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Vienna: Druk Fon Yozef Holtsvarth, 1862. 1st Hebrew Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. 212, 47 pages ; 18 cm. In Hebrew with Title Pages in Hebrew and German. Includes two translations of works by August Ludwig Frankl into the Hebrew by notable Jewish thinkers. 1st, a translation of Frankl’s ‘Aus Egypten’..... More
![Item 54579. HA-ME'ASEF SHETE TEKUFOT HA-AHARONOT [6 ISSUES, COMPLETE THIS VOLUME]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/41040.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656078931)
Königsberg: Gedruckt bei Daniel Christoph Kanter Konigl. Dreuck. hofbuchdrucker, 1788. 1st edition. 8vo. Pages 211-392 [ie 181 pages total], 19 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "The Collector: Two Latest Periods. " The first and most important journal of the Jewish enlightenment movement, published between 1784 and 1811 by the..... More
Schweiz [Switzerland. Zurich?], No Publisher [Leipzig, P. Ph. Wolf], 1798. 1st German-language. edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 23 pages. In German. Title translates as, “Johann Caspar Lavater, Pastor in Zurich, On the Directory of the French Republic: Along With a Litany, Useful For Life.” A French edition appeared in 1795..... More
Wien [Vienna]: Bey Sebastian Hartl, Buchhändler und Buchbinder in der Singerstrasse, 1785. 1st edition. Full leather with gilt-tooled binding, 12mo, 79 pages. 18 cm. In German. Meyer; no. 320. "Izt zum erstenmal zum Druck befördert." Mendelssohn was often referred to as the German Plato or the German Socrates. And “As..... More
Berlin und Stettin: Bey Friedrich Nicolai, 1767. 1st edition. Period half leather, 12mo, 1 preliminary leaf, [10], 309 pages, [1] page frontispiece; 16 cm. In German. Title translates as, Phaedon; Or, On The Immortality of the Soul, In Three Conversations. Title page in red and black. The engraved frontispiece by..... More
Berlin: Bey Friedrich Maurer, 1783. 1st edition. Period boards, 12mo, xii, 354 pages; 18 cm. In German. Title translates as, “The Psalms.” With title- and colophon-illustrations by Johann Wilhelm Meil. Goed. IV 1, 490, 14; Slg Borst 463; Dorn, Meil 405-406; First edition of Mendelssohns translation, “with the most gracious..... More
Berlin: Bey Christian Friedrich Voss, 1761. 1st edition. Period half-leather, 12mo, 256 + 228 pages. In German. Title translates as, “Writings.” Includes frontis engraving, as well as 2 different title vignettes, 1 on each title page, by Johann Wilhelm Meil. Goedeke IV, 1, 488, 6. Meyer 108; Dorn 105-107; Holzmann/Bohatta..... More
London : Longman, Orme, Brown and Longmans, 1838. 1st English-language edition. Period Quater leather and marbled boards, 8vo, IX, 329, 371 pages. In English with occasional Hebrew. Bound in two volumes (complete). In one of his most important works, Mendelssohn argues that no religious institution should use force, emphasizing that..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1825. 1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 171 pages, 22 cm. In English. The first English Biography of Moses Mendelssohn, founder of the Jewish Enlightenment or Haskalah [See S. Feiner, "Moses Mendelssohn: The First English Biography and Translations in: Journal of the History..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1825. 1st edition. Later cloth, 8vo. 171 pages, 22 cm. In English. The first English Biography of Moses Mendelssohn, founder of the Jewish Enlightenment or Haskalah [See S. Feiner, "Moses Mendelssohn: The First English Biography and Translations in: Journal of the History..... More
![Item 10478. YERUSHALAYIM [LITERARY AND HISTORICAL JOURNAL]. ISSUES 1-3, COMPLETE](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/38867.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1548432992)
Zolkiew-Lemberg-Prague, 1844-45. 1st Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. 92, 103, 103 pages ; 19 cm. In Herbew. Weiner 5031. This is a complete run, includes all three issues bound in one volume. The editors, who were brothers-in-law were well known Galician Hebraists. Many of the most prominent Polish Maskilim contributed scholarly..... More
![Item 277885. DER ENTLARVTE MOSES MENDELSOHN [SIC: MENDELSSOHN]; ODER VOELLIGE AUFKLAERUNG DES RAETHSELHAFTEN TODVERDRUSSES DES M. MENDELSSOHN UEBER DIE BEKANNTMACHUNG DES LESSINGSCHEN ATHEISMUS VON JACOBI.](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42879.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720867712)
Amsterdam [i.e. Berlin, Stuhr], 1786. 1st edition. Half leather with with gilt tooled spine, 12mo, [3]-120 pages. 17 cm. In German. Title translates as, “The Unmasked Moses Mendelsohn [Mendelssohn] or a Complete Explanation of the Mysterious Mortal Frustration of M. Mendelsohn Over the Announcement of [Gotthold Ephraim] Lessing's Atheism by..... More
Kaunas [Kovno]: Sh. Yoselevitsh, 1940. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 215 pages, 9 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as: “Links: Collected Works for Literature. ” One of the last Yiddish books published in Kovno/Kaunas prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941; OCLC-Worldcat lists not a single Yiddish publication from..... More
Zolkiew-Lemberg-Prague, 1844-1845. 1ST Edition. Period boards, 12mo, 92, 103, 103 pages. Important Journal of the Polish Haskalah. The editors, who were brothers-in-law were well known Galician Hebraists. Many of the most prominent Polish Maskilim contributed scholarly articles on a variety of topics to their highly regarded haskalah journal. Weiner 5031..... More