(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 163

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Abraham Farissol. Igereth Orchoth Olam / Itinera Mundi. Translated and annotated by Thomas Hyde. <<FIRST LATIN EDITION.>> Hebrew original and Latin translation on facing pages. pp. (16), 196. [Vinograd, Oxford 4; Wing F-438]. <<* BOUND WITH:>> Tractatus Alberti Bobovii [Muslim liturgy and religious practices]. Annotated by the Editor Thomas Hyde. Text in Latin and Osmanli (Turkish in Arabic characters). pp. (4), 31, (1 blank). Some staining, lightly browned, previous owner’s marks in pencil on key passages. Contemporary calf, covers loose. 4to.

Oxford:: Sheldon Theatre 1691 and 1690

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

The Igereth Orchoth Olam is a pioneering work on geography. First published in Ferrara in 1524, it is the first Hebrew book to contain a description of America (chap. 29). Besides its rudimentary description of the “Eretz Chadashah” (The New World), the work also contains a valuable reference to the enigmatic David Reubeni (chap. 14). See D. Ruderman, The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol (1981) and André Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century (1986), pp. 122-135.