Sepher Eilim

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Lot 122

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. THE ALFRED RUBENS COPY pp. (4, of 8), 83, (2), 190, (2), 80. Lacking six unnumbered leaves with Latin introduction and Hebrew apporbations. Portrait laid down, several leaves neatly remargined especially in final part. Recent blind-ruled crimson morocco. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6; Rubens 701

Amsterdam: Menassah ben Israel 1628-29

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

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