"The Flora of the Jews", by Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Löw – Vienna-Leipzig, 1924-1934 – First Edition – Ownership ...

"The Flora of the Jews", by Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Löw – Vienna-Leipzig, 1924-1934 – First Edition – Ownership Inscription and Handwritten Notes by Scholar Yehuda Feliks
Die Flora der Juden [The Flora of the Jews], by Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Löw. Vienna-Leipzig: R. Löwit, 1924-1934. German (some Hebrew and other Semitic languages). First edition. Four parts in five volumes.
The monumental work of Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Löw – a comprehensive botanic-linguistic study dealing with the plants of Palestine mentioned in Jewish sources (the Bible, Mishnah and Talmud, the legends and Midrashim of the Sages, and late rabbinic literature), their scientific identification, classification and description.
Rabbi Dr. Immanuel [Avraham Chaim] Löw (1854-1944), was a Biblical and Talmudic scholar, one of the greatest scholars of Semitic linguistics. Son of the Neolog rabbi Leopold Löw (1811-1875). Served as Chief Rabbi of Szeged and was one of the leaders of Neolog Judaism in Hungary. Published various essays and scientific studies, including "Aramäische Pflanzennamen" (Aramaic Names of Plants) and "Die Flora der Juden" – a study to which he dedicated most of his life and which to this day is considered one of the fundamental texts of its field.
One of Löw's students and followers was Prof. Yehuda Feliks (1922-2005), a scholar of biblical and Talmudic botany and zoology. The volumes contain notes handwritten by Feliks. One volume bears an ownership inscription handwritten by Feliks.
Four parts in five volumes. Volume I (first part - Kryptogamae. Acanthaceae – Composaceae, 1926): XII, 448 pp. Missing one leaf (with the title Die Flora der Juden). Volume II (first part, second section, Convolvulaceae – Graminaceae, 1928): [7], 449-807 pp. Volume III (second part, Iridaceae – Papilionaceae, 1924): XII, 532 pp. + [2] plates. Volume IV (third part, Pedaliaceae – Zygophyllaceae, 1924): XI, 522 pp. Volume V (fourth part, Zusammenfassung, Nachträge, Berichtigungen, Indizes, Abkürzungen, 1934): XV, 740 pp. The second section of the first part and the third part are bound with printed front covers (the other volumes are missing covers).
23-24 cm. Good overall condition. Stains (most of the leaves are clean). Some creases and minor blemishes. Tears to margins of several leaves (some of them open; one tear to the last leaf of volume I, slightly affecting text). Tears to several leaves reinforced with tape. Some unopened sheets. Ex-library copies.