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# 46287

BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

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# 46323

THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)

New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, March 1944 to December 1945. Twenty-one individual issues (i.e. not bound), uniform quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers, 8-page format; occasional illustrations; very good condition throughout. ‘The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest …

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# 45949

BREIRA (New York)

InterChange: a monthly review of issues facing Israel and the diaspora. (Complete run)

New York : Breira, 1975-1977. Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 1975) – no. 10 (June 1976); Vol. 2, no. 1 (September 1976) – no. 10 (June 1977); Vol. 3, no. 1 (September 1977); twenty-one issues (all issued). Uniform quarto newsprint (280 x 215 mm), pagination varies, illustrated; extremely good condition throughout; [WITH] Breira Report – …

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# 46162

KLEPNER, Frank

Yosl Bergner : art as a meeting of cultures

With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. ‘The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner’s Australian …

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# 45536

THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

[New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …

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# 43448

POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)

De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …

Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …

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# 45100

Pedro de la Cavallería; Martin Alfonso Vivaldo; Samuel Marochitanus

Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

ab illust. doct. Petro de la Cavalleria, Hispano ex civitate Caesaraugusta, anno 1450 … … Venice : apud Baretium de Baretijs, 1592. Two works in one volume, quarto (225 x 160 mm), contemporary panelled vellum stamped with the initials L V M; [68], 156; [8], 19 leaves; second work has separate title page: Aureus Rabbi Samuelis tractatus …

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# 45138

[ALEXANDER, Selig]

Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.

Manuscript on parchment, folio bifolium (470 x 320 mm), [3] pages, written in a fine clerical hand, dated 18 November 1857 and recording the conveyance of part of Allotment 3, Section 9 in the Parish of South Melbourne at Sandridge (on Stoke Street in what is now Port Melbourne), from Selig Alexander, merchant, of the …

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# 44827

American Christian Palestine Committee

Land Reborn

New York : American Christian Palestine Committee, 1951 – 1954. Quarto, eleven issues, quarto, illustrated self wrappers, each approx. 16 pp., illustrated. An early American Christian Zionist publication active in the years following the creation of the state of Israel. Includes articles on Arab refugees, kibbutzes, the United Nations, etc. Contributors include B. Burgoyne Chapman …

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# 44473

BERGNER, Yosl (1920 - 2017)

Yosl Bergner. Paintings : 1955-1975

Tel Aviv : The Tel Aviv Museum, 1975. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, text in English and Hebrew. Illustrated in colour and black and white; a very good copy.

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# 43813

JANSEN, Cornelius, the Elder (1510-1576)

[BINDING] Paraphrasis in psalmos omnes Davidicos, cum argumentis et annotationibus:

Lyon : P[ierre]. Landry, 1597. Two volumes in one, folio (360 x 230 mm), contemporary panelled calf over oak boards with two brass clasps (still working), expertly and sympathetically rebacked in period style; the beautiful inner boards left exposed, each with a stub of vellum manuscript waste (taken from a rubricated music ms.); later endpapers; …

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# 43656

BOREEL, Abraham (1605-1664)

Missilia sacra sive de mutua Christianorum unione comparanda, promovenda atq[ue] fraterne conservanda cum iis qui sectantur pacem et charitatem. Item de Judaeorum conversione ad Jesum Christum … …

Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] : typis G. Zylii et T. Ackersdijckii [Zylius & Ackersdijckius], 1659. First and only edition. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (a few scuff marks, corners worn, joints expertly repaired); front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription, pp. [2], 194, [1 errata]; text in Latin; top-edges trimmed close, resulting in partial loss of letters in …

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# 43376

BARON, David

The history of Israel : its spiritual significance. A series of connected expositions

London : Morgan & Scott, c. 1910. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. viii; 310; [2], a very good copy.

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# 43242

LOWTH, Robert (1710-1787)

De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum.

Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii Habitæ a Roberto Lowth A. M. college novi nuper socio, et poeticæ publico prælectore … … Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano, M DCC LIII [Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1753]. First edition. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (a little scuffed and marked), spine with raised bands …

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# 42634

CARPZOV, Johann Gottlob (1679 - 1767)

Apparatus historico criticus Antiquitatum sacri Codicis et gentis Hebraeae.

Uberrimis annotationibus in Thomae Goodwini Mosen et Aaronem. Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1748. Quarto, blind-embossed contemporary vellum, a little marked, manuscript title to spine, hinges and joints expertly strengthened, bookplate to front pastedown, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, pp. x; [vi]; 164; [2]; 820; (66 – index], woodcut headpieces and initials, …

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# 42553

FERRIS, A. J.

When Russia invades Palestine

Or “Zechariah’s End-of-the-age Message to the Anglo-Saxon-Israel Peoples as in Zech. 12 to 14”. London : the author, 1939. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by J. J. Hall, previous owner’s name in ink on upper wrapper and title page, pp. 100, illustrated with maps and photographs, small edge tears to pp. 91 – 94, a …

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