Judaica

# 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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# 42921

LINDO, E. H. (Elias Hayyim)

A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years, detailing the new moons, festivals, and fasts,

with the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath during the year : also the days on which the hour for commencing Sabbath is altered, together with the corresponding Christian dates : to which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M 6000-2400 C.Æ, and a chronological table, forming a …

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# 42473

TUSZYNSKI, Felix

Felix Tuszynski. Dreaming time : paintings and drawings

Melbourne : Jewish Museum of Australia, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Paintings and drawings from the Australian artist, a Polish holocaust survivor.

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# 42345

OFFENBACH, John

Jew : A Photographic Project by John Offenbach

Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 176, illustrated. John Offenbach’s wonderful collection of portraits, boldly and bluntly entitled Jew, could not be more timely. In a period when antisemitism and racism are rife, when ignorance and prejudice prevail, here is a captivating tale of the unexpected. A portrait of Jewish people …

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# 41531

KANN, Charles Albert (1813-1866)

[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.

Götheborg [Sweden] : C.F. Arwidsson, [1853]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s contemporary buff boards (lightly marked) with blue cloth spine, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 to front pastedown, [2], v, [1], 104 pp. Text in Swedish. Ferguson, 11049a. The first Scandinavian gold digger’s guidebook. A guide book for prospective Swedish travellers to the Victorian and New …

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# 41473

LIMBORCH, Philippus van (1633-1712)

De veritate religionis christianae amica collatio cum erudito Judaeo.

[= A friendly conversation with a Jew concerning the truth of the Christian religion]. Goudae, Justum ab Hoeve [Gouda : Justus van der Hoeve]. First edition. Small quarto (235 x 190 mm), contemporary full calf (new spine and title-piece, sympathetic to the style of the period); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Markham of Becca …

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# 40053

ROBLIK, Elias Libor (1689-1765)

[JUDAICA] Jüdische Augen-Gläser.

Das ist: ein in zwey Theil verfastes, und denen Juden zur Erkanntnuß des wahren Glaubens vorgesteltes Buch … … Brünn : Maria Barb. Swobodin, 1741 (title and preliminaries printed in Znaim by Anton Johann Preyss, 1743) + Der anderte Theil der judischen Augen-Gläser. Ausgezogen aus dem ersten Theil des Entdeckten Judenthums Joannis Eisenmenger … … König-Gratz ob der …

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# 40028

MEDICI, Paolo

[JUDAICA; JESUITICA] Ritus ac mores Hebraeorum italico idiomate refutati.

… Nunc additis quibusdam Latine redditi, notisque Hebraicis illustrati a R.P. Nicolao Rosty. Tyrnaviae [Trnava] : Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu, 1758. Octavo (215 x 150 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; edges stained red; original marbled endpapers, front pastedown with …

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# 37109

SAURIN, Jacques (1677-1730)

Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux sur les evenemens les plus mémorables du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament.

Amsterdam : Sauzet ; La Haye : Pierre de Hondt, 1720-1739. Ten volumes (complete), octavo (200 x 130 mm), uniform contemporary bindings of vellum over boards, spines with titles and volume numbers in early manuscript; VI-[1]-LXX-592 pp., 4 pl. + [5]-554-[86] pp., 15 pl. + [12]-XIV-[6]-494 pp., 1 pl. + [4]-563 pp., 5 pl. + …

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# 29264

STEIN, Leonard

Memorandum on the “Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929.”

London : The Jewish Agency for Palestine, May 1930. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (sunned along spine and with a couple of insignificant marks), pp 111; internally clean and bright, a near fine copy. A rare Zionist publication issued as a response to the Shaw Commission Report of March 1930 on the riots that erupted …

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# 12705

GURNEY, Joseph

[BOTANY BAY]. The whole proceedings on the trials of two informations

exhibited ex officio by the King’s Attorney-General against George Gordon, Esq. commonly called Lord George Gordon : one for a libel on the Queen of France and the French Ambassador; the other for a libel on the judges, and the administration of the laws in England. Also of Thomas Wilkins, for printing the last-mentioned libel. …

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# 16015

SAMUELS, Samuel

[NEW ZEALAND; JUDAICA] Two letters written by Samuel Samuels, a Jewish gold miner in the Grey Valley, West Coast, South Island, during the Great War.

Newspaper notices from the 1870s inform us that Samuel Samuels was a pioneer settler in the Ahaura district of Westland. Like many others, he had arrived during the West Coast gold rush and had been involved in gold mining ventures. By 1917, when Samuels wrote both of these letters to one of his nephews (in …

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