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121995Amsterdam Samuel Abarbanel Soeiro printer 1652. . First edition. Small 4to 19 x 15 cm modern half-vellum with Hebrew title embossed in red to spine Title and first three leaves professionally restored tears with loss to three leaves at the end of the volume; numerous hand-written inscriptions in old brown ink signatures and inscriptions to title occasional staining and marginal tears; text in Hebrew; 8 174 2 ll. ll. 69-72 mispaginated.<br /> Menasseh Ben Yossef Ben Israel 1604-1657 was a Portuguese Sephardi rabbi kabbalist writer diplomat printer publisher teacher of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza and founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626. This book is Ben Israel's only publication in Hebrew his other books were published in Spanish and Latin. Menasseh Ben Israel is an especially significant figure to British Jewry as he was the central advocate who successfully petitioned Oliver Cromwell to readmit Jews to England in the mid-1650s overturning the 1290 expulsion. Through his negotiations and writings he enabled the establishment of the first open Jewish community and synagogue in London. Despite his return to Holland at the end of his his efforts initiated the return of Jews to England for which he is remembered as the champion of British Jewish settlement.<br /><br />Presumably Menasseh Ben Israel gifted the book to his friend an important Ashkenazi Rabbi Moshe Shimshon Bacharach. Bacharach mentions Menasseh Ben Israel sever times in his responsa book 'Chavot Yair'. Both Moshe Shimashon and his son Yair Chaim read the book and left many marginal notes some of them appear to be critical of the text. Yair Chaim Bachrach was a Rabbi of the town of Worms and most likely due to financial need ended up selling the book to Rabbi Moshe Katz Naral who was a doctor and the Rabbi of Metz and came from an affluent family. <br /><br />Examples of Menasseh Ben Israel Hebrew hard-writing are scarce and few which makes this copy especially valuable.<br />This copy does not contain the frontispiece portrait of the author not found in all copies does not contain the leaf at the beginning of the book with poems in praise of the books by rabbis does not contain last eight leaves in Latin 3-10 which include title contents and dedication by the author to Emperor Ferdinand III omitted from most copies.<br /> CB no. 6205 1; Roest p.798; Vinograd Amsterdam 202; Mehlman 1211; Fuks Amsterdam 190; Silva Rosa 59; Rubens 1814. Amsterdam, Samuel Abarbanel Soeiro (printer), 1652. hardcover
1628376954Frankfurt 1628. First editions. 13 parts bound in 3 volumes. 290 engraved maps and plates. Detailed collations below. 3 vols. Folio. Modern calf covers bordered in blind spine with raised bands in six compartments ruled in blind and decorated and lettered in gilt. Some maps expertly repaired some leaves expertly remargined some leaves maps variably toned and supplied. First editions. 13 parts bound in 3 volumes. 290 engraved maps and plates. Detailed collations below. 3 vols. Folio. A first edition set of the Petit Voyages of De Bry one of the grandest collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery. This series of voyages issued concurrently with the same publisher's "Grand Voyages" primarily devoted to the Americas comprises the greatest single collection of early voyages to the East Indies and holds a wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa India America South Asia and the Middle East including the first Latin translation of Gasparo Balbi's travelogue Viaggio dell' Indie Orientali.<br /> <br /> The present set the first Latin editions is virtually complete lacking only the two maps to Part XII so rare that even Church lacked them; he also lacked much of the text of Part XII present here. Indeed Part XII and the Appendix to Part I are so rare as to be virtually unobtainable both issued by a different publisher in 1628 and 1625 respectively long after the rest of the series had been disseminated. <br /> <br /> Two parts warrant specific note for their importance in the historiography of the Arabian Peninsula. Part VII includes the Middle East travelogue of Gasparo Balbi 1550-1623 the Venetian state jeweller and merchant "the first writer to record the place names between al-Qatif and Oman that are still in use today" Geoffrey R. King "The Coming of Islam and the Islamic Period in the UAE" United Arab Emirates A New Perspective 2001 p. 74. This constitutes the earliest printed source for the place names along the coast of the UAE Qatar and Oman. It was first published in 1590 as Viaggio dell' Indie Orientali making this the second time it appeared in print and the first Latin translation. Balbi's account contains much information for merchants including rates of exchange duties travel routes distances and pearling grounds.<br /> <br /> The first Dutch trading expedition to the East Indies from 1595 to 1597 led by Cornelius de Houtman forms Part III. The comprehensive map Descriptio Hydrographica accommodata ad Battavorum navigatione in Javam insulam Indiae orien first published in 1599 shows Houtman's route and includes the Arabian Peninsula in its entirety with numerous places identified along the coast.<br /> <br /> Many of the maps and plates from the work are highly prized individually which has contributed to copies being disassembled and consequently copies are often found lacking maps or plates. The bibliographical understanding of this work is extremely complex thus discrepancies within references are often found. However remarkably the collations of the parts in the present set largely agree with those given in Church for the first Latin editions of each part.<br /> <br /> The Petit Voyages comprise probably the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies and are unique in their extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa India the Spice Islands and South Asia. The De Brys' intention as publishers to present an illustrated record sets them apart from other textual voyage collections such as Ramusio or Hakluyt. They are a cornerstone of any serious library of travels and voyages<br /> <br /> A summary of the parts and their contents: <br /> <br /> Part I VERA DESCRIPTIO REGNI AFRICANI 1598. A translation of Pigafetta's description of the Congo first published in 1591 describing Odoardo Lopez' voyage there in 1578 probably the most important early description of central Africa. 4 including engraved title 60 4pp; 2 letterpress title 14 leaves of plates 2 folding maps. Lacks blank H6 following the Index; Aa1-Aa4 letterpress title and first three plates and Cc4 plate 11 suppled from 1624 second edition blank Dd4 following the maps likely supplied. Several leaves remargined repairs to folding maps the second folding map trimmed with loss along the right side of approx. 1 inch. Church 205; JCB I 2 p. 419; Crawford p. 159. <br /> <br /> Part II PARS INDIAE ORIENTALIS IN QU JOHAN. HUGONIS LINTSCOTANI NAVIGATIO IN ORIENTEM 1599. Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 were published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. The maps are of Mozambique the Portuguese colony of Goa and a highly important and much sought folding map of Java and Sumatra. 12 including engraved title and engraved portrait 114 6 including terminal blank; 1 letterpress title 39 plates numbered I-XXXVIII plus unnumbered small folding plate 3 folding maps. Repairs to folding maps. Church 207; JCB I 2 pp. 422-423; Crawford p. 165. <br /> <br /> Part III TERTIA PARS INDIAE ORIENTALIS. 