Auction 98 · Lot 148
Sepher Eilim - Sepher Ma'ayan Ganim - Sepher Ma'ayan Chathum.
- Estimate
- $6,000–$9,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.
printer
Menasseh ben Israel
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1628
Description
FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one volume. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Divisional titles.
references
Vinograd, Amsterdam 20.
summary
One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with treatises relating to geometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine and metaphysics.
The Sepher Eilim is “The most sumptuously illustrated of early scientific works in Hebrew, and unique in printed Hebrew literature before the modern period” (National Library of Canada Catalogue, The Jacob M. Lowy Collection (1981) no. 80).
See 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. 90, 192, 82. Ex-library, lightly browned, few leaves expertly remargined. Modern calf, gutter split. 4to.