HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES
HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES
HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES
HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES
HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES
HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES

HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY HEINRICH GRAETZ 1956 LEATHER BOUND IN SIX VOLUMES

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[GRAETZ, HEINRICH]. History of the Jews. Published by The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1956.

REPRINT, complete in six volumes, leather-bound, octavo (21cm x 14cm), pp. xvi, 553; ix, 656; viii, 675; xi, 743; ix, 766; xi, 632. English text. Bound in contemporary full black leather with limp covers, gilt inner dentelles, all page edges gilt, hand-marbled endpapers, half-titles, occasional printed footnotes, rear indexes in double columns. Contents: - vol.1: from the earliest period to the death of Simon the Maccabee (135 B.C.E); vol.2: from the reign of Hyrcanus (135 B.C.E) to the completion of the Babylonian Talmud (500 C.E); vol.3: from the revolt against the Zendik (511 C.E) to the capture of St. Jean D'Arce by the Mahometans (1291 C.E.); vol.4: from the rise of the Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the permanent settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C.E.); vol.5: from the Chmielnicki persecution of the Jews in Poland (1648 C.E) to the period of emancipation in Central Europe (C. 1870 C.E.); vol.6: containing a memoir of the author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a chronological table of Jewish History, an index to the whole work. Condition: NEAR FINE. A near immaculate set and handsomely bound. Scarce thus.

Notes: Finely bound set of the Society's Edition of Graetz's pioneering work on the history of the Jewish people.