Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 2,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[MAIMONIDES, MOSES.] Ha-Higayon . . . Logica. Hebrew translation by Moses ibn Tibbon from the original Arabic with Latin translation by Sebastian Münster from the Hebrew. [61] (of [62]) leaves; lacks last leaf with colophon and printer's device. 8vo, 145x100 mm, modern tan leather; margins trimmed affecting most Latin sidenotes, lower portion of contents dampstained, colophon transcribed in ink in later hand on verso of h5, modern owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527

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first edition of an exposition of logical terms composed by Maimonides in the mid-12th century, "the first extant work on logic written by a Jew"--EJ XI, 459. Burmeister (Münster) 162; Sarton II, 370; Vinograd, Basel 25 (mistakenly calling for 64 leaves). No copy in ABPC; RBH cites only a copy sold in 1920.