.<br /> <br /> 2. Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud. Ein Betrag zur Geschichte der Israeliten und Eine Probeschrift der zu erscheinenden deutschen Uebersetzung des ganzen Talmuds. Berlin: n.p. 1832. Small quarto. xlviii. 132 pp. Blue paper covered boards. Hebrew and German title page. Printed on very high quality cotton rag paper. Serious age wear to binding with water stains and parts missing at spine and edges. Minor browning throughout. Overall very clean and tight. In German Gothic script and Hebrew. Binding in poor book in very good condition.<br /> <br /> First edition second issue all published of this introduction and chrestomathy with selections from the Jerusalem and Babylonian versions of the Talmud. This was to be the first volume of a planned series on the Talmud. Introductory material covers the origins language and authenticity of the Talmud and provides a biography of Simeon Bar-Yohai the famous rabbi who lived in the era of the Tannaim scholars of the Mishnah in the area of what is today Israel after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Bar-Yohai was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva. The Zohar a chief work of Jewish mysticism "Kabbalah" is traditionally ascribed to Simeon as are the important legal homilies called Sifre and Mekhilta. First published in 1831 other title-pages as ours note 1832 the Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud / Kitzur Talmud Yerushalmi ve-Talmud Bavli marked the beginning of Pinner's larger project to produce a translation of the entire Talmud. Pinner's work took him to libraries across Eastern Europe. He even secured the aid of the anti-Jewish Czar Nicholas I and dedicated the translation to him. Only the first of the proposed 28 volumes was ever published. Besides for securing sponsorships from royalty across European Pinner gained letters of approbation from several rabbis none of whom lived in Russia. Full titles: 1 Talmud Babli - Babylonischer Talmud Tractat Berachoth Segensprüche.Mit deutscher Uebersetzung und den Commentaren Raschi und Tosephoth nebst den verschiendenen Verbesserungen aller früheren Ausgaben. Hinzugefügt sind: Neue Lesarten und Parallelstellen in allen Theilen diesäes Tractates und der Commentare Vokalisation der Mischnah Interpunktion der Mischnah Interpunktion der Mischnah und Gemara Raschi und Tosephoth Etymologie und Uebertragung der fremden Wörter Erklärungen des Meharschal und Meharscha R. Ascher mit Erläuterung der Halachah und den abweichenden Lesarten R. Moscheh's Sohnes R. Maimon's Commentar zur Mischnah mit Berichtigungen Einleitung in den Talmud enthaltend Grundprincipien der Methodologie und Exegetik des Talmud. Von Dr. E. M. Pinner Membre de la Société Asiatique de Paris &c. &c. &c. Erster band. 2 Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud. Ein Betrag zur Geschichte der Israeliten und Eine Probeschrift der zu erscheinenden deutschen Uebersetzung des ganzen Talmuds. Uebersetzt und erläutert von M. Pinner Dr. der Philosophie. Mit einer Vorrede von Johann Joachim Kellermann. Erster Band. Entstehung Sprache Aechtheit des Thalmud Reden und Thaten des Rabbi Simon des Sohnes des Jochai. Published by the author hardcover
183862869Wien, Verlag Mich, Schmidl's, 1838. origi.Halblederband, gr.8°, 1016 Seiten.
