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1648001623Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes 1648. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. xviii 342 pages of text. Defective copy lacking five plates the frontis and a final engraved table. Attractive early-to-mid-18th century leather binding with moderate wear to the hinges spine extremities and corners. Raised bands gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Decorative marbled endpapers and blank endsheets supplied at time of binding. Present is the full-page engraved portrait of Michel Larcher engraved armorial dedication to Larcher and the engraved title page following page 58. A complete copy has the plate numbers 151 and 156 used twice totalling 158 plates showing plans and designs of perspective of which 153 only are present in this copy. Lacks plate numbers 110 151 both 154 and 155. However early hand-drawn facsimiles of plates 151 one of two and 155 are supplied and bound-in leaving three images unrepresented. The majority of the plates are double-sided. Plate 156 is in less than good condition with heavy staining and soiling. Engraved title page is repaired with early conservator's tape with no loss. Pages 168 through 193 are bound out of order. Several leaves are affected by damp staining and minor rippling; approximately 15 front and 30 rear. The title page and several adjacent leaves as well as a few at the rear of the text are heavily stained. Some of the staining appears to originate from washed-out markings -- notations to which an attempt at removal were made -- that are in blank areas mainly in the front and rear pages but also in the blank areas in the introduction. Includes Desargues New Theory at the end with demonstrations. Protected in a modern circa 1950 slipcase decorated with marbled endpaper the seams of which are detached at the top edge. Desargues 1593-1661 was a French mathemetician and a founder of modern Geometry. With Pascal he introduced the method of perspective; treated conic sections as projections of circles formulated the so-called Arguesian transformation; developed the theory of involution and of transversals; defined parallels as lines that intersect at infinity. Measures 6-5/8" tall by 4-1/2" wide; printed on thick paper with ample margins. 20th century bookplate of Paul and Verner Mac Alister on front pastedown and a neatly handwritten identification on the 2nd front endpaper. On the same leaf is a contemporary name or marking. French France Fortifications Conics Cartography Projective and Descriptive Geometry. Early editions of Desargues works are quite uncommon. Pierre Des-Hayes Hardcover
1656151129Paris: Chez Augustin Courbe 1656. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 45 522 12 p. 39 cm folio. Engraved frontispiece title page vignette decorations on dedication page and preface. Each chapter has full-page engraving and page top decoration making 12 of each as well as decorated first letters. Illustrations are by painter Claude Vignon engraved by Abraham Bosse. Two called-for portraits by Robert de Nanteuil are not present. Rebound in burgundy leather with 6 raised bands gilt impressing on spine. New endpapers. Title has chipped top corner. Faint dampstain on text block edge. Some small stains and darkened pages. French text. <br/><br/>Note the dedication to the Duke of Longueville. Chapelain received a pension from this nobleman allowing him to write this heroic epic about Joan of Arc. The poem's subject also allowed him to celebrate Jean de Dunois a medieval ancestor of the house of Longueville who was one of the great military leaders of the Hundred Years War. Apparently Chapelain let thirty years go by before he published the first half of this masterpiece leading some to argue that Chapelain wished to spin out his pension as long as he could. <br /> <br />This is one of the first French books engraved by a painter. Claude Vignon 1593 1670 was a French painter printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres. Abraham Bosse ca. 1604 1676 was another French artist mainly as a printmaker and etcher. Most of his output was illustrations for books but many were also sold separately. Chez Augustin Courbe hardcover
16-5579Londres: J. Brindley 1737. Original engraving. 46.6 x 58cm. sheet size. Centerfold. Tear without loss in upper margin .National; Portrait Gallery NPG D38714; OCLC Number 228726949Text on the print:"Apres l’homme le Cheval le plus noble animalEst rendu par ce Seigneur si juste et si égalPar cette Methode que tout le monde admireQu’on voit aisément qu’il est sujet de Son EmpireSon assiette si belle ses aides si secrettes;Tout à la neglicence encore si bien faittesNous sont un argument assés valide et puissantQu’il est à ses talons et Bride obeïssantEt que tous les Chevaux sont assujettis à sa loÿ;Puis qu’ils luy obeïssent comme à leur propre Roy. S’il montoit un Diable tres-robusteCe Diable jroit en touts Airs fort Iuste.M.D.V.".References : Huth 23; Podeschi 26 and 49; Lowndes 1663; Wing N884-87; Brunet I 1700; Graesse II 93; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 1783 p. 49; Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250; Nissen ZBI 848. Londres: J. Brindley, 1737 unknown
