HURVITZ [or HURWITZ] PINHAS ELIJAH BEN MEIR Sefer ha Brit 1

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HURVITZ [or HURWITZ], PINHAS ELIJAH BEN MEIR. Sefer ha-Brit. [4], 128 [i. e., 131]; 66, [4] leaves, including initial license leaf dated 1799. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, original drab wrappers, covers soiled and stained, backstrip worn and cracked; contents heavily dog-eared at beginning and end, mostly minor marginal foxing and dampstains, first few leaves gnawed in upper outer corner. Brünn: Joseph Karl Neumann, 1797 [i. e., 1799]

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First edition of a compilation of scientific knowledge, metaphysics, and ethics presented in the form of a kabbalistic commentary, including discussions of the Copernican system, air pump, thermometer, diving bell, New World exploration, and an early account in Hebrew of Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccination. EJ VIII, 1119 ("a source of basic scientific information for Jews who knew no European languages"); Ruderman, "Some Jewish Responses to Smallpox Prevention in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Aleph 2 (2002), pages 125-131; Vinograd, Brünn 63.