b'39(ASTRONOMY). Abraham bar Hiya. Tzurat HaAretz. Ashpira Hagadol (called Maroth HaOfanim). Sepher HaGalgal. Edited by Jonathan of Rozinai.FIRST EDITON.Title within architectural arch featuring Moses and Aaron, with cherubs anking a zodiac sphere. Numerous woodcut illustrations of spherical charts, mathematical, geometrical figures and astronomical illustrations. ff. [3], 64. Stained in places. Contemporary boards, rebacked. 4to. [Vinograd, Offenbach 44.] Offenbach, Bonaventura de la Naye, 1720. $400 - $600 The author (d.1136) was a Spanish philosopher andmystic,consideredtheprincipalsourceof geographicalknowledgeamongtheJewsofthe Middle Ages. (Abraham bar Hiya) was the first philosopher to write in Hebrew and the rst to present Ptolemaic astronomy extensively in that language. Accordingly, he made important contributions to the Hebrew philosophical and scientic lexicon (B. Levy, Planets, Potions and Parchments: Scientica Hebraica (1990) no. 23).40(AVERROES) MUHAMMAD IBN RUSHD. Kol Malecheth Higayon LeAristotle [philosophy - paraphrase of Aristotles Organon]. Translated into Hebrew by Jacob ibn Machir.FIRST HEBREW EDITION.Old Latin marginalia. ff. 68. Trimmed and stained, title lightly worn. Modern boards. 12mo. [Vinograd, Riva di Trento 19.] Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria, 1560. $400 - $600 Maimonides recommended the commentaries of Averroes as an aid to understand the thinking of Aristotle. See EJ, Vol. III cols. 949-53.20'