Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Responsa of the Maharik – Copy from the Library of the Chafetz Chaim

Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium

Responsa of the Maharik, by R. Yosef Colon. Warsaw: Samuel Isaac Peshes, 1884.
On the front endpaper, ownership inscriptions indicating that the book belonged to R. Yisrael Meir HaKohen of Radin, the Chafetz Chaim: "This book belongs to the preeminent scholar R. Yisrael Meir son of R. Aryeh Zev HaKohen of Radin, Vilna province, author of Chafetz Chaim". This book came from the inheritance of R. Tzvi Yehuda Eidelstein, son of R. Yerachmiel Gershon Eidelstein Rabbi of Shumyachi and author of Chiddushei Ben Aryeh (1862-1919), who received it from the Chafetz Chaim himself, when the Chafetz Chaim fled together with the Radin Yeshiva to Shumyachi during WWI.
[1], 2-116, [1] leaves. 32.5 cm. Dry paper. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and mold stains. Wear and tears. Tears to endpaper containing ownership inscriptions, professionally restored with paper. Worming, affecting text. Elaborate leather binding.
An authentication letter by R. Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss is enclosed, confirming that "this book comes from the library of R. Yaakov Eidelstein, son of R. Tzvi Yehuda Rabbi of Shumyachi in whose home the Chafetz Chaim stayed during WWI, leaving the book there when the war ended".


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Books with Signatures, Stamps and Ownership Inscriptions
Books with Signatures, Stamps and Ownership Inscriptions