Judaica
Browse Shapero’s fine collection of highly collectible, rare and antique Judaica and Hebraica, many of these highly-sought-after iconic books and works on paper
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First edition. 8vo, (230 x 145 mm); contemporary calf-backed boards with gilt label to spine, edges and corners rubbed; occasional browning and staining to pages. 434 pp.
£375 -
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 -
Small folio, (39 x 29 cm); text in German, plates laid onto thick card with ornamental red border, edges gilt, publisher's pictorial red boards (restored, with a strip pastedown to spine) gilt, floral ornaments. Pages foxed (not affecting plates), one plate partially detached. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper.
£850 -
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.
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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; 8vo, original blue cloth boards, edges rubbed, no dust jacket; old Israeli National Library stamp to title. 218 pp.
£50 -
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 -
16mo, (11 x 7.5 cm), wide margins, light age staining. Publishers half-morocco boards, extremely rubbed, one leaf is mostly missing (pp. 101-102), a few stamps and signatures of previous owners throughout the book; text in Hebrew; 192 pp.
£150 -
First edition, signed & inscribed by the author on half-title. Contemporary half vellum binding gilt. Many b/w illustration plates. xviii, 160 pp. A fine, crisp copy.
£400 -
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