Mivchar HaPeninim [“Choice Pearls”: Anthology of Sayings]. Translated from the Arabic by Judah ibn Tibbon.

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 154

IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON.

Mivchar HaPeninim [“Choice Pearls”: Anthology of Sayings]. Translated from the Arabic by Judah ibn Tibbon.

FIRST EDITION. Square and cursive Rabbinic (or Rashi) type alternate in text. A handsome wide-margined copy. ff. (59 of 60), text complete, lacking initial blank leaf. Light stains, minute wormholes silked, expertly remargined, lower portion of final leaf lacking and laid to size, not affecting any text. Modern morocco, slip-case. 8vo Vinograd, Soncino 3; Goff 98; Offenberg 57; Freimann & Marx, Thesaurus A-27; Wineman Cat. 15.

Soncino: Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino 1484

Est: $12,000 - $18,000

PRICE REALIZED $15,500

A collection of maxims, proverbs and moral reflections. The second book - (the first, according to bibliographer Gershon Cohen) - printed by the Soncino Family, publishers of more Hebrew books than any other press, all of the most sublime quality. The Soncinos dominated the book market for some 30 years. Thus the adage: “For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the Word of the Lord from Soncino.”