1874877Wilmington N.C. 1874. Hardcover. Very good. Manuscript on paper 58 unnumbered pages written in an octavo ruled notebook the MS occupying the first half the second being blank. Contemporary American binding sheepskin over boards light wear to binding extremities hinges cracked but firm marbled edges. An attractive manuscript in very good antiquarian condition. ¶ AN AMERICAN MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUE OF PLANTS GROWING AROUND WILMINGTON N.C. being hand-written transcript of another manuscript of Moses Curtis's "Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously Around Wilmington NC." On the first leaf is the note: "Copied by Dr. E. Foreman from a Mss manuscript presented to him by Mr. S.A. Story of Wilmington NC October 1874." Dr. Foreman's additions to the work appear at the end. <br/><br/>¶ Beautifully and articulately written by hand in ink bound in a full leather booklet. Moses A. Curtis 1808-1872 was a noted American botanist. Curtis was born in Stockbridge Massachusetts and educated at Williams College in Massachusetts. After graduating he became a tutor for the children of former Governor Edward Bishop Dudley in Wilmington North Carolina returning to Massachusetts in 1833 to study theology. He married Mary de Rosset in 1834 was ordained in 1835 and obtained a post to teach at the Episcopal school at Raleigh North Carolina. He became rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Hillsborough North Carolina in 1841 and in charge of a parish at Society Hill South Carolina in 1847 before returning to the Protestant Episcopal Church at Hillsborough in 1857. He died in Hillsborough North Carolina in 1872. <br/><br/>¶ As a botanist Curtis explored the southern Appalachian Mountains embarking on a major expedition in 1839. He maintained a herbarium of dried specimens and contributed specimens to John Torrey and Asa Gray. He collected lichens for Edward Tuckerman and corresponded with many other botanists including Miles Joseph Berkeley to whom he sent many specimens with descriptions and notes. Gray said of him that "No living botanist . is so well acquainted with the vegetation of the southern Allegheny Mountains ." and that he ".was among the first to retrace the steps and rediscover the plants found and published by the elder Michaux in the higher Alleghany Mountains. For the last twenty-five years of his life he studied and became an authority on mycology." <br/><br/>¶ A VERY CURIOUS AMERICAN BOTANICAL MANUSCRIPT IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. hardcover books
181310952Philadelphia: J. W. Campbell & M. Carey 1813. Boards. Good binding. 12mo. 310 pp. First edition. In publisher's boards backed in muslin with printed title label. Spine and board edges are rubbed; front board with a vertical crease from fold; a solidly bound copy with light to moderate foxing scattered throughout.<br /> <br /> Campbell 1779-1842 was a Petersburg VA bookstore owner and historian. He was father of Charles Campbell who was himself a history of colonial Virginia. Another edition of this present work with the same collation and pagination errors bears a Petersburg imprint. Howes's entry suggests that this Philadelphia imprint was first. In addition to Campbell's history the book also contains the "Constitution of Virginia" p. 226-237 and concludes with a "Sketch of the History of the Church in Virginia" attributed to Moses Hoge by the cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society. An uncommon and early Virginia history all the more uncommon in publisher's binding. This copy with a previous owner name of Elihu B. Taft Burlington VT 1870 on the front pastedown; this above the 20th century bookplate of John W. Hancock. An appealing copy. Howes C-100; Shaw & Shoemaker 28070; Sabin 10259; Haynes 2834. J. W. Campbell, & M. Carey unknown
1840853B88London : Not Stated 1840. Cloth. Fair. 11.5" by 9". Benjamin West . An interesting volume of pictures by Benjamin West. Hard to find in any kind of acceptable condition as the copies of this book did not survive well. Actually though not particularly good this is better than often seen. Benjamin West was a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson the Treaty of Paris and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky. This is a volume of a gallery of pictures by Benjamin West which have been engraved by Henry Moses. With seventeen plates.Collated complete. Undated dated from Jisc. In full cloth binding. Externally worn. Both boards are detached and the spine is missing. The boards remain smart. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper dated 1845. Front free endpaper and title page are loosening from the binding. Pages are generally bright with some scattered spots. Fair Not Stated hardcover
