MYER, ISAAC. Qabbalah. The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gabirol or Avicebron and their connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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MYER, ISAAC. Qabbalah. The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gabirol or Avicebron and their connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar

ONE OF 150 NUMBERED COPIES. This copy numbered by hand "28" and signed by the Author. Title in red and black. Opposite title, kabbalistic chart in Hebrew and English: "The Upper Adam with Ain Soph and the Ten Sephiroth." Replete with diagrams and textual. Extremely wide margins. The Nelson Glueck copy pp. 24, 499. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Folio Singerman 3716

Philadelphia: MacCalla & Company 1888

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

In this highly recondite work, Isaac Myer attempts to fuse various disciplines: Neoplatonic philosophy, Kabbalah, the Chinese I Ching, the mystic theology of Dionysios the Areopagite, as well as ancient Akkadian and Chaldean cosmogonies