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“NATIONAL WEEKLY FOR THE SURVIVING REMNANT”

(JUDAICA) (HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS). Unser Welt (Our World) Periodical. Munich and Paris, 1946-51.

Scarce, nearly complete run of the earliest issues of the Zionist newspaper Unser Welt, “Our World,” the “National Weekly for Jewry in Europe,” published in Munich just after World War II and the Holocaust. $15,000.

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FROM YELLOW STAR TO FULL EMANCIPATION, 1602-1859: SUPERB COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ITALIAN GOVERNMENTAL DECREES

(JUDAICA—ITALIAN). Collection of seven decrees relating to the Jews of Modena, Italy. Modena, Italy, 1602-1859.

Superb collection of official governmental decrees charting the history of the Jewish community of Modena, in north-central Italy, from the stigma of wearing a yellow mark in 1602, to the grant of full emancipation in 1859. $15,000.

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THE ONLY HEBREW PRAYER BOOK TRANSLATED INTO GREEK, 1885

(JUDAICA-LITURGY). Seder Tefilot—Kathimerinai Proseukhsi. Corfu, 1885.

First and only edition of the only Hebrew prayer book translated into Greek, one of only 14 Hebrew items printed on the Greek island of Corfu. $7200.

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BRITISH EMERGENCY BROADSIDE DECREE REGARDING THE 1929 RIOTS IN PALESTINE

(JUDAICA—PALESTINE) CHANCELLOR, Sir John Herbert (High Commissioner for Palestine). Emergency Decree concerning 1929 Riots in Palestine. Jerusalem, September 4, 1929.

Emergency decree in Hebrew issued by the British High Commissioner for Palestine announcing special power to be given to the Courts in conducting trials for those arrested for violent conduct in the 1929 riots in Palestine. $5500.

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“ON ACCOUNT OF THE RIGHTEOUS WOMEN WE WERE REDEEMED FROM EGYPT”

JUDAICA. Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Asanah y Kipur. Amsterdam, 1717. Together, two volumes.

Early edition of this liturgical publication printed entirely in Spanish for the Sephardim and Marranos of Amsterdam, the first to be published by the renowned Hebrew printer Solomon Proops, very handsomely bound in full contemporary morocco gilt. $5500.

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“ALSHEKH’S COMMENTARIES BECAME VERY POPULAR”

JUDAICA. Torat Moshe [Commentary on the Book of Genesis]. Amsterdam, 1710.

Amsterdam edition of Alshekh’s popular commentary on the Book of Genesis, a wide-margined, large folio copy in contemporary calf boards. $5300.

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TWO LARGE SOUVENIR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 1921 12TH ZIONIST CONGRESS IN CARLSBAD

Twelfth Zionist Congress. Zionist Congress Photographs. Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), 1921.

Two photographs of the 12th Zionist Congress in Carlsbad by photographer Carl Wagner—one of the entire 12th Congress and another of the "HaMizrahi" delegates—sent as a souvenir to one of the congress' delegates, Joseph Seltzer. $5000.

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THE “JEWISH OATH,” 1846 VENETIAN PRINTING

JUDAICA. Oath of Israelites. Venice, 1846-47.

1846 Venetian printing of the oath to be taken by Jews as litigants in the courts. $5000.

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1451 SPANISH MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENT BETWEEN A JEW AND FOUR CHRISTIANS, HANDSOMELY SCRIBED AND FRAMED

(JUDAICA). Manuscript Legal Document, Jew and four Christians, Spain 1451. Calatayud, Aragon (Spain), January 29, 1451.

Lovely manuscript legal document creating a carriers’ contract between a Jew and four Christians. A very attractively scribed document from the period just prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. $4500.

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THE FIRST ITALIAN-LANGUAGE JEWISH PRAYER BOOK, 1802

JUDAICA. Formulario delle Orazioni. Mantua, 1802.

First edition of the first Italian-language Jewish prayer book, scarce in original wrappers. $3800.

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1702 EDICT CONCERNING COMMUNAL TAXES AMONG JEWS IN FERRARA

(JUDAICA). In Nome del Signore Iddio [Ferrara Taxation regulations]. Ferrara, 1702.

