Ḥiḳre tevel : kolel sheloshah sefarim, ha-shamayim, ha-arets ṿeha-aṿir, yedaber ʻal ḥokhmat ha-tekhunah ... ʻim tsiyurim ṿe-temunot rabot / me-iti Avraham ben-Shimʻon Ṿarshaṿsḳi.
חקרי תבל : כולל שלשה ספרים, השמים, הארץ והאויר, ידבר על חכמת התכונה עם ציורים ותמונות רבות ... \ מאתי אברהם בן-שמעון ווארשאווסקי.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warschawsky, Abraham, 1841-1901, author.

Contributor:

Neʼeman, Yitsḥaḳ ben Zev Aryeh, former owner.

Goldenblum, Aaron Isaac, 1827-1912, former owner.

Nitzsche, Ludwig Gotlibovych, 1818-1904, printer.

Zederbaum, Alexander, 1816-1893, printer.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Planets.

Genre:

copper engravings (visual works)

astronomical charts.

Woodcuts.

Physical Description:

[6], II-VII, [3]-127, [4] pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations, charts ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Odessa : Druck von L. Nitzsche und A. Cederbaum, 1864

Other Title:

Chikre Tebel : Weltforschungen, in astronomischer, mathematisch=physich=geographischer, geologischer und meteorologischer Beziehung, populär dargestellt nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Wissenschaft und den besten Werken der berühmtesten autoren, von Abraham Warschawsky

Notes:

"Erster band, Astronomie". No more published.

Censored, Odesa 1863 (Cyrillic text on page [2], verso).

Four leaves of plates, with square copperplate engravings of the Jewish Zodiac; a leaf of plate with a negative relief woodblock of the planets, and a leaf of plate (negative relief woodblock) of Jupiter. Includes charts (moons around Mars and Jupiter and other satellite planets, with graphs of names and dates of their discovery; lunar phases).

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare QB45 .W37 1864 complete; inscribed [likely by the author] to Aaron Isaac Goldenblum ("מנחה מזכרת אהבה שלמה לידידי החוקר ... אהרן גולדבל'" on page [4]; additional contemporary inscription of a verse attributed to Sirach in the Talmud ("במופלא ממך אל תדרוש ובמכוסה ממך אל תחקור..."; Hagigah 13a) on final flyleaf; stamp of Yitsḥaḳ ben Zev Aryeh Neʼeman (Najman; formerly of Aleksotas, Kaunas, Lithuania, emigrated to Jaffa, 1890; see: Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel, page 520).

OCLC:

19153446