(YaSha”R). Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum - Sepher Elim.

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON.

Menasseh ben Israel

Amsterdam

1629

FIRST EDITION. Three Parts in one, two titles. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Author’s portrait. Wide-margined copy.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6.

One of the Great Scientific Books of Hebrew Literature. Includes 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; 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.