SHNEUR ZALMAN OF LIADI. Torath Chaim [Chassidic discourses on Bereishith-Chayei Sarah, amplified and explained by the Author's son, R. Dov-Baer]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

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SHNEUR ZALMAN OF LIADI. Torath Chaim [Chassidic discourses on Bereishith-Chayei Sarah, amplified and explained by the Author's son, R. Dov-Baer]

The last flyleaf contains a listing of births of a previous owner's children ff. 1, 95, 79. With signatures and stamps of previous owners. Contemporary calf, spine taped. 4to Vinnograd, Kopyst 125-H (addendum - printer attributed as Israel Jaffe); Habermann, Shaarei Chabad 290; See also Mehlman 1180 (a variant censored version)

Kopyst: Yehuda Jaffe 1826

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

RARE. THIS EDITION ORIGINALLY NOT NOTED BY VINOGRAD. Appended here are three manuscript leaves in a late 19th-century hand, containing corrections and additional material. On variant editions of this work see Y. Rivkind, Dikdukei Sepharim in Sepher HaYovel-A. Marx (1943) pp. 34-36. Rivkind notes there are two versions - one that is censored and lacking many words and paragraphs and an uncensored version. The manuscript leaves in this censored issue supplies the missing text