BEN HAMELECH VEHANAZIR [allegorical tale]

Estimate: $350–$500
Hammer price: $275

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

author

Anonymous

printer

(Heinrich) Bayerhofer and Itzik b. Leib

Place

Frankfurt a/Main and Fuerth

Publication

1769 and 1783

Description

FIRST EDITION with Yiddish translation (printed in Wayber-taytsch type). Prepared by Reuben b. Abraham Halevi. Hebrew translated from the Arabic by Abraham ibn Chasdai. * WITH: Another edition

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 541and Fuerth 563; Zinberg pp. 35-7; and see A. Schischa, The Prince and the Nazir and its Yiddish Translator - a Translation and its Fate, in: Alei Sefer, Vol. XII (1986) pp. 111-23

ff. (1), 100, (1). Apparantly lacking at least one introductory leaf. Title laid down. Second vol: ff. 3, 101. One introductory leaf misbound at end. Modern boards. 8vo

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