Ma’aseh Tuviah

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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COHN, TOBIAS.

Ma’aseh Tuviah

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one. Title within architectural arch with fine engraved portrait of the Author by Antonio Luciani on verso, anatomical plate and numerous fine scientific text illustrations. Approbation from the Ecclesiastical authorities on final page. Two divisional titles ff.(6),158. Some staining, previous owner’s signatures on first and final leaves (Baruch Bendit Zak of Breslau), slight worming in border of title. Later boards, calf spine gilt, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Venice 1572; Garrison & Morton, Medical Bibliography 6496.1; Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine - Catalogue (1946) pp.59-60; Rubens 693

Venice: Bragadin 1707-8

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

IMPORTANT HEBREW SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Celebrated encyclopedia of medical and natural sciences, comprising sections on geography and astronomy; theology and metaphysics, as well as a lexicon of pharmacological and botanical terms in Hebrew, Latin and Turkish; and most significantly, an important section on medicine (including anatomy and gynecology). Includes discussions on the medical properties of tobacco, description of the plica polonica and an examination of the Magdeburg experiment on the vacuum. Also discusses the future Redemption and the theological and social consequences of the Sabbatian debacle (see ff. 24-29)