Menasseh ben Israel. Sefer Nishmath Chayyim.
Amsterdam, Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, 1651

Menasseh claimed that on the issue of the pre-existence of the soul, the kabbalists 'were followed by Pythagoras, Hermes Trismegistus, Plato [...] and others who had thirstily drunk from their words'.

Early ownership notes in Hebrew on one of the endpapers.