Collection of Reference Books, Bibliography Books and Catalogs – Hebrew Printing and Jewish History – 19th-20th Centuries

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A large, varied collection of 51 catalogs, bibliography books and reference books, most of them dealing with manuscripts and Hebrew printing and with Jewish history. Most of them were published in the USA, England and Israel during the 20th century (several of them are from the 19th century). English, German, French, Hebrew and other languages.
In the collection: * Bibliography books and catalogs of Hebrew incunabula and manuscripts in libraries, museums and various collections, including catalogs of the Bodleian Library, the British Museum, The Valmadonna Trust Library, the James Rothschild Library, and more.
* Bibliography books and catalogs of Hebrew Books, incuding "Otzar Hasfarim" by Yitzchak Isaac Ben-Ya'akov (Vilnius, 1880); "Benedictus Spinoza, Bibliografie", edited by Antonius van der Linde (Hague, 1871); "Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing" (New York, 1946); "Die hebräische Publizistik in Wien", by Bernhard Wachstein (Vienna, 1930); "Hebrew maps of the Holy Land" by Wajntraub E. & G (Vienna, 1992); and more.
* Reference books, including: "Sephardim, Romanische Poesien der Juden in Spanien" [Sephardim, Romanesque Poetry of the Jews in Spain], by Meyer Kayserling (berlin, 1859); "Dzieje Żydów w Krakowie i na Kazimierzu (1304-1868)" [The History of the Jews in Krakow and Kazimierzu], by Majer Bałaban (Krakow, 1912); "The Censorship of Hebrew Books", by William Popper (New York, 1969); and more.
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Catalogs and Reference Books
Catalogs and Reference Books