Bidspirit auction | DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

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. Lacking opening title, author portrait and final leaf. Trimmed, few stains and few repairs. Title supplied in manuscript. Recent sheep-backed boards, rubbed. 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 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).