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97710Constantinople Yonah ben Ya'akov Ashkenazi 1714. . First and only edition; folio 31 x 21 cm; modern morocco-backed brown boards with gilt ornaments and Hebrew title to spine; worming and occasional marginal tears to some leaves without loss of text edges stained; 3 243 ll.<br /> Commentary on 'Sefer HaItur' with Responsa by Rabbi Ya'akov Sasson Shushan brought to print by Rabbi Hayim Kimhi ben Rabbi Yitzhak.<br /><br />'Sefer HaItur' is a halakha Jewish religious law book written by Isaac ben Abba Mari c. 1122-1193 who is often simply referred to as 'Ba'al HaItur'. A prominent Rabbi from Marseilles France his opus magnum 'Itur Soferim' aka Sefer HaItur discusses Jewish conjugal laws monetary laws Jewish holidays and some of the laws governing the kashrut Jewish dietary law. He largely based his own work on the judicial decisions passed down by the Babylonian 'Gaonic' authority.<br /><br />Rabbi Ya'akov Sassoon c. 1680-1711 was one of the greatest Gaonim Jewish scholars of Constantinople.<br /> Vinograd Const. 385. Constantinople, Yonah ben Ya'akov Ashkenazi, 1714. hardcover
20191-1561845647New Falcon Publications 2019. Hardcover. New. cmb spl edition. 1300 pages. 11.25x9.50x4.75 inches. New Falcon Publications hardcover
1853M1624U.S.A: American Railroad Journal 1853. Good folding map laid down on acid-free canvas for long term preservation. Some minor surface loss along the folding lines; professionally restored. Notes: Folding Map. With two insets of Florida and Texas. Size : 1000x1080 mm 39.375x42.5 Inches Coloring: Black & White Category: ; Maps United States East; Maps United States; Maps Folding Maps American Railroad Journal unknown
197226857New York: Aperture & The Museum of Modern Art 1972. First edition Second printing. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 15pp. 160 plates. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Square spine not rounded spine as normally found on the first printing and the replacement second printing. Illustrated with full-page duotones of photographs by Arbus as well as one photo of herself. Rare variant of the second print run containing an image that was later withdrawn due to model-release issues: Two girls in identical raincoats Central Park N.Y.C. 1969. The entire second press run was to be destroyed by the publishers prior to distribution for this reason. 15 pages of text edited from tape recordings of a series of classes Arbus gave in 1971 as well as from some interviews and some of her writings. Published in conjunction with the 1972 retrospective staged by MoMA curator John Szarkowski which attracted more than 7 million viewers. Her 1967 photograph Identical Twins which illustrates the front cover as well as the dj of this work is tenth on the list of most expensive photographs. This photo was removed from later printings. Dust jacket lightly foxed inside of jacket and small closed tear inside back upper left at flap crease. Small bookseller sticker on free front endpaper. Slight discoloration to top edge of cover. Overall fine condition. Diane Arbus 1923-1971 was noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society such as prostitutes transvestites dwarfs giants as well as ordinary working class citizens in unconventional poses and settings. Arbus became the first American photographer to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale. "For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated. I do have a feeling for the print but I don't have a holy feeling for it. I really think what it is is what it's about. I mean it has to be of something. And what it's of is always more remarkable than what it is." Diane Arbus. Aperture & The Museum of Modern Art hardcover
16-5809Paris: Israel Henriet circa 1620s. 27 etchings on laid paper. Complete suite of 24: Lieure nos 379 to 402. Mounted in half calf album with painted border lines. Trimmed inside the plate marks. Sheet sizes between 72 x 95 and 80 x 111mm. Three added states. Manuscript essay on blank page.See detailed description in French by the expert Alain CANO below .Title page is second state of 3. but likely later printings.Royal Collection Trust:Callot produced the series in Lorrain in 1623 after his twelve-year journey in Italy. The prints were very popular and several sets of copies circulated. The copies on this folio were published in Paris by Balthasar Moncornet possibly in the early 1630s. Cassiano owned sixteen of the twenty-four copied sheets. The Balli have been studied in many occasions: some scholars have considered them as tied to the theatrical traditions whereas others have seen them as a product of Callot's fervid imagination. They possibly represent a mixture of both. With the exception of the frontispiece each print depicts two named characters more or less well-known with Neapolitan and Tuscan names. Both Callot's and Moncornet's series have titles in Italian despite being published in France demonstrating how fashionable Italian subjects were in France. Callot's aim was not to represent specific actors but through naming figures to individualise their character traits appearance and exaggerated poses. Moncornet's prints eliminate some of the buildings in Callot's settings introducing a more