Rare books from M.Pollak Antiquariat - Est.1899

Graavenhaage: Pieter De Hondt, 1728. No Binding. Very Good. Bernard Picart. Depiction of the "Last Supper". Captions in 6 six languages (Greek, Latin, English, French, German and Dutch) relating to Matthew 26. . ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ETCHING (copper plate) drawn by the French painter BERNARD PICART, engraved by Blois. Beautiful and clear imprint of the etching with impressive light and shadow effect ("Nachtbild") . Printed on strong imperial paper ( with watermark) with extra large margins (3 sides untrimmed). Margins with hardly visible really minimal age toning here and there, etching absolutely clean. 2 original folds as issued. 1 faint crease in outer margin (right bottom) far from image. Truely VERY GOOD CONDITION- Double sheet from the prestigious edition of :" Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe Testament". Size of the illustrated area: 42 x 35 cm / 16,5" x 13,17". Size of whole sheet: 68,5 x 52,5cm / 26,9" x 20,6

Jerusalem: Bney Bezalel Publ. Co, 1939. Limited Edition . Cloth. Very Good. Small Folio.. 14 pp English text+102pp Hebrew tex t+ 187 illustrations on 64 plates. Small folio. First and only edition. One of only 400 copies. Renewed end-papers and binding. Some foxing to text and edges (not on the plates). Otherwise a very good copy . - AIRMAIL SHIPPING INCL. WORLDWIDE

Berlin: Verlag Schwellen, 1923. First Edition . Original Decorative Half-cloth. Very Good. Folio-oblong. Issachar Beer Ryback. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 31 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS with captions in yiddish. Front-cover: on the leftside one strip (5cm wide) with some discoloration. (for binding see our photos) Edges with truly insignificant occasional foxing . "Bilder - Verzeichnis" reproduced in facsimile. A very good , clean and fresh copy AS RARELY SEEN - A SCARCE ITEM of JEWISH ART in the Russian Avantgarde Style.

Paris: Caracteres, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio -. Pinchas Schaar. 24 unnumbered leaves with 10 full page woodcuts by P. Schaar.Loose in white folder as issued ( cover slightly marked and with minor foxing ) A very good copy.

Osaka (Japan): Kaigai, 1983. Original Cloth Folder. Very Good. Large Folio (54 x 39cm). Danielle Ogier, Louis Pitaud, Jean Louis L'Hopitale. 48 superb colour plates by DANIELLE OGIER LOUIS PITAUD GROUP and JEAN LOUIS L'HOPITALE GROUP + 4 pp text.Folder with some wear and a few stains. Text and plates like new. A SUPERB COLLECTION of colourful TEXTILE DESIGNS on atttractive double spread prints, perfect also for framing. RARE

Amsterdam, 1677. First Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Olfert Dapper. Depiction of a BAREFOOT WANDERING DERVISH. ORIGINAL ETCHING. Untrimmed. Size of the illustrated area: 17,5 x 28,5 cm ( 7,14 x 11,63 inch) + margins. Slight age-toning and 1 small foxing stain. VERY GOOD. (Airmail shipping incl.) - Minimal gebr?unt und mit 1 winzigen Stockflecken. Sonst sehr gut. (Luftpost ink)

Paris: Editions Armand et Georges Israel, 1985. Limited Edition . Two Boxes with Albums. Near Fine. Folio.. Raymond Moretti. 1985-1986 . With 30 fine original color-lithographs by MORETTI in vivid stunning colours, most of them double-spreads ( 64 x 43cm) One of 5000 copies (copy without number) Two big original boxes (36 x 47x 7cm) with Jacques Brel's artistic image (velvet-like coverings) containing each an album of loose double leaves with poems by Jacques Brel and lithographs by Moretti, as issued. Boxes with some marginal wear and markings. Text and plates FINE. (additional shipping fees will apply, please enquiry)

London: Oxford University Press, 1932. First Edition . Original Blue Cloth. Very Good. 4to. . Spines with truly minimally sunnied. Edges with some foxing. Fly-leaves and few pages with minimal faint foxing, otherwise a very good and fresh copy of this RARE ITEM

London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1881. First Edition . Original Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 4to.. V+438pp. First and last pages and edges with truly insignificant foxing. Original cloth. Spine with some expert repiair. A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S CLOTH. FIRST EDITION. RARE. (due to the heavy weight of this book, additional shipping fees will apply)

