De studio munditiei corporis penes Iudaeos morbis arcendis atque abigendis apto ex auctoritate gratiosi Medicorum Ordinis Lipsici praeside Adamo Michael Birkholz... pro gradu doctoris disputat Salomo Hirsch Burgheim... D. XXI. Sept. MDCCLXXXIIII (Concerning the Study of the Cleanliness of the Body According to the Jews, as a Means of Preventing Disease) [THESIS of the FIRST JEWISH STUDENT TO OBTAIN A DOCTORATE from the UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG]
Leipzig: Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1784. First edition. Paperback. Small quarto. A-D4, E2 (= 18 leaves). 36pp., half-page woodcut vignette at A4 recto; quotations in Hebrew throughout. Unbound, with contemporary red paper overlay along spine. Text lightly toned, else fine. Doctoral thesis examining how the cleanliness of the body is understood..... More