Over Lesocher [on mathematics and economics]

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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PORTO, MENACHEM ZION (RAPA).

Over Lesocher [on mathematics and economics]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within architectural arch. Mathematical tables within the text. ff. 22. Dampstained, trimmed. Recent cloth-backed marbled boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 1176

Venice: for Bragadin 1627

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $650

Porto (c. 1600-60) held Rabbinic office in Padua, “he was an excellent mathematician and astronomer, and his works were highly praised by Andrea Argoli and extolled in Italian sonnets by Tomaso Ercaloni and Benedetto Luzzatto” (JE, Vol. X pp.133-4); see also A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) pp. 303-6.