Sephardim; or, the History of Jews in Spain and Portugal
Octavo. xv, 486, [2]pp. Rebound in brown buckram boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Period manuscript notes in ink on the front free endpaper. This scarce work is likely the earliest English-language monograph on the topic of Sephardic Jews. It predates the much more well known and well regarded work by British-Jewish historian Elias Haim Lindo (1783-1865), "The History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal" (1848). This earlier work by Finn, is in fact mentioned derisively in the preface to Lindo's work*. The book is a comprehensive work which tracks the history of the Jews on the Iberian Peninsula from ancient times to present, starting with the era of the First Temple, through the expulsion, the Inquisition, and discussions of immigrant and diasporic communities worldwide. The final pages include and appendix, index of Rabbis, and publisher's ads. Table of contents at the front. James Finn (1806-1872) was a British diplomat, best know as consul in Jerusalem (1846-1863), during the Ottoman period in Palestine. He was known for his philo-Semitic tendencies, and his closeness and favorability towards the slowly growing Jewish community there. Finn however was also a devout Christian who was a member of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. His home and his agricultural training farm were considered among the earliest constructions to be built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. He was also an author, who wrote on Jewish topics, including two early works on the subject of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng. Binding with light rubbing to extremities. Interior gutters reinforced. Ex-libary ink stamp at the top of the title page. Pages until p.28 with a closed tear near the gutter. A few other instances of minor to light chips to the edges of pages. Pages 153-160 are disbound but present, and the book block is otherwise tight overall. Pages clean throughout, with only minor age toning to the edges of pages. Binding in very good-, interior in good+ condition overall. Quite scarce. Binding protected in modern mylar. *In the preface to his book (1848) Lindo mentions Finn's work as "a modern work", who's "digressive chapters.have no connection with the history of the Jews in Spain and Portugal, but appear solely as a tirade against the Talmud and the Cabala; subjects not understood by the author; but, from the influence he mentions in his preface, it is not surprising that the work is written more in the style of a conversionist than in that of an impartial historian." The Encylopeadia Judaica refers to Finn's book as "a superficial work". Period manuscript notes in ink on the front free endpaper, from previous owner, C. Francis, refer the German work on Sephardic literature, titled "Sephardim. Romanische Poesien der Juden in Spanien. Ein Beitrag zur Literatur und Geschichte der Spanisch-Portugiesischen Juden" (1859), by Meyer Kayserling.
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Képek az Elhurcoltakról. Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau (Pictures of the Abductees)
Quarto. Unpaginated [8 double-sided leaves]. B/w paper wrappers. This scarce Hungarian publication was issued shortly after the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust*, and visually documents Nazi atrocities in horrific detail. Published by the 'Committee to Help Those Abducted by the Fascists', the work is profusely photographically illustrated throughout with b/w reproductions after original photographs provided by the American War Correspondence Office, The Russian Auschwitz Film Bulletin, Austrian Stern-Verlag and the Hungarian Film Office. The disturbing images contained here were taken at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau, as well as the Budapest ghetto, showing among other things the bodies of murdered men, women and children, and corpses in mass graves (i.e. double-page spread). The images here are powerful and nightmarish even in the context of other Holocaust publications. The verso of the seventh leaf contains the famous image showing Elie Weisel with fellow inmates in block 56 of Buchenwald. The introductory text was written by Hungarian journalist and politician Sandor Millok (1887-1959). At the time of this publication, Millok, who himself had been imprisoned by the Nazis at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the war, was serving as the Hungarian government's Commissioner for Repatriation. The final page contains some statistics provided by the Commission for Repatriation, and publication credits. Text throughout in Hungarian. Wrappers with a vertical crease down the center, and some staining. Interior with the vertical crease throughout the book block and some sporadic light stains, mostly confined to the margins. Images still mostly clean. Wrappers in good, interior in very good- condition overall. Quite scarce. Protected in modern mylar. * There is no date of publication, but the introductory text is dated to Christmas of 1945, so it can be guessed that it was issued in early 1946. The History of Philosophy: Containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of Every Sect. The Second Edition [WITH] The History of Chaldaick Philosophy