theatrical context.BALLI di SFESSANIARéédition de la série des 24 gravures.Album de 215 x 15 cm. Demi reliure à coins de veau blond. Dos plat orné de fers dorés et à froid. Sur le dos titre en lettres dorées : BALLI di SFESSANIA.Recueil de 24 gravures de Jacques Callot La gravure 'Cap Osgangarato - Cap Cocodrillo " étant présentée deux fois avec de légères différences auxquelles on joint une gravure supplémentaire intitulée : "Pasquariello Truonno Meo Squaqua.".Ces 24 gravures découpées et réduites en vignettes de 10x8cm sont contrecollées sur papier fort. Certaines présent des traces d'anciennes pliures.Note de l'expert:Il est difficile de dater ces gravures celles ci ayant été découpées en vignettes sans aucune précision de date.Jacques Callot a dessiné les 24 sujets en Lorraine en 1623 après son voyage de douze ans en Italie.Les exemplaires de cet in-folio ont été publiés à Paris par Balthasar Moncornet peut-être au début des années 1630.Les Balli ont été étudiés à de nombreuses reprises : certains chercheurs les ont considérés comme liés aux traditions théâtrales tandis que d'autres les ont vus comme le produit de l'imagination fervente de Callot. Ils représentent peut-être un mélange des deux. À l'exception du frontispice chaque tirage représente deux personnages nommés plus ou moins connus aux noms napolitains et toscans.Les séries de Callot et de Moncornet ont des titres en italien bien qu'elles soient publiées en France démontrant à quel point les sujets italiens étaient à la mode en France.La qualité de la reliure et le soin apporté à préserver les gravures attestent de l'intérêt que l'on portait à ce petit carnet.Sur la page de faux titre une grande note manuscrite XIXème siècle : ." L'invention du Cancan appartient à Callot qu'il n'a peut être lui même fait que perfectionner en le ramassant chez les Gipsies et les bateleurs de l'Italie qu'il avait eu l'occasion de voir et de présenter.Expertise by Alain CANO AC Paris: Israel Henriet, circa 1620s unknown
2016__9814316172Pan Stanford Pub 2016. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1448 pages. 9.00x6.00x4.50 inches. Pan Stanford Pub hardcover
16-5806Paris: Israel Henriet 1635 . Etchings on laid paper. Lieure nos 1320 to 1332.Complete suite of 12 plates and a frontispiece.Frontispiece with Dedication to Mr. Claude Charles De Baufremont Marquis de Senecey.Proofs on laid paper from the 1st state before the numbers the frontispiece is in the 2nd state of 2 trimmed at the plate mark.H. 6.2 cm - W. 8 cm approx.The plate numbers have been added in pen at the bottom right-hand corner.Very slight soiling and marks. Expertise by Alain CANO AC Paris: Israel Henriet, 1635 unknown
192525.7Zangwill14<p>THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ISRAEL ZANGWILL.</p><p>Complete in 14 volumes.</p><p>Copyright 1925.</p><p>FIRST COLLECTED EDITION.</p><p>SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>"The father of all contemporary Anglo-Jewish novelists" Gerda Charles Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement June 4 1976.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>Intricately gilded spines with Star of David motif.</p><p>Bound in the original morocco leather bindings.</p><p>In remarkable condition despite the age.</p><p>The bindings are original.</p><p>The leather is supple.</p><p>The hinges are all sound.</p><p>The paper is extremely high quality.</p><p>Light shelf rubs.</p><p>An exceptional set.</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>The Works of Israel Zangwill.</p><p>SIGNED Limited Numbered Edition.</p><p>In Fourteen Volumes.</p><p>London The Globe Publishing Co. Ltd. 1925 1st Ltd Ed. 262/1000</p><p>Fourteen Volumes.</p><p>Tall approx 9 x 5.5 inches.</p><p>Red morocco leather and red cloth to boards.</p><p>With gilt Star of David decorations to spines.</p><p>Top page edges gilt.</p><p>Maroon endpapers.</p><p>In very good conditions.</p><p>Slight fading to spines with some minor rubbing to spine ends Some minor handling marks to boards some minor surface marks to cloths.</p><p>Signed by the Author and numbered in volume 1.</p><p>Frontis engraving tissue guarded.</p><p>Inside pages all very clean and tight.</p><p>Very little handling marks.</p><p>No foxing or spots.</p><p>Loose newspaper article and catalogue.</p><p>A very good clean and smart signed set.</p><p>14 vols:</p><p>Illustrated with 14 colour frontis plates Plus a B&W engraved line-drawn portrait of Zangwill in vol.1 specially made for this edition by Alfred A. Wolmark.</p><p>Dreamers of The Ghetto &c.</p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>"The father of all contemporary Anglo-Jewish novelists" Gerda Charles Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement June 4 1976.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>Israel Zangwill 21 January 1864 - 1 August 1926 was a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the 19th century and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl.</p><p>He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and became the prime thinker behind the territorial movement.