Ma’aseh Tuviah

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Lot 89

COHN, TOBIAS

Ma’aseh Tuviah

Second Edition. Three parts in one volume. Two divisional titles. Famous woodcut anatomical diagram (f.81v.) and numerous scientific text illustrations. Approbation of R. David Oppenheim of Prague ff. (4), 122. Ex-library. Outer corners of opening three leaves torn with some loss on title, browned and stained. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked. 4to Vinograd, Jessnitz 13; this edition not in Garrison & Morton

Jessnitz: Israel ben Abraham 1721

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

“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, "On the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge within the Jewish Community: The Medical Textbook of Tobias Cohen" in Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (1995), pp. 229-55