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Waugh & Innes. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1826. Second Edition. Hardcover. Volume 2 only; rebound in brown cloth; light edgewear, owner's name inked and bindery's sticker inside front cover, foxing and light toning to pages ; 686 pages .

Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1823. Book. Good. Leather. 1st US edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Volume I only of a two-volume set first published in London in 1820. Divided into eight parts: The Tabernacle Described; The Temple Described; The Ministers of the Temple; The Service of the Temple; The Three Great Festivals; On the Other Feasts and Fasts of the Jews; The Synagogue; and Jewish Idolatry, Sects, and Proselytes. Gilt lettering/rule to spine, pp. xviii, 631. Soiled/scuffed/scraped covers/spine, bumped/worn corners/spine ends, short (3/4" or shorter) tears to spine edges, faded spine gilt, moderately soiled edges, previous owner's signature to top of first end paper, different previous owner's signature to top of title page, front hinge somewhat exposed after first end paper, a bit of looseness up to page vi, some foxing, large soil marks to edges beginning at page 623 and continuing through to rear pastedown, foxing/offsettng to endpapers/pastedowns,… Read More

EB: Rodwell and Martin. Very Good. 1820. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Rodwell & Martin, London, UK. 1820. Two Volumes. Xxiv, 623 pgs; xvi, 631 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in full calf leather cloth boards with red spine labels and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First edition of William Brown's (1766 1835) major work, an extensive account of Jewish traditions and customs based on the Old Testament, Josephus Flavius and Maimonides. Brown himself was a Scottish Presbyterian, but his in-depth study of Judaism has resulted in what Lowndes describes in the words of T. H. Hornes as "the most elaborate system of Jewish antiquity extant in the English language". The first volume is devoted to the rites of the Jewish religion with a detailed treatise on the construction of the temple and the… Read More

London: Rodwell and Martin, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. g to g+. Quarto. XXIV, 623, [1], XVI, 631, [1]pp. Contemporary 3/4 burgundy morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling on spines. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Fold-out frontispiece plan of the Temple at Jerusalem. This rare "Antiquities of the Jews" is complete in two volumes, and was compiled mostly from Latin, French, and English sources, such as Arias Montano's "Aaron," Calmet's "Dictionary," Goodwin's "Moses and Aaron," Owen's "Exercitation on the Hebrews," Johannes Buxtorf's "De Synagoga Judaica," and Jacob Christian Basnage's "History and Religion of the Jews." The author borrowed much from Lightfoot's "Prospect of the Temple and Temple Services," but states in the preface of his work that he takes "a wider range than Dr. Lightfoot, who professes to despise rabbinical learning." The two-volume set is divided into 12 parts: The first volume, divided into seven parts, covers the following topics: 1)… Read More