Labyrinthos culver city ca (40 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Wraps. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Soft cover 4to in orange illustrated wraps. Very Good. Ex-lib. w/usual faults, corners splayed.106pp; illustrated in photos. 106 p. Ex-Library.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. This work mirrors the Biblical story of the exodus and is the author's memoirs and reflections of his march through the wilderness of his own time, never ceasing to dream about the promised land, never forgetting the historical legends of which his childhood dreams were made. Photographs are included. This copy is clean and solid.…

Softbound. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covers, xiv, 138 pp., b/w illustrations by Jorge Flores, references, bibliography, index Transalted from the Spanish by Marina Castañeda. Jorge Flores (illustratore).

Pamphlet. vi, 26p., illustrated with three facsimiles, two of which maps including a central double-spread , an aerial view dated to 1735. Softbound, a large pamphlet stapled into 11x8.5 inch yellow wraps, an entirely sound, clean and unmarked copy.

Staplebound. x, 22p., illustrated with a portion of a nineteenth-century line map (London 1854), staplebound pamphlet, 11x8.5 inches in printed grey wraps. An immaculate copy.

Softbound. Condizione: Very Good. Small octavo, paper covers, 194 pp., English language Summary Text is in Hebrew.

Wraps. Condizione: Good. Glossy wraps. 152 pp. With a few illustrations and photos. A collection of essays reflecting on indigenous literature from Latin America, including Mesoamerican work. With essays on a new translation of the Book of Chumayel; the Nicte; symbolic uses of pottery in tales of the Rama Indians; a new approach to the Codex Cospi; the covert chronology in the Cronica Mexicayotl, etc. GOOD+ condition. Covers a bit toned. Minor creasing and curling at the corners. Some offsetting to the rear cover.…

Wraps. Condizione: Good. Wraps. 76 pp, plus 55 plates. A study of the Popul Vuh seeking to counter previous claims of it as an apocryphal work, examining linguistic and other sources. GOOD+ condition. Minor soiling and toning. Upper rear cover corner creased. Owner's name on the title page.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 51 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. NoNE. FIRST. SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT UNMARKED MUCH ON THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS NICE PICTORIAL COVERS. SOME PHOTOS (illustratore).

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First English Language Edition. xiii, 137pp, index, bibliography, references, bw ills. Or card covers. Near new. Topics include pregnancy and childbirth; the place of children in the New World; games and toys; childhood disease and therapy; child sacrifice; Ixtlilton (Aztec healer god); child rearing techniques and superstitions. Concentrates on Inca, Maya and Aztec cultures. Originally published in Spanish as El Nino Precolumbino. Size: 8vo. Flores, Jorge. (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Very Good jacket. First Edition. Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1979. Brand New in perfect condition. Still enclosed in the publisher's plain glassine dust jacket which is only Very Good -- just a little worn at the edges. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. A history of the Hoe family firm as printing press innovators. Also has accounts of the Hoes in private life, with much on their book collecting friends in New York, and on the famous auction of Robert Hoe's fabulous library. Illustrations. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black and white pictorial cloth. Complete with the original glassine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. New/Very Good jacket. xviii, 846pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Staplebound. vi, 50p., illustrated solely with a modern line map. Softbound, an 11x8.5 inch stapled pamphlet in magenta wraps, a perfectly sound, clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Book is in NF condition with owner's ink stamp to inner cover, trace edge wear to edges noted, slightly cocked spine else a bright and solid copy. ARN W.08; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softbound. Condizione: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, frontispiece drawing, xii, map, plans, drawings, b/w photos, references cited, four large fold-out plans laid in.

