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

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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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. 72, 81-100 (i.e.98). Mispaginated though complete. Browned, lightly foxed. Title page rerehinged, final leaf repaired, clean tear on f.71. Modern boards. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 471

Frankfurt o/Oder: Professor Elsner 1800

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

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)