Judaica Books
As one of the few booksellers specialising in important and rare books on Jewish history, literature, philosophy, religion and culture from the West End of London, Shapero Rare Books offers a diverse range of Judaica and Hebraica spanning the centuries, from early printed books and manuscripts in Hebrew through to modern illustrated Haggadot and books on food & drink.
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Juifs (Talmudists).
VIALE, Karl (lithographed after).Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00A rare group portrait of the Rabbanite Russian Jews. A chromolithograph made after a work by the Austrian painter Karl Viale.The plate was used as...
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Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem.
[BRITISH MANDATE]. ALLENBY, Edmund.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Rare proclamation, issued by General Allenby, following the defeat and expulsion of the Turkish forces from Jerusalem on 9th December 1917 by the ...
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Autobiography of Godfrey Zimmerman,
ZIMMERMAN, Godfrey.Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £800.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00Scarce autobiography, with the list of subscribers. From the library of Alfred Rubens. Godfrey Zimmerman (1788-1866) born into a poor family of a ...
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Sefer Halakhot Ktanot [bound together with] Sefer Korban Hagiga.
HAGIZ, Ya'akov ben Shmuel. GALANTE, Moshe b. Yonatan.Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £800.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00Responsa work by Hagiz, bound together with sermons by Galante, both published in Venice the same year.Ya'akov ben Smuel Hagiz (aka Jacob Hagiz, 1...
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An Act to remove Doubts as to Quakers and Jews Marriages solemnized before certain Periods. [2d July 1847.]
[ACT OF PARLIAMENT].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00An act of Parliament confirming the validity of 'Marriages amongst the People called Quakers and amongst Persons professing the Jewish Religion'.T...
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An Act to Oblige the Jews to Maintain and Provide for their Protestant Children
[ACT OF PARLIAMENT].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00An act of Parliament 'To the end that sufficient maintenance be provided and allowed for the children of Jewish parents, who shall turn Protestant...
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Order of Supplication.
[PRAYER BOOK].Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Order of New Year's and Yom Kippur prayers.Small 4to, (16 x 12 cm); text in English and Hebrew, ownership inscription in English to upper second l...
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The Memoirs of J. Decastro, Comedian.
DECASTRO, J[acob]; HUMPHRYS, R. (editor).Original price £900.00 - Original price £900.00Original price £900.00£900.00£900.00 - £900.00Current price £900.00This first edition from 1824 offers the memoirs of an early nineteenth-century circus comedian, with an overview of the life of Philip Astley, the...
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An essay on the physical, moral, and political reformation of the Jews;
GRÉGOIRE, Henri.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00First published in 1789 as Essai sur la regeneration physique, morale et politique des Juifs.Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (1750-1831, a.k.a. the A...
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The Jew, a Comedy;
CUMBERLAND, Richard.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Jewish character debut on a London stage. First performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 1794, Richard Cumberland's (1732-1811) The J...
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The present state of the Jews:
ADDISON, Lancelot.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The Jewish community of the Barbary Coast. An interesting early account of life and customs of the Jewish community of the Barbary Coast.Lancelot A...
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Êfés Dammîm,
LEVINSOHN, J. B.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860, a.k.a. Ribal) was a Jewish scholar of Hebrew, satirist, writer and Haskalah movement leader. He has been called '...
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Hebrew Idolatry and Superstition: Its Place in Folk-lore.
HIGGENS, Elford.Original price £60.00 - Original price £60.00Original price £60.00£60.00£60.00 - £60.00Current price £60.00Scarce work.First edition; 8vo; very light toning to leaves, some offsetting to endpapers; publisher's red cloth, paper title label to spine, lett...
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Éfés Dammim,
LEVINSOHN, J. B.; LOEWE, Dr L. (translator).Original price £1,600.00 - Original price £1,600.00Original price £1,600.00£1,600.00£1,600.00 - £1,600.00Current price £1,600.00Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860, a.k.a. Ribal) was a Jewish scholar of Hebrew, satirist, writer and Haskalah movement leader. He has been called '...
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Catalogue of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887. Royal Albert Hall.
JACOBS, Joseph & WOLF, Lucien (compilers).Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Catalogue of The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition which was held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, from April to June, 1887. The exhibits includ...
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Four Pamphlets.
[JEWISH NATURALISATION ACT].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Political pamphlets. Four tracts published in the lead-up to the ill-fated Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753. The act (or 'Jew Bill') sought to rem...
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Studies in Jewish Statistics,
JACOBS, Joseph.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £375.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00Presentation copy. The following studies began in an attempt to get reliable data about the Jews of Europe when the anti-Semitic movement was at it...
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The Arguments Advanced Against the Enfranchisement of the Jews Considered in a Series of Letters.
GOLDSMID, Francis Henry.Original price £850.00Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00Current price £650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00'with the Author's Respectful Compliments'. The second edition of Francis Henry Goldsmid's (1808-1878) treatise advocating the political enfranchis...
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