Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Tanya - Likutei Amarim.

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 51

(CHASSIDISM).

Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Tanya - Likutei Amarim.

Second edition. Title within typographical border. With the haskamoth of R. Zevi Hirsch Meisels of Zolkiew and R. Isaac Samson of Cracow. ff. (3), 2-74. Some staining. Later calf-backed boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Zolkiew 545; Mondschein, Tanya Bibliography (1981), pp. 36-43, no. 2; Stefansky, Chassiduth no. 623.

Zolkiew: Mordechai Rubinstein 1799

Est: $6,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,500

Second edition of the fundamental exposition of Chabad Chassidism - containing the first appearance of the third section of the Tanya, “Igereth HaTeshuvah.” This Zolkiew edition so radically differs from the revised version printed subsequently in Shklov in 1806, that Chassidim refer to it as the “first draft” or “Igereth HaTeshuvah - Mahadura Kama.” See Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rachel, Vol. I, pp. 54-56; S.D. Avtzon, The Tanya - a History (1999) pp. 37-9; J. Mondschein, Siphrei HaHalacha shel Admo”r HaZaken - Bibliography (1984) p. 65, n. 5; R. Mahler, Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment (1985) p. 109. <<Bound with: >> Ya’akov Chaim Tzemach. Nagid Umetzaveh. ff. 77. [Vinograd, Zolkiew 456]. Zolkiew, 1793.