Jerusalem: Makor, 1973. Limited and Numbered Edition . Original Half Leather. Near Fine. 4to. Printed mention on the title page : THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF ALFASI differs from all subsequent editions, as well as from the various manuscripts that served as a basis for those editions. this is the only text not containig numerous passages which are not part of Alfasi"s work, but glosses of one or more students erroneosly included in the BOMBERG EDITION and thereby incorporated in all later editions. these passages often prevented a true understanding and interpretation of ALFASI'S HALACHOT, SUPERB HALF LEATHER BINDING, A FINE COPY

Leipzig: Meissner & Buch, 1918. First Edition- Limited and Numbered PRIVATE PRESS. Original Cardboard. Very Good. 4to. Richard Winckel. 69pp. VORZUGSAUSGABE VON 100 NUM. EX Auf Zanders Bütten in der Druckerei J.B. Hirschfeld(August Pries) gedruckt.. With 6 hand coloured woodcuts signed by the artist. Spine expertly renewed. Old small book store label on first fly-leaf. A VERY GOOD , CLEAN AND FRESH COPY.. I. Druck der Wahlverwandten. ENTIRE EDITION OF 300 COPIES. THIS COPY IS NR. 73 AND SIGNED (URAUSGABE) BY ARNO HOLZ AND WINCKEL.

Berlin: Chovevei Hashira Ha'ivrit, 1923. SPECIAL limited and Numbered Edition . Original Vellum. Fine. 8vo. Joseph Budko. Text in Hebrew. Complete Set of four volumes: Vol. 1: "Shirim" (Poems), Vol. 2: "Seforim Divrei Sifrut" (Literature), Vol. 3: "Targum Mekutzar shel Don Kishot, Ish Lamansha le-Miguel de Cervantes" (Shortened translation of Don Quichotte, Man of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes). Vol. 4: "Targum Wilhelm Tell le-Friedrich Schiller" (Translation of Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller). Volumes 1 and 2 are original works by Bialik in Hebrew, volumes 3 and 4 are Bialik's translations . FIRST EDITION ( of which the regular edition of 3000 copies was published in green cloth binding). With book decoration and 19 original wood cuts by Joseph Budko and an etching-portrait of Bialik by Max Liebermann This work was published in the year of Bialik's 50th birthday, during the very few years Bialik spent in Berlin between 1921- 1924 after… Read More

Delft (Netherlands), 1698. First Edition . No Binding. Excellent Condition. 98 x 27,5 Cm. Cornelis De Bruyn. VERY IMPRESSIVE and VERY LARGE MARITIME PANORAMA VIEW OF SMYRNA ( modern IZMIR in TURKEY) AS SEEN FROM THE GULF OF IZMIR ( Coast of the Aegean Sea) TOWARDS THE OLD PORT with a large group of sailing boats. At the background MOUNT PAGOS with the ancient FORTRESS OF KADIFEKALE ( indicated by Nr.1) . Drawn from nature by the famous Dutch traveler and topographer Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726) this is an ACCURATE depiction how Izmir looked , as seen from the Sea in the late 17th century. Etching (copper plate) connected originally from two plates and folded as issued. Net Size of the etching: 98 x 27,5 cm. Size with margins: 100 x 39cm.FIRST EDITION. Dated: DELFT 1698. Published in " Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn...". RARE LARGE PAPER EDITION with exceptional large margins. Excellent condition! Strong and fresh paper quality, even fresh tone on the margins, clear imprint of the… Read More

Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts, 1959. Limited Edition . Orig. Cloth. Good. Large Folio. Elephante folio. ( 54,5 x 39,5cm). Cover decorated with Chinese letters. With 100 full page mostly coloured hand-tipped plates. TEXT IN CHINESE ONLY.Some plates with small handwritten private translations of plates into English ( mostly on verso near Chinese description) A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION. Limited edition of 1000 Ex. - Edges with some wear, spine at ends rubbed and with some loss. Some light foxing on binding. INSIDE CLEAN AND FRESH. (A very heavy item with additional shipping fees)

Jerusalem: Makor. Limited Edition . Original Half Leather. Fine. Folio. Ca.1970. Folio. 83pp introduction in Hebrew with additional English title page+ Facsimile of the Hebrew manuscript in the collection of the Vatican Library ( CODEX VATICAN Vat.EBR. 133). Published in an edition of only 135 copies . A FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL RED HALF LEATHER BINDING.