Horowitz, Pinchas Elijah. Sepher Habrith

Estimate: $700–$1,000
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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

J.K. Neimann

Place

Brünn

Publication

1797

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Uncut copy. Censor’s imprimatur on opening leaf in German and Yiddish, dated 1799

references

Vinograd, Brünn 63

summary

A popular work that presented the general sciences from the perspective of Jewish tradition. Indeed, following the Maaseh Tuviah of 1707, it is among the very earliest encyclopedia of the sciences to be printed in Hebrew. Horowitz, a pupil of Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, devoted long sections in this work to the United States of America, as well as Brazil. See M. Silber, America in Hebrew Literature (1928) pp.49-50; and I. Zinberg, History of Jewish Literature vol. VI (1975) pp.260-70

ff.(4),128,66,(4). Marginal staining. Original publisher’s wrappers, worn. 4to

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