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Auction 17 · Lot 70

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

Estimate
$150–$250
Hammer price
$350

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

author

BERACHIAH BEN NATRONAI HANAKDAN

printer

Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1767

Description

Title within woodcut architectural arch incorporating printers mark

references

Vinograd, Prague 900

summary

Collection of fables synthesizing the European Aesopian tradition with animals who converse in a Biblical Hebrew interspersed with Talmudic quotations
ff. 49. Browned. Modern boards. 4to
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