The Collected Works of Haim Nachman Bialik and selected translations, with illustrations by Joseph Budko. Berlin: Hovevei HaSafa HaIvrit, 1923. Hebrew.
Collected works of Haim Nachman Bialik in a deluxe edition. Four volumes: First book - poems; second book - stories and literature; third book - translation of Don Quixote; fourth book - translation of Wilhelm Tell.
The four volumes are signed by Haim Nachman Bialik and by Joseph Budko on the colophon leaves, but are not numbered; bound in vellum bindings of good quality with gold ornamentations, and with gilt edges. Placed in a hand-made case, prepared especially for the books (probably around the time of publication).
Volumes: 25X18 cm. Fair condition. Worming to several leaves and to bindings (slight). Case in fair-poor condition. Significant worming, defects and stains.

Dar begrabene Leuchter [The Buried Candelabrum], by Stefan Zweig. Vienna Leipzig and Zurich: Herbert Reichner, 1937. German.
"The Buried Candelabrum" by Stefan Zweig, story of the travels of the seven-branched candelabrum throughout the world, until its return to Jerusalem of the Byzantine Empire and its burial in an unknown church. With illustrations by Berthold Wolpe.
Copy no. 13 out of an edition of 450 copies (out of which only 30 are signed by the author), signed by Stefan Zweig on the colophon page. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in a red leather binding with gold embossments.
[3] leaves, 9-127, [2] pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains (mostly to first and last leaves and to margins). Slight defects to binding. Bookplate. Inserted in a black slipcase (damaged).

Enchiridion expositionis vocabulorum Haruch, Tharghum, Midrascim, Berescith, Scemoth, Vaicra, Midbar Rabba, et multorum aliorum librorum, by Dominican Sante Pagnini. Printed by Tommaso Strozzi [or, perhaps, by Marcello Silber?], Rome, 1523.
The first printed work by Dominican philologist and Biblical scholar Pagnino (1470-1541) and the only publication printed by Strozzi. According to one hypothesis, the work was printed by Marcello Silber, but the typographical characteristics and woodcuts in the present work did not appear in other publications printed by Silber. Possibly, Pagnini and Strozzi founded a private press in order to print the book. Some of the woodcuts appearing in this lexicon later appeared many times in books printed by the Italian printers Mazzocchi, Vitali, Froben and others.
The lexicon written by Pagnini gained great popularity and was reprinted in several editions in Lyon and Antwerp under the title Epitome thesauri linguae sanctae.
LXXXXII leaves (pagination errors on several leaves), 31 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Some worming throughout the book, with damage to text. A number of age-toned leaves. Library stamps. Original wood and leather binding, with decorations, slightly damaged and repaired. New endpapers.
Provenance:
1. Congregazione di Propaganda fide, Rome.
2. Dr. Alberto Milano, Rome.
3. Toaff family collection.

Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, a multi-lingual edition of the Bible edited by Brian Walton. Printed by Thomas Roycoft, London, 1657. Volumes no. 1, 2, 4, and 6.
Four volumes (out of six) of the "London Polyglot", edited by Brian Walton. This is the fourth polyglot edition of the Bible and the New Testament, considered one of the most important polyglots. It was edited by Walton together with a team of scholars and is accompanied by various philological studies and translations of the bible into nine different languages, among them Samaritan, Persian, Ethiopian, Greek and Latin. A copy of this edition was owned by Isaac Newton and was used by him when he wrote his composition "Notes on the Jewish Temple".
The first volume, with the Pentateuch, has eight engraved plates: illustrated title page, Walton's portrait, maps of Jerusalem and of Palestine (two printed on double pages), illustrations of the Temple and more.
Volume no. 1: [14], 53,38,102 [i.e. 106] pp, [1] leaf, 865 pp + [8] plates. Volume no. 2: 889, [1], 29, [1] pp. Volume no. 4: 87 pp, [2] leaves, 20, 23,128, 159, 390 pp. Volume no. 6 (supplements): [1] leaf, 72, 56, 98 [i.e. 68], 80, 140, 24, 29-196, 24, 47, 47-58, 36, 36, 96 [i.e. 74], [2] pp. Approx 44 cm. Condition varies between the volumes. Stains, worming and tears. Ownership signatures. Newspaper clippings are mounted on the inner side of the front cover of volume no. 1. Contemporary leather bindings with gilt decorations, worn and torn, with lacking pieces to spines (some loose).