Mashal HaKadmoni [collected fables] <<* WITH:>> Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy, attributed to Aristotle].

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Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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Mashal HaKadmoni [collected fables] <<* WITH:>> Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy, attributed to Aristotle].

Contains more than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two titles within typographic borders. ff. 100. Lightly foxed, margin of one leaf taped, stamp removed from opening title. Modern calf. 8vo. Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 471.

Frankfurt a.d. Oder: Professor Elsner 1800

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $850

<<The Jewish Aesop’s Fables.>> A most distinctive Hebrew book. A collection of fables and puns with moral inferences all written in rhymed prose. The author uses animal fables as a means of moral allegory. Not only do the animals converse, but all are well-versed in the Bible and Talmud and conduct lengthy discourses on matters of science and philosophy. The remarkable illustrations are of a specifically Jewish origin. “The illustrated Hebrew book par excellence.” A.J. Karp. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) p. 125.