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REUCHLIN, Johann. De arte cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati.
(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm, March 1517. Small folio (20.5 x 29.8 cm). With Reuchlin's woodcut decorated coat-of-arms on the title page. 19th-century blind-stamped half calf. [4], LXXIX, [1] ll. Full description

SOMMERHAUSSEN, Hartog. Hebreeuwsch spel- en lees-boekje voor eerstbeginnenden.
Amsterdam, Belinfante & Comp., J. van Embden & son, S.A. Proops, 5570 [=] 1810. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). With the authenticating oval stamp at the foot of the last page of the main text in part 2. Set in roman and italic type with 3 sizes of (sephardic) meruba Hebrew plus alphabets of rabbinical (semi-cursive), Yiddisch and script Hebrew types, and printed on Dutch wove paper. Publisher's original yellow, printed paper wrappers over thin boards. 24, [1], [1 blank]; 28, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes.
Amsterdam, Jacob Smith [= (Israel de Paull for) Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], 1678. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page (ornament E in the description of Van de Ven). Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [1], [1 blank], [28], 531, [30], [1 blank], 30 pp. Full description

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes.
Amsterdam, Jacob Smith [= (Israel de Paull for) Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], 1678. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on title page (ornament E in the description of Van de Ven). Contemporary mottled calf. [1], [1 blank], [28], 531, [30], [1 blank], 30 pp. Full description

SUSAN, Issachar ben Mordecai ibn. [in Hebrew:] Sefer Ibur shanim.
Venice, Giovanni di Gara, [5]339 [= 1578/79]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With the title set in an elaborate woodcut architectural arch and 6 round woodcut calendrical or astrological diagrams with text. Set entirely in Hebrew type, the main text in semi-cursive (rabbinical) and the headings in meruba, each of the two styles in at least 3 sizes. Contemporary limp sheepskin wrap-around cover with flap and fastened with strap. 136 ll., including the blank leaf [108]. Full description