Judaica
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![[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1932 : the "Hitler" issue.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/01/31162933/2022_DSFB_0518-300x300.jpg)
# 34176
GARRETTO, Paolo (1903-1989) (illustrator)
[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1932 : the “Hitler” issue.
New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., November 1932. Large quarto format (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the front cover design a lampoon of Adolf Hitler by Italian artist Paolo Garretto; 72 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; the wrappers have some very light handling wear, and the paper spine is chipped in a few …
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# 34078
ASTBURY, Leigh
Earth to sky. The art of Victor Majzner
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Quarto, cloth, illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, light wave to the jacket from storage, else as new. Contents: Part I. The Substance of the Matter 1966-1982: 1. Painting as process and paint as substance 1966-1976; 2. Explorations of a personal kind 1977-1982 Part II. Cultural Landscapes 1983-1992: 3. Cultural critiques 1983-1992; …
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![[JEWS IN CHINA] Inscriptions juives de K'ai-fong-fou.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/10/15100147/2021_DSFB_7440-300x300.jpg)
# 30363
TOBAR, Jérôme (1855-1917)
[JEWS IN CHINA] Inscriptions juives de K’ai-fong-fou.
Chang-hai [Shanghai] : Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1900. First edition. Series: Variétés sinologiques. no. 17. Octavo, yellow buckram over boards, pp vi, 111, [i]; with 2 folding plates and 5 folding facsimiles of inscriptions; clean throughout, a very good ex-library copy, the first and last leaves with stamps of the Hartford Theological Seminary, pastedowns …
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# 29682
KLEPNER, Frank
Yosl Bergner : art as a meeting of cultures
With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. ‘The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner’s Australian …
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# 30940
BERGNER, Yosl (1920 - 2017)
Yosl Bergner. Paintings to Franz Kafka (deluxe edition)
Tel Aviv : Shva Publishers, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, card slipcase, pp. 136, text in English. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 signed copies, issued with a signed screenprint loosely enclosed. This example lackign the screenprint, but signed by Bergner on the endpaper with a small initalled drawing. Born in Sydney in 1927, Bergner …
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# 29265
HARPER, Henry Andrew (1835-1900)
Walks in Palestine
London : The Religious Tract Society, 1888. First edition. Large quarto (320 x 260 mm), publisher’s oatmeal cloth over bevelled boards, upper board and spine with gilt-stamped lettering and pictorial device (light staining to boards and spine), all edges gilt, title page in red and black, 128 pp, with [24] photogravure plates, all with tissue …
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# 29266
SOSKIN, Abraham (photographer) (1884-1963)
Album Tel-Aviver Ansichten / Album of Tel-Aviv Views / Albom mar’ot Tel-Abib
[Berlin : Photophot A.G., 1926]. Oblong octavo (160 x 220 mm), rebound in later half morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt ‘Tel Aviv 1926’; [81] pp, comprising [6] pages with three versions of the Preface written by photographer Abraham Soskin, in Hebrew, English and German, followed by [3] preliminary plates (coat of arms …
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# 30606
SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.
Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.
/ By F. B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty’s ship Le Tigre; surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. London : Published by Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty and the Royal Family, 59, New Bond-street. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row, 1803. First edition. Large folio (470 x 335 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled half scarlet …
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# 30054
HOFFMANN, Nehemia Dov (1860 - 1928)
The Jews in South Africa
Of all matters concerning Jewish and Judaism in S Africa. By N. Hoffmann. Editor of the Monthly Journal DER AFRIKANER, and Author of several Hebrew Scientific Works. Assisted by Scholars, Rabbies, Reverends and Prominent men of South Africa, including Rabbi Dr J.L. Landau, Rev. Prof. A.P. Bender, Col. Sir David Harris, H. Liberman, Adv. M. …
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# 29264
STEIN, Leonard
Memorandum on the “Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929.”
London : The Jewish Agency for Palestine, May 1930. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (sunned along spine and with a couple of insignificant marks), pp 111; internally clean and bright, a near fine copy. A rare Zionist publication issued as a response to the Shaw Commission Report of March 1930 on the riots that erupted …
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# 27905
BERGNER, Yosl
Yosl Bergner. A retrospective exhibition
Banyule Gallery. 11 September – 8 December 1985. Melbourne: NGV, 1985. Folio, illustrated card wrappers , 64pp. extensively illustrated, essay by Richard Haese, catalogue of 84 works. An excellent survey of Bergner’s works that he produced while in Australia and Israel.
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# 27788
TUSZYNSKI, Devi
Prince of miniature : Devi Tuszynski (signed copy with small sketch)
[Melbourne] Australia : 1962. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [24], illustrated. Text in French, English and Hebrew. GSigned and inscribed in Melbourne with a small ink ornamentation. Scarce Australian publication on the internationally renowned Polish-Israeli miniaturist Devi Tuszynski, brother of Melbourne painter Felix Tuszynski.
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![[ZIONISM] The emancipation of the Jews, indispensable for the maintenance of the Protestant profession of the Empire ; and most entitled to the support of the British Nation.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/03/26164154/2020_DSFB_1813-300x300.jpg)
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GAWLER, George (1795-1869)
[ZIONISM] The emancipation of the Jews, indispensable for the maintenance of the Protestant profession of the Empire ; and most entitled to the support of the British Nation.
London : T. and W. Boone, New Bond Street, 1847. Octavo, disbound, pp iv, 30; title with offsetting at corners and left margin, else a very good copy. Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler (1795-1869) served as the second Governor of South Australia from October 1838 until May 1841. After his retirement in 1841, Gawler returned to England and devoted himself …
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# 22191
ZAREMBA, Tadeusz
The art of Felix Tuszynski
Płock : The Mazovian Museum, 2000. Quarto, gilt-lettered leather with pictorial onlay, pp. 207, illustrated. Limited to 400 numbered copies. Paintings and drawings from the Australian artist, a Polish holocaust survivor.
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# 18393
Palestine police as a career
London : Crown Agents for the Colonies, circa 1945. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers by Clive Upton (worn, old folds), pp. 16, illustrated, defective, an illustration cut from the central page. Rare recruitment book for the British Palestine Police just prior to Israel’s independence in 1948. “During the British Mandate (1920-1948) the Palestine Police formed a crucial …
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![[BOTANY BAY]. The whole proceedings on the trials of two informations](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/15211842/2015_DSFB_6621-300x69.jpg)
# 12705
GURNEY, Joseph
[BOTANY BAY]. The whole proceedings on the trials of two informations
exhibited ex officio by the King’s Attorney-General against George Gordon, Esq. commonly called Lord George Gordon : one for a libel on the Queen of France and the French Ambassador; the other for a libel on the judges, and the administration of the laws in England. Also of Thomas Wilkins, for printing the last-mentioned libel. …