Isaiah ben Abraham Halevi Horowitz. Shenei luchoth ha-Berith. Amsterdam, Immanuel Athias, 1698 [and] Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz. Vavei ha' Ammudim. Amsterdam, Immanuel Athias, 1698

Isaiah Horowitz (1565?–1630) moved to Eretz Israel in 1621, where he was greatly influenced by the works of the Safedian mystics Luria, Cordovero and Caro. He combined Halakah, homiletic and Kabbalah for the purpose of offering directions towards leading an ethical life. Especially Shenei Luchoth ha-Berith is characteristic for the way the Kabbalah pervaded every aspect of life. Horowitz's son Sheftel edited the work and provided an introduction to it.

Immanuel Athias was the son of Joseph Athias, the famous Hebrew printer, the founding father of the Hebrew printing dynasty in Amsterdam. The University Library of Amsterdam recently acquired the Hebrew matrices that were used by the Athias family.

Contemporary gold-tooled binding with supralibros of Moshe bar Haron Ha-Levi; underneath the name a hand pouring a jug. Early ownership marks in Hebrew on the fly-leaf facing the title-page and on the fly-leaf facing the colophon of Sheftel's work.