Pirke Avot: Livro de Moral Cudia. Trezladado i Komantado:The Sayings of the Fathers (Turkish)
by Beher, Nisim
Guler: Basimevi, 1954. Softcover. g. 8vo. 71pp. Illustrated greenish gray wrappers. The moral and ethical literature of the Talmud here in a bilingual edition. Hebrew and Turkish on opposing pages. Sunning, minor creasing and few closed tears on wraps. Wrappers in good-, interior in very good condition.
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Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French and Latin. Newly Translated. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twelve Sculptures
by Aesop; Francis Barlow (engr.); Thomas Dudley (engr.); Aphra Behn
London: H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow, 1687. Second Barlow Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Folio (30.8 by 19.4 cm). [10], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [3: table] pp; engraved title, letterpress title, engraved arms of the dedicatee, William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire; engraved portrait of Aesop; 30 (of 31) numbered full page copperplate engraved plates in the Life; 110 half page engraved plates accompany the fables. 18th-century paneled calf (expertly rebacked, retaining original backstrip), borders and spine tooled in... Read More
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Neues Wohnen – Neues Bauen (New Living – New Architecture)
by Behne, Adolf
Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. 159 (1)pp. Original yellow cloth with modern b/w design and typography in photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Red top edge. Gray endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Dustjacket and cover design by Walter Dexel. The b/w photographs on the verso of title page with Heinrich Zille quote: "You can kill a human with an apartment just as you can kill him with an ax!" The... Read More
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Das Neue Berlin. Monatshefte für Probleme der Grossstadt (The New Berlin. Monthly for Problems of the Metropolis) Issues 1, 2 and 5, 1929
by Behne, Adolf (ed.)
Berlin: Martin Wagner, 1929. First edition. Softcover. Good to very good condition. Small Folio ( 12 x 8 1/2"). (4) 24 (5-16)pp., 2 plates; (4) 25-48 (5-20)pp.; (4) 89-108 (v-xvi)pp. Original photo-illustrated covers with two color lettering, all protected by modern mylar. Three original issues of the provocative 1929 magazine "Das Neue Berlin," representative for time and demeanor of the confident and assertive posture in the German culture. The complete volume was published in book form by Birkhäuser,... Read More
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Eine Stunde Architektur
by Behne, Adolf
Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind, 1928. First edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 64pp. Original color-illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover. Historical and critical overview of architecture and plea for modern living and architecture by one of the major critics and protagonists of modern architecture in the 20th century. Examining the aesthetic and functional aspects of architecture, art, and modern living Behne leaves no stone unturned. He examines architecture back to the pyramids as well... Read More
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![Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. An International Who's Who in Islamic Studies from its Beginnings Down to the Twentieth Century. Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One (A-G) [ONLY]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/181/811/1572811181.0.l.jpg)
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. An International Who's Who in Islamic Studies from its Beginnings Down to the Twentieth Century. Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One (A-G) [ONLY]
by Behn, Wolfgang
Leiden: Brill, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xxiii, (1), 695, (1)pp. Black buckram, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. Note: this is the first of 3 volumes, only. Volume 76-1 of the Brill series, "Handbook of Oriental Studies... Section One, the Near and Middle East." (HdO).
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Fest des Lebens und der Kunst. Eine Betrachtung des Theaters als höchsten Kultursymbols (Celebrations of Life and Art. Contemplating Theatre as Highest Cultural Symbol)
by Behrens, Peter
Darmstadt: C. F. Winter'schen Buchdruckerei, 1900. First edition. Softcover. g+. Quarto. 25 (1)pp. Re-cased with new endpapers, retaining original gilt-illustrated gray original wraps. Black publisher's device and lettering on cover framed by gilt Jugenstil flowers. Illustrated title page and decorative dedication page. Text pages with delicate Jugendstil frames, printed in pale blue, heightened crimson initial and linear paragraph breaks, text in brown. Dedicated to the Künstler-Kolonie Mathildenhöhe near Darmstadt. Behrens was a member of the Kolonie. "They... Read More
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Alkohol und Kunst (Alcohol and Art)
by Behrens, Peter
Flensburg: Verlag von Deutschlands Großloge II des I. O. G. T., 1905. First edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. 8pp. Original artistic blue and white color washed paper wrappers with emblem and lettering in black on cover. Lecture on the relation of alcohol and art by Prof. Peter Behrens based on the research of Moebius, Kraepelin, Smith, and Delbrück. At the time Behrens was director of the School for Applied Art in Düsseldorf, influential member of the modernist movement at... Read More
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Der Sieg des Neuen Baustils (The Victory of the New Architecture)
by Behrendt, Walter Curt
Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fr. Wedekind & Co, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Good+ condition. Quarto. 63 (1)pp. Original tan wraps in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on cover. Cover design by Werner Gräf. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs and plans showing examples of the new architectural style. Includes projects designed by Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, E. May, Max Taut, Josef Frank, Walter Gropius, J. J. P. Oud, Peter Behrens, Hans Poelzig, Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe,... Read More
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Omanut ve-Umanut. Gezirah bi-Neyar (Arts and Crafts. Paper Cutting)
by Beigel, M.A [Moshe Aharon]
Frankfurt: Hotzat Omanut/ Verlag Omonuth, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. g- to g. Quarto. 24, 40pp (plates). Rebound in dark blue library buckram over blue patterned paper boards. Published illustrated woodcut device in black on the front free endpaper. A beautifully printed and illustrated guide in Hebrew for instructing teachers on how to make and using papercutting and paper art in the classroom. The first section is comprised of instructional text, followed by 40 plates of finely printed... Read More
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Slottsteatrarna Pa Drottningholm Och Gripshols (The Palace Theaters at Drottningholm and Gripsholm) [SIGNED BY DONALD OENSLAGER]
by Beijer, Agne; C. G. Rosenberg (Photography)
Stockholm: Lindfors Publication AB, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good- condition. 398/500. Oblong Folio (12 3/4 x 15"). 290 [1]pp. Original light brown cloth with gilt emblem on front cover, gilt lettering on red label of spine. Emblem on title page. Facsimile signature by Agne Beijer below preface and original signature of Donald Oenslager, set designer for more than 140 Broadway productions and Tony Award winner for "A Majority of One," on front free endpaper. With an introduction... Read More
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Garden Art = Tuinkunst = l'Art du Jardin = Gartenkunst
by Beijer, Dick (landscape artist); Hans Fonk (photography); Ric van Kemper (text)
Netherlands: Uitgeverij Terra, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Square quarto (10"). Unpaginated (approx. 180 pages). Title and text in English, French, German and Dutch. Photographic dust jacket with dark green spine lettered in white, over black cloth lettered in silver. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs (most full-page). Hint of shelf wear at bottom edge of dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy.
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Aufsätze
by Beilinson, Mosche
Tel Aviv: Achduth, 1937. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 199pp. 1/4 gray cloth over paper covered boards. Collected articles of one of the most renowned political writers of the Yishuv (pre-State Jewish settlement in Israel) and representative of the Zionist Socialist Labor Movement, Dr. Moshe Beilinson (1890-1936). Published a year after he passed away. As mentioned in the copyright page: "Diese Aufsätze wurden ausgewählt, übersetzt und herausgegeben von der Machlakah LaAlihah miGermania schealjad Maskiruth Hakibuz haMeuchad mit Unterstützung der Kommission... Read More
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Heribert C. Ottersbach: Erziehung zur Abstraktion / Formation to Abstraction. Die Architekturbilder / Paintings on Architecture
by Beil, Ralf (Ed.)
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 176pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over paper covered boards. Remarkable catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, May 11-Sept. 7, 2008 to commemorate Heribert C. Ottersbach's work. Includes a short story written by the artist. "German painter Heribert C. Ottersbach seeks nothing less than a re-evaluation of the modern era in his art. Ottersbach develops his visual ideas using found materials and his own... Read More
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Fontes ad res Judaicas spectantes: Records of the trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real; Vol. I: The Trials of 1483-1485; Vol. II: The Trials of 1494-1512 in Toledo; Vol. III: The Trials of 1512-1527 in Toledo. Vol. IV: Documents, Biographical Notes, Indexes. 4 Vols
by Beinart, Haim (Editor of introductions and notes)
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1985. First edition. g. Quarto. XXXVII, [3], 638, [2], XIII, [1], 596, [2], IX, [1], 768, [2]pp., X, 663 [3]pp. Original blue-green cloth with gold lettering on front covers and spines. Printer's device in gilt on spines. Frontispiece in volume one. Volume one in light brown cardboard slipcase. Fascinating work being Beinart's monumental historiography of the Spanish inquisition. The four volumes are detailed and complete records of the... Read More
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蒙古襲来絵詞 Moko Shurai Ekotoba (Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasions) (3 vols. complete)
by 久保田米斎 (Beisen Kubota, ed.)
東京 (Tokyo): 風俗絵卷図画刊行会 (Fuzoku Emaki Gazu Kankokai), 1916. Limited edition. Softcover. g+ to vg+. Large quartos. Unpaginated. String-bound decorative black paper wrappers, with blue-green deocrative illustrations of trees on the covers. White silk labels on the front covers. Finely printed in color woodblock prints, this limited edition, reproduces the content (both images and text) of the original Moko Shurai Ekotoba hand scrolls. These historic scrolls were painted on the comission of the samurai Takezaki Suenaga (竹崎 季長, 1246–1314),... Read More
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Tel Malḥata : A Central City in the Biblical Negev [2 VOLS.]
by Beit-Arieh, Itzhaq and Liora Freud, et al.