1601. The rest of Linschoten Cornelius de Houtman's pioneering voyage to the East Indies of 1595-97 instrumental in opening the spice trade to the Dutch and Gerit de Veer's voyage in search of a northeast passage in 1594-96 are included. The plan of Agra often absent is present along with a map of Nova Zembla. The large folding map shows the eastern hemisphere and the routes to the east around Africa. The plates show scenes in the East as well as Veer's horrible experiences in Spitzbergen where his expedition was attacked by polar bears. Four folding maps. 8 including engraved title and final blank 170 2 blankpp.; 1 letterpress title 60 plates on 59 leaves with plate 59 on verso of plate 58 and plate 60 unnumbered. Terminal blank q4 supplied. Church 208; JCB I 2 pp. 425-426; Crawford p. 167. <br /> <br /> Part IV PARS QUARTA INDIAE ORIENTALIS. 1601. Linschoten and Houtman's voyages concluded and the voyage of Jacob von Neck and Wybrandt van Warwijck to the East Indies in 1598-99. As in the two previous parts most of the plates are scenes in the East Indies. 8 including engraved title 111 1 blankpp; 1 letterpress title 21 plates. Church 211; JCB I 2 pp. 428-429 calling for a map not in Church or Crawford and not present here; Crawford p. 169.<br /> <br /> Part V QUINTA PARS INDIAE ORIENTALIS. 1601. Relations of voyages to the East Indies in 1598-1600 by Dutch ships commanded by Neck and van Warwijck. 6 of 8 including engraved title lacks blank 4 60pp; 1 letterpress title 20 plates. Church 212; JCB I 2 pp. 430-431; Crawford p. 171.<br /> <br /> Part VI INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS VI. 1604. Pieter de Maree's description of Guinea in 1600 and other early voyages to Guinea by the Portuguese Dutch and French. This whole section therefore relates to the Gold and Slave coasts of Africa and the growing European trading presence there which laid the foundation for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. 8 including title and dedication with engraved vignettes terminal leaf blank 127 1 blankpp; 1 letterpress title 26 plates. Lacks terminal blank G4. Church 213; JCB I 2 pp. 433-434; Crawford p. 173. <br /> <br /> Part VII INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS SEPTIMA. 1606. Joris von Spilbergen's voyage to Ceylon in 1601-4 and Gasparo Balbi's voyage to Pegu via Syria in 1579-88. 4 including engraved title 126 2 blank; 1 letterpress title 22 plates. Lacks blank G6 repairs to plates VIII and IX. Church 216; JCB I 2 pp. 435-436; Crawford p. 175. <br /> <br /> Part VIII INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS OCTAVA. 1607. A collection of five Dutch voyages to the East Indies 1600-6 including trips to China by Coreille Nicolas and van der Venn all illustrating the rising Dutch power in the East. The plates show various military encounters and a famous double-page plate of Macao. 2 engraved title 3-114 2 blank; 1 letterpress title 18 plates. Church 218; JCB I 2 p. 437; Crawford p. 177.<br /> <br /> Part IX INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS NONA. 1612-3. A world map appears on the supplementary title to the extra plates section. This part describes the voyage of Admiral Pieter Willemsz to the Spice Islands to seize them from the Portuguese written by one of the officers on the expedition. 4 including engraved title 49 1 blankpp; 4pp 12 plates; 2 Supplement title 88 2 blankpp; 1 5 plates. Terminal signature A1-6 the Supplement Icones misbound between D4 and E1. Church 220; JCB I 2 pp. 439-440; Crawford p. 179. <br /> <br /> Part X INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS X. 1613. Three plates and three maps. This part is important on several accounts. The first section gives one of the first published accounts of Hudson's Bay from Gerritsz while the second describes other voyages to the North by Linschoten. All of the maps relate to the search for a northeast passage. The third section relates to De quiros and his supposed discovery of a new continent "Terra Australis Incognita." 2 engraved title 3-32pp; 1 letterpress title 3 plates and 3 double-page maps. Church 222; JCB I 2 pp. 441-442; Crawford p. 222. <br /> <br /> Part XI INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS UNDECIMA. 1619. Includes the narratives of Vespucci's third and fourth voyages followed by a description of Robert Coverte's journeys in Persia and Mongolia and then an account of Spitzbergen and the northern whale fisheries. 2 title with engraved portrait of Vespucci 3-62pp; 1 letterpress title 10 plates. Lacks blanks H4 and c4. Church 223; JCB I 2 pp. 442-443; Crawford p. 183.<br /> <br /> Part XII HISTORIARUM ORIENTALIS INDIAE TOMUS XII. 1628. The text of the Latin edition of Part XII was published in the German edition as two parts XII and XIII. It describes recent voyages by the English and the Dutch in the East. For the great rarity of this part see Church and every other bibliographer who has treated De Bry from Camus onward. 4 208pp. 14 engraved plates within the text. Lacking the two maps as did Church who also lacked much of the text. Church 224; JCB I 2 pp. 444-445; Crawford p. 185.<br /> <br /> APPENDIX TO PART I APPENDIX REGNI CONGO. 1625. It contains five voyages to the Congo from 1611 to 1621 by Samuel Bruno a physician of Basle. As with Part XII this is one of the rarest and most difficult of parts to acquire. 2 engraved title 3-86 2 blankpp. Twelve plates in the text. Church 225; JCB I 2 pp. 420 i.e. within the description of the second edition of the first part; Crawford p. 163. Church 205 207 208 211 212 213 216 218 220 222 223 224 and 225; Crawford pp. 150-183; JCB I 2 p. 419-446 unknown
1601V48236Frankfort am Mayn: de Bry printed by Matthes/Matthias Becker 1601-1613. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved titlepages 6 copperplates 80 ex 86 inc. double-page & folding maps by de Bry family. Quarto 305x195mm original blindstamped leather covered boards spine on 5 raised bands upper hinge cracked/covers slightly wormed small remains of front 2 tapes which held clasps no longer present slight damage to some plates uniform light paper browning throughout original small leather tags 5 of 6 to start of each part. Over 80 illustrations & 1 fold out map. Parts 5-10 in this collection each briefly described below cover the Dutch arrival in Mozambique & native customs in Africa & Indonesia during the early colonisation of the Dutch East Indies. Each of the 6 Parts here bound together are briefly described in German on each Titlepage as follows: Part 5. F nfter Theil. eygentlicher Bericht vnd warhafftige Beschreibung der gantzen volkommen Reyse oder Schiffart so die Holl nder mit acht Schiffen in die orientalische Indien sonderlich aber in die Iavanische vnd Molukische Inseln als Bantam Banda vnd Ternate 1st German edition titlepage dated 1601. Engraved/printed titles & 20 plates complete; 6. Sechster Theil . warhafftige historische Beschreibung dess gewaltigen goltreichen K nigreichs Guinea sonst das Goltgestatt von Mina genandt .dated 1603 Engraved/printed titles & 26 plates complete; 7. Siebender Theil darinnen zwo vntershiedliche Schiffarten begrieffen: erstlich eine dreyj hrige Reyse Georgij von Speilbergen Admirals vber drey Schiffe welche An. 1601. auss Seeland nach den orientalischen Indien abgefahren vnd nach viel widerwertigkeiten An.1604 wider in Seelandt ankommen . 2 Parts dated 1605. Engraved/printed titles 22 plates complete; 8. Achter Theil. begreiffend erstlich ein historische Beschreibung der Schiffart so der Admiral Iacob von Neck . in die Orientalische Indien von Ann. 1600 biss An. 1603 gethan. Darnach ein Historia so von Iohan Herman von Bree . dated 1606 with Appendix. Engraved/printed titles 18 plates 3 double-page or fold-out complete; 9. Neundter Theil darinnen begriffen ein kurtze Beschreibung einer Reyse so von den Holl ndern vnd Seel ndern in die Orientalischen Indien . vnter der Admiralschafft Peter Wilhelm Verhuffen in Iahren 1607 1608 vnd 1609 verricht worden . 4 Parts dated 1612-1613. Engraved/printed titles 1st in architect frame but with heading ARCHITECTVRA struck through 20 plates inc. 2 maps title dated 1613 with small world map & 5 plates all complete; 10. Zehender Theil . begreiffendt eine kurtze Beschreibung der neuwen Schiffart gegen Nordt Osten vber die Amerische Inseln in Chinam vnd Iapponiam von Heinrich Hudson newlich erfunden beneben kurtzer Andeutung der Inseln vnd Oerter so auff derselben Reyse von den Holl ndern hiebevor entdeckt worden auss Iohann Hegen von Lintschotten Reise gezogen . 1st Part only dated 1613 with engraved pictorial title but LACKS all 3 double-page maps & 3 plates. The first 2 parts of this present first and only German edition were published 1601-1606 by Johann Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry. Johann Theodor alone issued parts 9-10. A detailed Yale catalogue of all ten Parts of this German de Bry edition is accessible online at: //search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9995972683408651. de Bry, printed by Matthes/Matthias Becker hardcover