179085995J.F. & C. Rivington London 1790. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. London: J.F. & C. Rivington ca 1790 80 page Index 7p Arrangement & Analysis of Plates 145 plates extra unlisted Algebra/Analysis; 4 folding 2 folding broadside Type Specimens Alex. Wilson & Sons; Joseph Fry & Sons 8p William Caslon Type Specimen. 16.75 x 10.5" leather. Shipping only within United States. Binding worn hinges cracked boards loose upper blank detached plates clean VG. J.F. & C. Rivington, London hardcover
1906131214New York: Francis D. Tandy Company 1906. First edition and signed registered and numbered edition of the first comprehensive bibliography of Lincoln material. Octavo original cloth tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln after the original etching by Thomas Johnson. One of seventy-five numbered registered copies signed by the author and publisher only forty of which were for sale this is number 34. Very good in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. Daniel Fish was ".one of the "Big Five" who dominated collecting of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and publications in the 1890s and early 1900s. His greatest contribution to the field of Lincoln collecting was his compilation of the "Lincoln Bibliography: A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln" published in 1906. This was the first publication to establish definitions and standards for classifying Lincolniana" The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection. Francis D. Tandy Company hardcover
1964462j2712U.S.A.: Bernard Geis Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "It was September 20 1959. The author a sixty-year-ld Japanese a descendant of a line of Shinto lords lay on a Jerusalem operating table about to be circumsized. This book tells the story of his journey - a story that began many years earlier on the other side of the earth in a Japan of another age." - dust jacket. First printing. 6 215 p. Book clean bright tight and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket now in archival-grade protection. A quality example of this fascinating and unique life story. ; Dust Jacket Design; 8vo . Bernard Geis Associates hardcover
186041018np 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Untrimmed and uncut. A single folio leaf folded. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Lincoln's great Cooper Union Address argues that the Framers and early Congresses contemplated a narrow and ever-diminishing role for slavery. Examining Constitutional and early Congressional debates he demonstrates that contemporary statesmen viewed slavery "as an evil not to be extended but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity." <br /> Lincoln's argument fusing the interests of all anti-slavery men whether abolitionists or not ranks among his greatest contributions to American political thought. It received wide press coverage catapulting him into presidential contention for it transported the new Republican Party into the center of American constitutional and legal thinking. He thus made it easy for moderate Northern Democrats Whigs and Know-Nothings to vote Republican in 1860.<br /> Monaghan 55. LCP 5944. unknown
1667016836London: Printed by James Cotterel 1667. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Two works bound in one volume. "Poems" iii 68 pages of text. Heavily browned and irregularly discolored with some minor early marginalia with several corners or small chips repaired. "A Sermon." v 30 pages; Printed for Brabazon Aylmer London 1683. Title continues ".Chappel Octob. 29. 1682." Wing 2nd ed.; M685. There are a few small stains but the text reamains clean and in excellent condition. Bound in circa 1840 three quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards; minor to moderate ubbing and shelfwear to the binding. Both of these are highly uncommon rarely offered on the market. Both are first editions. While these measure only 8 inches in height they are indeed quartos. Printed by James Cotterel Hardcover
1946A51026New York NY: New Collectors Group. Very Good. 1946. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy includes a letter from Hannes Box to SF author P. Schuyler Miller on company letterhead and signed by him with his whimsical mouse at the bottom of the page. The book is one of 1000 numbered copies completed by and illustrated by Hannes Bok - this is book number 454. First Edition with the book is in Very Good condition and has the First State binding of black fine mesh cloth and the illustration of a nude woman on page 19. The book is lacking the plain paper dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean bright condition though there is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The letter to P. Schulyer Miller is similar to one that Bok sent to Miller at another point in time unfortunately neither letter is dated though I have a hunch that this letter came first in time. The letter starts with thanking him for his order and then proceeds to discuss some of the difficulties Bok was having with getting this book and The Black Wheel due to shortages paper I assume. He then goes on excitedly to talk about future books and the market. Also included is a bookplate of P. Schulyer Miller. I've only found one comparable to this at Heritage Auctions. auction lot number 82143. ; Signed by Illustrator . New Collectors Group hardcover
