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KNORR VON ROSENROTH (CHRISTIAN, translator and editor)
Kabbala denudata seu doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Salzburg, Abraham Lichtenthaler, and [volume 2] Frankfurt, J. David Zunner, 1677-1684

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KNORR VON ROSENROTH (CHRISTIAN, translator and editor)

Kabbala denudata seu doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Roman text, with some Hebrew, engraved folding additional title in volume 1 (shaved at lower margin, outer margin ragged with small losses), title to volume 2 printed in red and black with printer's device, together 17 engraved plates (16 folding), a few leaves misbound, occasional light spotting or browning, a few pencil annotations, contemporary vellum, titles inked on spines, soiled, volume 1 rebacked preserving original spine [Caillet 5815, "le plus complet, le plus exact, et le plus serieux"; Steinschneider 6085], small 4to (196 x 152mm., and 208 x 172mm.), Salzburg, Abraham Lichtenthaler, and [volume 2] Frankfurt, J. David Zunner, 1677-1684

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A compilation of important cabbalistic treatises, edited and translated by Christian von Knorr. Caillet considered it to be the most complete and serious work of the period on the Cabbala.

Provenance: W.G.J. Baxter, ownership inscription in each volume, one noting "collated perfect 25/7 [18]67"; "Bibliothek des A. Fürst", stamp on front free endpapers; "Baphomet. Grand Master", gold embossed bookplate (with note Baphomet may be Aleister Crowley) in volume 2.

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