Sepher Eilim.

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 104

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE

Sepher Eilim.

FIRST EDITION. Three Parts in one. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Titles within typographical border. With two titles. pp. (6 of 8); 83; (2 of 4),190,(2); 80. Lacks single Latin introductory leaf following opening title of Sepher Eilim, and portrait following title of Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim. Scattered light staining, inscriptions on front and rear free- endpapers. Contemporary vellum. Sm.4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6

Amsterdam: Menassah ben Israel 1628-29

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with treatises relating to: geometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine and metaphysics. “The most sumptuously illustrated of early scientific works in Hebrew, and unique in printed Hebrew literature before the modern period.” See National Library of Canada Catalogue, The Jacob H. Lowy Collection (1981) no.80 (illustrated); 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.