184031552London: H.G. Bohn. 1840. Other. In excellent condition. 290 by 225mm 11½ by 8¾ inches. Original copper engraving finely hand colored when published. Fine hand colored copper engraving published in Moses HarrisAurelianÂ’ London at Henry G. Bohn 1840. The Bohn edition is well known for its fine coloring and its excellent paper quality. „Harris was encouraged in entomology from a young age by his uncle a member of the Society of the Aurelians. In 1762 he became secretary of a second Society of Aurelians. He was a skilled artist displaying some of his insect drawings at the Royal Academy in 1785. He drew and engraved illustrations for books including Dru Drury's Illustrations of Natural History 3 volumes 1770–1782 and John Coakley Lettsom's The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion 1772.“ Wikipedia H.G. Bohn. unknown
1893elala1315<p>Chicago: W.B.Conkey Company 1893. 1893. 8vo. pp. viii 1120. folding partly coloured plan. numerous plates & text illus. some full-page. original black & gilt-stamped cloth bit rubbed & spotted. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover.</p> Chicago: W.B.Conkey Company, 1893. hardcover
18145751London: H.G. Bohn 1814. Good/Influential compendium of the decorative motives of the Greco-Roman world. Published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name. 23 cm; xi 61 1 pages and 151 engraved plates numbered 150 twelve of them hand colored. Eighteen additional engraved vignettes in text. Engraved title page. Bound in contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards with leather title label. Joints reinforced. Engraved title page somewhat foxed and toned. Light toning at edges but plates generally clean and free of blemishes. Reference: Bohn A catalogue of books 1848 p. 150. H.G. Bohn hardcover books
1879005469Portland ME: Chisholm Brothers 1879 1879. Hardcover. Good. Views In The White Mountains. 1St Edition - Folio 1879 - 2 Star Edition Sweetser Francis Moses Illustrated By Photos. Green Cloth Gilt Titles. Good To Vg. 1St. Folio - Over 12" - 15" Tall. Scarce: 28 Pages Printed On One Side Only A True First Edition Dated 1879 On The Title Page. Large Folio Edition With 10 Photo Illustrations. The Photo Plates Measure Nearly 14"X11". Spine And Covers Are Worn And Loose. Contents Are Nf To Fine With 10 Photo Plates And Descriptive Page Following. This Is The Coveted 2 Star Edition With The Following: The White Mountains - An Introductory Sketch. The Franconia Notch Echo Lake And The Profile House The Flume Echo Lake Franconia Notch The Profile Or Old Man Of The Mountains. The Profile House. View In Bethlehem. The Glen House. The Maplewood Hotel. Lizzie Bourne's Monument. Jacob's Ladder On The Mount-Washington Railway. Very Uncommon Thus. <br/> <br/> Portland, ME: Chisholm Brothers, 1879 hardcover
1817004692London: H. Moses 1817. 3 4-8pp frontispiece and twenty-three etched plates these each with a leaf of letterpress. Modern quarter cloth and boards piece of an original wrapper though dated 1821 cut out and laid down to upper cover unattractive modern title label to spine. Externally very good. Internally some light browning to edges occasional light foxing and very light soiling but generally fairly bright and clean. Seemingly a large paper copy here the frontispiece is not a folding plan but an engraving of 'A Fishing Boat Coming Into Ramsgate Harbour' dated 1817 and complete on one sheet; the remaining etchings have the day and month in the imprint but not the year perhaps the large paper copy was only issued in 1821 Moses Henry 1781/2-1870 printmaker . "his Picturesque Views of Ramsgate 1817 includes busily populated images of ships at harbour with foreground flâneurs and distant houses" ODNB and see Alexander 'A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820' pages 632-633. Bennett Kent Bibliography page 305; Upcott 631-632. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 4to. H. Moses Hardcover
182488361Milano Italy: Privately Published 1824. First edition presumed; no earlier dates stated. Hardcover. Very mild scuff to spine head edges and to spine head small scuff to spine foot edges very mild soiling and discoloration to spine and boards gently frayed and bumped corners extremely faint spotting and soiling to three front endpapers and throughout book else Very Good. A lovely production. Brown leather quarto raised bands marbled front pastedown marbled front free endpaper marbled rear pastedown marbled rear free endpaper gilt and gilt design to spine gilt border design and engraving to boards unpaginated approx. 500-600 p chiefly b&w illus some color. In Italian. Vases Ancient Archeology Sepulchral monuments Roman Altars Candelabra. Beautiful copy with intricate gilt designs engravings and raised bands. Despite blemishes copy is closer to the Near Fine scale. Great gift idea! Privately Published hardcover
