Mischnah. Oder der Text des Talmuds.

Estimate: $600–$800
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(MISHNAH). RABE, JOHANN JAKOB (translator).

Place

Onolzbach (i.e. Ansbach)

Publication

1760-63

Description

FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Six volumes.

references

Freimann 127; Fuerst III,127

summary

This feat of scholarship was much admired by Moses Mendelssohn, who, upon publication of the first volume, did not hesitate to write a critical review praising Rabe’s accomplishments. Rabe, feeling no doubt duly grateful for the positive reception, returned the compliment and was the first to apply to Mendelssohn the popular saying “From Moses to Moses there was none like Moses” (Foreword, p.2). See A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn pp.196-97.

Lightly browned, contemporary half-vellum over patterned boards, rubbed, 4to

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