[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.
