Mashal Hakadmoni [“Proverb of the Ancient”- collected fables and aphorisms] * WITH: Sepher Hatapu’ach [Attributed to Aristotle]

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

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

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Mashal Hakadmoni [“Proverb of the Ancient”- collected fables and aphorisms] * WITH: Sepher Hatapu’ach [Attributed to Aristotle]

FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Opening title within woodcut architectural arch. More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two title pages ff. (4of 6), lacking ff.5-6; 119 i.e.120 (of 122), lacking ff. 121-2. Misnumbered. Stained in places, small chip at lower outer corner of opening title. Recent marbled boards, gently rubbed at extremities. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt d/Oder 63 & 71

Frankfurt der Oder: Jochanan Christophe Buchman 1693

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

The Jewish Aesop’s Fables. “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. The woodcut illutations in this rare first Frankfurt der Oder edition is the prototype for the more common Frankfurt edition published by Professor Elsner more than a century later