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105 leaves. Text in Hebrew. Wood-engraved decorative title-page; occasional diagrams in the text. (4to) 7¾x5½, old leather.

The Editio Princeps of the Sepher Yetzirah, the first printing in the original Hebrew. Translated as the "Book of Formation," it is perhaps the oldest Rabbinical treatise of Kabbalistic philosophy which is still extant. Bound without the page of volvelles, almost always lacking.