Two parts, folio (35.5 by 22.5 cm). [28], 228 (pp. 60; 122 blank), 351-445, 452-587, [1, blank], 737-960, [12]; [1025]-1091, [1, bookseller's catalogue] pp. Text in two columns. Main title page in red and black, within double-ruled border; separate dated title page for the Chaldaick Philosophy; printed marginalia; engraved frontispiece portrait of Stanley (signed: P: Lilly pinxit Guil: Faithorne scul.), 26 three-quarter page engraved full-length portraits within the text, 3 engraved diagrams and a few other small woodcut or letterpress tables and diagrams in the text. Full contemporary mottled calf (expertly rebacked, corners restored, original spine laid-down, lightly rubbed at extremities), spine with raised bands, gilt morocco lettering piece. Occasional discrete pencil annotations in the margins; occasional mild toning; occasional oxidation spots (in a few instances wearing through and obscuring a letter or two). A very good, crisp copy in a handsome, restored binding. First collective edition of these critical biographies of the Greek philosophers, beginning with Thales, including selections from their writings. This ambitious work was originally published in three volumes between 1655 and 1661. The fourth volume, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, appeared in 1662 and "is briefer and more tentative in treating the occult learning of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia" (Chernaik). As Stanley, himself, notes in the present edition: "there is not any thing more difficult to be retrieved out of the Ruins of Antiquity than the Learning of the Eastern Nations, and particularly that of the Chaldaeans" (p. 1028). Here we find a selection of the Chaldean Oracles, spiritual and philosophical texts referenced by Proclus, Iamblichus, and other Neoplatonist writers of late antiquity. The original writings do not survive, but the fragments quoted by the Neoplatonists have been collected, as in the Magia Philosophica, hoc est Zoroaster et eius 320 Oracula Chaldaica edited by Franciscus Patritius in 1593. Stanley provides Patritius' Latin translation of the fragments, along with the original Greek texts in parallel columns, followed by his English translation. Thomas Stanley (1625-1678), wealthy patron of poetry, was himself both a poet (the last of the metaphysical school) and a scholar. Translated into Latin and Greek, his History of Philosophy was long the principal authority on the progress of thought in ancient Greece, and was not superseded until Johann Jakob Brucker's more ambitious and scholarly effort, the Historia Critica Philosophiae, appeared in five volumes between 1742 and 1767. The series of charming engravings display a great zeal for the maximum range of expression (and head-gear) betwixt the twenty-six thinkers here depicted for our edification. A note on the signatures and pagination: Despite the notorious breaks in pagination, this work is complete, as confirmed by the signature collation provided by Oxford University and the pagination provided by ESTC. Page 162 numbered 262; pagination errors at pages 365, 469, 865 and 872 were carefully hand-corrected at an early date. Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Edward Winnington, Bart. (1st Baronet, ca. 1728-1791), along with ink entry of Howard Baker at the front paste-down. References: W. Chernaik, "Thomas Stanley" [in:] ODNB online; ESTC R200925; Wing S5239. Cf. Scholars, Texts, Traditions: The Influence of Classical Antiquity in Western Culture (Stanford University Libraries, 1984), no. 58. Full title and imprint: The History of Philosophy: Containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect. Illustrated with the Effigies of divers of them. By Thomas Stanley, Esq; The Second Edition. London: printed for Thomas Bassett, at the George in Fleetstreet, Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms, and Thomas Cockerill, at the Three Leggs in the Poultery, MDCLXXXVII. [1687] -- The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy. By Thomas Stanley. London: printed by Ralph Holt, for Thomas Bassett at the George in Fleet-Steet [sic] near Clifford's-Inn, MDCLXXXVII. [1687]. Nakazora ?? [SIGNED]
1/1000. Scroll housed in a protective thin wooden box, with a thick clear acrylic top. Signed calligraphically in Japanese charcaters by Masao Yamamoto (in black marker), on the red side, at the beggining of thew scroll. Printed in a limited number of 1000 copies. "Masao Yamamoto has designed a scroll measuring over 18 feet long, printed in process color on uncoated Japanese stock. The timelessness of Yamamoto's imagery is beautifully echoed in scroll format. A striking marriage of traditional and hi-tech materials and production techniques, Nakazora redefines the term 'artists' book'" - Publisher. This beautiful work is titled Nakazora which is a Japanese Buddhist term with multiple meanings, including the "space between the sky and the earth". Here the photographers images are printed in different sizes and in different placements along the scroll. Photographer Masao Yamamoto's work is known for the blurring of the boundaries between painting and photography, and for experimenting with printing surfaces. In fine condition overall. Box wrapped in paper and protected with bubble wrap. Rhododendron. Lake and Mountain Scenery of the Swiss Alps [W/ 24 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS]
Folio. 148, [1]pp. Brown-burgundy illustrated cloth boards, over leather spine. The front cover and spine are lavishly tooled and ruled in gilt with landscape imagery and period floral designs. Glossy textured endpapers. This is the English version of the original German work Rhododendron: Bilder aus den Schweizer Alpen (Pictures from the Swiss Alps), first published in 1872. The text of the original work was written by German political activist, writer and publisher Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch (1813-1883). Here the English text is written by British geologist and mountaineer Thomas George Bonney (1833-1923), who doesn't so much translate from the original German text, but rather uses it solely for reference. As stated in the preface, Bonney mainly used his own notes and recollections from his experiences in these locations as the basis to create a mostly original text. Like the German edition, accompanying and inspiring the text are a total 24 plates of mounted albumen photographs, reproducing original paintings of various locations and landscapes of the Swiss Alps by Gustav Paul Closs (1840 1870) and Otto Frölicher (1840-1890). Also included are numerous smaller in-text engraved images, including historiated initials and tailpieces, by artist Gustave Roux (1828-1885). Table of contents at the back. Binding with minor rubbing to corners. Spine lightly rubbed, with minor cracking to the front hinge. Minor scratches to the back cover. Book block tight overall, with starting at p.33. Interior mostly clean, with only minor age toning to the very edges of pages, as well as a few sporadic instances of minor to light water staining and/or smudges. Images all clean throughout. Period inscription to a previous owner, in pen, at the top of the front free endpaper. Binding in very good-, interior in very good condition overall. Hebron Stories
