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Private Press, The Index Expurgatorius
Resurrection, & After the Fall
(A Great Book)!
Menasseh ben Israel. De resurrectione
mortuorum libri III. Quibus animae immortalitas & corporis resurrectio contra
Zaducaeos comprobatur: caussae item miraculosae resurrectionis exponuntur: deque
judicio extremo, & mundi instauratione agitur: ex sacris literis, & veteribus
Rabbinis. Amstelodami: Typis & sumptibus auctoris, 1636. 8vo. [24], 133, [11],
137–241, [11], 245–346, [6] pp. [bound with his] ...
Dissertatio de fragilitate humana ex lapsu Adami deque divino in bono opere auxilio,
exrsacris scripturis, et veterum Hebraeorum libris ... Amstelodami: Sumptibus
auctoris, 1642. 8vo. 16, 141, [1] pp.
$6000.00
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Two important works by the great rabbi, scholar, and printer. The
first, here in its first edition in Latin (translated by the author from the
original Spanish), treats of resurrection and found great displeasure in Rome,
as indicated by its being placed on the Index Expurgatorius in 1656.
The second work deals with life after the Fall, the quality of that life, the
life cycle, and the role of good deeds. It is a translation of Menasseh's De
la fragilidad humana e inclinación del hombre al pecado.
Both
are from the author's own press, one of the first Hebrew-language presses in
the Netherlands.
I: Roth, Menasseh Ben Israel, p. 93-44; Silva Rosa 25;
Abbot 1954; Steinschneider 6205:9. II: Steinschneider 6205:11. Contemporary
stiff vellum, a bit sprung. Ex-library with call number on spine, bookplate,
and no other markings. Title-page of second work backed and fore-edge (only)
of title missing some of the original paper. (13371)
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Bible. O.T. Song of Songs. English. 1935. Authorized. The song of songs which is Solomon's. New York: The Heritage Pess, 1935. 8vo. [32] ff.
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Beautiful edition. Valenti Angelo designed the book, illustrated it, and illuminated its capitals by hand with pure gold. The double-fold pages are adorned with red and yellow pictorial borders as well as with black and white drawings and elegant capitals. A handsome and pleasure-giving book.
Unlike virtually all other Heritage Press books, this is NOT a reprint of a Limited Editions Club edition.
Red leather, covers stamped in blind, title stamped in gilt on spine; spine lightly rubbed. Slipcase slightly faded and lightly worn at edges. Early owner's name on front free endpaper. (22082)

Blogg/Bloch on
Hebrew
Blogg, Salomon Ephraim. Aedificium Salomonis, enthaltend: Eine vollständige Geschichte der hebräischen Sprache, des Thalmuds und vieler merkwürdiger Begebenheiten des Alterthums, die bis dahin gänzlich unbekannt geblieben ... Hannover: Ernst August Telgener, 1832. 4to. xv, [1], 143, [1] pp.
$400.00
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Second edition, following the first of the previous year: A study of the Hebrew language, written in German and Hebrew. The author was a scholar and teacher of Hebrew also known as Shlomo ben Ephraim Bloch.
Zedner, Catalogue of the Hebrew Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum, 153. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Light age-toning and a bit of faint foxing. (23145)
Buxtorf, Johann. Florilegium Hebraicum: Continens elegantes sententias, proverbia, apophthegmata, similitudines.... Basileae: Impensis Haered. Ludovici König, 1648. 8vo (16.7 cm, 6.55"). )(8A–Z8Aa–Bb8; [16], 390, [8 (index)] pp.
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Sole edition of this gathering of brief literary excerpts in Latin and Hebrew, alphabetically arranged by motif; the texts were collected and edited by Buxtorf the younger. The title-page bears a woodcut printer’s device.
VD17 12:128413B. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine with early inked title; some light discoloration, with cut to vellum across spine. Pastedowns loose from inside covers, with bits of old manuscript used in the binding structure, showing; 19th-century bookplate attached to exposed paste board and endpapers creased. Shadow of old shelf number on verso of title-page. One leaf with small stain and hole affecting about four letters. Foxing ranging from mild to moderate.
Bynaeus, Anthony. De calceis hebraeorum, sive antiquitates hebraicae vindicatae .... Lugduni Batavorum: Joh. Arn. Langerak, 1724. Format (21.1 cm, 8.3"). [18], 267, [29 (index)] pp.; 3 plts. [with the same author’s] Somnium, recitatum
trajecti ad Rhenum, in acroaterio majore .... Dordraci: Theodori Goris, 1695. [8], 24 pp.
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Uncommon edition of this treatise on shoes of the ancient Hebrews, accompanied by a briefer work on sleep, both by theologian and classical scholar Bynaeus. Originally published together in 1682, these two works are often but not always found together in later editions; the main title-page here, printed in red and black, does not mention the second work. Calceis Hebraeorum is illustrated with three engraved plates and a number of in-text wood engravings.
Somnium not in VD17. Contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled central medallions, spine with early inked title; binding sprung, vellum darkened and a bit scuffed, spine with traces of an inked call number. Lower edges institutionally rubber-stamped, title-page with unobtrusive pressure-stamp, dedication with inked numeral in lower margin. Pastedowns starting to crack and peel; front and back pastedowns each with signs of a now-absent bookplate. A few scattered light spots, pages otherwise clean.

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