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[14], 59 pp. Bahir translated by Aryeh Kaplan, translator of Sefer Raziel unattributed. With illustrated plates. 29.8x21 cm (11¾x8¼") cloth-covered boards with printed title label. One of an edition limited to 66 copies. 

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, (Hebrew,ספר רזיאל המלאך, "the book of Raziel the angel"), is a grimoire of Practical Kabbalah from the Middle Ages written primarily in Hebrew and Aramaic. The Liber Razielis Archangeli, its 13th-century Latin translation produced under Alfonso X, survives. Bahir or Sefer HaBahir (Hebrew: סֵפֶר הַבָּהִיר, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈsefɛʁ ˌhabbaˈhiʁ]; "Book of the Bright") is an anonymous mystical work, attributed to a 1st-century rabbinic sage Nehunya ben HaKanah (a contemporary of Yochanan ben Zakai) because it begins with the words, "R. Nehunya ben HaKanah said".