The Kabbalah of the Ari Z'al, According to the Ramhal by Afilalo, Rabbi Raphael - 2004

Valentiae Edetanorum (Valencia Spain): Ex Praelo Josephi et Thomae de Orga, 1786. Second Edition. Leather. Acceptable. 0x0x0. VINNIUS CASTIGATUS, atque ad usum tironum Hispanorum accomodatus: in quorum gratiam Hispaniae leges opportunioribus locis traduntur. Volume 1 (Tomus Primus) Only. Opera Joannis Sala Presbyteri, in Valentina Metropolitana praepositi. Editio secunda. Text in Latin. Hardcover bound book. Full Leather, 568 pages. Vintage fountain pen ink notes and marginalia (also in Latin). frontis engraving. front cover detached. The rear hinge (the inside portion of the flexible fold where book cover meets the book spine) is split (loose or open) the rear cover is still attached by the joint (the exterior flexible fold where book cover meets book spine). Leather on Leather paste on spine title, gold gilt designs on spine. There is rub-through to the corners of the boards, but the text block is surprisingly sharp. [Punishment of Vinnius; and accommodated for the use of Spanish recruits: in… Read More

1934. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1934. Original full red cloth with gilt line-borders to boards, original dust-jacket, somewhat worn, with a red label over the price and chips and nicks to extremities. Minor loss to corners of dust-jacket, and a large loss of upper part of spine of dust-jacket (ca. 6 x 2 cm), thus lacking the title to spine of dust-jacket, and leaving the cloth of the same part of the spine sunned and the gilding of the title on spine almost faded off. Some soiling to dust-jacket. Internally nice and clean. X, (2), 204 pp. An excellent presentation copy of this scarce first edition of the great logician's first book, which is the published version of his doctoral thesis, hailed by Whitehead as a landmark in the history of symbolic logic.Inscribed by Quine "To F. Gomes Cassidy, historian of/ languages, from Van Quine, manu-/ facturer of one. Mathematical/ truth is linguistic convention,/ and logic is the [four Chinese characters]".Frederic Gomez Cassidy… Read More

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with bright gilt titles on spine; 854 pages including index 1961, 4th Edition Contents include: The Historical Study of Modern Philosophy The Renaissance Background Scientific Outlooks and Methods Bacon, Galileo, and Newton Hobbes Descartes Spinoza Leibniz Locke Berkeley Hume Kant on Knowledge and Metaphysics Kant's Ethical and Esthetic Doctrine Fichte and Schelling Hegel Scopenhauer Comte John Stuart Mill Nietzsche Bergson Ex-library with typical treatments. Bumped head and heel of spine and bumped corners or covers. Bottom corner of covers and pages are bumped. Bottom of spine is worn. Small area of shelfsoil on bottom fore-edge, pencil mark on outside pages. . 4th. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

Valentiae Edetanorum (Valencia Spain): Ex Praelo Josephi et Thomae de Orga, 1786. Second Edition. Leather. Acceptable. 0x0x0. VINNIUS CASTIGATUS, atque ad usum tironum Hispanorum accomodatus: in quorum gratiam Hispaniae leges opportunioribus locis traduntur. Volume 1 (Tomus Primus) Only. Opera Joannis Sala Presbyteri, in Valentina Metropolitana praepositi. Editio secunda. Text in Latin. Hardcover bound book. Full Leather, 568 pages. Vintage fountain pen ink notes and marginalia (also in Latin). frontis engraving. front cover detached. The rear hinge (the inside portion of the flexible fold where book cover meets the book spine) is split (loose or open) the rear cover is still attached by the joint (the exterior flexible fold where book cover meets book spine). Leather on Leather paste on spine title, gold gilt designs on spine. There is rub-through to the corners of the boards, but the text block is surprisingly sharp. [Punishment of Vinnius; and accommodated for the use of Spanish recruits: in… Read More

1934. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1934. Original full red cloth with gilt line-borders to boards, original dust-jacket, somewhat worn, with a red label over the price and chips and nicks to extremities. Minor loss to corners of dust-jacket, and a large loss of upper part of spine of dust-jacket (ca. 6 x 2 cm), thus lacking the title to spine of dust-jacket, and leaving the cloth of the same part of the spine sunned and the gilding of the title on spine almost faded off. Some soiling to dust-jacket. Internally nice and clean. X, (2), 204 pp. An excellent presentation copy of this scarce first edition of the great logician's first book, which is the published version of his doctoral thesis, hailed by Whitehead as a landmark in the history of symbolic logic.Inscribed by Quine "To F. Gomes Cassidy, historian of/ languages, from Van Quine, manu-/ facturer of one. Mathematical/ truth is linguistic convention,/ and logic is the [four Chinese characters]".Frederic Gomez Cassidy… Read More

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with bright gilt titles on spine; 854 pages including index 1961, 4th Edition Contents include: The Historical Study of Modern Philosophy The Renaissance Background Scientific Outlooks and Methods Bacon, Galileo, and Newton Hobbes Descartes Spinoza Leibniz Locke Berkeley Hume Kant on Knowledge and Metaphysics Kant's Ethical and Esthetic Doctrine Fichte and Schelling Hegel Scopenhauer Comte John Stuart Mill Nietzsche Bergson Ex-library with typical treatments. Bumped head and heel of spine and bumped corners or covers. Bottom corner of covers and pages are bumped. Bottom of spine is worn. Small area of shelfsoil on bottom fore-edge, pencil mark on outside pages. . 4th. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More