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

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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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, few stains, opening title neatly taped. Modern calf-backed boards. Sm. 8vo. Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 471.

Frankfurt o/Oder: Professor Elsner 1800

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

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 all are well-versed in the Bible and Talmud and conduct lengthy discourses on matters of science and philosophy.