De Elementis et Orbibus Coelestibus

AUCTION 4 | Tuesday, March 03rd, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 124

(ASTRONOMY). MASHA’ALLAH (i.e. Manasseh) B. ATHAN

Numerous astrological diagrams and charts Lightly browned. 19th-century blind-tooled calf, rubbed. 4to

Nuremberg: Joannes Montanus & Ulrich Neuber 1549

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

An 8th-century Jewish astronomer and resident of Egypt, Masha’allah was one of the earliest independent, original scientific thinkers