Bidspirit auction | Shefa Tal. Frankfurt am Main,

Shefa Tal. Frankfurt am Main, 1719. Many Kabbalistic Illustrations. - Sefer Shefa Tal, a key to the secrets of Kabbalah, including Iggeret HaTa’amim, sections from Sefer Yetzirah, passages of the Zohar and Tikkunim, with most of its content based on the writings of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. By Rabbi Shabtai Segal Horowitz of Prague. Frankfurt am Main, 1719. Second and important edition of this foundational Kabbalistic work. With numerous kabbalistic illustrations, including the Ten Circles, palm-line diagrams, and more. At the beginning is a lengthy introduction entitled Ben Me’ah Shanah, dealing with metaphysical subjects such as the perception of Divinity, the nature of the worlds, man, exile and redemption. Includes the Printer’s Preface, unique to this edition. At the head of the title page appears the printer’s emblem: Hermes-Mercury, cloaked and hatted, holding the caduceus staff, with small wings attached to his ankles. This emblem is known to be that of the printer Johann Kelner; however, the title page states that it was printed by R. Shimon Trier Katz, though evidently it was indeed produced at Kelner’s press (see Yitzhak Yudlov, Printer’s Marks, Jerusalem 1999, p. 64). [2], 74, 76–80 leaves. 33.5 cm.