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Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan. Mishlei shu'alim. Berlin, no printer, 1756. Woodcut title border, showing two foxes standing on two columns and a lion underneath, woodcut device at the end. Printed in Hebrew throughout, in Rashi script. 1, 61 lvs. 8vo. Modern half cloth. (# 5756)

Vinograd, Berlin, No. 211. Zedner 91. Roest 159. Anhang No. 1285. Rare second edition in Hebrew of this famous Hebrew fable book. This collection of Fox fables in rhymed prose, was written ca. 1200 by the French Jewish fabulist, biblical commentator, philosopher, grammarian and translator Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, who lived in Normandy and England. He adapted some of Aesop's tales to teach Jewish ethics. First printed in Mantua in 1557, they became very popular, were reprinted several times and translated into various languages. The tone of the fables is clearly Jewish, biblical references are numerous. But the work also displays many parallels to the West-European fables of Aesopus and the late medieval beast epic Reynard the Fox. - First and last leaf repaired with tape, browned, occasionally a light marginal waterstain, a few inkstains to 2 pages.