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

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $350

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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

ff. (3, of 6), lacking ff.4-6; 115 (of 122), lacking ff. 17,24, and 118-22. Misnumbered. Lightly browned, crude repairs to hole on title, and first few leaves affecting woodcut and text, clean tear on final leaf, repaired. Recent boards. Sm. 8vo

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