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>Zangwill endorsed feminism and pacifism18 but his greatest effect may have been as a writer who popularised the idea of the combination of ethnicities into a single American nation. The hero of his widely produced play The Melting Pot proclaims: "America is God's Crucible the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming.Germans and Frenchmen Irishmen and Englishmen Jews and Russians – into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American."</p><p>Jewish politics</p><p>Zangwill was also involved with specifically Jewish issues as an assimilationist an early Zionist and a territorialist.18 Jewish territorialism was a political movement that emerged as a response to the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe during the early 20th century. It proposed the establishment of a Jewish homeland outside of Palestine offering alternative solutions to the ongoing debate about Jewish self-determination and Zionism.21 After having for a time endorsed Theodor Herzl including presiding over a meeting at the Maccabean Club London addressed by Herzl on 24 November 1895 and endorsing the main Palestine-oriented Zionist movement. Zangwill changed his mind and founded his own organization named the Jewish Territorialist Organization in 1905 advocating a Jewish homeland in whatever land might be available22 in the world which could be found for them with speculations including Canada Australia Mesopotamia Uganda and Cyrenaica.23</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>This is a gorgeous set. It would make an excellent gift or addition to any fine library.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p><strong>This set will be well protected for shipping. </strong></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p><strong>Please see my other listings for similar books. </strong></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p>
144369Kansas City: Sheed and Ward 1976. First printing of this edition of this classic work. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Israel Kirzner on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Grandits. Edited with an introduction by Laurence S. Moss. In this work Kirzner explains how the “economic point of view†emerged in the development of economic science since the eighteenth century and through it the concepts of purpose subjectivism and rationality. Kirzner’s incomparable ability to navigate through the core ideas of economics helps the reader become progressively familiar with the history of the discipline and its definition. Within the seven chapters Kirzner discusses such subjects as the science of wealth and welfare; the nature of economic science and the significance of macroeconomics; and the sciences as human action. Sheed and Ward hardcover
196770429Grossman 1967-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Ben Gurion signed limited edition #110 of 150 signed on the title page hardcover blue cloth pictorial boards in clear jacket in slipcase as issued. Clean tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Grossman hardcover
19002312140015Dana Estes And Company 1900. Connoisseur Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Fine Binding 24 volumes. Bound in gorgeous 3/4 morocco leather over burgundy marbled boards. Gilt spine lettering and raised bands. Top edges gilt. Limited Connoisseur Edition. Frontispiece illustrations. Contents:v. 1. The tempest The two gentlemen of Verona The comedy of errors; v. 2. The merry wives of Windsor Measure for measure; v. 3. A midsummer night's dream As you like it; v. 4. Love's labour's lost The merchant of Venice; v. 5. Much ado about nothing Twelfth night; v. 6. The taming of the shrew All's well that ends well; v. 7. The winter's tale Troilus and Cressida; v. 8. The life and death of King John The tragedy of King Richard II; v. 9 King Henry IV pt. 1 King Henry IV pt. 2; v. 10. King Henry V King Henry VI pt. 1; v. 11. King Henry VI pt. 2 King Henry VI pt. 3; v. 12. King Richard III King Henry VIII; v. 13. Coriolanus Titus Andronicus ; v. 14. Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens; v. 15. Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra; v. 16. Macbeth Hamlet; v. 17. Othello Cymbeline; v. 18 King Lear Pericles; v. 19. Venus and Adonis The rape of Lucrece Sonnets A Lover's complaint The passionate pilgrim The phoenix and turtle; v. 20. The two noble kinsmen King Edward III; v. 21. Plays ascribed to Shakespeare An historical sketch of the English drama before Shakespeare Index to characters in the plays; v. 22. Life of Shakespeare; v. 23. Alexander Dyce's glossary to Shakespeare pt. 1; v. 24. Alexander Dyce's glossary to Shakespeare pt. 2 Dana Estes And Company hardcover
2023Adhya-9783031071249SPRINGER 2023. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
2023Adhya-9783031071249SPRINGER 2023. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
0402VEFUZ8KHardcover. Very Good. SIGNED by the president on the half title. Jewish publication society 1957 very good without Reader remainder or library marks in good plus unclipped picture cover dust jacket. hardcover
19732092902143900446CHENE Paris 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book CHENE (Paris) paperback
19732092902143800468CHENE Paris 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book CHENE (Paris) paperback
