Auction 9
The Elul Auction - Historical items for the High Holidays
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מכתבים מגדולי הדורות - ביניהם מכתב מהגה"ק רבן של ישראל בעל פחד יצחק האדמו"ר הראשון לשושלת באיאן, ועוד מכתבים מאדמור"י בית רוז'ין
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LOT 37:
Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum. Amsterdam, 1628 - Copy of Sadigur Rebbe
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Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum. Amsterdam, 1628 - Copy of Sadigur Rebbe
DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.
Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum.
FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one volume. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by W. Delff after a painting by C. Duyster. Titles within typographical border.
pp. 90, 192, 82. Stained in places, occasional marginal wear, few small tears.Contemporary blind-tooled calf, worn. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 20.
Amsterdam: Menassah 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.
