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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Russian Empire Loan Bond signed by Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Talon.
[RUSSIAN EMPIRE].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Signed by Nathan Mayer Rothschild & Joseph Cohen. Russian Empire Five Percent Annuity Bond Paid in London.Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), ...
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Laws of the New Synagogue, Leadenhall Street, London.
[SOLOMON, Abraham].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Scarce first edition of this book of laws and regulations of the New Synagogue of Leadenhall Street, founded in 1762. Includes a special section o...
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Shabbath and Eruvin;
WOTTON, W[illiam].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A work interpreting the Jewish Mishnah (Misna) laws of the Shabbath for the Christian reader. The work divided into two parts: 'Misna: or the Trad...
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Rituel des Prières en Hébreu. [Hebrew Prayers].
MILHAUD, Michael.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £300.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00Two parts (out of original three) or this important Siddur, containing Daily prayers and Sabbath prayers.The prayer book is dedicated to Mr Hanane...
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The Paths of Judaism in England.
BLACK, I. I. (Israel Isaac Schwartzberg).Original price £50.00 - Original price £50.00Original price £50.00£50.00£50.00 - £50.00Current price £50.00Review of the Jewish life in England, including answers to some missionaries, by Israel Itzhak ben Eliezer Schwartzberg (Black, ?-1932) a writer a...
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The Jews at K'ae-Fung-Foo:
SMITH, George.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00With map. A very scarce work, with an Introduction by the Right Revd. George Smith, D.D. Lord Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong), which sketches out We...
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Laws of The Congregation of The Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London.
[THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE].Original price £500.00Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00Current price £400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Revised edition published by 'The Wardens of The Great Synagogue' (first edition published in 1827).8vo, red publisher's cloth, embossed with gilt...
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Jewish Perseverance, or The Jew, at Home and Abroad: an Autobiography.
LISSACK, M[orris].Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Presentation copy signed by the author. Morris Lissack (1814-1895) was a Jewish-English author and communal worker. Born in Prussia he emigrated to...
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Proclamation by the officer administering the government.
[BRITISH MANDATE]. SCOTT, Robert.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00A large poster, which was likely hung on the streets of Mandate Palestine, reminding civilians to mind their own business, to behave lawfully and ...
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Chad Gadjo.
BIRNBAUM, Menachem (illustrator); BIRNBAUM, Uriel (translator).Original price £500.00Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00Current price £375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00A colourful art book, illustrating the famous Passover hymn Had Gadjo (Chad Gadya in English spelling).Menachem (1893–1944) and Uriel Birnbaum (18...
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Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839.
[BONAR, Andrew A.; Robert Murray M`Cheyne].Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £300.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00Lengthy account of the journey to the Holy Land undertaken by the Church of Scotland Deputation to the Jews, in 1839, for the purpose of conversio...
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A Hebrew and English, and English and Hebrew Vocabulary;
LINDO, Abigail.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Family association copy. Extremely scarce. With a fine inscription from the author's father, in the hand of her uncle: 'George Gawler from Mr. D. A...
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The Sabbath of The Jews in Its Relation to the Sunday Question.
Dr. BENISCH.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £120.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00Extremely scarce. 'A reprint of a series of articles from the "Jewish Chronicle" of February, 1866.'First edition. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, mar...
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An Essay on The History and Theory of Music;
NATHAN, Isaac.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00A work on the history and theory of music by the composer of the famous Hebrew Melodies. Isaac Nathan (c. 1791-1864) was a Jewish-English composer...
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An Answer To a Pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the Bill to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized;
[ROMAINE, William].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Jewish naturalisation act. 'In 1752–53 Romaine became nationally known for opposing a bill before Parliament relating to 'the naturalisation of tho...
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Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire.
[GUÉNÉE, Antoine].Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £1,400.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00Antoine Guénée (1717 – 1803) was a French priest and Christian apologist, born at Étampes. He wrote, besides various apologetic works, Lettres de ...
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Anglia Judaica: or the history and antiquities of the Jews in England,
TOVEY, D'Blossiers.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 first comprehensive history of the Jews of England. D'Blossiers Tovey (1692-1745) was an English clergyman, his work is considered to be the fi...
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The proceedings at large in the Arches Court of Canterbury, between Mr. Jacob Mendes da Costa,
[MENDES DA COSTA, Jacob].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00An Anglo-Jewish cause célèbre involving the wealthy Anglo-Jewish Portuguese trading dynasty of Mendes Da Costa. The matter being tested at law was...
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The complaint of the children of Israel,
ARNALL, William.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00The book went through many editions in its first year of publication. All are quite scarce.Second edition. 8vo, title page and last leaf rather du...
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The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations,
PRIDEAUX, Humphrey.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Scarce Dublin edition.Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724) was a Cornish churchman, orientalist and Dean of Norwich from 1702. 'The Old and New Testament...
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A Dissertation Concerning the Baptism of Jewish Proselytes... By John Gill, D.D.
GILL, John.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00First & only edition. The first and only edition of John Gill's (1697-1771) study of the history of baptism in Abrahamic religion, refuting sug...
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