Judaism

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.

Small 4to, (21 x 17.5 cm). pp. [4], 226, [13], engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black, 27 engraved folding illustration plates. Contemporary vellum-backed boards. Edges stained red; old stamps and ownership inscriptions to front endpaper and title.

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.

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.

First edition; 8vo (270 x 195 mm); inscription in Hebrew in old purple ink to margin of one leaf, minor warming and small marginal tears to some leaves, faded stamp and ink stains to title. 20th-century vellum-backed parchment binding, housed in a morocco backed slip case, with a red cloth chemise. 40 ll.

Revised edition, officially promoted in 1981 as a limited edition of 650 copies (of which only 53 were bound thus), however, on the limitation page of this copy, a calligraphic statement says: Four additional sets of sheets were discovered in 1986 and bound up, making a total of 264. This is number 204; 4to, (30 x 22 cm); signed gift inscription by the Author to half-title, 2,466 miniature black & white illustrations throughout; original full goatskin gilt by Penine Binding, Halifax; [with] Supplementary Volume, flat signed on the half-title by the Author, some colour and many black & white illustrations; perfect bound with illustrated wrappers; both preserved in the original goatskin solander box, rear upper corner bumped, a little rubbed on extremities, otherwise very good, both volumes the enclosed in a fine state.

First edition. Two volumes in one. 4to, (24 x 19.5 cm). Contemporary calf boards with gilt borders, spine with raised bands, leather label, joints and spine cracked. Text in Hebrew.

Small 4to, (21 x 17.5 cm). pp. [4], 226, [13], engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black, 27 engraved folding illustration plates. Later floral boards.

Small folio, (39 x 29 cm); text in Dutch, plates laid onto thick card with ornamental red border, edges gilt, publisher's pictorial red boards gilt, floral ornaments, botanical endpapers and half-title slightly foxed, spine edges rubbed.