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Lot #    12173
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:07:10 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    [Kabbalah] oder: Die Wahre und richtige Cabala
Title (Hebrew)    קבלה
Author    [Kabbalah - Only Ed.] Wilhelm Cristoph Kriegsmann
City    Frankfurt und Leipzig
Publication Date    1774
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [9], 52 pp., [6] leaves of plates, ill., 153:103 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary marbled paper boards, rubbed. Rare - no copy in major collections.
          
Detailed
Description		    Title: [Kabala] oder: Die Wahre und richtige Cabala mit kupfer und Tabellen erlaeurtet.

An introduction and guidebook to Kabbalah. The text is in German, with occasional words in Hebrew and in Latin (especially on the 6 pull-out charts), and Greek. The pull- out charts are staggered in size. The author, Wilhelm Cristoph Kriegsmann, 1633-1679, also wrote four books on alchemy.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica