Una mirada a los cielos, o la Puerta de la Astronomia ["A Look at the Heavens, or The Door of Astronomy"]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ASTRONOMY)

printer

Nissim de Castro

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1850

Description

Hebrew and Judeo-Español. Title within typographic border. Several astronomical figures

references

Kayserling, p. 36

summary

The title specifies that the manual is "for the use of the schools of the Jews." Indeed it was issued with the approval of the three rabbis of Constantinople: Raphael Shabthai ibn Yakar, Jacob Becher David, and Chaim Moses Fresco

pp. (6), 132. Browned. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine partially missing.12mo

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