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Opus aureum ac novum, et a doctis viris diu expectatum, domini Victoris de Carben, olim judei, sed modo christiani et sacerdotis, in quo omnes Judeorum errores manifestantur qui hactenus nobis ignoti fuere. Declarantur etiam in hoc opere omnes Judeorum mores, quos circa quecunque opera exercere consueverunt, ac tandem (id quod inauditum est) ex Veteri tantum Testamento convincuntur. G. Ortwini Gratii bonarus artium professoris in emendationem huius pulcherrimi operis epigramma luculentum by Carben, Victor von (1442-1515)

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Title: Opus aureum ac novum, et a doctis viris diu expectatum, domini Victoris de Carben, olim judei, sed modo christiani et sacerdotis, in quo omnes Judeorum errores manifestantur qui hactenus nobis ignoti fuere. Declarantur etiam in hoc opere omnes Judeorum mores, quos circa quecunque opera exercere consueverunt, ac tandem (id quod inauditum est) ex Veteri tantum Testamento convincuntur. G. Ortwini Gratii bonarus artium professoris in emendationem huius pulcherrimi operis epigramma luculentum
Author: Carben, Victor von (1442-1515)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Cologne: Henricus de Nussia, 1509. FIRST LATIN EDITION, one of two issues (In 1508, De Nussia also printed an edition in German). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern morocco. Illustrated with 2 full-page woodcuts. A fine copy. Small tab on margin of title. Very rare. OCLC locates 4 copies in the U.S. (NYPL, Hebrew Union, Austin, and Princeton) and 2 copies of the German edition (Cornell, NYPL). A rare antisemitic work, representing a new genre in the polemic of Jewish conversion, which included description of Jewish life and ritual. Written by an apostate Jew whose wife and children did not convert with him, the book reveals the author’s complicated feelings towards Jewish women. One of the woodcuts includes what is probably a portrait of the author. “Converts from Judaism contributed a distinctive chapter to the Jewish-Christian polemic. In early modern German lands, they introduced ‘Jewish ceremonial life, as it was currently practiced’, a new subject, into the oldest religious argument… “As in any emerging genre, the earliest works about Jewish ceremonial defy easy categorization… Unlike medieval polemical works, these purported to describe actual Jewish religious and cultural practices, gestures, words, or ritual objects, rather than belief systems… Writing books about Jewish life remained occupations of immense practical and psychological importance for converts, who remained the most significant cohort of authors for this literature. Like their autobiographies, these books bridged their Jewish and Christian selves… “The first convert from Judaism whose name can be linked to the new genre was Victor von Carben (1442-1515). By the time he arrived in Cologne, the city had permanently expelled its Jews (1426) and became a citadel of Dominican zeal. Both von Carben and Johannes Pfefferkorn appear to have been working under the influence of the Cologne Dominicans. It remains unclear how much of the work appearing under his name was written by von Carben and how much by the Dominican Ortuin Gratius. Gratius may have translated the book into Latin, or he may have played an even greater role in the creation of von Carben’s book… “Von Carben’s ‘Opus Aureum’, on the ‘errors’ of the Jews, contained four sections; the first concentrated on the life and customs of the Jews. The arrangement of Von Carben’s material appears to be disorganized and follows no logical order. Several introductory chapters include autobiographical material. These are followed by attacks on the Talmud, interrupted in mid-chapter by ‘ethnographic’ material: ‘How Jews marry, their weddings, ring ceremony, etc.’ Chapter 16 of the book promises a discussion of how much the Jews hate the Christians and how they observe their Sabbath, a non sequitur that the text does not bridge; chapter 18 contains subjects unrelated to one another: ‘The blessings of the Jews before and after meals; how they divorce and take another wife.’… “Women figure heavily in von Carben’s work. Converted late in life, at age fifty, his wife and three children did not follow him into Christianity. In some chapters von Carben’s remarks seems to be autobiographical. One chapter is titled, ‘How many a Jew becomes a Christian when he is not hindered by his wife.’ In conjunction with this an explanation is offered why Jewish women are more steadfast in their faith than Jewish men. Perhaps for deeply personal reasons, von Carben implicated Jewish women in everything negative and hostile about Judaism. ‘How the Jews, woman and man, curse the Christians;… that Jewish women are much more hateful than Jewish men.’ In the story von Carben marshaled to prove his point, a Jewish mother wanted to kill her own son when he showed signs of leaning toward Christianity. In a similar vein, von Carben reported that ‘when a Jew, deserving the death penalty because of his misdeeds, was taken to be burned, Christians sympathized and asked out of mercy, ‘Do you want to be baptized and become Christian? If so, you can spare your life and stay with your wife and children.’ The man looked at his wife in misery, as though he might wish to do this. The woman notices this and worries, out of mortal fear, that her husband will be swayed. She takes her children under her arm and jumps into the fire, like sheep with no sense. Would you believe that the obstinacy of the woman was greater than that of the man?’ “Even as his work emphasized the obduracy of Jewish women, von Carben reached out to them as having the most to gain from conversion… His consideration of women as independent targets for conversion and his characterization of their role in Jewish life were utterly novel.”(Carlebach, Revealing the Secrets of Judaism, The Literature of Jewish Ceremonial, in Divided Souls, Converts from Judaism in Germany (1500-1750), p. 176 ff.) The Woodcuts: The first of the two full-paged woodcuts (H3 verso, repeated on P4 recto) measures 15.9 x 9.4 cm. and shows the Virgin and Child with a smaller figure -undoubtedly intended to be Carben himself- kneeling in adoration. The image of Carben is probably derived from the sculptural group of St. Anne, The Virgin & Child with Carben as donor, in Cologne Cathedral, one of 7 sandstone sculptures donated by Carben around 1500. The Virgin speaks the words of Ecclesiasticus: “Ego mater pulchræ dilectionis, et timoris, et agnitionis, et sanctæ spei. In me gratia omnis [viæ et veritatis]. Transite ad me, omnes qui concupiscitis me…” and a second, this time monitory- quotation from Proverbs 8:36: “Qui in me peccaverit, ladet animam suam. Omnes qui me oderunt, diligunt mortem.” The second full-paged woodcut (Leaf I4 verso) (15.6 x 9.6 cm.) combines two scenes: grapevines with clusters of grapes with a quotation from the dream of Pharaoh’s baker in Genesis: “Videbam coram me vitem, in qua errant tres propagines, crescere paulatim in gemmas” (“I saw a vine before me, on which were three branches: and it was as though it budded [and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes]”.) The second image is of a donkey and her foal tethered to the vine, with the quotation from Ecclesiastes “Funiculus triplex difficile rumpitur” (“The triple chord is difficult to break.”) The image, however, is from Genesis: “He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.”.

