121. Africa / North Africa – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Egypt and Arabia Petrea – with Vignettes and illustrations of the Mosque of Sultan Hassan / Grand Cairo / Alexandria / Ruins of the Great Temple, Karnac / Great Sphinx, Ghizeh / Gulf of Akaba / Gulf of Suez / Red Sea with Boats / .

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 24.5 cm x 34.4 cm. Sheet Size: 27.3 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

122. Weilerstein, Sadie Rose / Berkowitz, Jeannette.

The Adventures of K’TonTon – A Little Jewish Tom Thumb. Illustrations by Jeannette Berkowitz.

New York, League Press (The Women’s League of “The United Synagogue of America”), 1935. 21 cm x 27.5 cm. 100 pages. Original Hardcover (blue cloth). The binding stronger rubbed and corners bumped. Original illustrated endpapers starting to detache only slightly. Internally in very good condition. All illustrations bright and clean. Very rare first edition of this scarce jewish children’s book.

123. Singer, Isaac Bashevis.

The Penitent. [Signed] A Novel.

New York, Farrar- Straus – Giroux, 1983. 8°. 170 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author Isaac Bashevis Singer on the front free endpaper: “Greetings – Isaac B. Singer”.

124. Silverman, Rabbi Morris (Ed.).

Passover Haggadah. With explanatory Nores and original readings – New Translation. Designed and illustrated by Ezekiel Schloss.

Hartford, Prayer Book Press, 1959. 16.7 cm x 24.2 cm. 83 pages. Original illustrated Softcover. Exterior cover in poor condition. Slightly loose binding with a few stains. Interior is very good and firm.

125. Scholem, Gershom / [Paul Avraham & Betty Alsberg].

Die Erforschung der Kabbala von Reuchlin bis zur Gegenwart.

Pforzheim, Selbstverlag der Stadt Pforzheim, 1969. 12.3 cm x 21.2 cm. 24 Seiten. Original Softcover in publisher’s printed wrappers. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. First edition of this brief text, a prize lecture delivered before the Reuchlin Society of the city of Pforzheim. Inscribed by Scholem to the wife of one of the founding members of Yad Vashem, Paul Avraham Alsberg: “Für Betty Alsberg, in die Kabbala-Ecke mit vielem Dank Gershom Scholem. 17.4.1975 Jerusalem.” Scholem inscriptions are quite uncommon.

126. Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Collection of short essays: I. Jean-Paul Sartre: The Situation of the Jew – Reflections on the Jewish Question / II. Jean-Paul Sartre: Commentary – Portrait of the Inauthentic Jew / III. Jean-Paul Sartre: Gentile and Jew //

17 cm x 25.8 cm. 36 nn. pages. Softcover / Private, stapled wrappers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight damages on spine.

127. Ophir, Aryeh (Editor).

The Kibbutz.

Tel-Aviv, Misaviv Laolam Publishing House ltd, 1964. 24.4 cm x 28.5 cm. 234 colour and monochrome photographs. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dedication by pre-owner on endpaper.

128. Lichtheim, George.

The Concept of Ideology [The Revolutionary Heritage / The Hegelian Tradition / From Hegel to Marx / From Metaphysics to Positivism / The Romantic Revolt / The Sociology of Knowledge / [George] Lukacs and [Karl] Mannheim / The Problem of Consciousness].

Mouton & Co., 1965. 8°. 31 pages. Original stapled offprint. Offprint from “History and Theory”. Inscribed and signed in full by George Lichtheim on the cover.

129. [Levin, Harry] Kahler, Erich von.

The True, the Good and the Beautiful. A lecture delivered at Ohio State University December 10,1959.

Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1959. 8°. 40 pages. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Erich Kahler “for Harry Levin with gratitude for the splendid Gauss lectures – Erich Kahler – May 1961” (by mentioning Gauss he speaks of “Christian Gauss”) / Also included: “The Nature of the Symbol – Offprint from “Symbolism in Religion and Literature, 1960”

130. Lehmann, Erich M.

Nahariya – Ein Beitrag der Mitteleuropäischen Einwanderung zum Aufbau des Landes Israel.

Erste Ausgabe. Nahariya, Im Eigenverlag des Verfassers, 1960. 16.3 cm x 24 cm. 113 Seiten Text, eine Karte von Nahariya (auf hebräisch) und 22 Seiten mit Werbung von Firmen die in Nahariya ansässig waren. / Includes a map of Nahariya as well as a 22-page section with interesting advertising of local companies in Nahariya. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. First six pages after the titlepage stained ! Very rare publication !