1881ZB650687Cambridge: Moses King 1881. viii 438 pp. illustrations in text original half leather with paper sides bound in one of the complementary copies from Macullar Parker & Company; binding rubbed book plates removed from both paste downs else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Cambridge: Moses King hardcover
1897019742Newport NH: Barton & Wheeler 1897. First Only . Staple Wraps. Good. 16mo - 6.5" x 4.25. An uncommon piece by this Harvard historian. Quite possibly the earliest view guide of Mt. Monadnock the most hiked mountain in America. 28 pages illustrated with a 2-page quadrant map showing the location of each described site. Very Scarce. <br/> <br/> Barton & Wheeler paperback
18801303024Paris/Leipzig: Verlag von Mme Syb. M. Hess Wittwe 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 182 1 pages; VG; rebound in red cloth gilt lettering to spine; ex-library US Air Force to front pastedown; stamp on half-title page for a Professor in Berlin; with five folding plates plus the gravure frontispiece; mild age-toning to pages moderate to plates; text in German; scarce; shelved case 10. Moses Moshe Hess 1812-1875 was a French-Jewish philosopher and a founder of Labor Zionism. His socialist theories predicated on racial struggle led to conflict with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1303024. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Verlag von Mme Syb. M. Hess Wittwe hardcover books
18801303024Paris/Leipzig: Verlag von Mme Syb. M. Hess Wittwe 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 182 1 pages; VG; rebound in red cloth gilt lettering to spine; ex-library US Air Force to front pastedown; stamp on half-title page for a Professor in Berlin; with five folding plates plus the gravure frontispiece; mild age-toning to pages moderate to plates; text in German; scarce; shelved case 10. Moses Moshe Hess 1812-1875 was a French-Jewish philosopher and a founder of Labor Zionism. His socialist theories predicated on racial struggle led to conflict with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1303024. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Verlag von Mme Syb. M. Hess Wittwe hardcover
1831FLO162<p>From Various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 Plates.<br /><br />An influential compendium of the decorative motifs of the Greco-Roman world.<br /><br />With 151 engraved plates numbered 1-150 with additional plate 115 18 additional engraved vignettes in the text and engraved title page slightly foxed as usual. <br /><br />Including 10 hand-coloured plates of vases the Portland Vase and paterae in the British Museum and 11 mezzotints of Roman tombs and sepulchral chambers.<br /><br />Henry Moses 1781-1870 was an English engraver who worked on <em>Ancient Marbles in the British Museum</em> 1812-1845 <em>Select Greek and Roman Antiquities</em> 1817 <em>Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield</em> 1819 as well as book illustrations to <em>Faust </em>1821 <em>Fridolin</em> 1824 etc.<br /><br />First published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name soon after.<br /><br />Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers a few signatures springing loose. One plate No. 58 stained with dried paint. Slight spotting to a few engravings but mostly clean and crisp.</p> Henry Bohn hardcover
186247726Berlin: Printed by Julius Sittenfeld 1862. Hardcover. g to vg. Elephant Folio. Original spotted leather with debossed vignette and decorative ruling on cover. Blue endpapers. Title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette. With commentaries by Vidal Yom Tov of Tolosa Abraham ben David of Posquières Joseph ben Ephraim Karo Shem Tov ben Abraham Ibn Gaon Meir ha-Kohen Abraham Hiyya de Boton Judah ben Samuel Rosanes Nehemiah Trebitsch and Nahman Avraham Goldberg.<br /> <br /> The Mishneh Torah is the only Medieval-era work that details all of Jewish observance including those laws that are only applicable when the Holy Temple is in existence. Its title is an appellation originally used for the Biblical book of Deuteronomy and its subtitle "Book of the Strong Hand" derives from its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen when represented as the Hebrew letters Yod 10 Dalet 4 forms the word yad "hand". Maimonides intended 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 not need to refer to any other legal text. 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. 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 when he differed from the understanding of the 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. However despite his stature in Yemen and the Sephardic world the Rabbinic authorities from the 13th century onwards did not base their legal rulings and interpretations of Halicha on Maimonides. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 4930-4940 while Maimonides was living in Egypt and is regarded as Maimonides' magnum opus.<br /> <br /> Text in Hebrew. Bindings with mostly light wear along edges with small chips some scuffing of covers and lightly rubbed. Volume three with two inch crack at lower front joint and chip at head of spine. Volume four with one and a half inch closed tear at head of spine. Few bookworm holes at lower foredge of first few pages of volume one. Brief inked notes on endpapers. bindings in overall good interiors in very good condition. Printed by Julius Sittenfeld hardcover
