Judiaica.- Immortality of the Soul.- ben Israel (Menasseh) Nishmath Chaim, engraved portrait frontispiece, title within ornate architectural border, Latin title, dedication and abstract at rear, portrait slightly trimmed at head and window mounted, title with early ink ownership inscription, small tear (not affecting text) and border dryly inked, following leaf with small marginal tear and paper repair, some damp-staining and finger soiling, top edge generally slightly trimmed close to headlines, contemporary half calf, expertly and neatly recbacked, spine gilt with red morocco label, sm. 4to, Amsterdam, Samuel Soeiro, 1652.*** A work of fundamental importance to Jewish theology, described as Rabbi Menasseh's magnum opus, arguing for the immortality of the soul drawing together philosophy, scripture, gentile scholarship, kabbalistic texts and contemporary ethnographic accounts of spiritual possession.