Your House (Signed) by ELIASSON, Olafur

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Title: Your House (Signed)
Author: ELIASSON, Olafur
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: A fine copy in blue cloth boards with blind-stamped titles to front panel; housed in original drop-leaf cardboard box, with matc
Description: New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. A fine copy in blue cloth boards with blind-stamped titles to front panel; housed in original drop-leaf cardboard box, with matching titles to lid. Accompanied by original string-bound prospectus (in original plain envelope), featuring two die-cut examples, an excerpt from Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland (1884), and an involved artist's statement from Eliasson, articulating an architectural metaphor of reading.. Limited Edition. Oblong folio. Number 93 of 255 copies, SIGNED by Eliasson to colophon. A quite-literal work of paper architecture, commissioned by MoMA's Library Council, in which experiential artist Olafur Eliasson produced a laser-cut negative impression of his Copenhagen home; printed at a scale of 85:1 in 454 vertical slices (for 908 pages). "As readers leaf through the pages, they have the illusion of slowly making their way through the rooms of the house from front to back, thus constructing a mental and physical narrative. The result is an intensified sense of space, dimensions, materiality, and time.

Massachusetts Senator and Abolitionist Charles Sumner Argues for and End to The Fugitive Slave Bill, A Full Decade Before It Was Repealed by Charles SUMNER; Slavery & Abolition

