(YaSha”R). Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum - Sepher Elim

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 98

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON

(YaSha”R). Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum - Sepher Elim

FIRST EDITION. Three Parts in one, two titles. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Wide-margined copy pp. (8), 190, (2); 80; (2), 83, (1 blank). (According to Fuks, the Latin description of the contents, as well as the approbations of the various Venetian rabbis properly belong after the title of Elim; in our copy they have been bound after the title of Ma’ayan Ganim.) Lacking author's portrait following title of Ma’ayan Ganim, ex-library, lightly stained. Later calf-backed boards, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel 1629

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

One of the Great Scientific Books of Hebrew Literature. Includes treatises relating to geometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine and metaphysics. “The most sumptuously illustrated of early scientific works in Hebrew, and unique in printed Hebrew literature before the modern period.” See National Library of Canada Catalogue, The Jacob H. Lowy Collection (1981) no. 80; H. Friedenwald, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History-Catalogue (1946) p.111; A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp. 199-200