Soft cover. 4to. pp xii, 76. Publisher's beige wraps with black lettering. Some facsimile reproductions at centre.ISBN: 0911437274 Very good minus. The spine has some light soiling and the corners are a little rubbed.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Not Issued. 1st Edition. pp: 432 [17]. Bound in plain blue printed card covers. The first English language edition. Translated from the Spanish by Brother Robert D. Wood. The Itza were a Maya ethnic group from the Yucatán Peninsula and Petén region who built the famous city of Chichén Itzá. Laid in is a 21" x 16" folded map of Guatamala, circa 1902. It was intended to be affixed to the rear cover. In this case it was left as it. This volume has several black and white plates at the beginning, and several folding maps at the end of the text. A very good copy with some sunning on the spine. The text block is clean and free of extraneous markings.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Limited edition. 1/300. 4to. xx,315pp. Silver-stamped black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Fine copy with three Ladino adaptations of the biblical Joseph narrative. 1) Poema de Yosef: A late fourteenth or early fifteenth-century poetic version of the Joseph tale, composed in Spain and remaining popular in the Ottoman Jewish communities after the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews. 2) Coplas de Yosef ha-Saddiq: composed before 1732 by Abraham Toledo and popularized throughout the Ottoman Empire, this extensive poetic work which includes many sequences meant to be sung has survived in two versions, one shorter than the other; the larger, printed in Constantinople in 1732, and the shorter, printed in Belgrade in 1861 but based on the now lost Salonica edition from 1755. 3) Joseph's Tale in the Ladino "Sefer ha-Yasar": written originally in a biblical Hebrew style within the medieval Jewish tradition of pseudo-historical and legendary narratives, imitating non-Jewish models of epic chronicles and romances of chivalry, the Sefer ha-Yasar dedicates a third of its text to the life and tribulations of Joseph. (M. Lazar). Technical editor: Robert Dilligan. Tiny bump on bottom edge of front cover. Text in Hebrew and Spanish with some English. Volume 5 of the series "The Sephardic Classical Library." Unnumbered edition limited to 300. Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Limited Edition. 1/300. 4to. XVIII. [2], 370pp. Original red-brick smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Second volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. The only extant 15th-century Spanish translation of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, preserved in a single manuscript at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, of which only very small fragments have been published during the last hundred years. Written originally by Maimonides in Judeo-Arabic, this monumental philosophical and exegetical treatise was translated into Spanish by the Jewish converso Pedro de Toledo, in the first decades of the 15th century from two different surviving Hebrew translations (by Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Yehuda Al-Harizi), while possibly also consulting the Judeo-Arabic and other texts. It was the first translation of Maimonides' work into a vernacular language and possibly the most extensive philosophical text in Spanish prose. The first 20 folios of the manuscript are densely covered with glosses of the translator and critical comments written in a mid-15th century hand by an anonymous Jewish reader. Since 1948, Americo Castro strongly advocated the need to make available the entire text, "to see how one understood and interpreted a complex book of philosophical questions at a time when nothing comparable in philosophical density had ever been attempted in the Castillan language." This work offers for the first time a complete transcription of the entire text and its glosses. Includes a selected bibliography. Preface in English; text in Spanish. Binding and interior in fine condition. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child due to Almohad persecution of Jews. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge and explaining away anthropomorphic and antropopathic terms in the Bible. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. 1/200. 4to. XX, 315pp. on acid-free paper. Original black smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine. Fifth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. A compilation of three Ladino adaptations of the biblical Joseph narrative. 1) Poema de Yosef: A late fourteenth or early fifteenth-century poetic version of the Joseph tale, composed in Spain and remaining popular in the Ottoman Jewish communities after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews. 2) Coplas de Yosef ha-Saddiq: composed before 1732 by Abraham Toledo and popularized throughout the Ottoman Empire, is an extensive poetic work including many sequences meant to be sung. 3) Joseph's Tale in the Ladino "Sefer ha-Yasar": written in the medieval Jewish tradition of pseudo-historical and legendary narratives, imitating non-Jewish models of epic chronicles and romances of chivalry. Contains a selected bibliography. Preface and introduction in English, the first two versions in romanized Ladino facing Ladino in Hebrew, the last version in romanized Ladino. Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1979. First edition, 1979. Includes a small brass plate from Hoe Co. mounted on the front free endpaper. Pictorial hardcover, no dustjacket, likely as issued. Good to very good with a very subtle lean to the binding, very light edgewear, firm binding, light scattered foxing to top edge of text block, personal bookplate on front pastedown, pages very clean and otherwise unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

First edition. 8vo. [2], 189 pp. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, very good condition (99000). Text in Hebrew.

