The Comic History of Rome.; Illustrated by John Leech
by A'Beckett, Gilbert A.
London: Bradbury Agnew & Co, 1890. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 418 pp. Gilt-stamped three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards and endpapers, t.e.g. Many wood engravings throughout and 6 hand-colored steel engravings. Ex Libris G. Irwin-Carruthers. Leather is scuffed and corners bumped, former owner's bookplate. Slight foxing to tissue guards and margins of some of the steel engravings, not affecting images, slightly shaken, but in overall good condition considering age.
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Der Pretakalpa des Garuda-Purana: Eine Darstellung des hinduistischen Totenkultes und Jenseitsglaubens
by Abegg, Emil
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co, 1956. Second edition. Softcover. g. 8vo. x,272pp. Original wrappers. Minor discoloration and creasing to wraps. Slight browning to outer edges of pages. Translated from Sanskrit into German by Emil Abegg. Good condition.
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Thought Matters: UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Research Studios 2006-2007
by Abe, Hitoshi; Neil Denari; Greg Lynn; Thom Mayne; Dagmar Richter;
Los Angeles: UCLA Architecture & Urban Design, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 92pp. Original decorative mylar over paper covered boards. Frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous color illustrations and photographic reproductions, this book compiles imaginary plans devised for cities including Chicago and Madrid. One of several futuristic scenarios featured in "Thought Matters" called “Neo-Natural Superscapes” illustrates eco-friendly design concepts that makes traditional architecture look like energy-gobbling relics. Mylar, binding and interior in overall very good condition.
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Potosi: Catalogo de su Patrimonio Urbano y Arquitectomico
by Abela, Maria; Teresa Gilbert, Luis Prado et. al
Potosi, Bolivia: Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Artistico y Artes Visuales, 1990. First edition. Softcover. vg. Oblong 8vo. 249pp. Pictrorial wrappers with black lettering to front wrapper and white lettering to spine. Great book on industrial, religious and monumental architecture in the Bolivian city of Potosi. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs, maps and plans. Contains fold-out map in flap at the end of the book. Some scuffing, rubbing, creasing to wrappers and spine. In Spanish. In very good condition.... Read More
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Commentarius Cantabrigiensis in Epistolas Pauli e Schola Petri Abaelardi in Epistolam ad Hebraeos (Publications in Mediaeval Studies II)
by Abelard, Peter; Artur Landgraf (ed.)
Notre Dame, 1945. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 653-864, Brown paper wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Commentary on Paul's epistle to the Hebrews by the twelfth century Christian scholastic Peter Abelard. Wrapper corners bumped, affecting interior leaves. Overall in very good condition. For a medieval Christian, Peter Abelard was known for his positive view of Jews. In this book he even goes so far as to imply that circumcision might be an effective path to... Read More
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English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary: Complete Lexicon and Work of Reference in all Departments of Knowledge
by Abelson, Paul (editor)
New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1924. Hardcover. fair. 4to. ix,1749pp. Blind-stamped black cloth. Heavy age wear and staining to binding. Split and frayed along spine on front board firmly holding. Marbled endpapers. Expertly reinforced with brown binders tape along gutter at front- and rear endpapers. Heavy pulling, chipping and creasing to title-page. Illustrated throughout with double- and full-page reproductions of color drawings in vibrant colors as well as b/w in-text drawings. Binding in poor, interior in overall very... Read More
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English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary: Complete Lexicon and Work of Reference in all Departments of Knowledge
by Abelson, Paul (editor)
New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1924. Hardcover. fair. 4to. ix,1749pp. Blind-stamped black cloth, faded lettering on spine. Four-inch closed tear along spine on back board, one-inch closed tear along spine on front board still firmly holding. Age wear to edges and corners, usual scuffing to binding. Red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Expertly reinforced with blue binders tape along gutter at front- and rear endpapers. Ex-Libris of Horace K. Rubinfier on inside of front board. Title- and appendix page... Read More
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English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary: Complete Lexicon and Work of Reference in all Departments of Knowledge
by Abelson, Paul (editor)
New York: Jewish Press Publishing Co, 1915. Hardcover. g. 4to. xvii,1748,vipp. Black cloth with blind-stamped title on cover. "Joseph Krupp" in gold letters on cover, title in gold on spine. Some age wear and staining to binding. Split along spine on front board but holding. Couple of pages & color plate crudely repaired with tape, pulling to edges on some pages. Usual age toning to outer edges of pages. Illustrated throughout with double- and full-page reproductions of color... Read More
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The Right of Assembly and Association
by Abernathy, Glenn
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. VI, [2], 263, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. The right of peaceable assembly - a vital element in the maintenance of the democratic process - is guarenteed not only in the United States Constitution but in virtually all state constitutions. In this remarkable work, the author traces the development of restrictions on the right of assembly.... Read More
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Parafrasis Comentado Sobre el Pentateuco
by Aboab, Isaac da Fonseca; Jan van den Aveele (engraving)
Amsterdam: Estampado en caza de Iaacob de Cordova, 5441. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg-. Large quarto. [5] 634pp. Re-backed in modern spine with raised bands, blind-stamped tooling and the original gilt-stamped leather label pasted on. Retains original leather boards. Edges of the book block in red. Engraved title page. Text throughout printed in a two-column format with decorative woodcut initials and tailpieces. This work is a paraphrased translation of the Pentateuch (the Five Books of Moses)... Read More
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Der lichtspendende Leuchter: Eine Sammlung der jüdischen Ethik aus Bibel und Talmud
by Aboab, Isaak; S. Bamberger (transl.)
