Bidspirit auction | DANZIG, AVRAHAM. Chochmath Adam [halachic

DANZIG, AVRAHAM. Chochmath Adam [halachic compendium on Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah]. FIRST EDITION. Title page with approbation by R. Chaim Volozhin. ff. (3), 99. Browned and lightly stained, few marginal repairs. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Tall folio. Vinograd, Vilna 65; Vinograd, Gr’a 1562. Vilna, 1815. A rare variant copy with uncorrected introductory page. See Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rachel, Vol. I (1980) pp. 471-72. The introduction states that the notion to arrange the laws according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch-Yoreh De'ah was proposed by R. Ya’akov of Lissa and R. Chaim of Volozhin. See S. Stampfer, Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin and his Approbations in: Alei Ayin (1977) p. 163, no. 10. The second part of this work, Binath Adam, was issued in 1816.