Auction 17 · Lot 122
Sepher Eilim
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,500
- Hammer price
- $1,800
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE
printer
Menassah ben Israel
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1628-29
Description
FIRST EDITION. Three Parts in one. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Titles within typographical border. With two titles. THE ALFRED RUBENS COPY
references
Vinograd, Amsterdam 20; Fuks, Amsterdam 150-1; Silva Rosa 6; Rubens 701
summary
One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with 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 (illustrated); A. Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century (1986) pp.251-2; 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
pp. (4, of 8), 83, (2), 190, (2), 80. Lacking six unnumbered leaves with Latin introduction and Hebrew apporbations. Portrait laid down, several leaves neatly remargined especially in final part. Recent blind-ruled crimson morocco. Sm. 4to
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