Official decree regulating meat trade in Frankfurt am Main, issued by the city council. Frankfurt am Main, 1798. German.
A temporary order published by the Rechenei-Amt (an official office responsible for various financial issues), following repeated complaints of butchers in Frankfurt am Main, regulating the import of meat to the city. The first article prohibits import of meat from Jewish butchers located outside the city.
[1] f., 22X35 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Small tears to edges.

An die gesammten Herren Dekanatsvorsteher der Brünner Diözes, a decree issued by the Bishopric of Brno, signed (in print) by the head of the Bishopric, Paul Ferdinand Niering (1746-1829?). Brno, December 19, 1822. German.
A decree limiting the employment of Christian servants by Jews. The decree notes that the authorization given to several Jewish families of Brno to employ Christian servants, provided that "their religious duties will not be hindered and their morality will not be corrupted", is not valid for Jews living in the rural areas of the district, and orders to immediately report Jews who illegally employ Christian servants.
[1] f. (2 printed pages), 35 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Minor creases to margins. Ink notations.

Allgemeine preussische Staats-Geschichte samt aller dazu gehörigen Königreichs, Churfürstenthums, Herzogthümer, Fürstenthümer, Graf- und Herrschaften aus bewährten Schriftstellern und Urkunden bis auf gegenwärtige Regierung [The General History of the Prussian State…], by Carl Friedrich Pauli. Halle, Germany: Christoph Peter Francken, 1760-69. Eight volumes (full set). German.
Composition by German historian Carl Friedrich Pauli (1723-1778), encompassing the history of the Prussian kingdom and the principalities it comprised from antiquity until Pauli's time. This long, eight-volume work was written and published in the days of King Frederick II ("the Great") of Prussia, a military leader and acclaimed statesman, also renowned as a patron of the arts.
In some of the chapters that deal with the Jews, Pauli goes into great detail and great length to describe various blood libels, including the one perpetrated against the Jews of the Margraviate (Principality) of the March of Brandenburg in 1510, following accusations that they had stolen and desecrated Sacramental bread from the church in the village of Knobloch. More than a hundred Jews were arrested and interrogated under severe torture over a period of four weeks; in the end, 36 of them were burned at the stake and the remaining members of the Jewish community were expelled from the country (see Vol. 2, pp. 452-62).
Most of the volumes feature a frontispiece engraving – a portrait of one of the Prussian kings or noblemen mentioned in the text (Frederick I, Frederick II, and others), decorated initials, and illustrations (portraits, family trees, and more.
Eight volumes. Vol. 1: [11] ff., 612, [10] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 2: [8] ff., 600, [10] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 3: [3] ff., 612, [16] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 4: [3] ff., 624, [12] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 5: [3] ff., 618, [14] pp. + [1] pl. Vol. 6: [4] ff., 610, [9] pp. Vol. 7: [3] ff., 560 pp. + [2] pls. (one folded). Vol. 8: [3] ff., 592, [26] pp. + [1] pl.
Approx. 24 cm. Browning. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Notations on some leaves. Tears to edges of some leaves. Library stamps on front pastedowns. Matching bindings, with leather spines and corners. Abrasion and wear to edges of bindings and spines. Gilt impressed spines.

Five publications issued by various Jewish organizations for the blind in Germany and Austria. First half of the 20th century. German.
1. Bericht des Vereins "Jüdische Blindenanstalt Für Deutschland" (Beth Chinuch Leiwrim) für das Geschäftsjahr 1909/10 [Report of "The Institute for the Jewish Blind in Germany" for 1909/10], Berlin, [1910?].
61 pp. 22.5 cm.
2. Donation form issued by the Jüdische Blindenanstalt Für Deutschland, Berlin. Designed as a postcard.
14.5X9.5 cm.
3. Jüdischer Blindenkalender [Calendar for the Jewish Blind]. Berlin: Selbsthilfegruppe der jüdischen Blinden in Deutschland [Self-help Group of the Jewish Blind in Germany], 1935.
96 pp. + [1] (separate) leaf in Braille, 21 cm.
4. Calendar for 1936-7 / Jüdischer Kalender für das Jahr 5697. Vienna: Hilfsverein der jüdischen Blinden [Aid Association of the Jewish Blind], [1936].
23 pp. 12 cm.
5. Jüdisches Blindenjahrbuch 5699 1938/1939 [Jewish Almanac for the Blind, 1938/9], Berlin: Selbsthilfegruppe der jüdischen Blinden in Deutschland, 1938.
[1] f., 95 pp. 21 cm.
Condition varies; good-fair overall condition.

Der neue Geist [The New Spirit] journal of Brit HaKana'im) in Vienna, issue no. 1. Vienna: Jugendgruppe des Verbandes der Judenstaatszionisten, January 1938.
An issue of the journal of Brit HaKana'im, the youth movement of the Austrian Zionist organization Verbande der Judenstaatszionisten (Jewish State Party). Mimeographed typescript.
The issue features short political articles on Zionism; a discussion about the state of the movement; a report on the "Robert Stricker group" which settled in Herzliya (including pictures from the event), and more. In addition, the issue contains pictures from a summer camp of the movement.
Brit HaKana'im was the youth movement of the Jewish State Party headed by Meir Grossman (1888-1964) which split from the Union of Revisionist Zionists (Hatzohar) in 1933. After World War II they reunited.
[11] ff., approx. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears along edges of cover and spine.
Not in OCLC.