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By King David Auctions
Nov 22, 2018
Yehuda ha-Nasi St 22, Jerusalem, Israel
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Melechet Machshevet – A First of Its Kind Composition for Studying Mathematics – a Thick Volume – Prague, 1775 – ...

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Melechet Machshevet – A First of Its Kind Composition for Studying Mathematics – a Thick Volume – Prague, 1775 – First Edition
Melechet Machshevet by Moshe Zerach Eidlitz. Prague, 1775. first edition.
Hebrew and Yiddish, page-by-page.
A large composition, first of its kind (as the author describes in his preface) for studying mathematics.
In his preface, the author wrote that he had printed the book booklet by booklet, each time, a booklet of 8 leaves. After it was sold, he printed an additional one.
At the end of the book, 'The author's apology' was printed as well as an index. Similar to most copies of the book, the two folded leaves with the tables are missing. Without the 'Table of errors'.
281 [5] leaves. 15cm.
Condition: Good.

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