Blanchamp Henry Translator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover with bright red cloth over boards, golden lettering across spine. Spine discolored, about half a shade darker than covers. Corners, crown and foot of spine bumped but unfrayed. Faint scuffs across covers, likely due to shelf wear. Top fore edge gilded. Title page dated 1915. No date on copyright page. 339 pages. Includes sections of prisons and prisoners, notes on Maximilien de Robespierre, the Marseillaise, the legend of the glass of blood, "Notre-Dame-de-Sainte-Guillotine," Mme. Tallien, Jacques-Louis David, the tragedy of the people's friend, and forgotten figures. Features black and white illustrations on glossy pages throughout book. Pages clean and bright. Binding beginning to crack along center, but no binding linen is visible. Binding also slightly loose along spine, but overall neat and still strong. Please email us with questions or to request photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Eighth Edition. "I have [here] pointed out, even more emphatically than in the original edition, that superstition, especially the 'blood-superstition,' is even nowadays very wide-spread, and that it has had in the past, as it has in the present, deplorable, yes and horrible, consequences." - Preface. "Hermann Leberecht Strack (1848 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin. He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany, Strack had been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Adolf Stoecker, August Rohling, and others." - Wikipedia. Translated from the Eighth edition with corrections. New preface and additions by the author. Translated from the German. xvi, [2], 19-289 p. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. No dust jacket. The original binding of this title was notoriously short-lived, thus this example is expertly rebound in bright maroon buckram lettered in gilt upon spine. Two-inch opening to bottom of page 27. Trivial ink annotations to pages 25 and 37 otherwise tight and clean with light wear. A quality example.; Sm 4to. …