51-5444Circa 1970s. The Smithsonian Institution held an exhibition in 1976 and published a monograph entitled ' ".and there was light" - Studies by Abraham Rattner of the Stained Glass Window Chicago Loop Synagogue'.This monograph had a color cover and black and white reproductions of the window art. Rattner also produced a maquette for a more elegant work that was never published. This unique artist book measures 10 x 13 inches is bound in red cloth and is housed in a clamshell slipcase with matching cloth.The text is handwritten and there are numerous watercolors and drawings. There are 32 leaves including a watercolor tryptich measuring 13 x 28.5 inches. This archive also includes 16pp. of layout ideas and financial projection of the project.Chicago Loop Synagogue 16 S Clark St Chicago IL 60603 was built in 1957–1958. It is renowned for a stained glass artwork by Abraham Rattner. The architects were the firm Loebl Schlossman & Bennett who also designed the Richard J. Daley Center. Circa 1970s hardcover
51-5443Circa 1940s-1950s. Watercolor. 2 pieces pasted on a support sheet. 32.5 x 24.5cm. Provenance: from an archive of works by Rattner.On their return to the USA on 1940 after many years of friendship in Paris Rattner and Miller embarked on a trip around the country. The result was Miller's famous black humor travelogue "The Air Conditioned Nightmare" published in 1945. The Sunderland Arts Centre in Sunderland England held an exhibition of Rattner's drawings of the trip in 1976. The exhibition catalogue was entitled "Our America. Abraham Rattner Henry Miller. From New York City to New Orleans by 1932 Buick. October 1940 to January 1941. " Circa 1940s-1950s unknown
174578052London:: Printed for the Author 1745. First edition. later old half calf and marbled boards. Large chips to the spine at both ends; leather worn at edges; rear joint cracked and weak. Contents very attractive. . Folio. Illustrated with sixty fine engravings; most of them full-page. . Printed for the Author, hardcover
1574M6759Antwerp Belgium: Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 1574. Very Good;. Notes: Latin text on verso. L58.<br><br>"Waclaw Grodecki his true name was Grodziecki which was latinized as Grodecius corrupt Godreccius was born about 1535. He was the son of a Silesian gentleman to whom belonged the village Grodziec in Cieszyn Silesia hence the family name. He entered Cracow University in 1550 and in 1555 was still there studying mathematics and philosophy. In 1556 he left for Leipzig as tutor to the son of a great noble and there too he entered the university. In 1557 he drew his well-known map of Poland. He travelled to Italy and after his return in 1561 took orders. In 1564 he received the degree of Master of Arts at the Cracow University. He later became canon of the chapter in Wroclaw this post having been ceded on his behalf by his elder brother Jan when he became bishop of Olomouc in 1572. Waclaw Grodecki followed his brother to Moravia in 1566 and settled for good in Brno where later he became dean of the collegiate chapter. Being to the end of his life a devoted Catholic and a protector of the Jesuits he was a major figure of the counter-reformation movement in Moravia. He was a man of humble character and good-natured. He died in Brno in 1591." Buczek<br> <br> Size : 373x498 mm 14.69x19.61 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Reference: Marcel P. R. van den Broecke #154. Category: Maps Europe Poland Lithuania; Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) unknown
115615Antwerp Christopher Plantin for the author 1598. . Double-page copper engraved map with later hand-colouring centre fold as issued cartouches for titles and publishing privilege French text on verso; sheet size: 41.8 x 53 cm.<br /> Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Luxembourg. Taken from the fifth final and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched with decorative cartouches.<br /><br />Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 was a cartographer and publisher he was born and died in Antwerp.<br /> Koeman III Ort 32. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598. unknown
197935142DEUTSCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG 07/1979. 4. softcover. Dracula DEUTSCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG paperback
1802ZB1325720Hartford: John Babcock printer 1802. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item first edition; 166 pp. lacks the rear free endpaper; original boards with later paper tape rebacking covers very worn masonic book plate to the front free endpaper text age-toned a few instances of foxing 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. Hartford: John Babcock, printer hardcover
115059Basel Emanuel Tourneisen 1776. 12mo. 6 XXIV 432 pp. 3 folding engr. plates large folding map; 6 444 pp. 14 folding engr. plates; 6 350 pp. 14 folding engr. plates; 6 422 pp. 5 folding engr. plates. The folding map in part one with paper reinforcement part 2 with stain and a spot on p. 160 in part 3. Somewhat worn early 19th century half calf richly gilt spines with red labels and marbled board papers. Four volumes. This fine work on Switzerland with a total of one large map and 36 folding plates several with town views but also on minerals and fossils is a compilation made by Johann Georg Altmann 1695-1758 and is based on the earlier works by Abraham Ruchats 1680-1750 and Abraham Stanyans 1669-1732. The compilation was first published in 1730. unknown
