Mashal HaKadmoni [collected fables] * WITH: Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy attributed to Aristotle]

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

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

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Mashal HaKadmoni [collected fables] * WITH: Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy attributed to Aristotle]

More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two titles within typographic borders ff. 72, 81-100 (i.e., 90). Mispaginated though complete. Lightly browned. Contemporary marbled boards. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 471

Frankfurt o/Oder: Professor Elsner 1800

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

The Jewish Aesop’s Fables. A most distinctive Hebrew book. A collection of fables and puns with moral inferences all written in rhymed prose. The Author uses animal fables as a means of moral allegory. Not only do the animals talk, but are indeed well-versed in the Bible and Talmud and conduct lengthy discourses on matters of science and philosophy. .