186110077<p>Extraordinary copy owned by another previously enslaved American who found his way to freedom.</p><p>Israel Campbell born in Kentucky in 1815 spent the first decades of his life as property of several owners before after several attempts escaping slavery to Canada. He later spent twenty-four years in Texas where he became known as the <em>"</em><em>Father of Black Texas Baptists" </em>having reorganized the African Baptist Church at Galveston the first completely independent black Baptist congregation in Texas. Campbell self-published this book to raise funds to free his three children from slavery:<em> "Three</em><em> of my children are yet in the land treading the wine-press and making bricks without straw. And as time rolls on I see the oppressor's rod becoming heavier and the shackles becoming tighter and tighter around them and my heart yearns for them and my prayers are often and earnest for their liberation"</em> iii. He mentioned the risks of attempting to liberate them<em>".few know the danger the suffering or the peril of such a course until they have passed through its experiences"</em> iv while also believing it would not be the moral way of gaining freedom. Campbell discusses trying to work and save up enough money without financial help<em>: </em><em>"I might by hard labor in some mechanical occupation gain after many years enough to buy their freedom. should I have</em> preferred <em>the former plan their hairs might become gray while I was trying.</em><em>"</em>iv. Campbell's intention of writing this book is to not only tell the story of his life honestly without elaboration <em>"Let facts speak for themselves.</em><em>"</em> but to primarily raise enough funds to buy his children out of slavery: "<em>I expect to devote the proceeds of the sale of this book; by which I consider that I am not only gaining their liberty but am placing before the world the truest picture of the South and its institutions- both the dark and the bright side"</em> VI.</p><p>Most likely the copy of George W. Price Jr. with the signature <em>"</em><em>Geo. W. Price"</em>in pencil to front fly & with <em>G. W. PRICE</em> stamped in purple ink below. An additional <em>Price</em> stamp to rear of frontis & an erased visible only under high magnification "Geo. W. Price's Book / cost $1.00" to top of title page see image 7.</p><p>In 1862 Price Jr. 1843-1901 escaped slavery and joined the United States Navy. After emancipation he served in the North Carolina legislature from 1869 to 1872 first in the House of Representatives 1869-1870 and then in the Senate 1870-1872. He and his father George W. Price Sr. 1810-1882 were leading ornamental plasterers in Wilmington North Carolina having both learned their trade as enslaved artisans and worked on buildings such as the Bellamy Mansion. After the Civil War Price jr. continued to practice his trades as well as working in politics.</p><p>Green pebbled cloth. Wear to head and tail of spine with some loss of cloth to the top and bottom of hinges; occasional staining and thumbing; gatherings at pages 163 to 206 standing a little proud nonetheless an exceptional copy.</p><p>Unaccountably scarce with no auction records & with but three original copies v-a-v multiple later held in institutions. The Library of Congress does not have a copy.</p><p>5.25 x 7.25 in 13.5 x 18.5 cm</p> Published by the Author hardcover
1606K8NDD6WJMUR8Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter 1606. 20th-century half green morocco title in gold on spine marbled sides and endpapers. Folio 32.5 x 20 cm. With the letterpress title within an engraved architectural border an individual letterpress title-page for the Icones an engraved coat of arms on the dedication leaf 20 engravings in text and 2 double-page engraved plates. First edition of the Latin translation of book seven of Théodore de Bry's Petits voyages the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies which is considered unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material. Crucially this much-sought volume includes Gasparo Balbi's groundbreaking account of the Middle East first published in 1590 as Viaggio dell' Indie Orientali - a mere 16 years before this present edition making this the second appearance in print altogether and the first Latin translation. Balbi a Venetian jewel merchant travelled extensively in the Arabian Peninsula in search of precious stones. From Venice he sailed for Aleppo proceeding to Bir and from there overland to Baghdad descending the Tigris to Basra where he embarked for India. While in the Persian Gulf he studied the pearl industry noting that the best pearls were to be found at Bahrain and Julfar. He refers to islands in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi including Sir Bani Yas and Das and to several coastal settlements that were to become permanently established such as Dubai and Ras al Khaima. Balbi was the first to record the place names along the coast of modern Qatar the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Practically "none of the names of places on the coast between Qatar and Ras al Khaima occur in other sources before the end of the eighteenth century" Slot. The volume also comprises the account of Joris von Spilbergen's voyage to Ceylon in 1601-1604 with excellent plates.A note with red pencil on the second leaf browned some small spots otherwise in good condition.l Brunet I col. 1334; cf. Carter Sea of pearls p. 79; Howgego to 1800 B7; Slot The Arabs of the Gulf 1602-1784; United Arab Emirates yearbook 2006 p. 20. Wolfgang Richter, unknown
15751483181575. DE BRY Johann Theodor and J. I. DE BRY. Nova Alphati Effictio histories ad singulas literas correspondentibus et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incises illustrate . Engraved title-page 24 elaborately engraved plates of letters all with grotesque Mannerist ornamentation. 