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Tiferet Shlomo (Radomsk) – Warsaw, 1869 – First Edition on the Torah – With Likutim Appended Only to Some Copies

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Tiferet Shlomo, Part II, Homilies on the Torah and various selections, by the first Radomsk rebbe. R. Shlomo HaKohen Rabinowitz rabbi of Radomsk. Warsaw: Nathan Schriftgiesser, 1869. Rare, first edition. 30 leaves of Likutim were appended to the end of the book and an index of erratum, found only in some copies of this edition.
The approbation of R. Chaim Halberstam, Rabbi of Sanz, appears at the beginning of the book after the title page, followed by the introduction of the author's sons: R. Aryeh Leibush, R. Zvi Meir and R. Avraham Yissachar Rabinowitz.
Part I, on special occasions and holidays was printed in Warsaw two years previously.
Fine copy with wide margins. On the front flyleaf is the ex-libris of an English collector "From the library of Avraham Abba son of R. Elazar Bornstein" (Hebrew).


[2], 158; 29, [1] leaves. 26 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor worming to several leaves. Ex-libris and ownership inscription. Old binding, with leather spine. Damages to binding and spine. The final leaves: (29, [1]), with Likutim and erratum, were apparently printed after the book was published, and added only to some copies.


Provenance: Avraham Abba Bornstein collection, London (1899-1979). "His large library is considered the best private library for Jewish and religious studies in England in recent times" (Encyclopedia of Religious Zionism, I, pp. 132-134 [Hebrew]).

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