Hebraica
Browse Shapero’s fine collection of highly collectible, rare and antique examples of Judaica and Hebraica, many of these highly-sought-after iconic books and works on paper
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8vo, (194 x 130 mm); three volumes, original blue velvet boards, framed by metal silver-plated edges with working clasps, silver-plated corner ornaments to covers (corner ornaments missing on the back of vol. III); silver-plated engraved name plate to each volume's front cover and a silver-plated monogram to each volume's back cover. Gilt edges, textures cloth endpapers, pages crisp and clean. Vol. I - Rosh HaShana Machzor: [1], 102 ll.; Vol. II - Yom Kippur Machzor: [1], 169 ll.; Vol. III - Machzor Leshalosh Regalim: [1], 227 ll.
£3,000 -
First edition, 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); xiv, 96; 291, [7] pp.; contemporary polished calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, eighteenth-century ink inscription to front and pastedowns; corners rubbed, first two leaves and the last leaf with restored tears (with minor text loss), browning to leaves, good copy.
£2,500 -
Second edition, 8vo, (207 x 130 mm); [7], 5-127, [56] ll. contemporary calf, with green and gilt name plate and title, marbled endpapers. Special dedication page. Pages crisp, with some minor browning. Text in Hebrew and English. A fine copy.
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First edition; 4to (20.8 x 16 cm) 62 ll. ink stains to edges, slight warming to last two leaves, brief hand-written inscriptions in old ink to some pages in Hebrew and Latin; modern contemporary-style blind tooled panelled morocco. A lovely copy with particularly wide margins.
£6,750 -
Test in Hebrew, English, German, French and Arabic.
£4,850 -
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