4to. 325 x 212 mm bound by Rivière in full crushed brown morocco triple gilt fillet on covers floral gilt ornaments in corners spine with intricate floral tooling in compartments a.e.g. Frankfurt: De Bry 1595. First Edition of this celebrated and rare Renaissance Alphabet Book. "Elles représentent un grand Alphabet majuscule dont les lettres sont formées par découpures mouvementées ornées de figures de trophées d'oiseaux de fleurs et de fruits" Guilmard Les Maîtres Ornemanistes p. 368. The letters appear in uppercase and are embedded within elaborate ornamentation consisting of Biblical figures nymphs fauns musical instruments cherubs lovers insects fruits birds trophies fish lobsters flowers splendid entrelacs and luxurious arabesques. These extravagant illustrations are characterized by a disintegration of reality in which the forms have been redistributed in accordance with the fantasy of the De Bry brothers. The mixture of grotesque classical and symbolic imagery executed with supreme artistic bravado elevates this work to the pinnacle of published ornamental alphabet books. Each engraving is accompanied by a letterpress text in German and Latin on the verso where the subject matter is identified. The engravings are individually "signed" with "J.T.B. fe." A second edition of the work appeared at Cologne in 1613. The rarity of this first edition is attested by the recent facsimile of it Ravensburg 1997. No copies sold at auction as listed by ABPC; OCLC lists 7 copies in America at Houghton Morgan Library NYPL Walters Art Gallery RISD Newberry and the University of Virginia. There are also 7 copies listed in European institutions. This copy had the engravings cut out and mounted during the nineteenth century on large papier Hollande in a folio format. However the size of the cut-out sheets 195 x 150 mm remains fully intact; the folio sheets measure 325 x 212 mm. Some insignificant spots to interleaved sheets binding with minor rubbing to extremities. This copy lacks the two dedication leaves which includes the text to the letter A on the verso of the second leaf. A desirable copy nonetheless. PROVENANCE: Sir John Stirling Maxwell 1818-1878 with his private ex-libris his sale Christie's London 1958 Lot 59 and with the Nether Pollok "Arts of Design" ex-libris. Berlin Katalog 5281. Guimard Les Maîtres Ornemanistes p. 368 No. 38. Bonacini 292 "estremamente rara". Brunet I 1309. BMC German 161. See: Becker The Practice of Letters The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals 1514-1800 for the 1596 German edition of Alphabeten. unknown
1660B6282Paris: N. Langlois n/a c.1660’s-1670’s. Expertly rebacked; few tear repairs mostly marginal; overall in near fine condition with plates clean and crisp. . Binding: Contemporary mottled full calf; expertly rebacked; spine with five 5 raised bands; gilt lettered title on morocco label on two; compartments with central gilt floral ornament; dated; endpapers renewed; all edges cut. Notes: PERELLE GABRIEL 1603/or 10/ or 20 - 1675/or77/ or 80 an eminent French designer and engraver born at Paris. He excelled in drawing and engraving landscapes and views of which we have a prodigious number which prove the fertility of his invention and an extraordinary facility of execution rather than an observant study of nature. They are however composed in a very pleasing style and executed with neatness and taste. He usually enriched them with ruins and other objects which give an agreeable variety to his scenery. His principal defect is in the management of his masses and his lights are scattered and in spots by which the general effect of his prints is materially injured. Although by far the greater part of his plates are from his own compositions he also engraved from the designs of several other masters particularly Paul Brill Gaspar Poussin Jan Asselyn and above all after Silvestre. He was assisted in his numerous works by his sons ADAM 1638/ or 40-1695 and Nicholas b.1631/ or 38- 1695 PERELLE who after his death engraved a great number of plates of architectural views landscapes &c. but which are inferior to those of their father. <br>He is considered the Hollar of France both in his style of engraving and the esteem in which his views are held. His large views of public buildings and gardens in France Italy and Spain were published with those of Silvestre in 1680; and there is a set of smaller views by these artists.<br><br> Size: oblong folio 285x370mm Illustration: Illustrated with 164 architectural etchings of palaces great houses and churches detailed views of their gardens gates squares fountains etc. The album of Perelle engravings depict four 4 overall areas 1. Paris and surroundings 2. Versailles 3. France and 4. A collection on Rome - the latter containing six 6 plates etchings after drawings by Asselyn. This attractive album consists solely of large views no plan outlines or small sized half-paged etchings otherwise often featured as part of these albae. Title pages point to the publication being very early – not yet including the imprints printed in later publications.<br>The album on Paris containing 61 plates starts with a title without imprint but signatures by Perelle and Langlois; perspective views of Paris follow with its bridges the Seine the Louvre and Tuileries the Palais-Royal the Luxembourg or ‘Palais d'Orleans’ the Place Dauphine the College des quatre nations; the small island of the Notre Dame on the Seine the city hall the famous entrance gates to the city: Porte de la Conference St.Honore St. Denis St. Martin St.Bernard and St.Anthoine; depictions of monuments and buildings as the l'Arc de Triomphe the Notre Dame the ‘Monastere Royal de Val de Grace’ fountains and the observatory the ‘Invalides’ l'Hospital de la Salpestriere gardens of the Hotel de Conde and St. Victor. The views of the surrounding Paris feature the Chateau de Vincennes Conflans the Chateau of St. Maur the Chateau of Madrid the Chateau of St. Cloud the Chateau of Meudon the House of Boisfrant at St.Ouen the Grotte of Ruel.<br>The album on Versailles with 36 plates # 62- 97 starts with its title page without imprint then depicts perspectives of the castle the gardens and castle grounds the king's stables the great entrance cascades grottes water-fountains bassins dedicated to gods and the menagerie.<br>Perelle’s great houses of France with 45 plates #98-142 begins with its titlepage with no imprint except signatures followed by more buildings in the environs of Paris of Chaville St. Germain en Laye Maison Sceaux Rincy Pompone Choisi; this is followed by views of Fontaine-bleau the Chateau of the Vaux le Vicomte of Villiers-Coste-Rez Monceaux Liencour Chantilly Richelieu and Ancy.<br>The Rome or fourth album with 22 etchings starts with a title leaf without imprint but signatures of Perelle and N. Langlois; followed by magnificent views of St. Peter St. Angelo the new capitol and the arc of Constantin and the Colisseum the arc of Septimus Severus the bath of Emperor Diocletian; a group of six unsigned plates after I. Asselin e. showing Charles V Rome’s aquaeduct the Colisseum 2 ruins of the Palais Maior ruins of Marius’ trophies; this is followed by views of the Vigne Pamphili with its entrance garden amphitheatre and the fountain of Venus; at the end a plate depicting the fountain of Tivoli.<br> References: Michael Bryan Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Biographical and Critical 1849 p.560; Berlin Katalog 2483&2675; BNF - Getty Research Institute 2015 pp. 90-115 chap. II: Architecture and engraved views; Brunet IV p. 494; Fowler p. 245; Ganay Category: Book Art Architecture & Design; Book Plate Books General; Book Europe France; Book Europe Italy; N. Langlois hardcover
185932820595<p>Salted paper print 5 ¼ x 7 ½ in. on publisher's 8 ¼ x 10 ¼ inch mount with gold lithograph captions and decorative border. Neat punch holes in upper margin ½ inch adhesion at lower right faint pencil note in lower corner. Very good.</p><p><b>The earliest dated photograph of Mount Vernon this is one of the very earliest known photographs of George Washington's home.</b></p><p>By this time Mount Vernon was badly dilapidated. This view from the northeast shows ship masts propping up the portico's sagging roof where several columns had rotted away. A man wearing a dark suit and top hat stands in the foreground his arm on a white painted fence protecting a small tree.</p><p>The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association formed in 1853 purchased the mansion and estate from Washington's descendant John Augustine Washington III for $200000. After an intensive fund raising effort and protracted negotiations the organization took possession on February 22 1860 nearly one year after this photograph was made. Extensive renovations were soon made. As a result this image shows a number of architectural and landscape elements differing from those seen in photographs of the 1860s.</p><p><b>Rare. The other known examples are at the Fred W. Smith National Library at Mount Vernon and at the Getty Museum.</b></p> H.E. Hoyt & Co.