Handsome framed broadside giving 12 regulations concerning taxes imposed on Jews by the Jewish community in order to meet the community’s financial obligations to the state. $3500.

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AN IMPORTANT RUSSIAN PROCLAMATION RESTRICTING JEWS, 1829

(JUDAICA) (NICHOLAS I). Ukaz. St. Petersburg, May 24, 1829.

An important and extremely rare original printed document relating to the Jewish history of the Baltic provinces: a proclamation listing the regulations issued by Emperor Nicholas I restricting the number of resident Jews in Courland and Livonia. $3500.

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“HIS SOLE AIM WAS SPIRITUAL PERFECTION”

(JUDAICA—KABBALAH) AZIKRI, Eleazar ben Moses. Sefer Chareidim. Venice, 1601.

First edition of this spiritual and ascetic kabbalistic manual by the renowned kabbalist Rabbi Azikri, printed in Venice and handsomely bound. $3500.

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IMPORTANT 1939 MEXICAN INTERNAL MEMO
REGARDING JEWISH IMMIGRATION

(JUDAICA) (ANTI-SEMITISM) MEXICO. Peligros de una Inmigracion en Masa. Mexico, March 9 and March 22, 1939. Together, two volumes.

Two rare 1939 internal memos by the Mexican government, entitled “The Dangers of Mass Immigration,” explaining the reasons for rejecting the United States’ suggestion that Mexico accept Jewish refugees into the southern part of the country. $3000.

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VIENNESE JEWISH PRAYER BOOK AND PSALTER, IN A LOVELY CONTEMPORARY “CATHEDRAL” BINDING

(JUDAICA—LITURGY). Seder Tefillah. Vienna, 1816.

Handsome early 19th-century Vienna prayer book, together with selections from the Book of Psalms, finely bound in contemporary morocco-gilt in the ‘cathedral binding’ style, with gothic arched windows and architectural elements. $2600.

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RABBINICAL EDICT FORBIDDING THE SECULAR EDUCATION OF JEWISH CHILDREN IN JERUSALEM, 1878

(JUDAICA—JERUSALEM). Oloth Habrith—Broadside. Jerusalem, 1878.

Broadside issued by the Ashkenazi Rabbis of Jerusalem reaffirming their ruling forbidding the secular education of Jewish children in the Holy City of Jerusalem “under pain of excommunication.” $2500.

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“WHOMEVER HAS ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ZIONISTS…
BECOMES A PARTNER IN ACTIONS AGAINST JUDAISM”

(JUDAICA—ZIONISM). Kriath Kodesh [call to Yeshiva students]. Jerusalem, Kislev, 1947-48.

1947 Jerusalem Orthodox broadside against “the Zionists who wish to uproot the Torah,” illustrative of the conflicts among Zionists and other factions in Jerusalem just prior to the creation of the state of Israel. $1800.

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HANDSOME LIVORNO-PRINTED PRAYER BOOK, IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO WITH BRASS FURNITURE

(JUDAICA—SEPHARDIC LITURGY). Sefer Tefilot ha-Kadosh, ke-minhag kahal Kadosh. Livorno, circa 1838.

Scarce 19th-century Livorno-printed prayer book, printed by Solomon Belforte, in handsome contemporary morocco binding with brass furniture. With a finely penned page in Hebrew manuscript bound in at rear. $1800.

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1310 HEBREW ASTRONOMICAL TREATISE, THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD

(JUDAICA) ISRAELI, Isaac ben Joseph. Yesod Olam [Foundation of the World]. Berlin, 1777.

First edition of this important astronomical text originally written in 1310. $1600.

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SCARCE BOMBAY-PRINTED COLLECTION OF LITURGICAL POEMS, 1874

PENKAR, Shalom Joesph, editor. Shirei Renanot (Liturgical Poems). Bombay, 1874-79.

Scarce Bombay-printed collection of liturgical poems, in Hebrew. $1500.

