Auction 75 · Lot 133

Schneur Zalman of Liady. (Tanya) - Igereth HaKodesh [fundamental exposition of Chabad Chassidism].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $3,250

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

author

(CHASSIDISM)

Place

Kopyst?

Publication

1814?

Description

Unrecorded, variant edition.

references

See Mondschein, Tanya Bibliography numbers 10 and 11.

summary

One of the first appearances of the Tanya complete with its’ final section, Kuntress Acharon ("Last Thesis"), published after the Alter Rebbe’s death. A rare, unrecorded, variant edition. The pagination of this book differs from both Mondschein numbers 10 and 11 (the Ta-shema copy). Although the date on the title here states 1814, Mondschein attributes a similar edition with variant pagination to being possibly Kopyst after 1814, or perhaps another, entirely unknown, Russian illegal press. The present variant issue is not found in either the National Library, Jerusalem, nor the Lubavitch Library, Brooklyn, New York.

ff. (1), 36, 41-44, 41-52, 7, (lacking one leaf at beginning of Igereth HaKodesh), 1-10, 19, 12-28, (6). Stained in places, Russian stamp on final leaf, previous owners’ signatures on verso of final endpaper and inside back cover. Later calf, rubbed. 8vo.

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