Sepher Dimyon Harephu’oth - Harmonia Wallichia Medica

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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(MEDICINE). WALLICH, ABRAHAM

Sepher Dimyon Harephu’oth - Harmonia Wallichia Medica

FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Latin Stained, some worming, stamps, contemporary boards, lacking upper cover, 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 158; Friedenwald p.151(with erroneous publication year); unknown to Garrison & Morton;

Frankfurt a/Main: Johannes Wust 1700

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

Popular treatise on medicine. Attempts to relate man’s physical ailments to a manifestation of affliction within the soul. Published posthumously by the author’s son, also a physician; members of an important German-Jewish family who produced many scholars, physicians and scientists