Auction 38 Books, Kodesh books, Hassidic books, Rabbinical letters, Manuscripts, Judaika objects and more
Feb 10, 2021
Israel
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LOT 042:

Rare: Volume with most sections of the work “Paradoxes” by Max Nordau. First Hebrew edition, Pietrekov 1900.

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Rare: Volume with most sections of the work “Paradoxes” by Max Nordau. First Hebrew edition, Pietrekov 1900.

Volume with “all sections of the work ‘Paradoxes’ by Max Nordau. Book 1: Chapters in Psychology [this copy only has a portion of this section], Book 2: Chapters in Social Science, Book 3-4: Chapters in Life Sciences. Translated with permission of the author from Yiddish, by R. Braunen, published by Toshiya, Pietrekov [Warsaw] 1900. Printed by Shlomo Belchatovsky.” The first Hebrew edition of this well-known work by Max Nordau on psychology, a scarce book. 4 volumes put into one large volume: X, [missing until page 81], 81-274 pages. 19cm. Separate title page for each section. Third and fourth sections are bound before the first and section section. Printer’s error in the folding of one page. Stains, overall very good condition.


Max Nordau (1849-1923) was a Jewish thinker, speaker, and author, a doctor as well, born in Hungary, a founder of the Zionist movement, and a proponent of “Muscular Judaism.”