The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century. The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614--1698).
Leiden: Brill, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, xx + 420pp. Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind rules, frontispiece. A biography of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) who, with Christian Knorr Von Rosenroth, edited the Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians at that time. This is the original properly printed and bound edition, not an inferior modern pr int on demand reprint. Appears unread, thus near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket a bit chafed; a little creased at top edge and folds, not clipped). Item #63249
ISBN: 9004098445
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