Small Quarto. xiv, 234 (3)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Unique and important early writer of modern Hebrew literature prior to Israeli statehood. Shami's characters were either Arabs or Sephardic Jews residing in Palestine. The Palestinian scholar and writer Issa Boullata sees in Shami's works evidence of a coexistence that vanished. "Of the seven classic Modern Hebrew stories in this volume, three deal with Arabs, four with Sephardic Jews. In the major story of this collection, "The Vengeance of the Fathers," we follow the course of the hero, Nimmer Abu al-Shawarib, the designated leader of the Nablus Muslims, on their annual pilgrimage to the grave of Nebi Mussa (Moses( in the Jordan valley. His joy is marred by his rivalry with the Hebron leader, Abu Faris, who repeatedly tries to snub him. Overcome by rage and indignation, Nimmer kills his rival and flees the area of the shrine. (Arnold J. Band, introduction). The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonné 19601990
Quarto. 411, 200pp. Original illustrated dustjackets, white lettering on spine, over blue cloth with gilt-stamped vignettes on covers, gilt lettering on spine; housed in a matching slipcase with gilt lettering and color plate laid to cover. Yellow and green endpapers. Signed by Sam Francis, Connie Lembark, George Page and Jacob Samuel. "Sam Francis was the first of the postwar American painters to reach international recognition. He had gone to Paris on the GI Bill in 1950, and his work was soon receiving growing acclaim in Europe and Japan as well as the United States. His highly personal style of spontaneous, immediate application of paint to canvas and paper gave rise to a new French term which was soon internationalized: "Tachisme," in effect the art of spots and stains. Through the slowly evolving styles of Francis's work in the intervening decades, his art has been characterized by controlled accidents carefully contained within the highly personal imagery he created. The Prints of Sam Francis catalogues and fully documents every work in the graphic media by this master printmaker, including nearly 300 lithographs and 125 etchings. Also featured are the screen prints, posters, a series of self-portraits that have never before been published, and rare variants of many works." (Publisher). Illustrated with mostly color offset reproductions of Francis's work. Includes the Anima Prints, a group of fifty lithographic self-portraits, mostly in monochrome and simple line work, done by Francis between 1973 and 1976. Chronology, bibliography, glossary, concordances, index and photographic references at rear. Slipcase with minor wear, else in fine condition. Le Plafond de l’Opéra de Paris par Marc Chagall (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera). [WITH 7 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS]
Folio (13 1/8" x 10"). 89, [5]pp. Original acetate cover over illustrated dust-jacket. Burgundy cloth binding with black-stamped motif, black lettering to spine; housed in cardboard slipcase. Double page frontispiece lithograph. This splendidly produced book contains numerous colored and b/w drawings and sketches, as well as 7 color lithographs, and a 19" x 26" fold-out illustration of the layout of the ceiling in a rear pocket. Dj with very light wear and white spine and back cover with narrow sunned line. Foredge of block with some damp-staining, not affecting text and illustrated pages. Slipcase with some light wear along edges and sunned along edges. Note: the volumes of this work were bound with glue, rather than being sewn, and the glue of this particular volume has lost its cohesiveness. As a result the double-page frontispiece is loose, and some pages are starting. The price of this volume, though still complete, has been reduced accordingly. Documenting the process of design and implementation of the painting of Paris Opera ceiling by Marc Chagall. Lassaigne describes in details Chagall's considerations and the evolving steps he took towards achieving the right balance and equivalence between the colorful lightweight palette of his painting on the ceiling and the existing deep red, gold, black and white colors of the floor and the stage. The outcome is a great masterpiece which coincides in harmony with the deep red dim lights of the hall like a bouquet of flowers in bloom. Catalogue des Appareils et Instruments de Médecine et de Chirurgie en Caoutchouc Vulcanisé (Catalog of Vulcanized Rubber Medical and Surgical Apparatus and Instruments) [Varnout et Galante]
Small quarto. 49, [1]pp. Illustrated blue wrappers, with black lettering on the covers. String-tied binding for the book block. A scarce illustrated catalog of early vulcanized rubber medical devices manufactured by the French company Varnout et Galante. Included here are more than 80 medical, surgical, and gynecological instruments designed under the supervision of physician and gynecologist Marie Maurice Gariel (1811-1878). The work includes numerous small engraved figures throughout, illustrating various products. Each item is numbered for reference, with a description, some brief and some longer. The products include not only items related to reproductive medicine and women's health such as breast-feeding instruments, vaginal douches, tampons, urethral probes, and urinals for incontinence, but also more general medical equipment such as crutches, braces, bandages, protective gloves, mattress pads for medical