[i.e. Benedictus le Puncteur(?)]. Mishlei Shu’alim [“Fox Fables”-Hebrew version of Aesop’s Fables]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,200
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

BERACHIAH BEN NATRONAI HANAKDAN

printer

University Press

Place

Prague

Publication

1661

Description

With engraved frontispiece of the Animal Kingdom. Title in red and black ink. Latin and Hebrew on facing pages

references

Vinograd, Prague 443

summary

Collection of fables synthesizing the European Aesopian tradition with animals who converse in a Biblical Hebrew interspersed with Talmudic quotations

pp.(18),436 (mispaginated). Lightly browned, otherwise a good copy. Contemporary boards incorporating 16th century manuscript music-score, rubbed, later endpapers. 12mo

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