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JOSEPH EZEKIEL RAJPURKAR’S PRAYERS OF THE THREE GREAT
JEWISH FESTIVALS, 1901 FIRST EDITION, PRINTED IN BOMBAY

(INDIAN JUDAICA—BOMBAY IMPRINT) [RAJPURKAR], Joseph Ezekiel. Mo"adim. The Prayers of the Three Great Jewish Festivals. Bombay, 1901.

First edition of this Bombay-printed liturgy, translated into Marathi by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar, one of the leading Jewish scholars of 19th-century Bombay. $1200.

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1893 MARATHI EDITION OF AZHAROT

(INDIAN JUDAICA—BOMBAY IMPRINT) SAMSON, Benjamin, translator. Azaroth, the Poem (Azharot). Bombay, 1893.

First edition of Benjamin Samson’s translation of Azharot into Marathi, printed in Bombay. $1200.

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“THE FIRST JEWISH LEARNED ASSOCIATION IN THE NEW WORLD”

JUDAICA (LEESER, Isaac). Constitution and By-Laws… American Jewish Publication Society. Philadelphia, 5606 [1845].

First edition of the 1845 Constitution and By-Laws of Rabbi Isaac Leeser’s groundbreaking American Jewish Publication Society, foundational predecessor to the 1888 formation of the Jewish Publication Society, a pivotal document in American Jewish history, in original wrappers. $1200.

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1859 LIVORNO-PRINTED SEFER PIRKE AVOT,
IN HEBREW AND ITALIAN

(JUDAICA— MISHNAH). Sefer Pirke Avot (Sayings of the Fathers). Livorno, 1859.

Nineteenth-century Livorno edition of the Sayings of the Fathers, in Hebrew with Italian translation by I. Costa, printed by Solomon Belforte. $850.

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SCARCE BOMBAY-PRINTED SONGBOOK OF SIMHATHORA, 1933

(INDIAN JUDAICA—BOMBAY IMPRINT). Songbook of Simhathora. Sefer Zimrei Yisra’el. Songbook of Simhathora, 1933.

Scarce Bombay-printed songbook, in Hebrew. $800.

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FIRST EDITION OF NORDHEIMER’S IMPORTANT HEBREW GRAMMAR, 1838

(JUDAICA) NORDHEIMER, Isaac. Grammatical Analysis of Selections From the Hebrew Scriptures. New York, 1838.

First edition of Nordheimer’s early American work of Hebrew scholarship. $750.

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FROM THE ESTATE OF LEONA AND HARRY HELMSLEY, SCARCE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE 1983 FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE SARAJEVO HAGGADAH

JUDAICA. Haggadah (Sarajevo facsimile). Beograd [Belgrade] / Sarajevo, 1983.

First edition of the 1983 facsimile of the original illuminated 14th-century Sarajevo Haggadah manuscript, held as the oldest known Sephardic Haggadah, a scarce association copy from the estate of Leona and Harry Helmsley, with a Passover 1986 gift inscription to them from an unidentified presenter, featuring 34 pages of beautiful full-color illustrations. $750.

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JOSEPH EZEKIEL RAJPURKAR’S THE TRUE ASPECTS OF JUDAISM, 1879 FIRST EDITION, PRINTED IN BOMBAY

(INDIAN JUDAICA—BOMBAY IMPRINT) [RAJPURKAR], Joseph Ezekiel. True Aspects of Judaism. Bombay, 1879.

First edition of this Bombay-printed collection of discourses on Judaism, written in Marathi by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar, one of the leading Jewish scholars of 19th-century Bombay. $650.

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JOSEPH EZEKIEL RAJPURKAR’S PRAYERS OF THE FIVE JEWISH FASTS, 1890 FIRST EDITION, PRINTED IN BOMBAY

(INDIAN JUDAICA—BOMBAY IMPRINT) RAJPURKAR, Joseph Ezekiel. Prayers of the Five Jewish Fasts. Bombay, 1890.

First edition of this Bombay-printed liturgy, translated into Marathi by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar, one of the leading Jewish scholars of 19th-century Bombay. $600.