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Limited Edition. 1/300. XXVIII, 515 pp. on acid-free paper. Original silver-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front board and silver lettering on spine. Third volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Two translations of a popular post-biblical book of epic and romance narrative, known as Sefer ha-Yasar [The Upright Book, The Upright Record, or Book of the Upright (Righteous)], and sometimes named after its opening line Sefer Toledot Adam [Book of the Generations of Adam]. The origin and date of composition are still a matter of debate. Long considered one of the lost biblical books mentioned in Joshua (10:13) and II Samuel (1:18), it is, in fact, similar to other pseudo-historical narratives from the Middle Ages. The Sefer ha-Yasar mixes select chapters from the biblical narrative (Genesis to beginning of Judges) with midrashic and legendary episodes borrowed from various sources, focusing on the lives and tribulations of major figures in the Pentateuch (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ismael, Jacob, Esau, Joseph, Moses, Joshua) along with nations and protagonists related to them through historical or legendary links. The English translation is derived from the 1840 Mordecai Manuel Noah edition and is a close literal rendering of the original Hebrew text, whereas the Ladino translation may be characterized as a creative stylized adaptation, often condensing or amplifying dramatic passages, and even rendering two chapters in rhymed stanzas. Preface and Introduction in English; text in romanized Ladino facing English version. Scarce work in fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Deluxe Limited Edition. 1/200. XXVIII, 515 pp. on acid-free paper. Original gilt-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with gilt illustration on front board and gilt lettering on spine housed in red paper-covered slipcase. Ribbon marker. Third volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Two translations of a popular post-biblical book of epic and romance narrative, known as Sefer ha-Yasar [The Upright Book, The Upright Record, or Book of the Upright (Righteous)], and sometimes named after its opening line Sefer Toledot Adam [Book of the Generations of Adam]. The origin and date of composition are still a matter of debate. Long considered one of the lost biblical books mentioned in Joshua (10:13) and II Samuel (1:18), it is, in fact, similar to other pseudo-historical narratives from the Middle Ages. The Sefer ha-Yasar mixes select chapters from the biblical narrative (Genesis to beginning of Judges) with midrashic and legendary episodes borrowed from various sources, focusing on the lives and tribulations of major figures in the Pentateuch (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ismael, Jacob, Esau, Joseph, Moses, Joshua) along with nations and protagonists related to them through historical or legendary links. The English translation is derived from the 1840 Mordecai Manuel Noah edition and is a close literal rendering of the original Hebrew text, whereas the Ladino translation may be characterized as a creative stylized adaptation, often condensing or amplifying dramatic passages, and even rendering two chapters in rhymed stanzas. Preface and Introduction in English; text in romanized Ladino facing English version. Scarce work in fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Deluxe Limited Edition. 1/200, unnumbered. 4to. XXI, [1], 215 pp. on acid-free paper. Original green smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine housed in matching slipcase. Fourth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Lazar's edition of Kuzari is based on the only surviving Ladino translation, a 15th-century manuscript preserved at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. A philosophic defense of Judaism in the form of a fictional dialog between the King of the Kuzars and a Jewish sage, during which a philosopher, a Christian and a Muslim are consulted about religious truth and the nature of faith and monotheism, resulting in the King's conversion to Judaism. The Ladino version edited here emerged a generation before the Inquisition, at an extremely troubled time in the life of Iberian Jews, providing them with a message of hope and consolation. Contains a selected bibliography. Preface and Introduction in English; text in romanized Ladino. Scarce work with slipcase. Book in fine condition. …

