Mashal Hakadmoni [“Proverb of the Ancient”- collected fables and aphorisms] * WITH: Sepher Hatapu’ach [Attributed to Aristotle]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $700

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

author

ISAAC IBN SAHULA

printer

Jochanan Christophe Buchman

Place

Frankfurt der Oder

Publication

1693

Description

FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Opening title within woodcut architectural arch. More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two title pages

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt d/Oder 63 & 71

summary

The Jewish Aesop’s Fables. “The illustrated Hebrew book par excellence.” A.J. Karp. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) p. 125. The woodcut illutations in this rare first Frankfurt der Oder edition is the prototype for the more common Frankfurt edition published by Professor Elsner more than a century later

ff. (4of 6), lacking ff.5-6; 119 i.e.120 (of 122), lacking ff. 121-2. Misnumbered. Stained in places, small chip at lower outer corner of opening title. Recent marbled boards, gently rubbed at extremities. Sm. 8vo

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