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Sasson, Abraham. Kol Mevaser/Kol Sasson [Commentary to Four Beasts in Book of Daniel]

Auction 25 · Lot 24

Sasson, Abraham. Kol Mevaser/Kol Sasson [Commentary to Four Beasts in Book of Daniel]

Estimate
$3,000–$4,000
Hammer price
$3,600

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

author

(KABBALAH).

printer

Juan di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1605

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Title within ornate architectural columns, complete with maidens, lions; three crowns. Each page within typographical border. On title and final page signature of the distinguished Italian kabbalist, Abraham Joseph Graziano “Ish Ger” (See Abraham Karp, From the Ends of the Earth (1991), pp. 155-7 (includes facsimile)

references

Vinograd, Venice 995

summary

Abraham Sasson was an Italian kabbalist who flourished at the beginning of the Seventeenth-century. He was the author of the present volume Kol Mevaser/Kol Sasson, an eschatological work, and Apiryon Shelomo (Venice, 1608), essays on Lurianic mysticism. See JE, Vol. XI, p. 65; G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974), p. 77
ff. (32). Few corners frayed, stained. Modern calf. 12mo
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