Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum.
AUCTION 72 |
Thursday, March 16th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Lot 85
DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.
Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum.
Amsterdam: Menassah ben Israel 1628-29
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,500
<<One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with treatises relating to geometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine and metaphysics.>>
The Sepher Eilim has been described as: “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).
See also, A. Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century (1986) pp. 251-2; 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.