Sepher Uklides [Hebrew translation of the first Six Books of The Elements]. Translated by <<Baruch Schick of Shklov.>> The Editor’s preface states that the work was translated and published at the urging of <<R. Elijah, Gaon of Vilna.>>

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Sepher Uklides [Hebrew translation of the first Six Books of The Elements]. Translated by <<Baruch Schick of Shklov.>> The Editor’s preface states that the work was translated and published at the urging of <<R. Elijah, Gaon of Vilna.>>

Complete with three folding engraved geometrical plates. <<FIRST EDITION.>> ff.(4), 51, (1). Lightly foxed, previous owner’s marks, plates torn at folds. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Housed in custom solander-box. 4to. Vinograd, The Hague 11.

The Hague: Soesmanns & Munnikhuizen 1780

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

Baruch Schick of Shklov relates that he paid a visit to the “famous Chasid R. Eliyah in the month of Teveth 1778… I heard from the mouth of the holy man that in direct proportion to a man’s deficiency in the other wisdoms, he will be deficient one hundred times more so in the wisdom of Torah; for Torah and wisdom are bound together.” See David E. Fishman, Russia’s First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov (1995) p. 22, 37-40.