185932820670<br /><br /><br /><p><b>The earliest dated photograph of Mount Vernon this is one of the very earliest known photographs of George Washington's home.</b></p><p>By this time Mount Vernon was badly dilapidated. This view from the northeast shows ship masts propping up the portico's sagging roof where several columns had rotted away. A man wearing a dark suit and top hat stands in the foreground his arm on a white painted fence protecting a small tree.</p><p>The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association formed in 1853 purchased the mansion and estate from Washington's descendant John Augustine Washington III for $200000. After an intensive fund raising effort and protracted negotiations the organization took possession on February 22 1860 nearly one year after this photograph was made. Extensive renovations were soon made. As a result this image shows a number of architectural and landscape elements differing from those seen in photographs of the 1860s.</p><p><b>Rare. The other known examples are at the Fred W. Smith National Library at Mount Vernon and at the Getty Museum.</b></p>Salted paper print 5 ¼ x 7 ½ in. on publisher's 8 ¼ x 10 ¼ inch mount with gold lithograph captions and decorative border. Neat punch holes in upper margin ½ inch adhesion at lower right faint pencil note in lower corner. Very good.<br /> H.E. Hoyt & Co.
163518006Amsterdam 1635. the author 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. With a letterpress decoration on title-page Hebrew text of Psalm 85.11 in a frame a so-called "magical square" in which the the text can be read both horizontally as well as vertically some woodcut initials and some Hebrew passages in the text. 16 156 2 2 blank; 40 346 6 pp. Ad 1: First edition of a work on God's creation of Earth by the well-known Portuguese rabbi writer and printer Menasseh Ben Israel 1604-1657 who established the first Jewish printing office in the Netherlands. The work presents 30 questions or "problems" concerning God's creation of the Earth which Menasseh tries to answer and explain citing or referring to passages of the Tenach. Problems include "on which day were demons created" and "was there another world or earth before God created this one". The preliminaries including an important poem by Caspar Barlaeus which caused the Amsterdam authorities to consider the reintroduction of censorship for Jewish publications. As this didn't happen Barlaeus's poem can be seen as an indicator of the relationship between Jews and Christians and the religious tolerance in Amsterdam during the Golden Age.Ad 2: First edition of a work on the resurrection of the dead by the same author. The work is divided into three "books" and opens with several dedicatory letters an index of the chapters and 3 laudatory poems. The last page of the preliminaries gives a short list is of books translated from Hebrew into Spanish. The main text deals with the Last Judgment the resurrection of the dead and the immortality of the soul.With a bookseller's ticket and bookplate. Title-page of ad 1 slightly smudged browned throughout some water stains and small spots but still in good condition. Binding rubbed along the extremities and sides somewhat scratched rebacked with the original backstrip laid down.l Ad 1: Fuks & Fuks-Mansfeld p. 107; STCN 843242612 7 copies; ad 2: STCN 084840250 9 copies; for Menasseh in general: Fuks & Fuks-Mansfeld pp. 99-135; NNBW X cols. 604-613. unknown
162740628Frankfurt 1627. 15 1/8 x 12 7/16. Copper engraved map. Uncoloured on laid paper. The first Modern European map of India.<br/> <br/> Copper engraved map of modern-day India Pakistan and Bangladesh published by Wilhelm Fitzer the successor to Johann Theodor de Bry 1561-1623 and Johann Israel de Bry 1565-1609 the sons of Theodor de Bry. This version of the map includes the original Mughal seal with its contents in Persian Script. The map is closely related to that of William Baffin its use of original script in Jahangir's dynastic seal in the upper right precludes the De Bry edition having been derived directly from the printed Baffin map. Baffin is widely understood to be the author of the manuscript map on which the printed map is based having prepared it for Sir Thomas Roe's 1617 geographical commpendium on India. Susan Gole in Early Maps of India lists six states or editions of the Baffin map of India but did not record the present version. A comparison of this edition with the original Baffin and Purchas edition suggests that the Purchas was followed most closely with some material changes to toponyms such as "The Gate" having been replaced by "Porta Suretana". The map appears in the very rare Volume XII the penultimate volume of De Bry's "Petite" Voyages which was first published in 1627.<br/> <br/> Susan Gole Early Maps of India refers. unknown
1957171422Tel Aviv: Israel Defense Forces 1957-58. Oil in the wake of the Suez Crisis First and sole editions of these extremely rare strategic maps of the Middle East concentrating on oil production which were made by and for the IDF shortly after the joint Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Nasserist Egypt. We locate just one copy of each of these maps in an institutional library. The Suez Crisis precipitated enormous geopolitical changes throughout the Middle East. France and Britain ceded influence and the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the dominant external powers. Assessing resources and infrastructure was important in this febrile climate. The first map Neft ba-Mizrah ha-Tikhon examines oil fields refineries and pipelines marking the concessions run by companies such as the Arabian-American oil company Aramco and the Syrian-American Oil and Gas Co as well as highlighting the potential for development in Yemen Oman and the Trucial States. The second map Ha-Mizrah ha-Karov provides a more general overview of transportation infrastructure across the region including pipelines roads and railways. The third map Ha-Sahar ha-Poreh concentrates on Iraq which was an unknown quantity in Israeli foreign policy making in 1958 given the revolution of that very year which saw the monarchy overthrown and a republic established under Abdul Karim Qasim whose allegiances were at that point unclear. Three chromolithographic maps 827 x 560 mm; 960 x 820 mm; 698 x 496 mm. Text in Hebrew one in Hebrew and English. Creased where folded occasional small holes or tears along fold lines larger map with a few nicks to left margin a little toned faint tidemarks: a very good collection. unknown