184353918London: B. Wertheim 1843. First edition. Octavo. xx xvi 259 1pp. With an index and a list of approximately 200 subscribers. Text in English with some Hebrew. Original decorative blind stamped brown cloth nicely rebacked in the 20th century with gilt lettering on spine reading "Modern Judaism Investigated." Illustrated with 7 plates depicting talith scapular phylacteries etc. The plates include a frontispiece of the religious garb of a Polish Jew and a later plate of the religious garb of an English Jew. Plus numerous text woodcuts. Front pastedown with an autograph bibliographical note in English and Hebrew. This work is very scarce in the trade. <br /> <br /> "Moses Margoliouth 1820–1881 divine was born of Jewish parents at Suwalki Poland on 3 Dec. 1820. He was instructed at Pryerosl Grodno and Kalwarya in talmudic and rabbinical learning and also acquired Russian and German. In August 1837 during a visit to Liverpool he was induced to carefully study the Hebrew New Testament with the result that on 13 April 1838 he was baptised a member of the church of England." National Dictionary of Biography. B. Wertheim unknown
1830MSM16953J. & J. Harper. Fair with no dust jacket. 1830. Hardcover. Hard cover published by J. & J. Harper in 1830. No dust jacket. Brown covers with black lettering on spine. Covers are scuffed and stained and corners are bent and rounded with splitting and fraying of cloth. Spine is missing pieces at top and bottom and also in the middle. The pages containing the Publisher's catalogue in front of book are loose. Inside front cover has a large bookplate from a prior owner and also has a sticker at top. Most pages have spotting or foxing and some are stained. Some browning of pages. Book is in fair condition. 12mo 406 pages .9 lb.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 406 pages . J. & J. Harper hardcover
183266774Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds. Very Good. 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Guest Moses. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR WHILE HE FOLLOWED THE SEA AND DURING A JOURNEY FROM NEW-BRUNSWICK IN NEW JERSEY TO MONTREAL AND QUEBEC. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds 1823. First Edition in contemporary calf professionally rebacked retaining the original leather spine label and almost seamlessly done. Old foxing but a nice fresh copy. Guest came to Cincinnati in 1817 and the journal here in pages 83-160 contains early reminiscences of that city and of his travels. The opening poem is an acrostic dedicated to George Washington. . Looker & Reynolds hardcover books
182366774Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds. Very Good. 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Guest Moses. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR WHILE HE FOLLOWED THE SEA AND DURING A JOURNEY FROM NEW-BRUNSWICK IN NEW JERSEY TO MONTREAL AND QUEBEC. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds 1823. First Edition in contemporary calf professionally rebacked retaining the original leather spine label and almost seamlessly done. Old foxing but a nice fresh copy. Guest came to Cincinnati in 1817 and the journal here in pages 83-160 contains early reminiscences of that city and of his travels. The opening poem is an acrostic dedicated to George Washington. . Looker & Reynolds hardcover
1814TH106London: J.Williams Library of Fine Arts. 1814. 1st Edition . Hardback. Fine. square 4to. 61pp with 18 text vignettes headers and tail-pieces followed by 151 full size plates no 115 duplicated. Fine dark plates with clean paper and wide margins. First 4 plates a trifle foxed. Engraved title-page. Fine publishers half-calf binding with fine patterned burgandy cloth to the boards. Originally pub. in 1814 this copy was published by J. Williams Charles Street Soho Square. Bohms Taylor and Clay also published the same title in 1814 in separate impressions. Preface dated 1814.22cms. The foot of the spine dated '1836'. binding date. Printed by Richard Taylor Shoe Lane London. <br/> <br/> J.Williams, Library of Fine Arts. hardcover
