Avodath Hakodesh [kabbalah]

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,300

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

author

IBN GABBAI, MEIR

printer

Yitzchak ben Aaon of Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1576 -77

Description

Second edition. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device on title. (cf. Yaari’s Printer’s Marks nos. 39 and note on p. 138)

references

Vinograd, Cracow 45; Mehlman 1053

summary

“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. The first edition of the work was entitled Maroth Elokim, thereafter all subsequent editions were known as Avodath Hakodesh

ff. 139. Lightly stained, Lower margin of title taped, stamp of previous owner. Recent boards, rubbed. Folio

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