Ma’aseh Tuviah [Medical encyclopedia]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Ma’aseh Tuviah [Medical encyclopedia]

Second Edition. Three parts in one volume. Woodcut anatomical diagram and numerous scientific text illustrations ff. (4), 122. Ex-library. Browned and stained. Endleaf with a manuscript rendition of Birchath HaChama. Later calf. 4to Vinograd, Jessnitz 13; this edition not in Garrison & Morton

Jessnitz: Israel ben Abraham 1721

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

“The most influential early modern Hebrew textbook of the sciences, especially medicine…No other Hebrew work dealing exclusively with medical and scientific matters was so widely read and appreciated.” See D. B. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (1995), pp. 229-55