Sepher Habrith.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $800

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author

HOROWITZ, PINCHAS ELIJAH.

printer

Menachem Mann b. Baruch

Place

Vilna

Publication

1818

Description

Two parts in one volume. Second, expanded edition. A wide-margined copy on tinted paper.

references

Vinograd, Vilna 101.

summary

A popular work that presented the general sciences from the perspective of Jewish tradition. Following Tobias Cohn’s Maaseh Tuviah of 1707, it is among the very earliest encyclopedia of the sciences to be printed in Hebrew.

ff. (1), 191,(1), 104. Some worming touching few letters in places. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, light wear. 4to.

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