BERACHIAH BEN NATRONAI HANAKDAN [i.e. Benedictus le Puncteur(?)]. Mishlei Shu’alim [“Fox Fables.”]

AUCTION 88 | Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 at 1:00pm

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BERACHIAH BEN NATRONAI HANAKDAN [i.e. Benedictus le Puncteur(?)]. Mishlei Shu’alim [“Fox Fables.”]

Title within striking woodcut architectural colonnade form arch topped with two foxes, depicting a crouching lion at the bottom (Haberman, Sha’arei Sepharim Ivri’im pl. 90). ff. (1), 56 (of 61). Lacking final five leaves. Lightly browned, ex-library. Modern boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Berlin 211.

Berlin: 1756

Est: $100 - $150

PRICE REALIZED $70

Collection of fables synthesizing the European Aesopian tradition with animals who converse in Biblical Hebrew, comfortably interspersing their conversation with Talmudic aphorisms.