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Cohn, Tobias (1652-1729) Ma'aseh Toviyyah.
Venice: Bragadin, 1707-8.
First edition, quarto; three parts in one volume with divisional titles; general title printed within an elaborate architectural compartment; engraved portrait of the author by Antonio Luciani printed on verso of title; anatomical plate and other scientific text illustrations; with the approbation from the Ecclesiastical authorities printed on final leaf; bound in full contemporary parchment; (contents lightly stained, with some minor worming to gutter margins); 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Cohn was a Polish-Jewish physician whose father emigrated from Israel to Poland. In this wide-ranging work, he covers theology, astronomy, medicine, hygiene, syphilitic illnesses, botany, cosmography, and the four elements. It includes the famous "House of the Body" illustration, which draws a visual and conceptual simile between a building and the workings of the human body.
