by Heinrich H. Graetz
First American edition, complete in six volumes
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, [1891-1896]. First American edition, first printing. Complete in six volumes. Bound in three quarters green pebble leather, personalized gilt stamping of I. A. Rosenheim on each front board; top edges gilt. Very Good+ with sunned spines and light edge wear, a few roughly-opened pages. Binding in volume II is shaken; contents slightly toned.
The first Jewish history that threads together a unified national history across global communities, told from a Jewish perspective. A condensed and updated translation of Graetz's 11 volume German-language magnum opus Geschichte der Juden von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, published from 1853-1876. A landmark work in the philosophical development of Zionism.