186322448.01New York N.Y. 1863. No binding. Fine. New York Journal of Commerce. Newspaper. New York Journal of Commerce. New York N.Y. January 3 1863. 4 pp. 24 x 32 1/2 in. An early report of the Emancipation Proclamation where the editors describe Lincoln's bold move as ""a farce coming in after a long tragedy.Most of the people regard it as a very foolish piece of business."" Historical BackgroundThe Emancipation Proclamation was the single most important act of Lincoln's presidency. Its text reveals the major themes of the Civil War: the importance of slavery to the war effort on both sides; the courting of border states; Lincoln's hopes that the rebellious states could somehow be convinced to reenter the Union; the role of black soldiers; Constitutional and popular constraints on emancipation; the place of African Americans in the United States and America's place in a worldwide movement toward the abolition of slavery. In sounding the death knell for slavery and the ""Slave power"" the President took a decisive stand on the most contentious issue in American history and the United States joined other western nations in embracing a future of free labor.In addition to the moral impact of this ""sincerely believed.act of justice"" the Proclamation aided the Union cause tangibly and decisively. Because it focused on territory still held by the Confederacy only small numbers of slaves compared to the total slave population were immediately freed. However the Proclamation deprived the South of essential labor by giving all slaves a reason to escape to Union lines. Failing that it freed slaves immediately upon the Union Army's occupation of Confederate territory. The Proclamation also encouraged the enlistment of black soldiers who made a crucial contribution to the Union war effort. Moreover England and France who had already abolished slavery were restrained from supporting the Confederacy which would have been in their own economic interests. Lincoln summed up the Proclamation's importance in 1864: ""no human power can subdue this rebellion without using the Emancipation lever as I have done.""Nonetheless the editors of the Journal of Commerce disagreed and their opinion reflects the truly controversial nature of the act for many contemporary Americans.
18661009808vo one sheet printed on both sides. Even toning and aging small closed tear to the upper margin; otherwise very good. This is a rather scarce government document that informs the military that the "Thirteenth Amendment" has passed and slavery is officially abolished. Article XIII states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime whereby the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This document is signed in type by William H. Seward 1801-1872 as the Secretary of State. Congress would follow with a Civil Rights Act of 1866 to give African Americans the same rights as all citizens but this small printed document presenting the essence of the "Thirteenth Amendment" is an important piece of history. ANB.
1928151527Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1928. First edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo two volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt illustrated tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. In near fine condition bookplate to each pastedown. Praised for his biographies of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln American historian and United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge has introduced the public to the realities of the lives of revered historical figures. Using analysis and thorough investigation Beveridge was able to contextualize the actions of America's sixteenth president with his traditions and influences in his four-volume biography 'Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858' published post-humously in 1928. His contributions to historical study cannot be understated and the American Historical Association's Beveridge Award exists to demonstrate as much. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
1702251118002Amsterdam: George Gallet 1702. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. De Chertablon. SCARCE EMBLEMATA 1ST EDITION IN GERMAN ON PREPARING FOR DEATH TO REACH HEAVENLY SALVATION THROUGH JESUS <br /> <br /> TRANSLATED TITLE : Dying and inheriting that is the most beautiful preparation for death. Or the surest way to die and inherit salvation by contemplating the bitter suffering and death of our only and dearest Savior Jesus Christ <br /> <br /> Condition: GOOD COMPLETE ORIGINAL <br /> <br /> I see no other copy currently for sale and this title scarcely comes up for auction. Worldcat shows only a handful of copies held by institutions. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK <br /> <br /> Published in 1702 by George Gallet in Amsterdam. First edition in German. Text primarily in Gothic. In contemporary full dark brown calf. Covers with blind stamped bordering and five raised spine bands. All edges speckled red. Quarto 10.5" x 8.5". Collated and complete: 22 108 pp. and all 42 copper engraved plates. A few embellished initials and chapter headers. Title page in red and black. Wide-margined thick pages.