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Auction 51 · Lot 247

Tobias Cohn. Ma’aseh Tuviah

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(MEDICINE)

printer

Israel ben Abraham

Place

Jessnitz

Publication

1721

Description

Second edition. Three parts in one volume. Woodcut anatomical diagram and numerous scientific text illustrations

references

Vinograd, Jessnitz 13

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, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (1995), pp. 229-55
ff. (4), 122. Browned and stained, penciled inscription on title and some other leaves. Later boards. 4to
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