As one of the few booksellers specialising in important and rare books on Jewish history, literature, philosophy, religion and culture from the West End of London, Shapero Rare Books offers a diverse range of Judaica and Hebraica spanning the centuries, from early printed books and manuscripts in Hebrew through to modern illustrated Haggadot and books on food & drink.
Judaica
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Fourth edition, blank title page variant; small folio (285 x 200 mm). Former owners signatures to opening leaf, including 'Saul David... Segal Ish Mortara'. Opening leaf margins professionally repaired, slight worming and some staining to a few leaves, edges stained red. Modern exquisitely blind-tooled calf boards, gilt title in English to spine, housed in a custom slip-case. 132 ll.
£27,000 -
First edition; 4to, a wide margined copy; unpaginated. Title within architectural arch; title and three closing leaves remargined, stained in places, slight worming to a few edges. Modern blind-tooled panelled calf, English title to spine. Text in Hebrew. [196 ll.]
£8,750 -
First and only edition; 4to (310 x 210 mm); [3], 243 ll.; stains to title page with some text loss, leaf 234 cracked without loss of text; occasional very light foxing and browning to pages. 18th century-style calf, spine gilt, with red morocco label, English title stamped in gilt.
£1,750 -
First edition; 4to (290 x 205 cm); [2], 143 ll. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, with title in gilt to spine label; some marginal worming and restoration to first and last leaves, occasional browning and staining.
£950 -
First edition. Folio; [3], 3-190, 7 ll. 18th-century style calf boards, gilt, edges rubbed, small marginal tears and very slight warming to few leaves.
£1,850 -
First edition; Small 4to, (215 x 130 mm); contemporary brown calf, boards with gilt ruled borders, slightly rubbed, spine with floral decorations in gilt, edges browned; [1], 39, [3] ll. Text in Hebrew, English and Ladino.
£12,000 -
Lge. 8vo; Preface by Loius M. Rabinowitz, Introduction by Joshua Bloch, 26 black & white illustrations, quarter tan cloth over decorative paper-covered boards, slight wear to corners, otherwise a near-fine copy.
£50 -
Five volumes: I. - 175 leaves; II. - 168 leaves; III. - 153 leaves; IV. - 149 leaves; V. - 135 leaves, 136-147 pp. Hebrew and English text. Contemporary full calf.
£9,000 -
First edition; 4to (28 x 23 cm); iii, 1011 pp., tape mark to front flyleaf, some browning throughout, marbled endpapers; contemporary calf over boards, some wear and edges rubbed, tear to lower cover, skilful restorations to spine, spine in six parts with elaborate gilt floral detail, label to second compartment, a good copy.
£12,500 -
First edition; 4to (265 x 215 mm); engraved Hebrew title page, additional English and Spanish title pages, approbation leaf by Rabbi Moseh Cohen de Azevedo in Spanish and Hebrew; Hebrew, English and Spanish index of the chapters and erratas; preface to the readers in Spanish and English; contemporary mottled calf with gilt panel, spine gilt in 6 compartments with red morocco label. First two title pages' edges browned and chipped, slight worming to few other leaves, not affecting text. [26], 183, [1]pp.
£3,000