1766020388Pomfret CT: no publisher stated 1766. Handwritten. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. One page document being an Annual Nomination to keep license Publick Houses of Entertainment of James Ingalls Ebenezer Grosvenor Abigail Waldo Samuel Cotton Joseph Abbott. Signed by Justices: William Osgood 1697-1791; Thomas Williams; John Grosvenor 1711-1804 who served with Putnam in French-Indian Wars; Stephen Keyes 1717-1788 who was a Lieutenant in the CT militia during American Revolution. Signed by Selectmen: Joseph Scarborough; Israel Putnam 1718-1790; Daniel Trowbridge. Signed by Constable Sam Lyon. Signed by Grand Jurors George Sumner; Daniel Holt Jr. Israel Putnam served as a Major in the Connecticut Militia in the French and Indian War and as a Major General in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War fighting at Bunker Hill. In Colonial times a Publick House of Entertainment was a tavern offering food drink and lodging and served as community centers where one heard news and debate as well as held political meetings and they were essential stops for travelers. . no publisher stated Paperback
128063Amsterdam: Nico Israel / Da Capa. Hardcover. near fine. Facsimile Reprints. Rare and complete set of all 45 titles in 73 volumes of the reprints produced by Nico Israel of Amsterdam. All titles published in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. High quality facsimile reprints simulated vellum covers with gilt stamped titles. Full scale large fold out maps and plates. All volumes in very good to fine condition. This amazing reprint series was conceived in the 1960's and went on until the 1980's. It included many of the great world voyages that had not been reprinted up to then. These include Broughton; Marra; Rickman; Meares; Fleurieu; Hearne; Perouse; Vancouver; Beechey; Colnett; Dixon; Krusenstern; Langsdorf; Lisiansky; Arago; Bennet; Burney; Dillon; Ellis; Funnell; Lutke; Narborugh; Rogers; Sarytschew; Labillardiere; Shelvocke; Thomas and Zimmerman to name just a few of the series. The series had very high quality paper and reproduced the exact original format and all of the plates and charts. A rare opportunity to obtain a fine and complete set of the whole series. Four numbers were not published in the end # 48 #65 and #66. Nico Israel / Da Capa hardcover
98601Contemporary full vellum. Occasional browning. A few pencil underlinings. . <br/><br/><em>De Bry`s Small Voyages was pulished in 12 parts in Frankfurt 1598-1613. This is part 3-5. Part 3 with text only lacking all plates and maps. Part 4 is complete. Part 5 is lacking plate no XI. </em> hardcover
1967ABC_47179Israel 1967. Oblong album ca. 20 x 26 cm; photographs in slightly varying sizes ca. 18.5 x 24 cm. Grey faux-leather photo album with a small white label on the front board: "42 x Israël 1967 23-24-25 Juli". 44 silver gelatin photographs including 2 duplicates and 1 other loosely inserted. 44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts. A rare collection of fascinating original photographs capturing the first Western tourists in Israel and Israeli captured territories approximately a month after the Six-Day War in 1967 by Dutch journalist and photographer Bianca Maria Dony. The 44 photos in the album show the passenger ship SS Pegasus soldiers local people in the streets of Jerusalem and other cities an early war monument checkpoints destroyed military vehicles and other remnants of the war. The album is from the archive of the photographer; some of these photographs were sold to and published in national Dutch and international newspapers and magazines while others remained unpublished.Bianca Dony was part of a group of 150 Christian tourists from various European countries who were now - after the Israeli capture of these areas - able to visit the holy places in the old city of Jerusalem Bethlehem and other places that had previously been inaccessible. The tourists in the present photographs were the first of many and Dony took this opportunity to not only document the trip itself but also the general aftermath of the war.With an additional leaf in the inside front pocket of the album containing notes of how many photographs were sold to different newspapers and magazines including 10 to the "Haagsche Courant" written in blue and red ink and in pencil. Added to the first photograph in the album is a newspaper clipping from the "Jerusalem Post" with the headline "Haifa direct to old city for first time" about the first tourists visiting Israel after the Six-Day War. Some of the clear plastic inserts have small round white stickers on them with different abbreviations connecting the photographs to the newspapers and magazines that possibly printed them for example "HC" for Haagsche Courant etc. 3 photographs are loosely inserted and 2 of these are duplicates of other photo's in the album the 2 duplicates contain a blue stamp "foto bianca dony 147 Malakkastraat Den Haag - Tel. 5582540 Giro 303814" and a manuscript caption in red ink on the back. Most other photographs are simply numbered in pencil on the back. This rare collection of 44 historically significant photographs is in very good condition.l Cf. Rebecca L. Stein "Souvenirs of conquest: Israeli occupations as tourist events" International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 40 no. 4 2008 pp. 647-669. hardcover
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
1928347h5608London: Arrowsmith. Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. "Whatever place its author may ultimately occupy in future histories of England one thing is certain that in the history of the Jewish people the name of Balfour will enjoy unchallenged immortality evoking comparison with that of Cyrus for the issue of the Balfour Declaration marked the opening of a new epoch in the annals of Jewry which will be recognised as such even in the remotest centuries to come. In this little book have been gathered together all the utterances of Lord Balfour on the interpretation and implications of his Declaration on its political aspects and its practical realisation made during the last ten years." - Preface. 4 5-128 pp. 7" x 4.75". Original spine label present and intact. Front free endpaper professionaly replaced. Tanning to central portion of half-title. Prior owner's ink stamp upon title page. Duplicate spine label bound at p.128. Average external wear. Binding intact with moderate forward lean. Quarter inch notch from top of backstrip. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound example of this jewel of Zionist history. Emanuel p.48. ASIN B000852UV4; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Zionism - History Balfour Declaration Lord Balfour Arthur James Balfour Israel - History Lord Rothschild Palestine Mandate The Hebrew University . Arrowsmith hardcover
16041612150011Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri 1604-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 parts in one volume. Folio 30 cm. Elegantly bound in modern full red levant moroccan raised bands all edges gilt gilt rule. Fine binding. Engraved vignette on general title; 8 127 pp 1; 1 26 leaves of half-page engraved illustrations. Occasional light browning. Marginal dampstaining to final 20 text pages in first part. Minor spotting in second part plates. First edition first issue of the sixth volume of de Bry's Little Voyages. This volume covers the first-hand account of Pieter de Marees's first Dutch expedition to Guinea 1600-01. <br> Pieter de Marees' history of Guinea originally published in 1602 is one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for the precolonial period. De Marees wrote primarily about the Gold Coast Ghana but his work also covers Cape Verde Senegal. This work he "discusses the Slave Coast and the Portuguese participation in the traffic". Postma The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1600-1815 p. 13. These trade ties would drive European interest in the region leading to the propagation of the Slave Trade. Brunet 1338. Crawford p. 173. Church 213. Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri hardcover
