Zoologie Des Talmuds

by Ludwig Lewysohn

$140 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Frankfurt: Joseph Baer, 1858. Hardcover. 8vo. XII, 400 pp. Decorative marbled paper boards. Historically groundbreaking work, which was the first Jewish academic and scientific critical attempt to catalogue all rabbinic references to animals in a systematic format. This work was so influential that though it was written over a century and a half, it is still used and quoted today by zoologists, and biblical and religious scholars today. Includes Hebrew,

• Binding: Hardcover

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