Gershon, Elijah ben Moses, of Pintchov. Melecheth Machsheveth. Part I: Ir Cheshbon [arithmetic and alegbra]; Part II: Biruriei Midoth [geometry]

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Gershon, Elijah ben Moses, of Pintchov. Melecheth Machsheveth. Part I: Ir Cheshbon [arithmetic and alegbra]; Part II: Biruriei Midoth [geometry]

Second Edition. Two divisional titles and additional Latin title and introduction ff. (1), 7, 31, (1), 32-58; 61 (mispaginated but complete). Bottoms of title and first leaf lost to cropping (text minimally affected); ff.3-4 cropped on side, with more encroachment upon text. Browned. Contemporay calf-backed marbled boards, scuffed. 4to Vinograd, Berlin 241

Berlin-Frankfurt on Oder: Speier-Grila 1765

Est: $500 - $700

Elijah Gershon, eighteenth-century Polish mathematician and talmudist, published in both his fields of expertise. Besides the present mathematical works, he published Talmudic novellae (Ma'aneh Eliyahu and Hadrath Eliyahu) and edited She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Ge'onei Bathra'ei, a collection of responsa of Rabbis Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, Joel Sirkes, et al. See JE, Vol. V, p.132