Tobias Cohn. Ma’aseh Tuviah

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 247

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Tobias Cohn. Ma’aseh Tuviah

Second edition. Three parts in one volume. Woodcut anatomical diagram and numerous scientific text illustrations ff. (4), 122. Browned and stained, penciled inscription on title and some other leaves. Later boards. 4to Vinograd, Jessnitz 13

Jessnitz: Israel ben Abraham 1721

Est: $400 - $600

“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