Auction 98 Auction of Fine Judaica
By Kestenbaum & Company
Jun 16, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
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LOT 148:

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.
Sepher Eilim - Sepher ...

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DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.
Sepher Eilim - Sepher Ma'ayan Ganim - Sepher Ma'ayan Chathum.


FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one volume. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Divisional titles.
pp. 90, 192, 82. Ex-library, lightly browned, few leaves expertly remargined. Modern calf, gutter split. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 20.


Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel 1628

 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.


הערה: הקטלוג העברית מיועד להנגיש את המכירה לציבור הישראלי הרחב. עם זאת, הטקסט בעברית עלול לחסר מידע חיוני על הפריט. על כל מציע לעיין בתיאור הפריט באנגלית לפני ההצעה. לא ניתן לבטל רכישה לאחר המכירה על סמך תיאור פריט שחיסר מידע בעברית.

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