Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Ayil Meshulash, Mathematics - Vilna and Horodna, 1833 - Only Edition - Based on the Manuscript of the Gaon of Vilna
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Ayil Meshulash, various branches of mathematics: trigonometry, geometry, algebra and more, by the Gaon of Vilna. Vilna and Horodna, 1833. Only edition. Many diagrams.
Published based on the original manuscript of the Gaon of Vilna. A commentary by the editor R. Shmuel, rabbi of Luknik (Luokė), was printed alongside the composition of the Gaon of Vilna.
Foreword by R. Yaakov Moshe of Slonim, descendant of the Gaon of Vilna, relating to the correct way of viewing secular sciences.
7, 31 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains (dark ink stain to title page, affecting text). Stamps, signatures and handwritten inscriptions. Old binding. Bookplate.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 862.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
Published based on the original manuscript of the Gaon of Vilna. A commentary by the editor R. Shmuel, rabbi of Luknik (Luokė), was printed alongside the composition of the Gaon of Vilna.
Foreword by R. Yaakov Moshe of Slonim, descendant of the Gaon of Vilna, relating to the correct way of viewing secular sciences.
7, 31 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains (dark ink stain to title page, affecting text). Stamps, signatures and handwritten inscriptions. Old binding. Bookplate.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 862.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
The Gaon of Vilna and his Disciples
The Gaon of Vilna and his Disciples