Sepher Uklides [Hebrew translation of the first Six Books of The Elements]. Translated by Baruch Schick of Shklov. The Editor’s preface states that the work was translated and published at the urging of R. Elijah, Gaon of Vilna.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(EUCLID).

printer

Soesmanns & Munnikhuizen

Place

The Hague

Publication

1780

Description

Complete with three folding engraved geometrical plates. FIRST EDITION.

references

Vinograd, The Hague 11.

summary

Baruch Schick of Shklov relates that he paid a visit to the “famous Chasid R. Eliyah in the month of Teveth 1778… I heard from the mouth of the holy man that in direct proportion to a man’s deficiency in the other wisdoms, he will be deficient one hundred times more so in the wisdom of Torah; for Torah and wisdom are bound together.” See David E. Fishman, Russia’s First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov (1995) p. 22, 37-40.

ff.(4), 51, (1). Lightly foxed, previous owner’s marks, plates torn at folds. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Housed in custom solander-box. 4to.

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