beds, restraints, compression belts and inflatable cushions. This publication is notable and intriguing in that it was produced at a time when both the modern medical field of gynecology was in it's infancy and the revolutionary process of vulcanizing rubber was a newly established industry. Only eight years earlier in 1844, American chemist and engineer Charles Goodyear had patented the groundbreaking process for manufacturing this material on an industrial scale, and its wide range of potential uses was just starting to be discovered. The introductory pages extoll the virtues of the new technology of vulcanized rubber, and include tables comparing vulcanize to un-vulcanized rubber under various metrics. Table of contents at the rear. Text in French. Wrappers with minor rubbing to extremities, and small chips to the bottom right corners of the front cover and at a few points on the spine. Light foxing at the bottom of the back cover. Interior with a very few tiny sporadic stains, but otherwise very clean. Wrappers in good+, interior in very good+ condition overall. Scarce. Protected in modern mylar. Full title: Catalogue des Appareils et Instruments de Médecine et de Chirurgie en Caoutchouc Vulcanisé, Fabriqués sous la Direction Immédiate de M. Le Doctuer Gariel, Par Varnout et Galante *This second printing is the same in every way to the first printing of the previous year, save that the printed year at the bottom of the title page has been adjusted to 1852 instead of 1851. Marie Maurice Gariel (1811-1878) was a French physician and gynecologist. He was a member of the Société anatomique de Paris (Anatomical Society of Paris), and a notable figure in the focus of reproductive medicine and women's health, at a time when the field of gynecology was in its early stages. His son was noted French physician and medical engineer Charles-Marie Gariel (1841-1924). Mirroring the Sky: A Postclassic K’iche-Maya Cosmology
Large Quarto. 97pp. Printed blue wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine, illustrated back cover. The publication is a holistic examination of the post-classical cosmology of the K'iche Maya people, through the lens of social-cultural, ecological and historical factors. Constellations, astronomical tools and data calculations are discussed in detail, bringing the scientific and observational astronomy aspects into focus. Illustrated throughout with star charts, constellations, and b&w reproductions of diagrams, illustrations and maps of archaeological sites, petroglyphs and temples relating to the subject. Index of constellation names in multiple languages, and detailed bibliography are at the back. Wrappers and interior in near fine condition. Hans Hofmann. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. 3 Vols
Small Folio. 225, 520, 528pp. Original blue cloth with color plate laid to covers, and white lettering on covers and spines; housed in matching slipcase with color plates and pull lever, with white lettering on spine. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece photographs. Vol. I: Essays and References. Vol. II: Catalogue Entries P1-P846 (1901-1951). Vol. III: Catalogue Entries P847-PW89 (1952-1965). With contributions by Juliana D. Kreinik, Paul Moorhouse, Peter Morrin, Marcelle Polednik, and Karen Wilkin. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of Hofmann's works. Vol. I contains chronology, notes, exhibition history, bibliography, list of titles, public collections, general index and photography credits. Slipcase with very light wear. "We revere Hofmann, as Pollock did and Rauschenberg does, for proving that the straightforward manipulation of pigment can create exalted art. To put it simply, Hofmann's ability to handle paint, to fuse the action of painting and drawing into a single, immediate gesture, carried colored pigment into the viewer's presence with the force of a bomb. The power of this visual explosion catalyzed the bond of European and American art, cementing the first half of twentieth-century art inseparably to the second half. Hofmann's paintings of the '50s and '60s. were magnificent. They were without precedent except in Hofmann's own work. More amazingly, they were without equal when they were painted and are without equal in quality since they were painted." (that's Frank Stella, 1999). Stunt Man: The Autobiography of Yakima Canutt [INSCRIBED & SIGNED]
Quarto. x, 252pp. Photo-illustrated yellow dust jacket with red lettering on the covers and spine. Inscribed, signed and dated by both Canutt and Drake in blue marker on the title page. The autobiography of western film actor and pioneering stunt man and stunt coordinator Enos Yakima Canutt (1895-1986). He is credited for developing many techniques regularly used in the stunt world, and was involved with countless successful Hollywood films and serials, including the lone Range, Zorro, Stagecoach (including his famous horse stunts), Ben Hur, El Cid, Gone With the Wind, Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller, Where Eagles Dare and Ivanhoe. He worked with many of the top Hollywood filmmakers and stars of both the silent and sound eras. Dust jacket with some light stains, and rubbing. Spine and back cover of jacket sunned. Minor smudging and rubbing to the binding. Light damp staining to interior covers. Interior clean. Very minor smudges and stains to the edges of the book block. Dj in good+ to very good-, binding in very good, interior in near fine condition overall. Program for the memorial service for Canutt, laid in at the interior front cover. Elements of the Jewish and Muhammadan Calendars
Large square octavo. xiv, 554pp. Blue-grey buckram boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge in gilt. Pages uncut and unopened. This scarce and interesting work on comparative religion and religious chronology focusses on the Jewish and Muslim calendars. The author, Vicar of Hampstead Sherrard Beaumont Burnaby (1831-1902), discusses these calendars as they relate to both religious practice during the year and to the overall counting of chronology on a larger scale. Also discussed are the Gregorian and Julian calendars for comparison. Includes numerous tables throughout. The front contains a preface by the author and table of contents. The final pages consist of indices, a bibliography and a list of subscribers. Binding with some rubbing and bumping to extremities, including the spine. Covers with some light stains and scratches. Book block starting at p.224 and the endpapers. Pages throughout overall quite clean, with only the most minor of age toning to some pages along the margins. Binding in good+, interior in very good- condition overall. Ink stamp of printing firm Unwin brothers on the rear free endpaper. Niagara
Folio. 94 (10)pp. Original black buckram with de-bossed black lettering and color print laid to cover, gray lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Color frontispiece. Soth famously arrived on the international photo scene with his first book "Sleeping by the Mississippi," considered one of the best photo-books of the last 25 years, this collection of fifty color photographs depict the iconic Niagara Falls. Dedicated to his High School sweetheart Rachel. Contains essays by Philip Brookman and Richard Ford. The four pages of notes at rear are rendered in Soth's handwriting and photo-illustrated with thumbnail and larger color photographs. Book design by Alec Soth, Gerhard Steidl and Jonas Wettre. House Hunting [SIGNED]
1/2000. Elephant folio. Housed in a blue-grey cloth clamshell box with black lettering on the cover. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with yellow on the front cover, white on the spine. Grey paper boards with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed by the photographer on the half-title page. The first published monograph by acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido (b.1968), the book is profusely illustrated throughout with remarkable color images of the suburban landscape of America, featuring both exteriors and interiors of homes. The photographer's immaculate and subtle use of light produce images which at time seem to almost border on paintings. As new. "Published in 2001, House Hunting is, on the one hand, a portrait of a certain America at that specific moment in history: this is an economically downtrodden place, dark and empty homes with the dirty laundry barely packed, or homes with the lights on but radiating no warmth. Simultaneously, this is a portrait of America and specifically, suburban America from any contemporary post-war decade: a raw look at white paint chipping off of picket fences." - Katya Tylevich Todd Hido's large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air." - The Publisher. Ignis lambens, historia medica, prolusio physica, rarum pulchrescentis naturae specimen (The Burning Fire, a Medical History, a Physical Profusion, a Rare Specimen of Beautiful Nature)
Octavo (14.9 by 9.3 cm.) - Collation: a8 b4 A-M8 N4 (= 112 leaves; blank N4); [24], 198, [2, blank] pp. Woodcut device at title-page; printed marginalia; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary vellum; old library shelf mark in ink and paper label with title in ink (faded and worn) at spine. Front hinge starting. Stain at bottom G4 (but not affecting legibility); skillful repair (10 by 20 cm) at A4, resulting in partial loss of date to an encomium, else a very good copy, with crisp text, and complete with final blank. First edition of the author's second published work, a vibrant melange of metaphysics, natural history, and medical etiology and pharmacology. While the familiar pre-modern theory of the four humors is invoked, the author's focus appears to be on the relation between "fire," in its may and varied manifestations, and illness. The maladies discussed include leprosy, anemia, and Plica Polonica (the Polish Plait, trichoma, a severe matting of the hair), "a disease which he claims to have described in detail" (Kayserling). Ignis Lambens appeared on the heals of Il Colostro, his brief treatise on colostrum (the first secretion from the mammary glands after giving birth). This latter work was also published by Rossi in 1642. It appears along with other works dealing with obstetrics and infant diseases in La Commare, a compendium edited by Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), a philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica. This publication, in which De Castro is still noted as "medico physico Avinionese" (a medical doctor from Avignon), may be understood as a dissertation intended to establish his credentials in Verona. Its priority is noted in the present Ignis Lambens at the head of the encomium written by the English regimental doctor, Humberston: "Ad D. Ezech. de Castro, qui post editas de Colostro lucubrationes, has etiam de Igne Lambente publici juris fecit" (For Ezechiel de Castro, who after having published his lucubrations On Colostrum, made public those concerning The Burning Fire). Ezechiel / Pedro de Castro was was one of a number of conversos (Marranos, new Christians, or crypto-Jews) who held distinguished positions as physicians and professors of medicine in Italy, which included Amatus Lusitanus (Ferrara), Antonio Rodrigo de Fonseca (Pisa and Padua), and Gabriel de Fonseca (Pisa and Rome). All were descendants of those Jews in Spain and Portugal who accepted baptism, but who secretly preserved loyalty to their ancient faith. The various branches of the De Castro family, in particular, furnished a large number of distinguished physicians in the early modern era. (Friedenwald devotes an entire chapter to "The Doctors de Castro"). Soon after the establishment of the Inquisition, members of the family emigrated to Bordeaux, Bayonne, Hamburg, and to cities in the Netherlands, and later to the United States. Many, however, were not so fortunate: "[D]octors of this name were punished by the Inquisition as followers of Judaism as late as the eighteenth century" (Keyserling, citing