Mashal HaKadmoni [collected fables] * WITH: Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy attributed to Aristotle]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $900

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

author

ISAAC IBN SAHULA.

printer

Professor Elsner

Place

Frankfurt o/Oder

Publication

1800

Description

More than 70 imaginative and fanciful half-page woodcut illustrations. Two titles within typographic borders

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 471.

summary

The Jewish Aesop’s Fables. A most distinctive Hebrew book. A collection of fables and puns with moral inferences all written in rhymed prose. The author uses animal fables as a means of moral allegory. Not only do the animals talk, but all are well-versed in the Bible and Talmud and conduct lengthy discourses on matters of science and philosophy.

ff. 72, 81-100 (i.e., 90). Mispaginated though complete. Lightly browned, few stains, opening title neatly taped. Modern calf-backed boards. Sm. 8vo.

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