Sepher Eilim

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE

Menassah ben Israel

Amsterdam

1628-29

FIRST EDITION. Three Parts in one. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Titles within typographical border. A complete copy, with two titles, Latin introduction before title of Sepher Eilim and engraved portrait before title of Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim

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

A complete copy, uncommon in good condition 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