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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Iton Rishmi.
ISRAEL, The Provisional Government of.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00The first publication of the declaration of the State of Israel. The first 25 issues of 'Iton Rishmi' containing the official publication of the Is...
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In Hyde Park.
STENBERG, I. (?)Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00An atmospheric original drawing by an unknown Soviet-Jewish artist.Graphite and watercolour on paper (42.8 x 36 cm). Signed bottom right and signe...
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Chupat Chatanim.
MELDOLA, Raphael.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00First Edition of Rabbi Meldola's most famous work - an instruction manual for grooms discussing matchmaking, marriage, mikveh, the sacred act of c...
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Minhagim.
TYRNAU, Isaac.Original price £385.00 - Original price £385.00Original price £0.00£385.00£385.00 - £385.00Current price £385.00Comprehensive book written by Tyrnau in the 14th century, describing the Jewish customs of different communities and their codes of conduct for Sh...
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Hilkhot De'ot sive Canones Ethici
MAIMONIDES (Moses Ben Maimon); GENTIUS, Georgius (translator).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00First edition of Gentius's Latin translation of 'Hilkhot De'ot', from the first book of Maimonides's 'Mishneh Torah', with a commentary. This is G...
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Yom HaMedinah (The Day of The State).
ISRAEL, State of.Original price £2,400.00 - Original price £2,400.00Original price £0.00£2,400.00£2,400.00 - £2,400.00Current price £2,400.00A joint one-off publication of Israel's newspapers on the day of the proclamation of the state of Israel. On May 14, 1948, 'the last day of foreig...
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Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition
JACOBS, Joseph; WOLF, Lucien.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00Edition De Luxe. De Luxe numbered edition of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition catalogue.The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was held at th...
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The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah.
YERUSHALMI, Yosef Hayim.Original price £35.00 - Original price £35.00Original price £0.00£35.00£35.00 - £35.00Current price £35.00A landmark study by Yerushalmi in which he presents the Lisbon Massacre and uncovers the history of alliances between the Jews and their Portugues...
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Pseudonymen-Lexikon der Hebräischen und Jiddischen Literatur.
CHAJES, Saul (Shaul Chayut).Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00Index of pen-names in Hebrew and Yiddish literature; an unnumbered copy out of a limited edition of 250.First edition. Small 4to, publisher's vell...
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The Festival Prayers,
[PRAYER BOOK]. DE SOLA, D.A (translator).Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £0.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00Magnificent six volumes Ashkenazic Machzor of Festival Prayers, translated by Rev. David Aaron De Sola, minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Jew...
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Faith of Israel,
GOODMAN, Rabbi Tobias.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00One of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community' The Jewish Encyclopedia. First and only edition of this work by Rabbi Tobi...
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The Form of Prayers...
[PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Set of Festival Prayers (Machzor) by one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London with incredible provenance of the de Rothschild family.The F...
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Sefirat HaOmer.
[PRAYER BOOK].Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00Miniature illustrated prayer book. Scarce Ashkenazic miniature Prayer Book.The volume contains prayers for the forty-nine days between Passover and...
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Torah, Nevi'im Rishonim, Nevi'im Achronim, Ktuvim.
[HEBREW BIBLE].Original price £4,900.00 - Original price £4,900.00Original price £0.00£4,900.00£4,900.00 - £4,900.00Current price £4,900.00Scarce first edition of the Geneva Hebrew bible. Scarce first edition of the Geneva Hebrew bible, with the Megillot placed at the end of the Torah ...
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Archive.
[ABRAHAM FAMILY].Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00The life and times of a Jewish family in Victorian London. A unique insight into the life of a prominent London Jewish family over the course of th...
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Two Invitations from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales K.G. President and The Executive Council
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES AND INDIA.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The first of these two over-sized invitations received by Miss Louisa Da Costa was to the opening of the Imperial Institute on 10th May 1893, with...
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The Song of Solomon [The Song of Songs].
RABAN, Ze'ev [Zeew].Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00A magnificent publication of the Song of Songs, illustrated by Ze'ev Raban, personally dedicated to Prof. Boris Schatz, the founder and then manag...
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The List of Persons entitled to Vote in the Election of Four Members for the City of London,
[ELECTORAL REGISTER].Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00Jewish enfranchisement before emancipation. An important record of Jewish enfranchisement in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832, containing s...
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Further Correspondence Respecting the Persecution of the Jews in Moldavia [and] Continuation... July 1, 1867 [and] Continuation... July, 9 1867.
[PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS].Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00Three parliamentary papers presented to the Houses of Parliament in July 1867 on the persecution of Jews in Iași, Moldavia. In a series of telegra...
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