Judaica

  • # 44759

    ZACUTUS LUSITANUS (Manuel Alvares de Tavara, 1575-1642)

    [MEDICINE] De medicorum principum historia

    libri sex. In quibus medicinales omnes medicorum principum historiae, utili, & compendioso ordine disposiate proponuntur, paraphrasi, & commentarijs enarrantur, disputationibus, dubijs, & auctoris peculiaribus observationibus illustrantu. Quorum primus liber nunc primum in lucem exit … … Leiden : Johannes Maire, 1629. Thick octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary full vellum over bevelled boards (lightly marked), spine somewhat darkened …

  • # 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 …

  • # 44952

    SCHMIDT, Sebastian (1617–96)

    [OLD TESTAMENT] In librum I. Jobi commentarius,

    in quo, cum optimis quibusque commentatoribus, tum Hebraeis tum Christianis, cohaerentia & vocabula diligenter expenduntur, & sensus studiose eruitur … … Argentorati [i.e. Strasbourg] : sumptibus Johannis Reinhold Dulsseckeri, 1705. Editio secunda. Two works in one volume, thick quarto (205 x 170 x 130 mm), contemporary full vellum (heavily rubbed, spine with faint manuscript lettering, head …

  • # 45102

    FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

    Iosippus De Bello Iudaico.

    / deinde decem Iudaeorum captivitates et decalogus cum eleganti commentariolo Rabbi Aben Esra ; hisce accesserunt collectanea aliquot, quae Sebastianus Lepusculus Basiliensis colligebat, de quibus videre poteris verso folio ; omnia Hebraicolatina. Basel : [Heinrich Petri, 1559]. Small octavo (155 x 110 mm), contemporary limp vellum (traces of original ties, spine darkened and with remnants of …

  • # 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 …

  • # 45363

    BERGNER, Yosl

    Yosl Bergner. A retrospective exhibition

    Banyule Gallery. 11 September – 8 December 1985. Melbourne: NGV, 1985. Folio, illustrated card wrappers, 64pp. extensively illustrated, essay by Richard Haese, catalogue of 84 works. An excellent survey of Bergner’s works that he produced while in Australia and Israel.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 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; …

  • # 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 …

  • # 43657

    VITRINGA, Campegius (1659-1722)

    De synagoga vetere libri tres: quibus tum de nominibus, structurâ, origine, præfectis, ministris, & sacris synagogarum, agitur; tum præcipue, formam regiminis & ministerii earum in ecclesiam christianam translatam esse, demonstratur: cum prolegomenis.

    Franequerae [Franeker] : Johannis Gyzelaar, 1696. First edition. Two volumes bound in one, thick octavo (212 x 170 mm); contemporary full vellum over boards with faint manuscript title to spine (short split at head of spine, else very good); each of the two parts with an identical additional engraved title by Joseph Mulder (1658-1742); both …

  • # 43678

    DIEU, Lodewijk de (1590-1642)

    [OLD TESTAMENT] Animadversiones in Veteris Testamenti libros omnes

    : in quibus ex Chaldæorum Targumim, & Syrorum, & Arabum & aliorum versionibus, ut & Hebræorum commentariis, & recentiorum observationibus, difficiliora quaeq́[ue] loca illustrantur, & diligenti collatione habita explicantur. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Ex Officinâ Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir. Acad. Typograph, 1648. Quarto (210 x 170 mm), contemporary full vellum over boards, spine with manuscript title; …

  • # 43867

    OWTRAM, William (1626-1679)

    De sacrificiis libri duo : quorum altero explicantur omnia Judæorum, nonnulla gentium profanarum sacrificia : altero sacrificium Christi :

    utroque ecclesiæ Catholicæ his de rebus sententia contra Faustum Socinum, ejúsque sectatores defenditur / autore Guilielmo Outramo. Amsterdam : Abraham van Someren, 1688. Duodecimo (160 x 105 mm), contemporary limp vellum (some staining) with manuscript title to spine; title-leaf with printer’s device, pp. 6, [2], 1-264, [265]-344, [12]; a small section with dog-eared lower corners, …

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …