Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Eight Books on Subjects of Science, Wisdom, and Faith – 1834-1911

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Eight books on subjects of science, wisdom, and faith. Odessa, Vilna, Prague, Frankfurt, Czernowitz, and New York. Ca. 1834-1911. Hebrew and Yiddish.
1. Meʼah maʼamre hokhmah ve-shire mada [One Hundred Essays of Wisdom and Poems of Science], by Ya’akov Yeshaya Yitzhak. Vilna and Grodno: HaShutafim, 1834.
2. Limude ha-teva [Studies in Science], Volume 1, by Moshe Mordechai Yovel. Czernowitz: Peter and Johann Eckhardt, 1836.
3. Erech Milin, by Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport. Prague, [1852].
4-5. Taʻam Zekenim, edited by Eliezer Ashkenazi. Frankfurt am Main: I. Kauffman, 1854.
Bound with: Leon Modena: His Life and Works, by Nehemiah S. Libowitz. New York: Harry Hirsch, 1911.
6. Mivhar Peninim, by Rabbi Yedaya son of Avraham Badrashi Pnini [Solomon ibn Gabirol]. Vilna: Moshe Yoel, 1865. Hebrew and Yiddish.
7. HaMarkolet, by Lev Levanda, Yehoshua ben Moshe Raczessohn. Odessa. Ulrich und Schultze, 1874.
8. Shisha Sidre Mada [Six Orders of Science], by Dr. Binyamin Shereshevsky. Odessa: Haver, 1911.
Printed by H. N. Bialik and S. Borishkin. An introduction by the publishers appears at the beginning of the book.
Size and condition vary. The books were not thoroughly examined and are offered for sale AS IS.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.
Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Periodicals
Hebrew Literature and Poetry, Periodicals