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Limited edition (Out of Series). 1/200. 8vo. XVIII, [10], 275 pp. on acid-free paper. Original silver-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front board and silver lettering on spine. Seventh volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Ladino translation of both the Hebrew Five Scrolls (megillot) and their Aramaic targum elaborations, presented for the first time in a modern edition. The Five Scrolls are arranged according to the order of the Festivals and Fast Days: Song of Songs for Passover; Ruth for Feast of the Weeks; Ecclesiastes for Feast of Tabernacles; Lamentations for the Fast Day of Tisha B'Av; Esther for the Feast of Purim. Ten facsimile pages of bilingual 16th-century printed editions. Preface in English; text in romanized Ladino facing Ladino in Hebrew script. Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to. XXX, [10], 725pp. on acid-free paper. Original smyth-sewn cloth with decorations in silver on front board and spine. From the Sephardic Classical Library series. Printed in 1553, the Ferrara Bible was the first Spanish translation of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanach) for use by Sephardi Jews. It was funded by the typographer Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias (also known by his converso name, Jerónimo de Vargas), translated by Abraham ben Salomon Usque (the Portuguese Jew whose converso name was Duarte Pinhel), and dedicated in one printing to Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and in another to Doña Gracia Nasi. Unlike the Ladino Pentateuch, in which the Ladino is printed in Hebrew script, the Ladino Bible of Ferrara offered for the first time the complete Bible (Tanach) in romanized Ladino, modernized in language and style for Spanish and Portuguese Jews who, in the sixteenth century, left the Iberian Peninsula and returned to an openly Jewish practice in Italy and Holland. The Ferrara Bible was destined to become the most reprinted Jewish Bible (with slight variations) in the Netherlands, and the model for the first classical Spanish translation of the Scriptures (the "Santa Biblia" authored by Casiodoro de Reina in 1569, revised by Cipriano de Valera in 1602). Our critical edition includes an 8-page facsimile section from the original 1553 edition and contains a selected bibliography. Preface, Introduction, Notes and Commentaries in English; text in romanized Ladino. Near fine to fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Deluxe Limited Edition. 1/300. XXVIII, 515 pp. on acid-free paper. Original gilt-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with gilt illustration on front board and gilt lettering on spine housed in matching slipcase. Red endpapers. Third volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Two translations of a popular post-biblical book of epic and romance narrative, known as Sefer ha-Yasar [The Upright Book, The Upright Record, or Book of the Upright (Righteous)], and sometimes named after its opening line Sefer Toledot Adam [Book of the Generations of Adam]. The origin and date of composition are still a matter of debate. Long considered one of the lost biblical books mentioned in Joshua (10:13) and II Samuel (1:18), it is, in fact, similar to other pseudo-historical narratives from the Middle Ages. The Sefer ha-Yasar mixes select chapters from the biblical narrative (Genesis to beginning of Judges) with midrashic and legendary episodes borrowed from various sources, focusing on the lives and tribulations of major figures in the Pentateuch (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ismael, Jacob, Esau, Joseph, Moses, Joshua) along with nations and protagonists related to them through historical or legendary links. The English translation is derived from the 1840 Mordecai Manuel Noah edition and is a close literal rendering of the original Hebrew text, whereas the Ladino translation may be characterized as a creative stylized adaptation, often condensing or amplifying dramatic passages, and even rendering two chapters in rhymed stanzas. Preface and Introduction in English; text in romanized Ladino facing English version. Scarce work with slipcase, binding and interior in fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Deluxe Limited edition (Out of Series). 1/200. 8vo. XVIII, [10], 275 pp. on acid-free paper. Original gold-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front board and gold lettering on spine housed in matching slipcase. Ribbon marker. Seventh volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Ladino translation of both the Hebrew Five Scrolls (megillot) and their Aramaic targum elaborations, presented for the first time in a modern edition. The Five Scrolls are arranged according to the order of the Festivals and Fast Days: Song of Songs for Passover; Ruth for Feast of the Weeks; Ecclesiastes for Feast of Tabernacles; Lamentations for the Fast Day of Tisha B'Av; Esther for the Feast of Purim. Ten facsimile pages of bilingual 16th-century printed editions. Preface in English; text in romanized Ladino facing Ladino in Hebrew script. Scarce work in slipcase. Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Deluxe Limited Edition. 1/300. 4to. XVIII. [2], 370pp. Original red-brick smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Includes ribbon page marker and matching slipcase. Frontispiece. Second volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. The only extant 15th-century Spanish translation of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, preserved in a single manuscript at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, of which only very small fragments have been published during the last hundred years. Written originally by Maimonides in Judeo-Arabic, this monumental philosophical and exegetical treatise was translated into Spanish by the Jewish converso Pedro de Toledo, in the first decades of the 15th century from two different surviving Hebrew translations (by Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Yehuda Al-Harizi), while possibly also consulting the Judeo-Arabic and other texts. It was the first translation of Maimonides' work into a vernacular language and possibly the most extensive philosophical text in Spanish prose. The first 20 folios of the manuscript are densely covered with glosses of the translator and critical comments written in a mid-15th century hand by an anonymous Jewish reader. Since 1948, Americo Castro strongly advocated the need to make available the entire text, "to see how one understood and interpreted a complex book of philosophical questions at a time when nothing comparable in philosophical density had ever been attempted in the Castillan language." This work offers for the first time a complete transcription of the entire text and its glosses. Includes a selected bibliography. Preface in English; text in Spanish. Binding and interior in fine condition. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child due to Almohad persecution of Jews. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge and explaining away anthropomorphic and antropopathic terms in the Bible. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.…