Johann Franz Buddeus. Introductio ad Historiam Philosophiae Ebraeorum.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $425

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author

(KABBALAH).

printer

Impensis Orphanotrophei

Place

Halle

Publication

1720

Description

Second(?) edition. Title page in red and black. Four engraved Kabbalistic plates.

summary

The plates depict kabbalistic motifs, including the Ten Sefirot (the ten attributes God created through which he projects himself to the universe and to man), an image of the Ohr Ein Sof (“limitless light,” i.e. God) and an additional plate dealing with the Sefirot, this one combining Lurianic with Zoroastrian thought. The author, Johann Franz Buddeus (1667-1729), was a German Lutheran scholar.

pp. (28), 736, (20). Lightly foxed. Contemporary vellum, rubbed, spine chipped. 8vo.

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