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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Tikun Sofrim.
[PENTATEUCH]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /First edition of Levi's Pentateuch, which came to be the best known bible translation by a Jew of its time. Published together with a sixth volume...
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The Jewish Spy:
ARGENS, Jean Baptiste de Boyer (Marquis d').Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A translation of the Marquis d'Argens' Lettres juives (first published in 1736). The book is written in the form of correspondence between rabbis ...
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Deed between Messrs. Goldschmidt and Their Creditors. Dated 28th August 1826. [Indenture].
[GOLDSCHMIDT].Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Jewish banking & Mexican independence. An early nineteenth-century indenture authorising the liquidation and winding-up of the Jewish merchant ...
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Sefer Elijah Mizrahi al HaTorah.
MIZRAHI, Elijah ben Abraham.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentatuch with a schematic map of Israel.Elijah ben Abraham Mizrahi (a.k.a. Re'em, c. 1455-1525 or 1526) w...
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Correspondence respecting Abyssinians at Jerusalem. 1850-1867.
[PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS].Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /A parliamentary report on the organisation of the Abyssinian church in Jerusalem at the time of the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1868. The a...
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The Form of Daily Prayers,
[PRAYER BOOK].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /With a prayer for Queen Victoria. Scarce fourth edition of this Hebrew-English prayer book, bound in a fine decorative binding, first published in ...
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Interesting Facts Concerning The Jews Already in Palestine,
HANNINGTON, Joseph.Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00| /A Christian missionary text, preaching all faiths "to abide in Christ" in anticipation for the near approach of the Messiah to the Holy Land.8vo, ...
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Biblia Hebraica Sine Punctis.
[HEBREW BIBLE]. FORSTER, Nathaniel (editor).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /First hebrew bible printed in england. A non-vocalised edition of the Pentateuch, based on E. van der Hooght's text (Darlow & Moule 5141). It i...
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Grundsätze der Jüdischen Religion
WOLF, Abraham Nathan.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /One of the first instructive texts on Judaism to be published in Germany.In his Foundations of the Jewish Religion, Rabbi Abraham Nathan Wolf lays...
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Gevurot HaShem.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah. An interesting 19th-century example of Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah with commentary by Gabriel HaKohen of Zamter.With...
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Haggadah Shel Pesach. Arbah Yesodot.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Yiddish edition of the 'Four Foundations' Haggadah published in Amsterdam.The title page illustrates the 'four pillars of the world' - four founda...
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Chalukah Derabanan.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Rare Lviv edition of this work of commentary on the Passover Haggadah, comprising: 'Shney Luchot HaBrit' by Isaiah Halevi Horowitz, 'Mateh Aharon'...
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Seder Haggadah shel Pesah: Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover, with an English Translation.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Early New York Haggadah. An interesting example of an early New York Haggadah.Herbew and English text printed on opposing pages. Contains a Yiddish...
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Peduyat Tuvia: Haggadah shel Pesach.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah with two commentaries - 'Or HaShem' by Rabbi Jacob Tsevi Emden (a.k.a. Ya'avetz, 1697-1776), and 'Or Israel' by Rabbi...
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Seder Haggadah shel Pesach im Targum Ashkenaz.
[HAGGADAH]. COSCHELSBERG, Solomon (corrector).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Scarce first edition of the Basel Haggadah in its original publisher's decorative binding.One of the more attractive Haggadah editions that were p...
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Ma'aleh Beit Horin ve'hu Seder Haggadah shel Pesach.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Third edition of the celebrated Amsterdam Haggadah, complete with the Map of the Land of Israel and commentary by Moses Alscheich, Maharal (Yehuda...
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Sefer Berit Mateh Moshe.
KATZ, Rabbi Moshe bar Yeshayahu (Katz of Wengrov).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /First Haggadah printed in Berlin. Passover Haggadah with Kabbalistic commentary, considered to be the first Haggadah ever published in Berlin.In th...
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Public Notice.
[BRITISH MANDATE]. SAMUEL, Herbert.Original price £700.00 - Original price £700.00Original price £0.00£700.00£700.00 - £700.00Current price £700.00| /A narrow poster, which was likely hung on the streets of Mandate Palestine, notifying the people that 'the importation of sporting guns and of amm...
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Hamishah Humshey Torah... Tikun Sophrim.
[PENTATEUCH].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Eighteenth-century Pentateuch, vocalised, with commentary by Rashi.The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printers, publishers, and...
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