Sasson, Abraham. Kol Mevaser/Kol Sasson [Commentary to Four Beasts in Book of Daniel]

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Sasson, Abraham. Kol Mevaser/Kol Sasson [Commentary to Four Beasts in Book of Daniel]

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Title within ornate architectural columns, complete with maidens, lions; three crowns. Each page within typographical border. On title and final page signature of the distinguished Italian kabbalist, Abraham Joseph Graziano “Ish Ger” (See Abraham Karp, From the Ends of the Earth (1991), pp. 155-7 (includes facsimile) ff. (32). Few corners frayed, stained. Modern calf. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 995

Venice: Juan di Gara 1605

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,600

Abraham Sasson was an Italian kabbalist who flourished at the beginning of the Seventeenth-century. He was the author of the present volume Kol Mevaser/Kol Sasson, an eschatological work, and Apiryon Shelomo (Venice, 1608), essays on Lurianic mysticism. See JE, Vol. XI, p. 65; G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974), p. 77