[Rarebooks] FS: 2 highly collectible Judaica

[Gerard Gormley]

For your kind consideration ---




Corti, Count Egon Caesar~.  THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD~.
NY NY, USA: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1928.  Keywords: In Print for
$300 -- Biography & Memoirs -- Business -- History -- Illustrated
--  Judaica -- Military-War-Spy -- Non-Fiction -- Politics &
Government -- Religion & Theology -- Translated from the German
by Brian and Beatrix Lunn -- English language.  First US Printing
(Same Date on title-page & copyright-page).  Hardcover.  No dust
jacket.  432 pages: Text Notes, Biographical Notes, Bibliography,
25 black & white photostats & art reproductions.  Binding height:
9-1/2".   Publisher's olive green full cloth, spine gold-stamped
on black field, top leaf-edges tinted.  Book Very Good to Near
Fine: light bumping & rubbing to fore-corners (moderate to spine-
top/bottom), hinges beginning to loosen but no sign of cracking,
spine gilt a bit faded, faintest spots to front, spine & back.
Binding strong & tight (except as noted), insides Fine.
[Digital JPEG image (3.25) available on request].  2317~.
US$50.-


Harris, Maurice H.(Intro)~.  HEBRAIC LITERATURE: Translations
from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala~.  Washington USA & London
UK: M. Walter Dunne, 1901.  Keywords: Very hard to find -- Out of
Print -- Antiquarian -- History -- Illustrated --  Judaica --
Religion & Theology -- Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim
and Kabbala -- from the Universal Classics Library -- illustrated
with photogravures on Japan vellum -- English language.  First
Printing thus (No Additional Printings indicated).  Hardcover.
No dust jacket (none issued, I believe).  395 pages: 3 black &
white photogravures on Japan vellum.  Binding height: 9-3/8".
Publisher's full cloth, paste-on spine label, top leaf-edges gilt
(other edges uncut, some bolts unopened).  Book Very Good to Near
Fine: light bumping to 3 fore-corners, moderate bumping & rubbing
to 4th fore-corner & spine-top/bottom, silverfish tracks to 1"
area of bottom front edge (no sign of insects, but book fumigated
for 7 days), a few bolts have been opened carelessly, leaving
ragged edges.  Binding strong & tight, insides (bolt issue aside)
Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (2.75) available on request].  2318~.
US$200.-


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