Work consisting of four “shearim”: Sha’ar HaMikvah, Sha’ar HaMatbeot, Sha’ar Aggada and Sha’ar Halacha, authored by Rabbi Neta Reichenberger of Schwabach, who studied at the Beit Medrash in Hechingen.
Specifications: [4] leaves, 30 pages. 16 cm. First edition.
Unique features: Includes calculations of the measurements of a mikva, weights and measures. Two short handwritten glosses.
Condition: Very fine.
Moreh Nevuchim L’Rambam, translated in the eay, clean language of the mishnah by the famed Mendel Lapin, author of Cheshbon HaNefesh.
Specifications: [2], 75: 13, [3] leaves. 22 cm.
Unique features: Like-new condition. First edition. Leaf 57 bears a lengthy gloss on both sides of the leaf.
Content: The translation includes the first section of the work, until chapter 72.
Condition: Excellent. New binding.
Designating the Hebrew calendar, times of the “moldot” and “tekufot,” by R’ Eleizer Belin, with supplements.
Specifications: [2] 40 leaves, 18 cm.
Unique features: Title page illustration of Moses and Aaron and a sketch of the solar system and signs of the zodiac. Many charts are printed in the work, including two sketches of palms with text and four large sketches of circles within each other, to help calculate the calendar. Complete work, including all sketches.
Condition: Fine-very fine. New, half-leather binding. Minimal worming holes on the last leaf.
Comprehensive work regarding the upper spheres – the zodaic etc, and the “small world,” the human body, and all topics of illnesses and cures, including the wisdom of surgery, by Rabbi Tuvia Rofei.
Specifications: [6], 158 leaves. 22 cm. Three title pages, author’s portrait, first edition.
Unique features: Complete copy; with all the introductory leaves, poems, indexes, sketches and illustrations. Prominent approbations. This is considered the first Jewish book of medicine to be printed. It features unique content and an unusually large number of interesting illustrations. The back of the title page features a portrait of the author when he was 48-years-old. Dozens of sketches throughout the work. Leaf 106 features a unique sketch of the human body. Leaves 27-29 are titled “Zichron L’Vnei Yisrael,” and include the episode of Shabtai Zvi and the interrogation of Natan of Gaza by the rabbis of Venice. The last leaf features the approval of the censor of Padua, in Italian.Owner signature: Avraham Chaim Finzi of Ferrara … and others.
Background: Rabbi Tuvia HaRofei studied medicine in the University of Padua. There he met non-Jews and debated with them about religon and belief and heard the negative things they said about Judaism and the Jews. He authored this work to show the nations that even though the Jewish Nation is in exile, they were also endowed with many wisdoms.
Condition: Very fine. Professional repair to title page. Minimal aging stains. Simple binding.
Tenets of natural sciences. HaMenucha V’Hatenuah by Zvi Hirsch Rabinowitz. Replete with woodcut engravings.
Specifications: [1], 408 XXIV, [1] page, 19 cm.
Unique features: Throughout the work, there are 605 woodcut illustrations about nature and its branches. The illustrations were made with a unique technique, with an entirely black background. The book was authorized by ministers and professors of the emperor Yarom Hodu’s university.
Content: Additional title pages in Russian and German.
Condition: Very fine. Thick paper. Red edges. Minimal aging stains. Original binding.
Novellae on the Talmud and many elucidations of Talmudical ideas regarding measurements and astronomy that are difficult to understand, by Rabbi Yisrael Segal of Zamość.
Specifications: [1], 58, [1] leaves. 33 cm.
Subject: Novellae and elucidations about difficulties in the Talmud related to measurements and astronomy.
Unique features: Leaf 3a features a letter from Rabbi Yoel Baal Shem of Zamość, the author’s friend.
Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains.