Hamburg: Georg Kramer, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Ex-library. 8vo. vii,544pp. Gold-tooled maroon cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Work on Jewish ethics from the Bible and Talmud. "Bearbeitet und ins Deutsche übertragen von Rabbiner Dr. S. Bamberger." Some age wear, scuffing, staining and sunning on binding. Tail of spine and parts of bottom edges bumped. Samall stamp of Library Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, California School on inside of front and back board.... Read More
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Menorath hammaor. Eine moralisch-religiöse und erbauliche Lektüre für Jung und Alt. 3 Vols. in 1 (Candelabrum of Light. Edifying Moral and Religious Reader for Young and Old)
by Abohab, Isaac (Aboab); R. J. Fürstenthal; Ben-Zion Behrend (translation)
Krotoschin (Krotoszyn): B. L. Monasch & Sohn, 1848. First German edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. viii, 315, (1) 558, 392pp. Bound in modern brown half-cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Light brown endpapers. The author, Isaac Aboab lived in Toledo at the end of the 14th century. His Hebrew work, Menorath HaMe'or ("The Candelabrum of Light") is a classic ethical work. It became immensely popular among the Jews in the... Read More
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A Morphological Study of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
by Aboul-Fetouh, Hilmi M.
Austin, 1961. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. (8) 179pp. Red half-cloth over decorative stiff wrappers. A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas in partial fulfillment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy presenting on step toward a complete analysis of the dialect. Binding slightly bent with small closed tear in cloth at lower spine. Interior slightly age-toned. Binding and interior in overall good+ condition.
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Le Fellah : Souvenirs d'Egypte
by About, Edmond
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (9 x 5 7/8"). [6], 411, [1]pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in. First edition of About's memoirs of his travel to an Egypt under the reign of Ismail the Magnificent (Ismail-Pacha), in the 1860s. The author claims to be the friend... Read More
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Some Portraits of the Lake Poets and their Homes
by Abraham, Ashley P.
Keswick, UK: G. P. Abraham, Ltd, 1928. Softcover. g. 8vo. 52 pp. Brown paper binding with tie. Laid in at rear is a foxed engraving of Cliffords Tower fromwithout Castlegate Postern, and a map of "Beauty Spots" of the Lake District, as well as two cotton coasters from the Razor Towel Hotels Owner by the L.N.F.R. Shows homes in the Keswick area where notable people lived, including William Wordsworth and Coleridge. Illustrated, with a list at front. Binding... Read More
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Safah Berurah
by Abraham ibn Ezra, Gabriel Hirsh Lippmann
Furth: Fulda and Zumfdorffer, 1839. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 52 pages. Rebound? in quarter cloth black paper covered boards. A Hebrew grammar book discussing the roles of the letters. Ibn Ezra is considered the father of Hebrew grammar, even though he did not create anything new, he collected the conclusions of early grammarians and he wrote in Hebrew making Hebrew grammer more accessable. This work, not the first grammer book written by Ibn Ezra, was the result of a... Read More
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The Jewish Quarterly Review (1888-1908). 20-vols. set (complete) + the Analytical index of the Reprint collection
by Abrahams, I.; C.G. Montefiore
London: Macmillan and Co, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. Uniform modern library blue cloth, with gold lettering on spines. This is a complete and fascinating set of the famous Jewish Quarterly Review, First Series, published between 1888 and 1908. IT IS NOT THE REPRINT EDITION OF 1966. It was edited by I. Abrahams and Claude G. Montefiore, who not only wrote copiously themselves but attracted to their pages scholars of international fame such as F.C. Burkitt, R.H.... Read More
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Hebrew Ethical Wills. 2-vol. set (Complete)
by Abrahams, Israel (Selected and Edited by)
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1936. Second Impression. Hardcover. g. 12mo. 6, XXVIpp, 161, 162-348 leafs. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Top edges gilt. Ribbon marker in second volume. Publisher's logo on each title page. The present volume, being a selection from the Ethical Wills of Jewish worthies, is the first collection of its kind brought together. Such Wills, whose beginnings are found in the Bible, have a continuous history... Read More
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Starrs and Jewish Charters Preserved in the Jewish Museum. 3 Vol- set (Complete)
by Abrahams, Israel; H. P. Stokes; Herbert Loewe (eds.)
