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

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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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. Author’s portrait. Wide-margined copy. (8), 83, (1), 80, (2), 190, (2). Lacking single Latin introductory leaf, ex-library, portrait laid down, last page neatly repaired. modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6.

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel 1629

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

<<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.