Mashal Hakadmoni [collected fables and aphorisms] * WITH: Sepher Hatapu’ach [Attributed to Aristotle]

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

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Mashal Hakadmoni [collected fables and aphorisms] * WITH: Sepher Hatapu’ach [Attributed to Aristotle]

More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two titles ff.4,(1),6-72,81-100 (i.e. 98). Mispaginated though complete. Browned, lightly foxed. Title page re-margined, final leaf repaired. Modern boards. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 471

Frankfurt o/Oder: Professor Elsner 1800

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $650

The Jewish Aesop’s Fables. See Stanford University Library Catalogue, Of Many Generations: Judaica and Hebraica from the Taube / Baron Collection (1989) no. 43 (illustrated)