Sepher Eilim - Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim - Sepher Ma’ayan Chathum.

Auction 95 | Thursday, November 11th, 2021 at 11:00am

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

Sepher Eilim - Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim - Sepher Ma’ayan Chathum.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Three parts in one volume. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Divisional titles. pp. 90, 192, 82. Ex-library, lightly browned, few leaves expertly remargined. Modern calf, gutter split. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 20.

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel 1628

Est: $8,000 - $12,000

<<One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with treatises relating to geometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine and metaphysics.>> The Sepher Eilim is “The most sumptuously illustrated of early scientific works in Hebrew, and unique in printed Hebrew literature before the modern period” (National Library of Canada Catalogue, The Jacob M. Lowy Collection (1981) no. 80). See A. Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century (1986) pp. 251-2; H. Friedenwald, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History-Catalogue (1946) p.111; A.J. Karp. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp. 199-200.