Hoffmann W G Et Al (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.

RARE LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES. Contains a bibliography of Abraham Berliner`s works. Abraham (Adolf) Berliner (1833-1915) was an eminent German theologian and historian, professor of Jewish history and literature at the rabbinical seminary in Berlin, the editor (1874-75) of the scientific periodical `Magazin für Jüdische Geschichte und Literatur`, which from 1876 to 1893 he, together with his colleague, David Hoffmann, continued under the title `Magazin für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums`. It was due to his zeal that the society `Mekize Nirdamim`, for the publication of works of the older Jewish literature, which had been discontinued for several years, was revived in 1885 with Berliner as its director. 250x180mm. XXXI+376+130 pages. Marbled board rebound Hardcover with brown leather spine and corners. Gilt spine. Cover rubbed, slightly stained and curved. Cover corners and edges bumped and peeling/worn. Spine detached. Spine hinges cracked and peeling. Spine edges tattered and partly missing. Previous owner (Rabbi Egon Israel Loewenstein) small stamp on front whitepage. Small pen writing and tiny pen mark near text on pages 139 and 149 of the German section. Some Hebrew section pages bottom part wrinkled. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew German Italian.…

Eighteen vols. xxxix, [1], 458; xxxiii, [1], 399, [1]; xxv, [1], 479, [1]; xxv, [1], 520; xxv, [1], 458; xxiv, [2], 492; xxiv, 588; xxiii, [1], 609, [1]; xxiv, 700; xxv, [1], 618; xxvi, 497, [1]; xxv, [1], 520; xxvi, 599, [1]; xxvi, 548; xxv, [1], 691, [1]; xxvi, 635, [1]; xxiii, [1], 663, [1]; xxiii, [1], 661, [1]; xxiv, 651, [1] pp. With frontispiece's, photo illustrations, facsimiles of letters, maps. Uniformly bound in brick-red publisher's cloth, black & gilt spine labels (minor bumping to upper right corner vol. 1), w/ d.j.'s, from the Clark County Historical Society, deaccessioning material. First editions of the first 18 volumes in this massive project encompassing Ulysses Grant's letters, and correspondence from his Prewar career through Reconstruction. Beginning with his 17-year-old cadet letters home at West Point, and then service in Louisiana, Texas, the Mexican War, and at Fort Vancouver, entry into the Civil War, the early campaigns of Fort Donelson, Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, ascension to Lieutenant General, the battles of Petersburg, Cold Harbor & the Wilderness, General Sherman's March, Appomattox, assassination of President Lincoln, the capture of Jefferson Davis, and finally the disbanding of the immense Union Army. Simon (d. 2008) drew upon a vast number of previously unpublished, or unknown, letters, memorandum, and writings of Grant, and together with extensive notes and analysis offered an essential research tool for the study of American History, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the steps to the Grant Presidency. The set continues in production, and Simon himself oversaw the first 31 annotated volumes. He also edited the memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. …