Avodath Hakodesh [kabbalah]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,900

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

IBN GABBAI, MEIR BEN EZEKIEL

printer

Giovanni Griffio

Place

Venice

Publication

1567

Description

Second edition. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device on title. (cf. Yaari’s Printer’s Marks nos. 30-31)

references

Vinograd, Venice 549; Mehlman 1053; Adams M-1049

summary

“Avodath Ha’kodesh was perhaps the finest account of kabbalistic speculation before the resurgance of the kabbalah in Safed”. G. Scholem, Kabbalah in EJ, X, col. 542. The first two editions of the work were titled Maroth Elokim, thereafter all subsequent editions were known as Avodath Hakodesh.

ff. 139. Lightly browned, dampstained in places, title and last leaf frayed at edges. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio

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