Avodath HaKodesh

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,100

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, 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

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)

ff. 139. Title repaired, stained in places, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio

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