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

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,250

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author

(KABBALAH)

printer

MacCalla & Company

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1888

Description

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

references

Singerman 3716

summary

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

pp. 24, 499. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Folio

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