[Rarebooks] FS: Nicomachean Ethics, Ist Hebrew edition

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Aristotle. Alguadez, Meir ben Solomon. Satanow, Isaac. SEFER HA-MIDOT 
/ LE-ARISTOT_ELIS ... : MEFORASH ... _AL YAD ITSIK_ SAT_ANOV [TWO 
VOLUMES IN ONE]. Berlin: Orientalische Buchdrukerey, 1790-91. [11], 
75; [1], 76-151 [i.e., 150] leaves. 8vo. Old speckled boards with 
modern vellum back and corners . First Hebrew edition. Sarton III, 
1384. Steinschneider, Die hebraischen Ubersetzungen des Mittelalters, 
#110 (pp. 209-16). EJ (1972 ed) II, pp. 624-25. Cowley: Hebrew 
Printed Books in the Bodleian Library p.41.

First edition in Hebrew of the Nicomachean ethics. Translated by Meir 
ben Solomon Alguadez (d. 1410?), Hispano-Jewish physician and adviser 
to Henry III, king of Castile from 1390 to 1406. "Alguadez did not 
believe that Aristotelian and other Greek knowledge was of Jewish 
origin, but he considered it worth while to examine the conclusions 
to which Greek sages had been independently led without being 
enlightened by the Torah ....Alguadez' translation was patronized by 
Judah ben Solomon ibn Labi, who was a powerful person at the 
Aragonese court," (Sarton, Hist. of Science, Vol. III, Pt. II 
Washington, 1948, p. 1384. From the Latin translation of Robert 
Grossetesta, with the extensive commentary by the Haskalah scholar 
Isaac Satanow (1732-1804) based on unpublished texts by Joseph ben 
Shemtov and Moses Almosnino.

A very good copy, contents toned with occasional marginal foxing or 
browning, first title page soiled, with 19th-century stamp of Jews' 
College, London. [35876] $950.00

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