<br /> <br /> IMPORTANCE<br /> <br /> The book is an emblemata of the German Baroque literature movement of the seventeenth century through early eighteenth century. It is comprised mostly of plates of a man on his deathbed awaiting his fate on the recto of leaves and scripture from the Bible and description of the plate scene on the verso. The engravings by De Chertablon are striking in composition highly detailed and rich with religious and moral symbolism. Only two plates are actual 'Dance of Death' images the others show dynamic scenes surrounding the dying person. The remarkable thing about the depictions is that personified Death does not appear as usual as a skeleton or a mummy but as an angel. He often points to a painting in the background held by putti which depicts scenes from the Life and Passion of Christ. In a few striking scenes the path to salvation appears closed. In one instance the devil presents a list of all the sins the dying man has committed. Unlike the majority of scenes there are no angels pointing the way to salvation. The foreboding description for this scene says that faith and belief are not enough for heavenly salvation: you will be judged by your acts and deeds while on Earth. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE AUTHOR <br /> <br /> Abraham a Sancta Clara born Johann Ulrich Megerle; 1644 - 1709 was an Augustinian friar. He gained a great reputation for pulpit eloquence early on. He was appointed imperial court preacher of Vienna in 1669. The people flocked to hear him attracted by the force and simplicity of his language the grotesqueness of his humor and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all social classes. <br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT <br /> <br /> GOOD for a 320-year-old book <br /> <br /> Exterior and binding: Some spine lean and front hinge cracked. Rear hinge starting to crack at its head. Binding and boards holding firm but strained in places. Heavily rubbed and worn leather that is dry and cracking and pitting. Has a beautiful texture of authentic aging. Spine label mostly perished. Multiple pen-tip sized wormholes on covers. <br /> <br /> Interior: Grubby endpapers. Toned pages. Mostly light to scattered foxing on the text block itself; heavier foxing along the gutters at times. Browning and dust along page margins. A single pen-tip sized wormhole throughout the entire text block gradually expanding to more same sized holes toward the last quartile of the book. The final leaf has about 12 pin-tipped sized holes. These holes slightly affect text and images. The plate impressions are strong and are visible on the verso and form an unintended but quite nice bordering of the descriptive text. No writing beyond a few scribbles in red on front pastedown. No marginalia or underlining. A few margin tears. <br /> <br /> All in all a beautifully illustrated scarce work of religious emblemata depicting deathbed scenes and the path to heavenly salvation. George Gallet hardcover
17641509200002Printed by Hugh Gaine at his book-store and printing office at the Bible & Crown in Hanover-Square. M DCC 1764-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Volume 1 only. Large folio. 38 cm. Vol. I. Bound in publisher's full sheep. Bound by Rob. McAlprine signed by him. Red morocco spine label. Scuffs/rubbing to cover. Creasing to title page. Engraving of Royal arms on title Reilly 862. iv 840 i.e. 838 2 p. Contains an Act for reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler etc at appendix which Evans states if often absent. Printed by Hugh Gaine, at his book-store and printing office at the Bible & Crown, in Hanover-Square. M, DCC, hardcover
17147878CB1714. 4 Bände. Leiden Pierre van der Aa 1714. Kl.-8°. 18 Bl. 220 recte 224 S.; 2 Bl. S. 221228 233434; 2 Bl. S. 435676; 2 Bl. S. 6771027. Mit gest. Titelblatt doppelblattseitig 1 gest. Frontispiz doppelblattseitig 68 davon 50 gef. und 5 von 6 gef. Kupferkarten. Lederbände der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. Lonchamp 812. Haller I 718. Barth 17210. Feller/Bonjour 529. e-hls für den Autor. Erste Ausgabe. Abraham Ruchat 16801750 veröffentlichte das vorliegende Werk unter dem Pseudonym Gottlieb Kypseler von Münster. In der Vorrede beschreibt er sein Anliegen die West- und Deutschschweizer einander näherzubringen. Ruchat geboren in Vevey gilt als der erste bekannte Geschichtsschreiber der Waadt. Er studierte in Lausanne Bern Berlin und Leiden Theologie und war ab 1721 als Professor für Redekunst in Lausanne tätig. Es fehlt die Gesamtkarte der Schweiz ansonsten ein sehr gutes Exemplar. Das Papier vereinzelt stockfleckig. Die Vorsätze leimschattig. Die schönen Einbände minim berieben. unknown
17787902CB1778. Nouvelle édition. 2 Bände. Neuchâtel Fauche 1778. 4°. 4 IV 454 2 S.; 4 391 1 S. Mit 2 gest. Frontisp. und 77 Kupfertafeln davon 15 gef. Lederbände der Zeit mit Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung. Haller I 718. Brunet VI 25894. Haller I 718. Wäber I 38. Lonchamp 2560. Vierte nach Haller und Wäber die «beste» Ausgabe. «Diese Ausgabe ist vollkommen umgearbeitet und weit richtiger als die vorigen» Haller. Die Kupfer mit zahlreichen Orten der ganzen Schweiz diverse Karten und paläontologische sowie archäologische Darstellungen. Das Papier durchgehend gebräunt und stockfleckig. Die Einbände berieben. unknown
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
