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147 Fine Plates by Picart
Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples...
Amsterdam: J.-F. Bernard, 1723-1743. Picart, Bernard. First edition. 147 Fine Plates by Picart. This magnificent set, issued by... Read More
Price: $4,000
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UNIQUE, SAM & EDGAR BRONFMAN"S PRAYER BOOKS
5 Prayer books for "Service of the Synagogue"
UNIQUE, SAM & EDGAR BRONFMAN"S PRAYER BOOKS. Read More
Price: $2,500
Beyond Words A Holocaust History in Sixteen Woodcuts Done in 1945 by Miklos Adler, a Hungarian Survivor.
New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 2001. First edition of which this is No. 74 of 600 copies, signed by Saul Touster. Read More
Price: $250
From the Bay of Algiers to the Wailing Wall
Photograph Album of a tour of North Africa, Egypt, and Palestine.
[N.p: n.d., ca. 1870s]. From the Bay of Algiers to the Wailing Wall. The photographs, many by the Zangaki brothers and Bonfils, include images of Algiers, Tunis, Carthage, Alexandria, Cairo, The Sphynx, portraits of locals (Dervishes, an Arab merchant, an Abyssinian, an Egyptian), the Suez Canal, the Wailing Wall, and... Read More
Price: $3,750
Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, & Symbolo Apostolico.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
Price: $900
Kurzgefasstes exegetisches Handbuch zu des Apokryphen des Alten Testamentes. [In six parts:] [1] Erste Lieferung. Das dritte Buch Esra, die...
Leipzig: Weidmann; Hirzel [parts 2-6], 1851-1860. First Edition. Read More
Price: $250
To His Solfège Teacher, Madame Longy
Autograph Letter, signed ("L"). to his former music teacher, Renée Longy-Miquelle ("R").
Tel Aviv: 6 June 1950. To His Solfège Teacher, Madame Longy. Fine letter from Israel to Bernstein's old teacher at the Curtis Institute,. where Longy taught ear training from 1926 to 1941. Longy, known as "Madame Longy", subsequently taught at Peabody and at Juilliard ("She taught in a rigid French... Read More
Price: $1,250
THE FIRST JEWISH TRANSLATION OF THE PENTATEUCH INTO ENGLISH
The Law of God, Containing the Book of Genesis, Edited and with Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by Isaac...
Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman for the editor, [1845-1846]. First edition thus. THE FIRST JEWISH TRANSLATION OF THE PENTATEUCH INTO ENGLISH. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) was named hazan (cantor) of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia in 1829. Leeser‘s “contributions to every area of Jewish culture and religion made him a major... Read More
Price: $18,500
Mikrâ ki-pheschutô (Die Schrift nach ihrem Wortlaut) Scholien und kritische Bemerkungen zu den Heiligen Schriften der Hebräer …...
Berlin: M. Poppelauer, 1899-1901. First Edition. 1. Theil, Der Pentateuch; 2. Theil, Die prosaischen schriften; 3. Theil, Die Propheten. Read More
Price: $300
Finely Bound Plantin Press Printing of 4 Books of the Hebrew Bible
Libri Iehosuah, Iudicum, Samuelis et Regum, Hebraice: Cum interlineari versione Xantis Pagnini; Ben. Ariae Montani, & aliorum collato studio ad...
[Leiden]: Ex. Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1611. Finely Bound Plantin Press Printing of 4 Books of the Hebrew Bible. The first four books of the Prophets — Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings — of the Hebrew Bible, printed by the heirs of Franciscus Raphelengius, who ran the Leiden branch of the press... Read More
Price: $3,000
Portrait of Dikran G. Kelekian.
