Avodath HaKodesh

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 145

IBN GABBAI, MEIR

Avodath HaKodesh

Second edition, the first with the title Avodath HaKodesh. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari’s Printer’s Marks nos. 39 and note on p. 138). Title with signatures of earlier owners from Posen, 16th- and 17th-centuries ff. 139. Title repaired, stained in places, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 45; Mehlman 1053

Cracow: Yitzchak ben Aaon of Prostitz 1576 -77

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

“Avodath Hakodesh was perhaps the finest account of kabbalistic speculation before the resurgance of the kabbalah in Safed” (G. Scholem, Kabbalah in EJ, Vol. X, col. 542)