four examples). Ezechiel and Pedro de Castro were long believed to be two individuals. In his 1933 article in the Revue des Études Juives, "Un dernier mot sur Pedro alias Ezekiel de Castro," Cecil Roth proved that they were the same person. Born in Bayonne in 1603 and christened Pedro, he was the son of Luis de Castro. He studied in Spain during the period 1618-1625. Between 1625 and 1629 he practiced medicine in France, especially in Avignon. In 1640 he openly embraced Judaism at Verona, under the name of Ezekiel de Castro, and was appointed physician to the Jewish Community. About 1650 he reverted to Catholicism and again took his baptismal name of Pedro" (Friedenwald). In the later edition of De Castro's annotated medical compendium, Bibliotheca medici eruditi (Bergamo: J. Santini, 1742) we learn that the erudite Abraham Zacutus Lusitanus (1575-1642), another physician of converso heritage, "was his intimate, master and guide." Unlike many physicians of converso heritage in the 16th and 17th century, "Ezechiel de Castro was not unfamiliar with the commentaries of the Bible, as well as with the medieval writings of Jewish literature" (Kayserling). In his discussion of the Plica Polonica (p. 69), De Castro refers to "Raabiam Hebreum medii temporis doctissimum" (Raabia, a most learned Jew of the middle ages, whose works were only known to Kayserling in manuscript form). He goes on to cite a rare case recounted by Eliezer ben Zadok in the talmudic tractate Nidda (p. 70) and cites Maimonides (p. 72: "Aegyptus Moyses"). Referencing the biblical story of the snakes sent among the Israelites (Num. 21.6), De Castro argues against Rashi and Ibn Ezra, contending the the snakes actually breathed fire (p. 116: "Nobis erunt flammigeri serpentes isti" -- To us they will always remain fire-breathing snakes). In chapter 5 of the second book (p.183), in which De Castro examines inanimate things that vibrate with fire (res inamimatae ignem vibrantes, e.g., minerals), he makes reference to the well-known chronicle, Zemah David, written by David ben Solomon Gans (1541-1613). References: H. Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine (1967): pp. 316, 452-3; M. Kayserling, Bibl. Española-Portugueza-Judaica, p. 36; M. Kayserling, "Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Aerzte, Ezechiel de Castro," [in:] Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, Jahrg. 10, H. 1 (1861), pp. 38-40; ITICCUPUVE08563; USTC 4016240. Full title and imprint: Ignis lambens, historia medica, prolusio physica, rarum pulchrescentis naturae specimen. Illustrissimo & excellentissimo domino Aloysio Georgio Divi Marci procuratori et invictae venetorum reipublicae copiarum imperatori fortissimo D. Ezechiel de Castro doctor medicus phys. Veronae: apud Franciscum Rubeum. 1642.- $1,500
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Morandi’s Objects
Small folio. 113 [2]pp. Original beige cloth with color-illustrated plate laid to cover, gilt lettering on spine. Color-illustrated endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with Meyerowitz full page color photographs throughout. Introductory text by Maggie Barrett. Beautiful collection of color photographs inspired by Meyerowitz's visit of Morandi's studio in Bologna. Contains a thumbnail catalog of photographs included at rear, with Meyerowitz biography and list of solo exhibitions. Minor wear to covers. "After studying art, art history, and medical illustration at Ohio State University he worked as an art director in advertising in the early 60's. In 1962, Robert Frank made photographs for a booklet Joel designed, and it was while watching Frank work that he discovered that photographs could be made while both the photographer and the subject were in motion! The power of this observation made him quit his job immediately; borrow a camera, and go out onto the streets of New York to see what the world looked." (Biography).- $150
- $150
Der heilfliessender Jacobs-Brunn : nach Anleitung des wunderschönen Gesprächs, welches der Sohn Gottes, Jesus Christus, mit dem samaritischen Weibe gehalten. In vierzehn Montags Predigten eröffnet (Jacob’s Fountain of Salvation : Guided by the Beautiful Talk Between the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the Samaritan Woman. Disclosed in Fourteen Monday Homilies)
Sextodecimo. [24], 691 [1]pp. Bound in leather with blind-stamped ruling ad raised bands, mylar protected. Decorative head and endpiece, and initials. Dedicated to the parish Saint Nicolai in Hamburg, in particular the noble and reputable Nicolaus Jarre, Broderus Pauli, Alberto Schreining, Jacob Sylm, Daniel von Kampen, Dieterich Langerman, Vincent Rump, Hans Lemme, Cordt Vegesack, Henr. Schötering, Heinrich Schröder, as well as Johann Bostelmann, Jürgen Kellinghusen, Hans Erlenkamp, and Wilhelm Stadtländer, Dietrich Stahl, Peter Widow, Dietrich Brödermann, Henrich Tecklenburg, Johann Rump, Henrich Busch, Claß Dee, Henrich Eggebrecht. With an introduction by Georg Hardtkopf and a prayer by Mich. von Oppenbusch. Two OCLC listings in Germany, one in Poland. Text in German, Gothic script. Binding with some wear along edges, minor chips with one 1 x 1/4" at head of spine, and lightly rubbed. Title page with light graying at foredge. Title page and two additional leaves with more pronounced age-toning, block lightly age-toned. Last page and inside back cover with light water-staining at bottom. Binding in good-, interior in good to very good condition.- $475
- $475
CAPFCE. Obra Realizada 19651970
Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with black lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Brown endpapers. Laid in a folded color circular (21 1/2 x 13 3/4") of the Administrative Committee of the Federal Program for School Construction, with business card of Francisco Artigas (architect). Contains more than a hundred and fifty double-sided leaves with color photographs of Mexican schools from each state, illustrating the modernization of the Mexican school system. "The Administrative Committee of the Federal Program for School Construction, (CAPFCE) is a decentralized agency created by the Federal Government to promote, plan, design and administrate official school construction for the various levels of education in our entire national territory. The accumulated yields of the CAPFCE, as incremented in a national scale year after year, are now perceptible. Whether in a small town or even in the hamlet sheltering the community of the "ejido", in the sierra, one finds a school house easy to identify by its visibly characteristics. Each one of these buildings symbolizes n effort on the part of our Government, to help the people improve their education." (M. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, on circular in English and Spanish). Profusely illustrated with (some sepia-toned) photographs of school environments, the countryside, offices, and maps of school projects in various states of Mexico. Text in Spanish. Front cover with a light vertical water stain. Publication with light musty odor. Laid in, folded circular with light rust traces from paper clip, these also on title page at top edge.- $1,250
- $1,250
Rolf Nesch. The Complete Graphic Works
Large Quarto. 519pp. Original blue cloth with white color-illustrated white plate mounted to front cover, black lettering on cover, white on spine, in original color-illustrated slipcase. Blue endpapers. Designed by Marcello Francone. Profusely illustrated with magnificent color photographs, some in b/w. Contains an extensive catalog of Nesch's work at rear, illustrated with small b/w photographs of his work, and a list of unidentified works. With biographical chronology, bibliography, indices, and photo credits at rear. "Rolf Nesch is generally recognized as the inventor of the so-called metal print technique, and his graphic work is widely acknowledged. The fact that much of the presentation of the artist's life and work is in Norwegian has certainly also restrained its accessibility. As the only extensive survey of his prints, this catalogue will make possible a renewed assessment of Nesch's position in the history of modern printmaking." (Foreword). Slipcase with very light chips at edges.- $200
- $200
Nachträgliche Actenstücke der deutschen Bundes-Verhandlungen; als Anhang zu den Protokollen der Bundesversammlung (Retroactive Documents of the German Federal Negotiations as Appendix to the Protocols of the Federal Assembly) Vols. 4 and 5
Quarto. (2) 306, viii, 291 (1)pp. uncut. Plain blue stiff paper wraps with paper labels on spine, protected by modern mylar. Volume 4: I. Disclaimer of the Frankfurt Senate addressed to the Federal Assembly, a rebuttal of claims of the Frankfurt Jews addressed to the Federal Assembly, dated Frankfurt, May 8, 1817, with enclosures 1, 2 and 3, signed by the Mayor and Council of Frankfurt in volume four. Attachment one elaborates on the judicial and community relation of the Jews in Frankfurt/Main; illustrated historically and legally in relation to a complaintif memorandum and subsequent petitions, submitted at a Federal Assembly against the Frankfurt Senate. The subject of the detailed complaint was the desire for protection against the impairment of acquired rights. Attachment two is a survey of the Royal Prussian Judicial Faculty, including the current legal situation of the Frankfurt Jews and the state of the Jewish community at the time of the Free City of the Reich, respectively the Grand Duke. Attachment three treats the claims of the Jews in Frankfurt to obtain citizenship of the city. II. Addendum to the memorandum submitted to the German Federal Assembly on November 4, 1816, of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, relating to their civil and constitutional rights. Prompted by the disclaimer of the the Senate of May 8, 1817, and its three attachments. III. Judicial expert opinion of the judicial faculty of the Grand Duke's Hesse University in Gießen, respective the civil rights of the Jewish community of the free city of Frankfurt, dated July 1, 1616. IV. Addressed to the high German Federal Assembly. Certified defense of the rights of the citizenry of Frankfurt/Main, against demands of the Jewish Community to be granted equal civil and political rights as the citizens of the free city by the representatives of the citizens; dated Frankfurt June 16, 1817. Includes 61 attachments. Volume 5: Contains sixty-one attachments relating to the defense as described in the previous volume, number IV, pp. 225 - 394. In addition this volume contains XVI documents, including a short dispatch of the so-called addendum to the grievance of the Frankfurt Jews addressing the German Federal Assembly, respective their claim to the civil rights in the free city of Frankfurt, dated October 25, 1817. The other fifteen documents are concerned with various legal matters throughout Germany, e.g. Braunschweig, Offenbach, Heidelberg, Trier and other jurisdictions and not related to Jewish issues. Text in German, Gothic script. Some wear along edges of wraps, small chips, more pronounced at spines, here with cracks and spine of volume two with more extensive chipping. Some foxing of blacks with first seventy pages of volume one with some water staining in margins.- $500
- $500
Vom Ornament zur Linie. Der frühe Insel-Verlag 1899 bis 1924. Ein Beitrag zur Buchästhetik im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
