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

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

ISAAC IBN SAHULA

printer

Jochanan Christoph Buchman

Place

Frankfurt on der Oder

Publication

1693

Description

Third edition. FIRST COMBINED EDITION. The Moses Gaster Copy. Opening title within woodcut architectural arch. More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two title pages

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt o/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 on der Oder edition is the prototype for the more common Frankfurt edition published by Professor Elsner more than a century later

ff. (6), 121 (i.e. 122). Mispaginated. Dampstains in places, scattered marginalia. Later boards, lacking spine, upper cover detatched. Sm. 8vo

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