Auction 88
K2 Online Sale: Hebrew & Judaic Books and Manuscripts
Mar 17, 2020
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USA
Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77 Suite 1108 Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 74:
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Sold for: $90
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(FABLES).
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (Maestro Calo). Igereth Ba’alei Chaim [“The Animal’s Collection.”]
Second edition.
ff. (4), 60. Ex-library, browned, several words on the final page stuck to end paper. Old boards, worn. 8vo. Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main, 186.
Frankfurt a/Main: Johann Wurst 1704
A collection of animal fables translated from the Arabic by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus of Arles (Provence). It was first published in Mantua in 1557 and was translated into both Yiddish and Ladino. For a brief synopsis of the derivation of the fables gathered here, see Meyer Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. II, pp. 600-03. In addition to Igereth Ba’alei Chaim, Kalonymus also authored an ethical treatise Even Bohan (Naples, 1489).
A collection of animal fables translated from the Arabic by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus of Arles (Provence). It was first published in Mantua in 1557 and was translated into both Yiddish and Ladino. For a brief synopsis of the derivation of the fables gathered here, see Meyer Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. II, pp. 600-03. In addition to Igereth Ba’alei Chaim, Kalonymus also authored an ethical treatise Even Bohan (Naples, 1489).