1640B5741Paris c. 1650 1640-1670. . This near fine and very rare example with plates clean and crisp except for additional plate. Edition: First Edition Binding: Bound in recent blue boards; Plates approx.170x130mm trimmed and carefully attached to portefolio sheets. Notes: Titles in both Italian and French.<br><br>Israel Sylvestre or Silvestre was “an eminent French engraver and son of Gilles Silvestre… . He formed his style on Stefano Della Bella and Jacques Callot and in turn appears to have been imitated by Sebastian Le Clerc. He designed etched and engraved numerous landscapes and views decorating them with small figures minutely drawn and touched with uncommon spirit. His merit recommended him to Louis XIV. who employed him in designing and engraving views of royal palaces public festivals and the places Louis had conquered. He was appointed drawing-master to the Dauphin and was made a member of the Academy. He went to Italy twice where he found many subjects. His plates amount to upwards of one thousand. He died in Paris in 1691.†<br>The present suite comprises:<br>1.Chiesa di Sta Francisca Romana in Campo Vaccine. <br>2.Parte del Ponte Ste Maria<br>3.Veduta del Coliseo<br>4.Veduta del ponte S.te Maria <br>5.Veduta di una Parte del Campidoglio – first and second states <br>6.Veduta del Arco di Septimio Seuero et del Campidoglio <br>7.Veduta del Tempio di Bacco a S.ta Agnesa fuor di Roma<br>8.Veduta di Campo Vaccina<br>9.Veduta del Arco di Constantino et del Coliseo – first and second states<br>10.Altra veduta di Interno Roma <br>11.Veduta e Prospetiua della Piaza di St Marco di Venezia – first and second states<br>12.Veduta della Dogana di Venezia – first and second states<br><br>Additional plate of Piranesi inserted between plates numbers four and five 255x125mm; entitled : « Ponte Senatorio oggi detto Ponte rotto « with small marginal stain. <br> Size: Oblong small folio. Illustration: Illustrated with 17 copper engravings; this includes the complete and rare suite of twelve views according to Faucheux in their first state along with four duplicates added in their second state plus one unrelated engraving by G.B.Piranesi. Plates depicting mostly views of Rome and two of Venice. Provenance: E.P. Goldschmidt 64 Drayton Gardens SW 10 9SB purchased and in private collection since. References: Faucheux L. E. ‘Catalogue raisonne de toutes les estampes qui forment l’œuvre d’Israel Silvestre. Paris 1857 pp. 50-51 cited ; Brunet V p.389. Category: Book Art Architecture & Design; Book Europe Italy; Book Europe France; hardcover
156753370Sabbioneta: Vincenzo Conti 1567. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto. 261 1ff. Signatures: 1-65 alef - sameḥ-heh4 chi2 = 262 leaves. Woodcut illustration leaf 90. Final two leaves are folding broadsheets with letterpress charts the first leaf 261 with the final page of text at the verso. Printer's device Hercules slaying the Hydra at title. Modern black polished calf. A few skilfull paper repairs at top margin in early leaves. Clean marginal tear leaf 181. Light worm tracing with some text loss in final ten leaves; along with a small group of 4 to 6 very tiny worm holes in the final 30 leaves. Light mostly marginal dampstain at final 30 leaves. Both charts with old corrections and annotations and some loss of text due to worming each mounted on fine laid paper. A good copy with generally crisp clean text notably complete with the final two folding almanac charts.<br /> <br /> Second edition of this compendium of Jewish law composed in honor of Don Samuel Abravanel of Seville. It was intended principally for the use of persons in the upper social classes many of whom occupied positions in government and found it inconvenient to observe all the legal and ritual regulations or lacked the time to refer to the halakhic sources. First published at Ferrara in 1554 and arranged in five articles Heb. = ma'amarot "the work has an added importance on account of the introduction which contains valuable historical material including important details of the method of study in the yeshivot of France and Germany as well as contemporary incidents in the history of the Jews in Spain. Menahem writes reprovingly of those Jews who because of the demands of the times began to disregard the observance of the precepts. Although he shows great erudition in his knowledge of the Talmud and codes and was acquainted with the teachings of the earlier Spanish French and German scholars he relies mainly for his halakhic rulings on those of Asher b. Jehiel" EJ. This preference likely reflects the influence of Asher's son Judah who was one of Menahem's principal teachers at the yeshiva in Toledo.<br /> <br /> Among the very last Hebrew works published at Sabbioneta the title highlights the approval of Vespasiono Gonzaga the reigning prince. Previously in 1553 "the proprietors of this press attempted the hazardous work of republishing the Talmud and one Treatise saw the light; but the papal decree of that year made the further publication of the Talmud in Italy an impossibility. The end of this press came in the year 1559 due as De Rossi intimates to anti-Christian statements in some of their publications which finally brought down upon them the wrath of the church" Amram. When Vincenzo Conti briefly re-established the press at Sabbioneta to print the present work and two or three others he would have been keen to indicate his obedience to the temporal and ecclesiastical authorities.<br /> <br /> The verso of the last numbered leaf and the following unnumbered leaf both are broadsheets comprise a calendar or almanac entitled "Beʼur ha-luḥot" for the years 5025-6000. The first part is designated "Ha-Luaḥ ha-Rishon" and the second "Ha-Luaḥ ha-Sheni." Many copies appear to lack one or both of the broadsheets.<br /> <br /> Annotations: Old Hebrew entries in two hands at the margins of the title-page; some scattered marginal notes in Hebrew. Title in Hebrew: â€×¦×“×” לדרך וזוודין ל××•×¨×—× :†â€×•×”×’×“×œ× ×• ×•×”×•×¡×¤× ×• . בי×ור קצת מילות ערביות . ולוחות העבור . ×•× ×•×¡×£ על הלוח ×¡×™×ž× ×™ ×”×“×¤×™× ×ž×”×ž×מרות ×•×”×›×œ×œ×™× ×•×”×¤×¨×§×™× â€<br /> <br /> References: D. Amram The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy pp. 292-3; Cowley 132; Enc. Jud. 11:1303-04; Goldstein 105; Roest Rosenthaliana p. 788 noting two tables; Steinschneider 6368.2 and 3617 Luah; Vinograd Sabbioneta 55; USTC 1791691; Zedner p.527. Vincenzo Conti hardcover
1958ABC_47090Tel Aviv: Israel Defense Forces General Staff 1958. 960 x 820 mm. Colour-printed map folded. Scale 1:4700000. A large map of the Middle East produced by Israel's General Staff soon after the Suez Crisis showing the Arabian Peninsula and adjoining countries with major roads railroads and petroleum pipelines.A few tears to folds but well preserved. Israel Defense Forces, General Staff, unknown