London: The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1932. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. xxxvi, 134, li, 347 (1), 349-509 (1)pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Two frontispieces. "This edition of Hebrew Starrs (printed by permission of the Authorities of the British Museum) has, as its special feature, accompanying Latin and other characters, which illustrate the circumstances under which arose the transactions to which the Starrs refer. The Starrs themselves have already... Read More
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Starrs and Jewish Charters Preserved in the Jewish Museum. 3 Vol- set (Complete)
by Abrahams, Israel; H. P. Stokes; Herbert Loewe (eds.)
London: The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1932. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. xxxvi, 134, li, 347 (1), 349-509 (1)pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Two frontispieces. "This edition of Hebrew Starrs (printed by permission of the Authorities of the British Museum) has, as its special feature, accompanying Latin and other characters, which illustrate the circumstances under which arose the transactions to which the Starrs refer. The Starrs themselves have already... Read More
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Legendes juives apocryphes sur la vie de Moise. La chronique de Moise - L'ascension de Moise - La mort de Moise
by Abraham, Meyer
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste, 1925. Softcover. g. 8vo. 113pp. Original wrappers with black lettering. All page edges untrimmed. Great work on Moses [a.k.a. Moshe Rabbenu] in the Jewish tradition. Discoloration to wrappers, minor foxing to page edges, minor browning to pages, not affecting text. In French. In good+ condition.
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Photographie 1936
by Abraham, Pierre; Jean Vétheuil; R. Auvillain (Text by); Gaston Paris; George Hurrel; John Somerset Murray; Marcel Bovis; Mitsutaro Fuku; Kardas; Maurice Tabard; Harry Meerson; Herbert List; Hein Gorny; Cecil Beaton; Pierre Boucher; Thérèse Le Prat; Geo
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1935. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). [14]pp (Text), 120pp (Plates), 121-139, [1]pp (Text and advertisement). Original spiral bound decorative wrappers by Pierre Boucher. "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography, and which published the work of the leading photographers and photographic agencies of the period. This 1936 edition contains 120 striking photographs reproduced in... Read More
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[UN]BUILT [SIGNED with original note by John Jay Iselin to Milton Glaser]
by Abraham, Raimund
Wien New York: Springer, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Signed and dated by Abraham on dedication page. Laid in note by Cooper Union president John Jay Iselin on official stationary to Milton Glaser. Quarto. 315pp. Original gray cloth with black-stamped sketch on cover, black lettering on spine; in matching original dustjacket, b/w lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. "The Austrian architect Raimund Abraham, born in 1933 in Lienz, Tyrol, has been living, working and teaching in the... Read More
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Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany. A Study of the Sod ha-Egoz Texts
by Abrams, Daniel
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. vg to near fine. Octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/2"). English section: (xiv) 146pp. [1]. Hebrew Section: 67pp. Indices of authors and sources. Dark blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, with publisher's device. Textureed endpapers. Publisher's device printed on the half-title page. The book is comprised of both an English section, which includes scholarly analysis of the texts and their historiography, and an additional section in Hebrew,... Read More
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Maimonides Octocentennial Anniversary
by Abrams, Israel A. et al.
Pittsburgh: Y. M & W. H. A., 1935. First edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. 35pp. Original light brown wrappers with brown frame, vignette and lettering on cover. Including contributions by Joseph H. Barach, Wolf Leiter, Solomon B. Freehof, and Herman Hailperin to the anniversary of the Spanish, Sephardic Jewish philosopher, physician and astronomer covering his life and work, e.g. in medicine, as Halachist, as philosopher, and his standing in history. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. ... Read More
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