1/2000. Folio. 391 (3)pp., and portfolio with 20 facsimile enclosures. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine, gilt publisher's device on cover of portfolio, housed in matching blue paper-covered slipcase. Blue endpapers. Two title pages printed in red and black with variant publisher's devices. Printed to heavy paper. Blue ribbon marker. Publication documenting the early work of the Insel-Verlag (Insel Publisher) from 1899 to 1924. A contribution to the aesthetics of book publishing in the early 20th Century. With contributions by John Dieter Brinks, Susanne Buchinger, Marcus Haucke, Kurt Ifkovits, Renate Müller-Krumbach, Theo Neteler, Lindsay Newman, Gerhard Schuster, Barbara Stark, Roland Stark, Klaus Weber, Marcus Behmer, Franz Blei, Rudolf Borchardt, Harry Graf Kessler, Anton Kippenberg, Rudolf von Poellnitz, Henry van de Velde, and Stefan Zweig. Illustrated with two hundred and forty sample images of book binding, art and design of Insel publications, one hundred and forty of those in color, some with gold overprinting; includes seven folding plates. Contains appendix with listing of Insel publications and notes. The portfolio contain twelve numbered facsimile reproductions of color endpapers for special publications and eight facsimile reprints of original publisher's advertisements for their publications. Exquisite publication of a extraordinary publisher. Text in German. Slipcase with few small chips and bumps along edges. Lightly rubbed. Volumes in fine condition.- $95
- $95
Tamayo. 15 Reproducciones
Elephant Folio (23 1/2 x 16"). [3] 15 plates. Original cream heavy paper portfolio with eighteen plates housed in pink cloth clamshell box with black lettering on cover. Title page printed in red and black. Text by Octavio Paz printed to double plate. Contains index of artwork. This portfolio was issued in conjunction with the exhibition-homage to Ruffino Tamayo at the Palace of Fine Arts commemorating fifty years of the artist's work. The album was completed on December 15, 1967 in the Printing and Lithography Workshops Graue, S. A. of Mexico D. F. in care of Francisco and Fernando Graue. The plates were printed in high quality offset with the approval of the artist. Octavio Paz's text was set in 24-point Century Oldstyle type, The animated tribute by Octavio Paz is entitled "Be Natural" and reflects the multiplicity of Tamayo's work and thinking: "Among so much sleeping matter, among so many forms that seeks their wings, their weight, their other form, the dancer emerges, the lady of the gnawing ants, the tamer of music, the hermit who lives in a glass cave, the beautiful one who sleeps on the edge of a tear." (Paz). Text in Spanish. Clamshell box with light bumps at foredge corners, else very light wear with minor staining. Small clear plastic, printed sticker attached to upper right foredge corner of cover. Inside of box with very light foxing. Spine of the portfolio cover with small closed tears at center of cover page, a one and a half inch closed tear at tail of spine. Some vertical creasing of front cover near spine. Ten of the fifteen prints enclosed with pencil notes on versos, indicating the room, matting and framing of these works in the exhibition. Plates with very light wear along edges. Box in good, cover in good-, prints in very good+ to near fine condition. Ruffino Tamayo (1899-1991) was a Mexican artist, born in Oaxaca de Juarez. Tamayo is known for his figurative abstraction with Surrealist influences. His legacy lies in his original graphic prints cultivating every technique, including woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and "Mixografia" prints. With the help of the Mexican printer and engineer Luis Remba, Tamayo expanded the technical and aesthetic possibilities of the graphic arts by developing a new medium which they named Mixografia. This technique is a unique fine art printing process that allows for the production of prints with three-dimensional textures. "In 1973, Luis Remba, the owner of the fine art lithography studio Taller de Gráfica Mexicana in Mexico City approached Rufino Tamayo to collaborate on a print. At the time, Tamayo had already worked with other forms of printmaking and wanted to incorporate texture into his printed work. He agreed to work together, but only if they could play with printmaking techniques to create a textured surface. Remba responded by creating a new technique altogether, where the prints were created in relief on handmade paper, adding texture, dimensional and brilliant color to the final product. Realizing they had invented a new form of printmaking, they called it Mixografia. Later, the studio would change their name to Mixografia, reflecting the importance of their achievement." (Swann Auction Galleries).- $500
- $500
Cézanne’s Objects
Small Folio. 111p. Original gray cloth with color-illustrated plate laid to cover, black lettering on spine. Color-illustrated endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with Meyerowitz full page color photographs throughout. Introductory text by Maggie Barrett. Beautiful collection of color photographs inspired by Meyerowitz's visit of Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence. Contains a thumbnail catalog of photographs included at rear, with Meyerowitz biography and list of solo exhibitions. Light bump at upper foredge corner of front cover. Else in fine condition. "After studying art, art history, and medical illustration at Ohio State University he worked as an art director in advertising in the early 60's. In 1962, Robert Frank made photographs for a booklet Joel designed, and it was while watching Frank work that he discovered that photographs could be made while both the photographer and the subject were in motion! The power of this observation made him quit his job immediately; borrow a camera, and go out onto the streets of New York to see what the world looked." (Biography).- $125
- $125
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Burton Y. Berry Collection. Part II. Megaris to Egypt
Small Elephant Folio. [3] 30/30 plates with descriptions. Original peach stiff wraps with black lettering on cover. Catalog with compilation of 759 Greek coins with descriptive text. The coins are presented in collotype with descriptive text on facing pages. Part II of the catalog compiled by the American Numismatic Society in 1962, from a complete set of six volumes, each one regional and monographic. Top of double plate wraps loose at bottom and foredges. Very light wear along edges. Block lightly age-toned with very light smudging on back free endpaper.- $200
- $200
