Ma’aseh Tuviah

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $400

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author

COHN, TOBIAS

printer

Israel ben Abraham

Place

Jessnitz

Publication

1721

Description

Second Edition. Three parts in one volume. Two divisional titles. Famous woodcut anatomical diagram (f.81v.) and numerous scientific text illustrations. Approbation of R. David Oppenheim of Prague

references

Vinograd, Jessnitz 13; this edition not in Garrison & Morton

summary

“The most influential early modern Hebrew textbook of the sciences, especially medicine...No other Hebrew work dealing exclusively with medical and scientific matters was so widely read and appreciated.” See D.B. Ruderman, "On the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge within the Jewish Community: The Medical Textbook of Tobias Cohen" in Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (1995), pp. 229-55

ff. (4), 122. Ex-library. Outer corners of opening three leaves torn with some loss on title, browned and stained. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked. 4to

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