SCHNABER, MORDECHAI GUMPEL HA-LEVI (DR. GEORGE LEVISON). Maamar Ha-Torah Ve-Ha-Chochmah [essay on law and the various sciences]

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SCHNABER, MORDECHAI GUMPEL HA-LEVI (DR. GEORGE LEVISON). Maamar Ha-Torah Ve-Ha-Chochmah [essay on law and the various sciences]

FIRST EDITION. A wide margined copy pp. 4, 85, 5. Previous owners’ signatures, ex libris, and inscriptions in various hands - in English (Joseph Eyre who writes “the author of this book, my valuable friend and instructor in the Hebrew language, Dr. Levison) and in Hebrew in a Sephardic hand dated 1859. Contemporary tooled morocco, rubbed with modern title plate. Large 4to Vinograd, London 63; Roth, London 22; Piccioto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History, p. 138; Friedenwald, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History p. 95

London: Moshe and Partners 1771

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

The author distinguished himself both as a Hebrew scholar and as a medical practitioner in England and Sweden. He originally hailed from Berlin studying under the Chief Rabbi David Frankel (author of Korban Ha-Edah). He was the grandson of his namesake, R. Gumpel Schnaber, the Dayan of the tri-communities of Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbeck. Schnaber studied medicine in England with Dr. John Hunter and was appointed physician to the Duke of Portland. He later served as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Upsala, Sweden, where, King Gustavus III encouraged him to translate all of his medical and polemical works into Swedish. The present work, which stressed the importance of studying the sciences, engendered some controversy among the overzealous.