Moses Maimonides. Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed.”] With commentaries by Moses of Narbonne, Givath Hamoreh by Salomon Maimon and Isaac Satanow. Edited by Isaac Euchel.

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(MAIMON, SALOMON).

Moses Maimonides. Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed.”] With commentaries by Moses of Narbonne, Givath Hamoreh by Salomon Maimon and Isaac Satanow. Edited by Isaac Euchel.

<<FIRST EDITION>> of commentaries. Three parts, divisional title-pages, additional Latin title-page. pp. (10), 108, (1); 91), 62, 82. Previous owner’s marks, lightly stained. Contemporary calf, worn. 4to. Vinograd, Berlin 403.

Berlin: Chinuch Ne’arim 1791-95

Est: $800 - $1,000
Salomon Maimon’s only published Hebrew work. Includes an 11-page introduction to the history of philosophy from Aristotle until Kant - the first time such a history appeared in Hebrew. Salomon Maimon (1753–1800), the man who Immanuel Kant considered one of his most astute critics, was born into an Orthodox traditional life which he abandoned as a young man in order to pursue his search for philosophical truth. In Berlin he became a member of Moses Mendelssohn’s circle and collaborated with the members of the Jewish Enlightenment in preparing this Hebrew commentary to Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed. See G. Freudenthal, Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Sceptic (2003).