RaMBa”M). Guide des Égarés [Guide to the Perplexed]. Edited by Solomon Munk

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /.

RaMBa”M). Guide des Égarés [Guide to the Perplexed]. Edited by Solomon Munk

FIRST EDITION of Judeo-Arabic original and French translation by Munk. Three volumes. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lionel Rothschild to Rev. Dr. Herman Adler and dated 18th Tischri, 1867 Vol. I: pp.(6), 16, 462, (3); ff. 128, (1). Vol. II: pp.16,380,(2); ff. 102, (1). Vol. III: pp.24, 532; ff. 135, (1). Trace foxed. Marbled endpapers. Uniform contemporary blind-tooled calf with dentelles, gilt extra, scuffed. 4to

Paris: 1856-66

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $4,500

The crowning work of this French-Jewish Orientalist’s life: The original Arabic text (in Hebrew characters) of Maimonides’s Guide to the Perplexed as edited by Munk from manuscripts located in libraries in Paris, Oxford and Leiden. Accompanied by a French translation and extensive notes