Sepher Dimyon Harephu’oth - Harmonia Wallichia Medica

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $450

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author

(MEDICINE). WALLICH, ABRAHAM

printer

Johannes Wust

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1700

Description

FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Latin

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 158; Friedenwald p.151(with erroneous publication year); unknown to Garrison & Morton;

summary

Popular treatise on medicine. Attempts to relate man’s physical ailments to a manifestation of affliction within the soul. Published posthumously by the author’s son, also a physician; members of an important German-Jewish family who produced many scholars, physicians and scientists

Stained, some worming, stamps, contemporary boards, lacking upper cover, 8vo

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