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Typed letter signed

"BUT JERUSALEM IS NOT ONLY THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SYMBOL OF JEWISH HISTORY—A HISTORY FULL OF SUFFERING AND FAILURES, BUT, IN ITS ESSENCE, THE HISTORY OF THE VICTORY OF THE SPIRIT AND THE FAITH OVER THE PHYSICAL FORCE TRYING TO DESTROY IT"

DAYAN, Moshe. Typed letter signed. Tel-Aviv, August 3, 1967.

Typed letter signed by Moshe Dayan, written less than two months after forces led by Dayan during the Six-Day War captured East Jerusalem, thanking his correspondent for a gift, describing the centrality of Jerusalem to Jewish history, and discussing his interest in archaeology. $17,500.

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Declaration of Israel's Independence

WE “HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL”

[BEN-GURION, David]. Declaration of Israel's Independence. Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708 [May 14, 1948]-163 Iyar 5708 [October 1, 1948].

First printing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the first issue of Iton Rishmi, dated May 14, 1948, collected together in one volume with the 24 separately printed, succeeding issues (No. 2, dated May 21, 1948, to No. 25, dated October 1, 1948)—“It is rare to register with such precision the moment when historical change is inaugurated.” $15,000.

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28th Zionist Congress

SIGNED BY DAVID BEN GURION

(BEN GURION, David). 28th Zionist Congress. Israel, 1967-73.

Rare commemorative album celebrating Israeli statehood and the 28th Zionist Congress, comprising a booklet explaining the congress, book excerpts from the book, "Three Days," describing the declaration of statehood, two sheets of Israeli first day covers, a photograph of Ben Gurion on the same sheet as two Israeli historical stamps, and a facsimile of the Independence Scroll signed in pen by Ben Gurion. $15,000.

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Magnalia Christi Americana

"THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN BOOK OF COLONIAL TIMES AND THE INDISPENSABLE SOURCE FOR COLONIAL SOCIAL HISTORY"

MATHER, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana. London, 1702.

The exceptionally rare and exceedingly significant first edition of Cotton Mather's salvation history of colonial Massachusetts, the "most important 18th-century American book" (Howes M391), including the earliest 18th-century general map of New England (often not present). $15,000.

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Thoughts upon Slavery

"GIVE LIBERTY TO WHOM LIBERTY IS DUE, THAT IS, TO EVERY CHILD OF MAN": FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THOUGHTS UPON SLAVERY, 1774, BY THE FOUNDER OF METHODISM JOHN WESLEY

(BENEZET, Anthony) WESLEY, John. Thoughts upon Slavery. London, Printed: Re-Printed in Philadelphia, 1774.

First American edition, preceded only by the same year's much shorter English edition of Wesley's influential and controversial early attack on slavery and the slave trade, the first to contain abolitionist Anthony Benezet's expansive notes and afterword not in the English edition, bound with a separate title page with four other works in publisher Joseph Crukshank's A Collection of Religous Tracts. $12,000.

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Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God

"SATAN SEEMED TO BE MORE LET LOOSE, AND RAGED IN A DREADFUL MANNER"

EDWARDS, (Jonathan) Revd. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God. Boston, 1738.

First American edition of this important account of the beginning of "The Great Awakening" by one of the most famous American religious figures, creator of "the first great religious revival of modern times" (ANB). Bound with Edwards' Discourses on Various Important Subjects, a collection of five sermons. $10000.

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Illuminated Painting of Saint Louis

BEAUTIFUL, VERY LARGE (ANTIPHONAL-SIZED) 16TH-CENTURY GERMAN ILLUMINATED PAINTING OF SAINT LOUIS, KING LOUIS IX OF FRANCE

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Illuminated Painting of Saint Louis. Germany, 16th century.

Splendid and very large 16th-century hand-painted illuminated portrait of King Louis IX of France, commonly known as Saint Louis. Handsomely framed. $8500.

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