Rare books from Ari Dictum

A very good edition in good tight binding. Applied with ex Librium label for "G.A. Tonge" to inside cover and inscribed "C.F. Tonge 81" to title page in fountain pen. Minor foxing, some tanning to endpapers. Includes a table of weight and measures. 223 pages. Undated, circa 1869.

"Complectens Voces omnimodas quae in sacris biblis exstant: Exemplorium Biblicorum copies et Locorum difficilium ex hebraeorum commentariis explicatione auctum et illustration accesserunt Lexicon Breve Rabbinico-Philosophicum et Index Latinos. Editio Nova, Sedulo recensita." Quarter tan calf with marbled boards. 616pp, right binding in gilt tooled quarter calf. Some foxing to pages and lightly tanned pages. Bumps and scuffs to cover consistent with age. Corners with wear and bumps.Johannes Buxtorf (December 25, 1564 – September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". His massive tome, De Synagoga Judaica (1st. ed. 1603), scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period.

Four Volumes, Three quarter bound in tan calf and marbled boards. Floral gilt tooled and rubbed spine. Blind line tooling to cover. Rubbed marble boards and shelf wear. Bumps and wear to cover edges. Vol. I with portrait portrait of Walpole. Frontispiece and endpapers tanned, foxed and binding slightly detached to front and to end. Some tanning and marks to book. Bookplate for William Arbuthnot and stamped in red for T.G. Odling. Vol II: two bookplates; William Arbuthnot and John Alves Arbuthnot and stamped for T. G. Odling. Slightly spiked endpapers. Foxing to first few pages. Vol III: foxed endpapers signed and stamped T.G. Odling, bookplates appears to have been removed. First few pages slightly soiled and moisture marks. Endpapers foxed. Vol IV: bookplates for William Arbuthnot and John Alves Arbuthnot and stamped for T. G. Odling. Slight fold markS and foxed to first three pages. Last few pages foxed with pencil annotations and marks to inside back cover.Thomas George Odling (1911-2002) was a… Read More

368 pp, extensively illustrated volume on Spencer House, St James' - built for John, 1st Earl Spencer .very good condition with some wear to dustcover. Good solid binding.

235pp. Including multiple b/w plates. First edition Inscribed 'William Brown with ... Walton's best wishes, Easter 1886.'With fold out map with slight tear. Author was chaplain to the lord bishop of Guiana and late rector of the parish of holy trinity, Essequibo. Browning and foxing of page edges and minor to endpapers. Tight binding with minor wear to upper and lower spine. Gilt tooling to cover and spine.

324pp. Excellent condition with slight crease to spine. Very minor shelf wear. Clean copy with tight binding and French flaps to back cover.

First edition of the father of public relations' biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Edward L. Bernays on FEP. Inscribed to James Leasor - British Author. Jacket design by Alfred Zalon. Condition good with light marks to outer pages edges and minor foxing. Small bump to lower right cover. Dustcover good with marks from shelfwear. Top back of dustcover with abrasion. The author is the pioneer of Public Relations (PR) who did more than anyone else to establish its principles, practices and ethics. The book is his autobiography, of which Eric Hodgins has written: [It] "is inextricably entwined with some of the most socially significant years this republic ever under-went," and about the author, ".you, of course are responsible for a considerable amount of the changes you record." A twentieth-century marketing visionary, Edward L. Bernays brilliantly combined mastery of the social sciences with a keen understanding of human psychology to become one of his generationâ s most… Read More