Chofetz Chaim.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,400

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

author

KAGAN, YISROEL MEIR OF RADIN.

printer

H. Dvorzetz

Place

Vilna

Publication

1873

Description

FIRST EDITION. This copy with two autograph marginal corrections in the hand of the Chofetz Chaim (p. 46 and p. 159).

references

Friedberg, Cheth 1085.

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 to be acclaimed as the preeminent Halachic decisor and “tzaddik” of his generation.

pp. 162. Modern calf. 4to.

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