Auction 7 · Lot 358

Sepher Eilim

Estimate: $2,500–$3,500
Hammer price: $3,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE

printer

Menassah ben Israel

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1628-29

Description

FIRST EDITION. Three Parts in one. Engraved portrait of the Author, numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Titles within typographical border. A complete copy, with two titles, Latin introduction, engraved portrait, all bound correctly

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6

summary

One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with 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 (illustrated); 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

pp. (8), 83, (4), 190, (2), 80. Outer margin on pp.7-8 cropped, scattered light staining and marginalia. Modern calf. Sm.4to

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