164269492Amsterdam: Printed by the Author 1642. Full Description:<br> <br> MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. Dissertatio de Fragilitate Humana ex Lapsu Adami Deque Divino in Bono Opere Auxilio. Amsterdam: Printed by the Author 1642.<br> <br> First edition. Small octavo 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 146 x 90 mm. 16 141 1 errata pp. Text in Latin interspersed with Hebrew. A woodcut device on title-page. Woodcut initials.<br> <br> Bound after:<br> <br> MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. De Resurrectione Mortuorum Libri III. Amsterdam: Printed by the Author 1636.<br> <br> First edition. Small octavo . 22 133 11 137-241 11 245-346 6 index pp. Text in Latin interspersed with Hebrew. The woodcut printer's device on the title-page is a 'magical square' in Hebrew letters. Woodcut initials.<br> <br> Full contemporary vellum. Front inner hinge cracked but firm. Spine with torn paper label titled in ink manuscript. Some ink call numbers on spine but no other library markings. Vellum a bit soiled. Title-page of Dissertatio is backed with loss to fore-edge margin but not affecting text. Leaf A2 of the same book with repair to top margin just touching headline. Leaf T2 in Resurrectione with small closed tear touching some letters but with no loss. Front pastedown with bookplate from Rochester Theological Seminary. Overall very good.<br> <br> "Dissertatio de Fragilitate Humana ex Lapsu Adami" or "Dissertation on the Fragility of Man from the Fall of Adam" is a work in which Menasseh disputed the Christian doctrine of original sin. The work was also published in Latin in the same year.<br> <br> "As per many theological works by Amsterdam scholar and Hebrew printer Menasseh ben Israel Dissertatio de Fragilitate Humana was directed primarily to a Gentile audience. Dedicated to Gerbrandt Anslo a Christian Hebraist who was a pupil of Menasseh this study focuses upon the issue of predestination. In opposition to the Christian doctrine of Original Sin Menasseh was a staunch proponent of the traditional Jewish teaching that Man is born into the world pure and innocent." Kestenbaum and Company.<br> <br> De Resurrectione Mortuorum Libri III or 'Three books on the resurrection of the dead' is in Latin which suggests it was for a Christian audience. A Spanish version also exists however which indicates that this text was also written for a Jewish audience which in 1636 was split by theological dissent. This and the Sefer Nishmat hayim can be seen as a response to the challenges of Uriel Acosta 1585-1640. Acosta was a sceptic philosopher who in 1624 had published 'An Examination of the Traditions of the Pharisees'. Acosta was suggesting that rabbis were descended from the Pharisees. The Pharisees were theologically opposed by the Sadducees. Menasseh notes that his work is written "contra Zaducaeos" "against the Sadducee" almost certainly a reference to Acosta. Acosta questioned the idea of the immortality of the soul regarding it as a concept invented by the rabbis without any biblical foundation." University of Leeds.<br> <br> "Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657 was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its mercantile and scholarly vitality. Born in Lisbon Menasseh and his family were forcibly converted to Catholicism but suspected of insincerity in their new faith. To avoid the horrors of the Inquisition they fled first to southwestern France and then to Amsterdam where they finally settled. Menasseh played an important role during the formative decades of one of the most vital Jewish communities of early modern Europe and was influential through his extraordinary work as a printer and his efforts on behalf of the readmission of Jews to England." Menasseh ben Israel Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler.<br> <br> "Menasseh ben Israel bridged the Jewish and the Christian worlds. He was a rabbi a scholar and a publisher who authored and printed works in Latin Portuguese Spanish and Hebrew. He also collaborated with Rembrandt who etched his portrait. Menasseh ben Israel is particularly interesting to Hebrew scholars and librarians. He revolutionised Hebrew printing and made Amsterdam the capital of Hebrew publishing. He helped create a new standard of Hebrew typography that became widely known imitated and pirated as "Defus Amsterdam" Amsterdam print and "Otiyot Amsterdam" Amsterdam Letters." University of Leeds.<br> <br> HBS 69492.<br> <br> $4000. Printed by the Author unknown
2569Argentinae: Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri 1597. Hardcover. Good. Folio. xxxvi 28 1080 xxxivpp. Title-page in red-and-black. With large woodcut printer's device. Modern half calf over marble boards. With textual illustrations. Adams S1517; Cutter and Viets pp 29-30; Durling 2254; Garrison and Morton 6013; Norman 1977; Waller 9096; Wellcome 6030. An assembly of gynaecological texts both classical and 'modern.' 'Spach's compilation of gynecological and obstetrical texts was the largest such collection of its day reprinting most of the works collected in Caspar Wolff's Volumen gynaeciorum and Gaspard Bauhin's Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum affectibus 1586-88 and adding several other treatises. The collection includes works by Plater whose anatomy of the female genitalia heads the collection Moschion Le Boë Montanus Paré and many others. Some of the anatomical woodcuts are taken from Vesalius's Fabrica in particular his "masculinized" representation of the female reproductive organs; also illustrated are various surgical and gynecological instruments including a speculum' Norman catalogue. <br/> <br/> Argentinae: Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1597. hardcover
113285Tel Aviv May 14 1948. . Single broadside newsprint sheet 58 x 42 cm printed on both sides with photographic illustrations; evenly browned central fold with some minor closed cracks some minor staining text in Hebrew.<br /> A joint one-off publication of Israel's newspapers on the day of the proclamation of the state of Israel. On May 14 1948 'the last day of foreign rule' the Hebrew newspapers of Palestine released this joint publication titled 'The Day of The State' announcing the establishment of the independent State of Israel. <br /><br />The first page of the publication contains the text of the Declaration of Independence and states that all the restrictions and regulations of the White Paper 1939 are no longer valid. The second page contains sixteen encapsulated articles concerning the events of the day and declaring a global mobilisation in order to defend the newly-formed state from the Arab Legion. The 14th of May was a Friday and the publication states that the Chief Rabbinate granted a special permission to 'uninterrupted mobilisation all throughout Shabbat'.<br /> Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948. unknown
