Lot 611
Kabalah--Elijah Phinehas ben Meir.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Sefer haBerit. Brno [Brunn]: 1797, first edition, 2 parts in one volume, 4to (225 x 180mm.), square and rabbinic letter, approbation (Zensur) leaf at beginning dated from Prague 1799, nineteenth-century half sheep, slightly browned, spine worn and detached
Footnote
Note: This first edition of this work, which is in 2 parts, the first dealing with (albeit outmoded) scientific subjects and the second with ethics and the Kabalah, was published anonymously, although the author's name appears in an acrostich before the preface. 'The work enjoyed a relatively wide circulation, and was particularly well received in Haskalah circles in Galicia and Berlin' (Enc. Jud. 6, 639b). The second and third editions were published under the author's name.
References: Steinschneider 6753 (note; the Bodleian has the 1807 ed.); Zedner p. 636