Don Yehuda (9 results)

Condition: Good +. Location:1514 262 pp, ex library with bookplate and pocket 1514.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover original. Near fine book in illustrated wrappers. A few slight rubs to the front panel. Griffin Poetry Prize sticker to the back panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim EX-LIBRARY hardback, no dustjacket, published by Avebury, 1988. 130pp. Minor wear to covers, library marks. Good copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim EX-LIBRARY hardback, no dustjacket, published by Avebury, 1988. 130pp. Some bumping to spine, stickers & some rubbing to spine & covers, usual library marks. Fair copy. Book.

Condition: New. pp. 270.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

IN HEBREW. 18x24.5 cm. 366 pages. Gilt hardcover in dust jacket. Pen writing on first white page. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In Hebrew. 116 leaves. Leaves' size 262 x 208 mm. Printed during the author's lifetime. Printed without title page. Light water stains. 2 pages have apparently wine stain. The elaborate metal-cut border around the opening page was the first border to be used in a Hebrew book. Vellum backed boards. Hebrew inscription on the vellum of the front board. [Front Pastedown:] [In pen:] Samuel Levy Halberstadt [geboren?] in Dresden [In pencil:] Samuel Levy [Front free endpaper, verso:] הספר הלז שייך להקצין המופלא הר"ר שמואל נרו מהלברש ד' הק' בנו הבא על החתום הק' משה [?] מדרעזן [Transliteration:] Hasefer haze shayakh LeHakatzin hamuflag harav Rabbi Shmuel [] [MeHalber?] [] [] bno [=his son] Haba al Hahatum [= who is signing] [] [] [] [] Recto of first leaf has long, old, Hebrew, handwritten inscription. It is instructions for rabbis on carrying out the ceremony of khalitza. Halizah is, under the biblical system of levirate marriage known as yibbum, the process by which a childless widow and a brother of her deceased husband may avoid the duty to marry each other. The process involves the widow making a declaration, taking off a shoe of the brother, and spitting on the floor. [At bottom are several stamps:] [Hebrew:] Leib Zir[]en The recto has a printed poem within the border. Above it is the following Hebrew handwritten inscription: ספר הנחמד הלז קניתי בעד 1.8 [מטבע כלשהיא] למלאות החסרון לא יוכל להמנות ספרים נחמדים שספו לי בבוא העיר במצור שנת רטושה [תק"ך] לפ"ק וברוך הנותן ליעף כח הוא יחזיק במעוזי יעשה שלום לי יפלס מעגל רגלי וכל דרכי יקונו ה' ג' טבת תקכ"ה הק' שמואל הלברשטט What siege in 1760 is the writer referring to, in which he lost his books? Was there in Dresen (presumably Dresden) a battle in 1760? In the empty area, within the decorated border is a Hebrew inscription as well, in block Hebrew letters, and in Latin, stating the date this book was published and it names the Turkish Sultan on the throne at the time of publication. Neat marginal inscriptions throughout and a little, discreet underlining. [Rear Free endpaper:] Dieses Buch gehort d[em] Herren Nathan Jacob jun. Halberstadt Dieses Buch gehört dem H[erren] Nathan Jacob junior Halberstadt d[en] 15ten Juny 1790 J. Poriyeny Paris 1 a 15 May 1797 London Dre Dessau Dresden [Inscription on paste down endpaper:] Monsieur Nathan.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 7.5 x 6 inches. 2 works bound in one volume: 1.A medieval philosophic classic. 2. Abarbanel's tract on Daniel. Though neither place of issue nor printer are indicated on the title, the book can be ascribed without any doubt to the Officina Ben Israel. See Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, V. I, p. 131. Title pages in Hebrew, printed within architectural woodcut frame, titles cropped. Hebrew Inscriptions on title pages : "Property of Chaim Isaac Musafiya, s.t." who had a substantial library. See Jewish Ntl Library. All books issued by Mensasseh Ben Israel are rare. Additional jpeg scans of other pages available upon request. 1. HaEmunot VehadeOt [philosophy] - Rabbi Saadya Gaon [=Ra.Sa.G][=Saadya ben Yosef Alfiumi]. [1648]. Additional Latin title, SCEPHER AEMUNOT sive liber DE CAPITIBUS FIDEI auctore celebri R. Scehadiah, with Menasseh ben Israel's woodcut device. Originally written in Arabic, it was the first systematic treatise of religious Jewish philosophic literature. Translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibon. Hebrew title within elaborate architectural arch and columns. ff. (2), 3-53. Very rare. The Jewish National U. Library copy incomplete. Amsterdam, David de Castro Tartas for Joseph ben Israel: 1648.Saadiah Gaon's purpose is two-fold: to demonstrate that the principles of Judaism are compatible with reason and to interpret these principles in a manner that their rationality be evident. The book is divided into ten sections each of which is subdivided into chapters. The first nine sections philosophically establish the ten fundamental principles of faith and the tenth is devoted to ethics. Printed in double columns in Rashi script. With the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Jews were given to much eschatological speculation. In Ma'ayenei ha-Yeshua, Don Isaac Abrabanel. who had served as chief financial counselor th the King of Portugal and later to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, set out to explore the Jewish conception of the future Redemption. The book, the first part of a messianic trilogy, was completed in Italy in 1497. See B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher (1968), pp. 77-78. BOUND WITH: 2. Ma'ayeney ha-yeshua [Springs of Salvation: commentary on the book of Daniel] Don Yitzhak ben Yehuda Abrabanel. Vinograd Amsterdam # 136: Perush Daniel. [Amsterdam] [Imanuel Benebashti].[1647]. Without additional Latin title. ff. (1), 3-92. Tear on f.89, repair on f.91 slightly affecting some letters. Previous owners' signatures and stamps on titles of both works; the second work has a handwritten inscription on the verso of the title, Midrash Shevet Achim Hekdesh shel Ha-Tz[adik] Moshe Finzi Browned. Recent calf-backed boards. Vinograd, Amsterdam 143, Amsterdam 185. Amsterdam, David de Castro Tartas for Joseph ben Israel, & Menaseh ben Israel, 1647. Second edition. Abravanel, Isaac ben Yehuda, 1437-1508. Chaskata, Baruch Uziel ben Baruch, 16th cent. Amsterdam: David b. Abraham Castro Tartas, 92 f., 2 leaves. Printed in double columns./ With an introduction, a poem, and biography of the author by the editor, Baruch Uziel b. Baruch Chaskata./ Index at end. 92, [2 i.e. 184, 4] p. Title page in Latin is missing (as is the case with the Rosenthal Library copy listed by Roest). A momentous work of Abarbanel written in connection to the events of his day, the expulsion from Spain and Portugal. Abarbanel enters into the depths of the prophecies of Daniel with regard to the anticipated deliverance of the Jewish people. It starts with an introduction describing the tribulations of the Jews in Spain and elsewhere. He also writes of his personal life. Isaac Abrabanel devoted many of his works in examination of the Redemption. Here, he attempts to interpret the eschatological chapters of the Book of Daniel. Though neither place nor printer is indicated on the title, the book can be ascribe without any doubt to the Officiana Ben Israel. Scans available upon request.…