Chofetz Chaim [“Desirer of Life”]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(KAGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN).

printer

H. Dvorzetz

Place

Vilna

Publication

1873

Description

FIRST EDITION. With the scarce, eight-page list of subscribers - a most interesting record of names of the Chofetz Chaim’s earliest followers.

references

Friedberg, Cheth 1085; Weiner 4331.

summary

First Edition of this Pioneering halachic work on the laws of lashon-hara and rechiluth (derogatory speech and malicious gossip. Published anonymously, the author R. Israel Meir Kagan (1838-1933) was later acclaimed as the preeminent Halachic decisor and “tzaddik” of his generation. Today, he is universally referred as the Chofetz Chaim, after the title of this ground-breaking work.

pp. 162, (8). Previous owners’ marks, discolored, trace marginal worming. Contemporary boards, rebacked. 4to.

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