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Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process; aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however.
Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.
Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.
Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book.
Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.
Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).
Calf Binding material made from cowhide—versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain. Readily marbled (“tree calf”), mottled, diced, colored, polished, tooled in gilt or blind, even scented (known as “russia”). Reverse calf, with a distinctive suede-like texture, is occasionally used.
Chromolithograph Lithograph printed in colors, typically three or more.
Collation Process by which the contents of a book are inspected for completeness, checking against internal evidence, the table of contents and/or plate list, and reference works. Also a shorthand bibliographical description of a book’s composition by its leaves and signatures, rather than its pages. A-C, for example, would indicate a quarto volume composed of three signatures or gatherings of eight pages each for a total of 24 pages.
Colophon Printed note at the end of a text containing information about the printing of the book.
Doublure Pastedowns made not of paper but of leather, for decorative purposes.
Duodecimo (12MO) Smaller than an octavo, typically less than six inches tall; smaller formats, such as 24mo and 32mo, are uncommon.
Edition Print-run from a single setting of type without substantial change. Depending on demand, any number of printings can be made from a setting of type For example, a first printing might consist of 1000 copies, followed by a second printing of 2500 copies; in which case the book would have a first edition, first printing of 1000 copies, and a first edition, second printing of 2500 copies.
Endpapers Extra leaves—plain, colored or decorated—with which a bookbinder covers the insides of the book’s boards, therefore not part of the actual text block. The part of the leaf pasted to the inside of the front board is the front “pastedown,” while the other part of the leaf that forms the first page of the book is the “front free endpaper”; the same applies to the rear pastedown and rear free endpaper.
Engraving Illustration produced by carving lines into a metal plate. This is an intaglio process, in which ink is poured over the plate, then wiped from the surface, leaving ink only in the recesses made by the engraver’s tools. The image is then transferred by pressing thick dampened paper against the metal plate with great force—requiring engravings to be printed on a separate stock and separate press from any text.
Errata List of mistakes and corrections noted after printing, often compiled on a separate sheet or slip and inserted into the text block.
Flyleaves Additional blank leaves following or preceding the endpapers.
Folio Book composed of sheets that are folded once and printed on both sides, making two leaves and four pages. Typically above 14 inches tall. Oblong folios are produced the same way but bound at the short edge, producing a book typically more than 14 inches deep.
Fore-Edge Edge of the book furthest from the spine. Occasionally the text of a book will be put into a specialized book press and painted, often with a scene from the book or a landscape, so that the painting is invisible when the book is closed but visible when somebody bends the text and fans the pages—known as a fore-edge painting.
Foxing Light brown spots that naturally appear on some papers due to oxidation as they age.
Frontispiece An illustration facing the title page of a book.
Gathering Single sheet of paper that has been printed and folded to form the pages required by the book’s format. A single gathering of a quarto book, then, would be a sheet folded twice, containing four leaves, eight pages of text.. Gatherings are identified by a letter, symbol or number in the lower margin of the first page (the “signature”) to make it easy for the printer to stack them in proper order for sewing.
Gilt Edges The three exposed edges of a book have been smoothed and gilded.
Half Title Leaf preceding the title page that bears the book’s title, originally used to identify the unbound text block. The book’s binder would often remove and discard the half title at the time of binding. Remaining half-titles are therefore of interest to collectors.
Illuminated Decorated by hand. Typically early printed books and especially manuscripts.
Imprint Satement of place, publisher and date of publication on a book’s title page.
Incunable From the cradle of printing, i.e., any book printed before 1501.
Issue A group of books issued by the publisher as a discrete unit. At times, issue refers to timing, such as the “first issue” being offered to the public at an earlier date than the “second issue.” At other times, it refers to specially planned different batches, such as the “trade issue” (widely available) in opposition to a “signed limited issue” (limited to a small amount of copies differing somehow from the trade issue and not widely available).
Japanese Vellum Expensive handmade paper often used in deluxe editions.
