Alshech, Maharal et al [Haggadah] Maaleh Beit Chorin Vienna, Anton Schmid 1794
Attractively rebound with modern red leather spine, gilt lettering, cloth covered boards, in custom made matching cloth box, 4to 52 leaves. Includes commentaries of the Alshech, a 16th Century author of a major bible commentaryin addition to the Kvurot Hashem by the Maharal of Prague (of Golem fame) and the Olellot Ephraim. The illustrations, text of the Haggadah and laws and customs follow the Maleh Beit Chorin Haggadah of Amsterdam 1781, and the last few songs Adir Hu and Chad Gadya have a Germantranslation in old Yiddish/Hebrew characters. Some winestaining andbrowning. Yudlov 370.
£1,250.00 [Ref: 4312]Blunt, John Elijah A History of the Establishment and Residence of the Jews in England, With An Enquiry into Their Civil Disabilities London, Saunders and Benning 1830
Orig paper covered boards, new spine and endpapers, 8vo., xvi + 148 pp. Blunt was a Barrister at Law and there is a legal focus the subject of Jewish Disabilities were an issue up until 1858. There is some rubbing and bumping to the boards, the top board is stained at the right hand lower coner and a bit the left hand lower corner. The binding is robust and internally it is pretty clean. Roth, Magna, A3:8 and B1:172
£375.00 [Ref: 4679]Cumberland, Richard An Essay Towards the Recovery of the Jewish Measures and Weights, Comprehending their monies; By help of Ancient Standards, compared with ours of England. Useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the Eastern Nations. London, Printed by Richard Chiswell, Printer to the Royal Society 1686
With a dedicatory epistle addressed to the Honourable Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty of England and President of the Royal Society. Modern calf, 8vo [xiv], 140 with a table of weights inserted at the front showing a Shekell with Samaritan characters A nice clean copy with some browning on the end pages
£350.00 [Ref: 3947]Freund, Jacob Hanna. Gebet- und Undachtsbuch für israelitifche Frauen und Mädchen. Von Jacob Frennd, Lehrer an der Reliogionsfchule der Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Breslau. Mit Beiträgen von Dr. A. Geiger, Dr. M. Güdemann, Dr. M. Joel und Professor Dr. M. A. Levy. Uchte vermehrte und verbefferte Uuflage. Breslau, Wilhelm Jacobsohn u. Comp. 1894
Highly decorative cover, with velvet and metal. All edges gilt, metal clasp. Excellent condition. 18.5cm, 283 pp. In German and some Hebrew. With some advertisements for other publications.
£350.00 [Ref: 7128]Johannis, S. Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae Impensae In Evangelium London 1671
Modern cloth, leather label on spine. 244 + 4pp. Text in Latin, some very minor worming on top outside edge of a few pages.
£245.00 [Ref: 4306]Levi, David A Defence of the Old Testament, in A series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book entitled. The Age of Reason, Part the Second Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology London, David Levi 1797
More recent binding, leather spine over decorative paper covered boards with matching pattern on edges, 8vo., 208 pp. Some minor marking to backstrip, title page slightly narrower than the rest of the book (not affecting text) An attractive copy.
£425.00 [Ref: 4349]Lindo, Abigail A Hebrew and English and English and Hebrew Dictionary with Roots and Abbreviations. London, printed by Samuel Meldola 1846
Original cloth, no dj, 22cm, 359 pp, very good condition. Spine slightly torn. Presented by the authoress. With plate of the authoress' Father, David Abarbanel Lindo, Esq. Not published.
£350.00 [Ref: 7130]Mills, W (Fellow of Magdelen College) The Belief of the Jewish People and of the Most Eminent Gentile Philosophers, More Especially of Plato and Aristotle, In a Future State, Briefly Considered; Including an Examination Into Some of the Leading Principles Contained in Bishop Warburton's .... Oxford at the University Press 1838
First edition. 8vo, half title, untrimmed in Orig grey boards, cover label and head of spine slightly damaged else vg.viii+ 130 pp
£95.00 [Ref: 4491]Rothschild, Charlotte Addresses to Young Children London, printed by Wertheimer, Lea & Co. 1867
Original cloth, no dj, 19cm, 242 pp, very good condition, spine slightly worn. Endpapers and edges marbled. Originally delivered in the Girls' Free School, Bell Lane.
£95.00 [Ref: 7129][Leslie, Charles (1650- 1722)] SHORT AND EASIE METHOD WITH THE DEISTS. Wherein the Certainty of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated by Infallible Proof; from Four Rules, which are Incompatible to any Imposture that ever yet has been, or that can Possibly be. In a Letter to a Friend. The Second Edition. To Which is Added, A Second Part TO THE JEWS. Shewing, That these Four Rules do Oblidge them as much or more than the Deists to the Acknowledgement of Christ. With an Answer to the Most Material of their Objections, and Prejudices against Christianity. C Brome 1699
Leather, attractively re-backed [2], XXIV, 424, [16] p. ; 16 cm. (12mo), some scuffing to boards, still an attractive volume.
£175.00 [Ref: 4211]