Auction 12 · Lot 104

Sepher Eilim.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,400

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. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Titles within typographical border. With two titles.

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. (6 of 8); 83; (2 of 4),190,(2); 80. Lacks single Latin introductory leaf following opening title of Sepher Eilim, and portrait following title of Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim. Scattered light staining, inscriptions on front and rear free- endpapers. Contemporary vellum. Sm.4to

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