New York: c. 1943]. A fine portrait of Armenian-born Kelekian (1868-1951), one of the most important art/antiquites dealers of the modern era. Known to his peers as the "dean of antiquities", Kelekian's connoisseurship of the ancient art of the Near East opened the eyes of many Americans to a heritage... Read More
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The Making of A Jew.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1996]. First edition. Inscribed "To Shirley (Clurman) - Dick would have enjoyed this! I hope you do. Love, Edgar" Read More
Price: $150
A collection of 5 Autograph Letters Signed ("Buber") and 1 Autograph Postcard Signed ("Buber"), to a Mr. A. Halbert.
Hall in Tirol (Austria) and Berlin: August 1-October 25, 1909. A group of letters by the Jewish writer and philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), then serving as Editor in Chief for the Berlin publisher Rütten & Loening, to a literary agent who had submitted manuscripts of several different writers, mainly to... Read More
Price: $1,750
Law is Justice Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo.
New York: AD Press, [1938]. Number 20 of 20 copies of the deluxe edition. Read More
Price: $450
A Discourse Delivered in Charleston, (S.C) on the 21st of Nov. 1827, Before the Reformed Society of Israelites, for Promoting...
Charleston: James S. Burges, 1827. First and only edition. A rare pamphlet issued by the first Jewish Reform movement in the United States, the Sephardic Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston, South Carolina, recording an address by one of the movement’s leaders, who was also patriarch of an important southern... Read More
Price: $50,000
Portrait photograph of Marc Chagall.
New York: July 4, 1941. Variant of the portrait from the same session published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More
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Siberia. A Poem by Abraham Sutzkever. Translated from the Yiddish and Introduced by Jacob Sonntag. With a Letter on the...
London: Abelard-Schuman, [1961]. Read More
Price: $200
With Two Original Lithos
The Jerusalem Windows. Text and notes by Jean Leymarie. Translated from the French by Elaine Desautels.
New York: Braziller; Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, [1962]. Chagall, Marc. First American Edition. With Two Original Lithos. Read More
Price: $900
‘It Can Be Done’
Typed letter signed "Carl Laemmle" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success.
New York: February 11, 1930. ‘It Can Be Done’. An encouraging letter by one of the founders of Universal Studios. Reading in part: “When I reached America in 1884, I was probably about your age. I was the proud possessor of $50.00 - - A world of adventure lay ahead... Read More
Price: $300
The Complete Artscroll Machzor: Succos, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Shavuos, Pesach.
[Brooklyn, NY.]: Mesorah Publucations Ltd, [April, 1993]. Ninth Impession. Prayer books for High Holy Days. Read More
Price: $150
![The Jew of Mogadore, A Comic Opera, in Three Acts...[Published in London, 1808]. Richard Cumberland.](/pictures/thumb/216574.jpg?v=1471543077)
The Jew of Mogadore, A Comic Opera, in Three Acts...[Published in London, 1808].
New York: Published by David Longworth, 1808. Published in the same year as the first English edition. Read More
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Sheva -- not Shylock
The Jew: a Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane.
London: C. Dilly, 1794. First edition. Sheva -- not Shylock. "Cumberland . . . tried to reverse the image of the Jew created by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice . . . In the person of Sheva, Cumberland brought a new kind of Jew to the English stage. Sheva... Read More
Price: $1,500
Inscribed to David Sarnoff
Huns in Palestine.
London: Andrew Melrose Ltd. 3 York St. Covent Gardens, n.d. [ca. 1928?]. Inscribed to David Sarnoff. A novel set in ancient Israel, during the time of the invasion of the Assyrians. Inscribed to the radio and television pioneer, David Sarnoff: "To David Sarnoff "The man who not only possesses the rare human... Read More
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My Country. The Story of Modern Israel.
New York: Random House, [1972]. First edition. Inscribed, "To Dick and Shirley (CFlurman) Affectionately Abba Eban" Read More
Price: $250
Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. This copy reads a "New Edition in Four Volumes" on the title page. Contents leaves in all 4 volumes. 3Eliot's novel is notable in that its eponymous hero is revealed to be a Jew who is devoted to the Zionist cause. Read More
Price: $600