1158020c East 15th Street New York. 15 June 1869. 1p. 12mo. Good on lightly-aged paper with minor traces of mount to blank second leaf of bifolium. Good firm signature with flourish. The letter reads 'Dear Sir I have recd your favour of April last & am glad so easily to oblige you. - Truly yours I. I. Hayes'. Gourtie contributed stock exchange reports to the New-York American. 20c East 15th Street, New York. 15 June 1869. unknown
18469006684Pennsylvania: Daniel W. Kauffman 1846. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated by several drawings. Professionally rebound in brown cloth with brown leather spine label stamped in gilt. The text block is complete with two maps. One map is taped on the back. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. Foxed throughout otherwise very good condition. Howes R505. <br/><br/> Daniel W. Kauffman hardcover
1918110593Baltimore Md. Saulsbury Publishing Co 1918. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 325 pages; Description: 325 p. Front. 20 cm. Subjects: Southern States --Fiction. Author's presentation copy SIGNED and inscribed. Baltimore, Md. , Saulsbury Publishing Co hardcover
1887221611887. Verh. Dtsch. Ges. Chir. 16. - Berlin Verlag August Hirschwald 1887 8° XXV 1 145 2 348 pp. zahlr. Holzschnitte u. 5 lith. Taf. PappBd. d.Zt. Ferner enthält dieser Band: Wolff J.: Ueber Uranoplstik und Staphylorrhaphie im frühen Kindesalter S.291-322; Wagner W.: Ueber Transplantation frischer gestielter Lappen vom Thorax auf Weichtheildefecte des Ober- und Unterarms S.94-101. unknown
1891DECORATI001360David Nutt London. 1891. First edition. Octavo. pp lii 142. Frontispiece from a painting by W. Holman Hunt. Original boards. Top edge gilt. Introduction by the editor this being the first book of the prominent expert in early English literature. The original text and Gollancz's version are presented on facing pages. 500 copies were printed.The book has been hand-embellished with twenty-six very impressive and delicately rendered mainly floral decorations in various colours and with touches of gilt. These embellishments mostly take the form of decorative initials but the half-title page could easily be considered an independent artwork in its own right. On the front pastedown is the pictorial arts and crafts bookplate of the novelist Margaret B. Cross.On the rear free endpaper is the embossed stamp of the Neatham Mill Library. Endpapers tanned and spotted. Covers rubbed at the joints. Internally very good indeed the decorations being bright and unblemished. Housed in a custom-made linen folding box with a panel on the front reproducing the half-title page. David Nutt, London. hardcover
1960191538Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company inc. 1960. First edition of this incisive study of economic thought by the Austrian School economist born 1930 with a two-page foreword provided by his doctoral supervisor von Mises who characterises the work as "a very valuable contribution to the history of ideas" p. vii. Large octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Although not marked as such this copy is from the collection of the Austrian School economist Hans Sennholz 1922-2007. Light bumping and rubbing; minor toning and finger soiling to unclipped jacket: a near-fine copy in like jacket. hardcover
1965576951New York: Enterprise Films Limited / Hart Stenographic Bureau 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 127 photomechanically reproduced leaves printed rectos only. Screwbound in red leatherette Hart Stenographic Bureau wrappers. Inventory control number "13" on first leaf. Near fine. Unproduced screenplay based on Bellow's second novel. OCLC locates one slightly different copy printed in London Morgan Library from the collection of Carter Burden. Enterprise Films Limited / Hart Stenographic Bureau unknown
18289929London: Printed by W.W. Arliss for the Author and sold by R. Hunter 1828. 185pp. Duodecimo 19 cm 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards with a gilt stamped red label and gilt bands to the backstrip. Near fine. This work relies heavily on Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews but adds additional information including Manasseh ben Israel's account of Antonio de Montezinos's discovery of the ten tribes in Peru. Worsley believes that the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim arrived in America first and that the other tribes followed after. He describes mounds and iron tools and explains that the mound builders had been destroyed by the Indians. He also mentions the discovery of large stone crosses in Central America and records the Indian tradition of a lost book of God. This work was first printed in 1822. Mormon Parallels 491. Sabin 105493. Printed by W.W. Arliss for the Author, and sold by R. Hunter unknown
000150202Israel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi mi-Shklov. Peat haShulkhan. Safed 1836. Publisher: Israel ben Avraham. In Hebrew. The listing price is for a single volume of this title. The copy is in fair condition without binding. Some imperfections are among the following common defects: holes damaged pages tears water stains foxing worm holes or tracers age spots frayed margins handwritten notes inscriptions censorship stamps. Please contact us for more details on the condition of the book. SKU000150202 unknown
