JACOB JOSEPH HAKOHEN OF POLONNOYE. Ben Porath Yosef [homilies to the Book of Genesis, with responsa, discourses and a letter from the Baal Shem Tov to his brother-in-law]

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

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(CHASSIDISM).

JACOB JOSEPH HAKOHEN OF POLONNOYE. Ben Porath Yosef [homilies to the Book of Genesis, with responsa, discourses and a letter from the Baal Shem Tov to his brother-in-law]

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch ff.(1),100. Title and final leaves remargined, wormholes repaired with loss of few letters, lightly stained. Modern half-calf over marbled boards. Sm. folio Vinograd, Korzec 9

Korzec: Zvi Hirsch ben Aryeh Leib and Samuel ben Issacher Ber Segal 1781

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

Fundamental work by the first theoretician of Chassidism. See S.H. Dresner, The Zaddik (1960)