Abraham bar Hiya. Tzurat Ha’Aretz. Ashpira Hagadol (called Maroth Ha‘Ofanim). Sepher HaGalgal. Edited by Jonathan of Rozinai.

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

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Abraham bar Hiya. Tzurat Ha’Aretz. Ashpira Hagadol (called Maroth Ha‘Ofanim). Sepher HaGalgal. Edited by Jonathan of Rozinai.

<<FIRST EDITON.>> Title within architectural arch featuring Moses and Aaron, with cherubs flanking a zodiac sphere. Numerous woodcut illustrations of spherical charts, mathematical, geometrical figures and astronomical illustrations. ff. [3], 64. Stained in places. Contemporary boards, rebacked. 4to. Vinograd, Offenbach 44.

Offenbach: Bonaventura de la Naye 1720

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

The author (d.1136) was a Spanish philosopher and mystic, considered the principal source of geographical knowledge among the Jews of the Middle Ages. “(Abraham bar Hiya) was the first philosopher to write in Hebrew and the first to present Ptolemaic astronomy extensively in that language. Accordingly, he made important contributions to the Hebrew philosophical and scientific lexicon” (B. Levy, Planets, Potions and Parchments: Scientifica Hebraica (1990) no. 23).