Lithograph Illustration produced by transferring an image drawn on a carefully prepared stone to paper. The process allowed illustrations to more closely resemble the original drawings, paintings or sketches, as it gave the lithographer a freedom of line impossible to achieve in earlier intaglio and relief processes. It does not require the same sort of pressure as an engraving to transfer the image, but still has to be printed on separate stock from the text
Marginalia Handwritten notes made in the margins by a previous owner.
Mispaginated Printer’s error in pagination, typically skipping, transposing or repeating page numbers. Not uncommon in older, larger books, it is not considered a defect, so long as all integral leaves are present.
Modern Recently accomplished, when used to describe a book’s binding that is not the original casing. Some books bound recently are bound using techniques, tools and styles of the period of the book’s original issue; when done well this is called a period-style binding, a term that implies “modern” as well.
Morocco Binding material made from goatskin—versatile, durable, with a distinctive pebbled texture and visible grain. Readily stretched (“straight-grain”), crushed (flattened smooth), tooled in gilt or blind, inlaid with leathers of different colors. So-called because much of the raw material originally came from the tanneries of North Africa (other types of goatskin bindings denoting regions of origin include levant, turkey, niger).
Offset The unintended transfer of ink from one printed page to an adjacent page.
Period-Style binding executed with materials, tools and techniques to approximate the look of a contemporary binding from the period of the book’s publication. The term implies that the binding is modern, or recent, unless otherwise specified.
Plate Full-page illustration printed separately from but bound with the text.
Point Variation in text, illustration, design or format that allows a bibliographer to distinguish between different editions and different printings of the same edition, or between different states or issues of the same printing.
Presentation Copy Book given as a gift by its author, illustrator or publisher. Sometimes refers to a volume given by a notable donor.
Provenance History of a particular copy of a book.
Raised Bands Horizontal protruding strips found on the spine of a book.
Reback To supply a worn binding with a new spine, usually made of the same material as the rest of the binding and decorated to match. When feasible the binder may preserve the original spine and affix it to the new material, described as “rebacked with the original spine laid down.”
Recase To reattach a text block to its binding when it has become loose from its covers.
Recto The front side of a leaf. The back side is known as the “verso.”
Trade Edition Printing or printings of a book made available for purchase by the general public on publication day (as opposed to a limited edition, often available only by subscription).
Uncut When the edges of the text block (most apparent at the fore and lower edges) have not been trimmed to a uniform size, and are therefore characterized by a ragged or deckle edge. A book may be uncut but opened—i.e., with a paper-knife—but all unopened books (see below) are by nature uncut as well.
Unopened When the folds of the sheets of paper making up the text block have not been trimmed away or opened with a paper-knife. While this makes it impossible to read all of the pages, it also indicates a probability that the text block has not been altered since leaving the printer.
Vellum Binding material made from specially treated calfskin—durable, with a distinctive ivory color and smooth appearance. Can be tooled in gilt or blind. So-called Japan vellum (or Japon) is a type of thick paper that has been polished smooth and given a glossy finish to resemble vellum.
Verso The back or reverse side of a leaf or page. (See “recto.”)
Woodcut Illustration or textual decoration made by cutting away from the surface of a block of wood until the reverse of the image is left in relief; this is then inked and pressed to the paper to leave the image. The woodblock, or multiple blocks, can be fit into the page along with the type, allowing text and illustrations to be printed in the same print run and share the same page (not possible with engravings, which require thicker, damp paper and much more force; nor with lithographs, which require a different printing process altogether). Woodcuts preceded moveable type and are the earliest known printing technology.
Wood-Engraving Engraving made with the graver or burin on the cross-section of a piece of boxwood; the harder wood and finer tools allow for more delicate, finely detailed images, while the block can still be set in the page alongside text and printed on the same stock as the text. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century.
Wormhole Tiny pinhole-sized trails left by bookworms as they eat through a text block. Much more common in older books printed on handmade papers with a high rag content than in books printed on manufactured papers made from wood pulp with a higher acidic content.
Wrappers Paper coverings—plain, marbled or printed—attached by stitches, staples or glue to a text block to identify it and afford it some protection (though much more fragile than a binding in plain, cloth or leather-covered boards). More typical of slim and/or inexpensive volumes such as pamphlets. “Self wrappers” are leaves, blank or printed, that are integral to the text block, conjugate with other leaves and from the same stock. “Original wrappers,” those attached at the time of issue, are scarce and extremely desirable to most collectors.