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Title: Massachusetts Senator and Abolitionist Charles Sumner Argues for and End to The Fugitive Slave Bill, A Full Decade Before It Was Repealed
Author: Charles SUMNER; Slavery & Abolition
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1854. [Abolition] [African Americana] SUMNER, Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, June 26 and 28, 1854. Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard Printers, 1854. At the time that this description is being written, just three copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. The Memorial referred to in the title was a request by 2900 undersigners, chiefly men of Boston, Mass., to repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. What follows is a transcription of Massachusetts Senator and famous abolitionist Charles Sumner's speeches in the ensuing debate: "[Mr Jones.] asks, 'Can anyone suppose that, if the Fugitive Slave Act be repealed, this Union can exist?' To which I reply at once, that if the Union in any way be dependent on an Act-- I cannot call it a law-- so revolting in every regard as to that which he refers, then it ought not to exist..." Sumner goes on to argue, amongst other things, that the Fugitive Slave Act is parallel to the hated Stamp Act that sparked the Revolutionary War, as well as to make spirited rebukes against the pro-slavery Senators Butler, Mason, and Jones: "The veteran Senator from Virginia [Mr. Mason] complained that I had characterized one of his "constituents", a person who went all the way from Virginia to Boston in pursuit of a slave, as a Slave-Hunter. Sire, I choose to call things by their right names. White I call white, and black I call black. And where a person degrades himself to the work of chasing a fellow man, who, under the guidance of the north star, has saught a freeman's home far away from the cofle and the chain, that person, whomsoever he may be, I call a Slave-Hunter." Eight sheets folded to make one sixteen-page signature, which is stitched along the left edge. Foxing throguhout, pages chipped along margins. Dampstaining along two page edges. Delicate but in good condition. Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 - March 11, 1874) was an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. During the war, he was a leader of the Radical Republican faction that criticized President Lincoln for being too moderate on the South. Sumner specialized in foreign affairs and worked closely with Lincoln to ensure the British and the French refrained from intervening on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War. As the chief Radical leader in the Senate during Reconstruction, Sumner fought hard to provide equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen on the grounds that "consent of the governed" was a basic principle of American republicanism, and to block ex-Confederates from power so they would not reverse the gains made from the Union's victory in the Civil War.

Glimpses of Italian Court Life; Happy Days in Italia Adorata by Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates

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Title: Glimpses of Italian Court Life; Happy Days in Italia Adorata
Author: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Full vellum with gilt lettering and decorations. Teg. Very good
Description: New York: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. Full vellum with gilt lettering and decorations. Teg. Very good. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed.

The eye that shapes by White, Minor & P.C. Brunnell

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Title: The eye that shapes
Author: White, Minor & P.C. Brunnell
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Princeton: Princeton UP & Art Museum, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Published on the occasion of a retro traveling exhibition at MOMA. 295 photos including 10 color from 1937-76. Obl. 4to.

Bits by ABLEMAN, Paul

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Title: Bits
Author: ABLEMAN, Paul
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: [London] Latimer Press, 1969., 1969. First edition. Small 4to. 8 pages of illustrations. Title page printed in brown and black. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt. Very good-fine. #14/50 numbered copies signed by Ableman on the limitation page. Printed on Glastonbury laid paper.. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.

Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery by ZERI, Federico

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Title: Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery
Author: ZERI, Federico
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Description: Baltimore: By the Trustees, 1976. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated with color plates. 2 volumes. Short thick 4to, red cloth with brown spine labels; spines a bit faded, else near fine. Baltimore: Published by the Trustees, 1976. Very good(+)

Kruty u 40-richchia velykoho chynu 29-ho sichnia 1918 - 29-ho sichnia 1958 (Kruty, On the 40th Anniversary of the Battle, January 29th, 1918 - January 29th, 1958) by Zbarazkyi, Semen

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Title: Kruty u 40-richchia velykoho chynu 29-ho sichnia 1918 - 29-ho sichnia 1958 (Kruty, On the 40th Anniversary of the Battle, January 29th, 1918 - January 29th, 1958)
Author: Zbarazkyi, Semen
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Miunkhen / Niu Iork (Munich / New York): Shliakh molodi, 1958. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 x 5; pp. 3-104; red wraps, printed in black; a bit of sun-fading to spine and minor wear to edges of wraps; in very good or better condition.Semen Zbaranskyi (pseud.), nee Danylo Chaikovskyi (1909 - 1972) was a Ukrainian journalist, author, and active member of OUN under Stepan Bandera. After spending time in Polish prisons, then Auschwitz and several DP camps, he lived in France, before finally settling in the US in 1957 and working as an editor for the Ukrainian daily "America." His current book told the history of the Battle of Kruty, between Russians and Ukrainians, and the heroism of the young Ukrainian people of the Student Batallion of Sich Riflemen against the invading Bolsheviks

Memento, ou, tableau general et resume des formules servant a la resolution des problemes de physique. by AUVRAY, N.-H.

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Title: Memento, ou, tableau general et resume des formules servant a la resolution des problemes de physique.
Author: AUVRAY, N.-H.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Paris:: Mallet-Bachelier, 1862., 1862. 213 x 136 mm. 8vo. 13, [3 blank] pp. Printed wrappers; covers loose, ms. notations on top cover. Very good.

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