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

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,700

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author

(CHASSIDISM)

printer

Yehuda Jaffe

Place

Kopyst

Publication

1826

Description

The last flyleaf contains a listing of births of a previous owner's children

references

Vinnograd, Kopyst 125-H (addendum - printer attributed as Israel Jaffe); Habermann, Shaarei Chabad 290; See also Mehlman 1180 (a variant censored version)

summary

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

ff. 1, 95, 79. With signatures and stamps of previous owners. Contemporary calf, spine taped. 4to

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