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Bidding Information
Lot #    7228
Auction End Date    4/27/2004 1:40:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Rofei ha-Yeladim
Title (Hebrew)    øåôà äéìãéí
Author    Moses Studencki
City    Warsaw
Publisher    H. N. Schriefigtesser
Publication Date    1847
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [11], 325 pp., 188:117 mm., light age and damp staining, lacks one contents f. A good copy bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    First edition of a popular Hebrew-Yiddish medical work providing advice on how to keep children healthy by Dr. Moses Studencki. The front matter consists of a title page with a Hebrew heading and text in German, that identifies Dr. Studencki as a first class physician and obstetrician. There is a letter favoring ther book in Polish from a Polish medical committee A second title page, entirely in Hebrew, describes Rofei ha-Yeladim as good and faithful advice to protect a child’s health and prevent illnesses. Furthermore, if an illness does occur, how to recognize and identify it and what cures and home remedies are efficacious. Also which illnesses necessitate calling a physician. The verso of this page has a brief prayer followed by an index (one page lacking), a dedication page, a letter (approbation) from R. Hayyim Davidson, and then the text. The text begins with an autobiography of the author (pp. 1-2) who informs that he was born in Galicia, studied in yeshivah at Brodi and at the age of 17 came to Warsaw to study medicine. Dr. Studencki completed his studies in an academy in Berlin, becoming a doctor in 1834. There is an introduction/forward (pp. 3-4). The body of Rofei ha-Yeladim is in alternating Hebrew Yiddish pages comprising 276 numbered paragraphs in both languages. The final otherwise blank page has a decorative tail-piece.
          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Warsaw 652
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Medical
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica