Panorama of Ancient Letters: Four and a Half Centuries of Hebraica and Judaica

New York: NP, 1942. Softcover. fair. 4to. Original wrappers bound in black cloth with title in gold on spine. Creasing, chipping and tearing to front wrapper. Bottom right corner of front wrapper missing. Tearing around staples along gutter on title page. A fascinating book with "bibliographical notes and descriptions of 1,000 rare books and manuscripts, forming a part of the Mitchell M. Kaplan Collection, presented to New York University Jewish Culture Foundation." Delightfully illustrated with 300 b/w reproductions of title pages. Cloth binding in fine, wraps in poor, interior in very good condition. (Inventory #: 16053)