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

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

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

Third edition. FIRST COMBINED EDITION. The Moses Gaster Copy. Opening title within woodcut architectural arch. More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two title pages ff. (6), 121 (i.e. 122). Mispaginated. Dampstains in places, scattered marginalia. Later boards, lacking spine, upper cover detatched. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 63 & 71

Frankfurt on der Oder: Jochanan Christoph Buchman 1693

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

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 on der Oder edition is the prototype for the more common Frankfurt edition published by Professor Elsner more than a century later