Sepher Hamidoth [Nichomachean Ethics]. Traslated into Hebrew Don Meir Alguadez of Castille. Edited with an extensive commentary by Isaac Satanow

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Sepher Hamidoth [Nichomachean Ethics]. Traslated into Hebrew Don Meir Alguadez of Castille. Edited with an extensive commentary by Isaac Satanow

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume ff. 11, 151. With stamp of Satanow on title page, stating "without a stamp, the book is stolen", slight tape repair to title, some staining, slight worming, other stamps on title. Modern boards. 4to Vinograd, Berlin 404

Berlin: Orientalischen Buchdruckerei and Chinuch Nearim 1790-91

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $250

The theme of the work is the Socratic question which had previously been explored in Plato's works, as to how Man should best live. One of Isaac Satanow's contributions to the Maskilic thought was to produce important philosophical texts from the medieval and Renaissance periods. S. Feiner, The Jewish Enlightenment (2002), p. 325