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Auction 70 · Lot 291
Pirkei Avoth. The Sentences and Proverbs of the Ancient Fathers… Called Abouth.
- Estimate
- $300–$500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
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author
(MISHNAH).
printer
(L. Alexander)
Place
London
Publication
1772
Description
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH . Hebrew text with English translation and commentary by Abraham Tang.
references
Vinograd, London 68.
summary
The translator, the English scholar Abraham Tang (d. 1792) was a grandson of the Dayan of Prague, Abraham Tausig Neu-Greschel. Like his grandfather, the author signed his name with the Hebrew initials TN”G, and is thus generally known as Tang.
pp. 108. Lacks introduction. Ex-library, margins frayed, some wear. Contemporary boards, broken 8vo.
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