VITAL, CHAIM, Sepher Ha-Techunah, [formulae and calculations to determine the New Moons, Solar and Lunar cycles, Seasons and systems of intercalculation]

AUCTION 33 | Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 12
(ASTRONOMY)

VITAL, CHAIM, Sepher Ha-Techunah, [formulae and calculations to determine the New Moons, Solar and Lunar cycles, Seasons and systems of intercalculation]

FIRST EDITION. Many astronomical diagrams ff. [4], 52. Previous owner’s signature and stamp (Rabbi David Mazivetsky of Argentina), slight staining. Later boards. 8vo Halevy, Jerusalem 132

Jerusalem: Israel Bak 1866

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $450
With an introduction by the great Kabbalist, R. Chai Raphael Yedidyah Aboulafia, who writes in addition to the Kabbalah that R. Chaim Vital imbibed from Isaac Luria, “he held the keys to other scientific disciplines which are “Rakachoth” (phamaceutics) necessary for understanding the “internal” (i.e. Kabbalistic) portions of the Torah.”