Sha'ar HaShamayim, on "the wisdom of nature, astronomy and G-d", by Rabbi Gershon ben Shlomo. Roedelheim, 1801.
On leaf before title page a long dedication to a bar-mitzvah boy "the wonderful boy nearing manhood that already from a young age his heart burned with the fire of Torah … " – Shimon ben Rabbi Moshe Wolf Oish, and the signature of his father's cousin, Rabbi Ya'akov Pisling. Signed by the recipient, Rabbi Shimon Oish of Prague.
Rabbi Moshe Wolf Oish was a rabbi and dayan in Prague at the time that his relative Rabbi Shmuel Landau served as rabbi of Prague. His son Rabbi Shimon Oish also a scholar in Prague, had contact already at a young age with Rabbi Shmuel Landau about responsa. Rabbi Landau calls him "the Rabbi with wondrous and vast knowledge of Torah" (see responsa Shivat Tzion, Simanim 17, 35, and attached material).
Rabbi Ya'akov Pisling, a distinguished person in Prague, a mechutan of Rabbi Shmuel Landau and is also mentioned in his book of responsa.
[8], 83 leaves. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Old leather cover. Additional handwritten signatures and inscriptions.