JUDAICA
\ HEBRAICA
JUDAICA
\ HEBRAICA
“There is one people, the sole survivor of the really olden times . . . ” 
Raphall, Morris Jacob. Post-Biblical history of the Jews; from the close of the Old Testament, about the year 420 B.C.E. till the destruction of the second Temple, in the year 70 C.E. Philadelphia: Moss & Brother, 1855. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). 2 vols. I: [2], [7]–405, [1] pp. II: 486 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Singerman, Judaica Americana, 1409. Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped, spines with gilt-stamped title; bindings slightly cocked, corners worn, spine heads chipped, spines each with band of dark cloth tape immediately above title. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns each with 19th-century bookplate and inked numerals, front free endpapers lacking, title-pages lightly rubber-stamped. No other markings. Back fly-leaf of vol. I with pencilled doodles, back pastedown and free endpaper of vol. II waterstained. Pages clean. (26365)
Millennial ProphecyReineccius, Christian, praeses; & Johann Heinrich Stolle, respondent. (three lines in Hebrew, then) Seu traditio Eliana de sex mundi millenariis, quam, annuentibus benevolè superioribus .... Lipsiae: Literis Goezianis, 1696. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). A–C4D2; [28] pp.
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Scarce.
Searches of OCLC and RLIN locate only two U.S. holdings.
• VD17 39:118489Q. Recent speckled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Pages faintly age-toned, clean.
Famous “Medieval” Anti-Jewish Tract
Rare TranslationSamuel, Marochitanus (or Maroccanus). Ein Sendbrieff Rabbi Samuels von Israel, so Bürtig war auss der Stadt dess Konigs Morachiam, an Rabbi Isaac, Meystern der Synagogen, so in der Stadt Subjuliveta bemeltes Reichs ist : von der Jüden Zerstrewung, Ceremonien, Verblendung, vnd Vnglauben, auch welches die Sünde und Ursach sey, dasz Gottes Zorn so hart uber sie ergehe, und warumb sie in so langer Gefengnuss und Dienstbarkeit stecken müssen: so merhr als vor 500 Jahren in arabischer Sprach beschrieben, und hernach im Jahr
1239. in lateinische Sprach vertirt, nun aber durch ein Gottseligen Mann der Christenheit zu gut verdeutschet. Marpurg: Gedruckt ... Durch Paulum Egenolff, 1600. Small 4to. 59, [1] pp. 
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• VD16 S1581. Removed from a nonce volume, in later wrappers. Dust-soiled. Library pressure-stamp and private owner's (old) inked signature on title-page. A very good copy. (21113)
“Christians
Unjustly Accused of Polytheism” — On the Unity of Jehovah Taylor, Henry. The apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his friends, for embracing Christianity; in seven letters... London: J. Wilkie, 1771–74. 4to (26.5 cm, 10.4"). vii, [1], 128, [2], v, [1], 60, lxiii–lxv, [1], 63–115, [1], cxxi–cxxiv, 125–205, [1], v, [1], 48, xlix/l, 49–94, xcv–xcvii, [1], 95–187, [1 (adv.)] pp.
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• ESTC T101252; Allibone 2344; Lowndes 2581–82. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Outer (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and one other pressure-stamped in an old style. Very clean and with wide margins. (25083)
Adultery & Divorce Tebbs, Henry Virtue. Essay on the “Scripture doctrines of adultery and divorce, and on the criminal character and punishment of adultery, by the ancient laws of England and other countries;” being a subject proposed for investigation by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in the Diocese of St. David's; and to which that Society awarded its premium of fifty pounds in December, 1821. London: F. C. & J. Rivington (Pr. by J. S. Hughes), 1822. 8vo. xvi, 254, [2 (adv.)] pp.
the
regulations of Mosaic Law and the doctrines of the New
Testament. The latter section includes the views of Jesus Christ, the opinions
of the Apostles and early Christian writers, and the edicts of the Christian
emperors of Rome. Other sections cover the laws and practices of ancient Greece
and Rome, and those of medieval and early modern Europe. The author was a proctor
in Doctors' Commons. Publisher's ads in the back. With the errata page, tipped
in.
• Modern quarter tan cloth over light blue paper-covered boards in the style of the early 19th-century, spine with printed paper label; uncut copy. Tear and chips at top margin of title-page, repaired some time ago. Title-page and several early leaves lightly age-toned and with some traces of soiling. Old ink ownership signature on title-page and p. 22, and just a bit of ink smudging at top margin of p. 23. (24445)
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