科恩，托拜斯。1652-1729年。 Toviyah女士，kolel ha-arb\’ah\’olamot[托拜厄斯著作集]。威尼斯：Stamparia Bragadina，[1708]。

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COHN, TOBAIS. 1652–1729.:Ma\’aseh Toviyah, kolel ha-arba\’ah \’olamot [The Book of the Works of Tobias]. Venice: Stamparia Bragadina, [1708].
4to (220 x 162 mm). Woodcut border on title page, 2 additional title pages also with woodcut borders, engraved portrait of the author on verso of main title page, engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. Modern blind-tooled calf antique. Repaired tear to edge of main title page, margins slightly trimmed, scattered staining and spotting throughout.

FIRST EDITION, with engraved illustration comparing the body to a house (replaced with a woodcut of this image in the 1721 edition). The work is divided into parts covering various subjects, including theology, astronomy, medicine, botany, and others. Polish physician Tobias Cohn was educated at Krakow, Frankfort, and Padua, and became physician to five successive Ottoman Sultans. His worldly experience and command of languages allowed him put together this encyclopedic collection of knowledge. Garrison-Morton 6496.1; NLM/Blake, p 93; Waller 2044; Wellcome II, 367.

科恩，托拜斯。1652-1729年。 Toviyah女士，kolel ha-arb\’ah\’olamot[托拜厄斯著作集]。威尼斯：Stamparia Bragadina，[1708]。