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015. First edition. Quarto (10-3/4" x 8-3/4"). 2 vols. xiii, (1), 485, (1); ix, (1), (487)-778pp. Index of finds. Gray boards with color photo on front cover, spines lettered in black. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings, plus numerous ground plans and stratigraphic columns. An otherwise fine ex-library set with minimal markings (i.e. rubber stamps on title pages and at bottoms of text blocks). Tel Malḥata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev... Read More
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Giving a Diamond : Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
by Bekkum, Wout Jac. van and Naoya Katsumat and Joseph Yahalom (editors)
Leiden: Brill, 2011. First edition. Octavo. vi, 328pp. Text in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Green boards with red spine label, lettered in white. Illustrated with a color photo frontispiece and a portrait of Yahalom, plus 2 b&w text photos. A fine, as new copy. This volume presents fifteen essays in honor of Joseph Yahalom on a variety of subjects, mainly in the field of Hebrew (liturgical) poetry, poetics, and literature from the early Byzantine period to the... Read More
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Entre lignes de partage et territoires de passage: Les identités religieuses dans les mondes grec et romain. Paganismes, judaismes, christianismes
by Belayche, Nicole; Simon C. Mimouni (Editors)
Paris; Louvain: Peeters, 2009. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 502pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. This volume collects essays on polytheistic and monotheistic realities in antiquity for studying the subject of "religious identities" - the perception of the self or others as singular based on the representation of a reference viewed as superior. Text in French. As new condition.
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Ethnologie du Portugal: Unité et Diversité: Actes du Colloque, Paris, 12-13 Mars 1992
by Belchior Pontes, Maria de Lourdes and Colette Callier-Boisvert
Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 1994. First edition. Softcover. vg. 4to. 306 pp. Original paper wraps. Illustrated with 40 plates portraying b/w facsimile photographs and maps of important places in Portugal. This is a very interesting work on the ethnology and history of Portugal. Text in French and Portuguese. Minor age wear to exterior, otherwise book is in near fine condition.
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Rise and Fall of the Anabaptists [The Social Side of the Reformation in Germany, Volume III]
by Belfort Bax, E.
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1903. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. VI, [2], 407, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable work on Protestant Christians of the Radical Reformation of 16th-century Europe. The name Anabaptist is derived from the Latin term anabaptista, or "one who baptizes over again." This name was given them in reference to the practice of re-baptizing converts who already had been baptized as infants. Anabaptists required... Read More
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Corea, un viaggio impossibile
by Belgiojoso, Alessandro; Maurizio Riotto; Sergio Romano
Milano: Francesco Brioschi Editore, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 42pp (text), [97] leaves (plates). Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over decorative paper covered boards. Since 2006, Italian photographer Alessandro Belgiojoso's work has focused on the concept of boundary and the urge to overstep its limits, exploring socio-cultural comparisons and the ongoing dialogue between different cultures and geo-political meanings. In 2007 at Forma Foto, Milan, he exhibited a body of work taken in North and South Korea, and presented his... Read More
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Architectura Hydraulica (2 parts bound in 4 volumes, with altogether 24 sections). Missing one fold-out plate
by Belidor, Monsieur; (Bernard Forest de Belidor); Christian Wolf
NP, n/d. Hardcover. g. 4 volumes, folio size. Each volumes divided into 6 sections, with separate t.p.s. and paging. Contains 218 (/219 issued) fold-out copper plate engravings, as follows: 1) vol. I: 44, numbered by chapter, as issued 2) vol. II: 55, numbered by chapter, as issued 3) vol. III: 59, with continuous numberation. Missing plate xxix (29) 4) vol. IV: 60, with continuous numberation, as issued. Vol. I: Version 1-6. Die Kunst, das Gewässer... Read More
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![Sefer 'Ivranot: [Evronot] Ve–hu Yore derekh le–gemulei Melekh ve–'Atikei Sedim. Im Kuntres [noten Yeshu'a] be-sofo Meir bb. ha-R.R. Natan Yehoshua Hamelburg](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/255/206/1699206255.0.l.jpg)
Sefer 'Ivranot: [Evronot] Ve–hu Yore derekh le–gemulei Melekh ve–'Atikei Sedim. Im Kuntres [noten Yeshu'a] be-sofo Meir bb. ha-R.R. Natan Yehoshua Hamelburg
by Belin, Eliezer ben Jacob Ashkenazi
Offenbach, Germany: Israel Ken, 1722. Second edition. This is the copy of the Rabbi David (Paul-Bernard) Drach (1791-1868), who converted to Catholicism in 1823 and managed the library of the Propaganda Fide in Rome. The front endpaper has a note that is signed and dated by Drach: "Etudie et annote ce volume; supplee lets mots ronges par les vers, et corrige les fautes typographiques." Notes to margins. Introductory note by Drach lauding the book: "Le calendrier juif, dont les... Read More
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Sochineniia Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (12 vols.)
by Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich
Moscow: V Tip. V. Gracheva, 1867. Hardcover. g. 12 octavo vols. Black covered boards. Leather spines with gold lettering. Raised bands on spines. This set is a collection of the various works of Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, (1811 - 1848) was a Russian writer and critic, often called the “father” of the Russian radical intelligentsia. As critic for four major reviews he became the principal champion of the realistic and socially responsible new Russian literature. His emphasis on the... Read More
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