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KNORR VON ROSENROTH, CHRISTIAN, translator and editor. Kabbala Denudata; seu, Doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica. Parts 1-5 (of 6) in 2 volumes, bound in 3; lacking Franciscus Mercurius Van Helmont's Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae, not found in all copies. 15 (of 16) numbered and 2 unnumbered folding engraved plates; lacks plate 15 (replaced with well-executed facsimile on laid paper). [36], 740; 312, 255, [1]; [4], 38, 598, [2], 478 pages, including frontispieces to parts 1 and 4. 4to, 208x163 mm, 18th-century vellum boards; contents severely browned, free endpapers lacking. Armorial bookplates of Francesco Vargas Macciucca. Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler for Johann David Zunner, 1677-78; Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner for Balthasar Christoph Wust, 1684
first edition of a groundbreaking collection of Latin translations of fundamental kabbalistic texts, "the principal source for all non-Jewish literature on Kabbalah until the end of the 19th century" (EJ). Knorr (1636-89) was the foremost 17th-century Christian scholar of the subject. EJ X, 1117. Caillet 5851; Faber du Faur 1312.