131. Herzl, Theodor.

Altneuland/ Old-new Land. Translated by Paula Arnold.

Second Edition. Haifa, Haifa Publishing, 1961. 22 cm x 28 cm. 218 pages. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. Original leatherette hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. A bump on bottom edge of the front cover.

132. Harman, Avraham / Kohn, Paul et al.

Israel Today. Collection of eight volumes of Israel Today including No.2 – Agricultural Settlement / No.6 – The Negev / No.9 – How Israel’s Democracy Works / No.14 – Sport / No.21 – Galilee / No.22 – Health and Medical Care / No.27 – The Kibbutz / No.29 – The Land and the Book.

Jerusalem, Israel Design, 1961-1964. 11.2 cm x 16 cm. 203 pages including back and white photographs. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stains and slight discolourations on covers. Some folding of corners of No.2 and 27.

133. Grynberg, Henryk.

Kadisz.

Krakow, Wydawnictwo Znak, 1987. 9.8 cm x 16.2 cm. 144 pages. Softcover. Original, polish edition. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by Henryk Grynberg.

134. Epstein, Isidore.

The Jewish Way of Life.

London, Edwrad Goldston, 1946. 13 cm x 18.8 cm. 230, (1) pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Isidore Epstein:” To Dr. Zwi Tauber, with best wishes – I. Epstein”.

135. Collins, Leonora.

London in the Nineties [Victorian London in Photographs]. Edited by Leonora Collins.

London, The Saturn Press, 1950. Quarto (21 cm x 27 cm). 96 pages with many photographs. Original Hardcover with the rare dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

136. [Cohen, Isaac Bernard] Scholem, Gershom.

Sabbatai Sevi – The Mystical Messiah – 1626-1676.

Princeton, Princeton University Press/Bollingen, 1973. Large Octavo. 1000 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Sevi. With 15 plates. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or better in like dust jacket, spine-sunned. From the library of Isaac Bernard Cohen, with his bookplate to the pastedown, and bearing a gift inscription on the front blank addressed to him. [Bollingen Series XCIII].

137. Buber, Martin.

Good and Evil. Two Interpretations. I. Right and Wrong. II. Images of Good and Evil.

First Edition. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. 19.3cm x 13cm. (5) 143 (9) pages. Original hardcover in the rare, original, illustrated dustjacket with jacket-design by Johannes Troyer. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor pencil underlinings on inside of dustjacket. Text itself in excellent condition.

138. Ben-Zion.

Thirty Six Odes. Translated from the Hebrew by the Artist.

Haifa, 1975. 13 cm x 25.5 cm. 76 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Beautifully inscribed and signed by Ben-Zion to american writer Ben Malamud. Very Rare !

139. Baxter, Michael Paget [Author of “The Coming Battle”].

Louis Napoleon, the Destined Monarch of the World, and Future Personal Antichrist, Foreshown in Prophecy to Confirm a Seven Years’ Covenant with the Jews about seven years before the Millenium, and (after the Resurrection and Ascension of the Wise Virgins has taken place two years and from four to six weeks after the covenant), subsequently to become completely supreme over England and most of America and all Christendom, and fiercely to persecute Christians during the latter half of the seven years, until he finally perishes at the descent of Christ, at the end of the War of Armageddon, about or soon after 1873. Including an Examination of the Views of the Revs. G.S.Faber, Edward irving, E. Bickersteth, T. Birks, C. Maitland, D. Mc Causland, J.H.Frere, Sir E. Denny, Major Phillips, Judge Strange, Dr. Tregelles, etc.

Ninth Thousand. London, William Macintosh, 1865. Small Octavo. XIX, 383 pages. With Nine Diagrams and Two Maps. Hardcover / Original, publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Binding a little dusty and rubbed but firm and the publication overall in very condition with only minor signs of external wear.

140. Müller, Peter / Mueller, Peter.

De Jure Praegnantium – Vom Rechte Schwangerer Weiber [On the Rights of Pregnant Women – Abortion / Adultery / Marriage Fraud in the 18th century].

First Edition. Jena, Literis Ac Sumtibus Joh.Christ. Croeker, 1744. Octavo (17 cm x 21,5 cm). 160 pages plus 8 pages of an Index. Modern Hardcover with 18th-century bookblock bound in. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Faded dampstain to lower margins of some pages. An immensely important, early publication on women’s rights and pregnant women and their rights in particular.