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(ISRAEL, LAND OF). YISRAEL BEN SHMUEL OF SHKLOV.  Pe’ath HaShulchan [agricultural laws of Eretz Israel]. FIRST EDITION. With the rare final leaf of corrections and polemical addenda lacking in most copies. ff. (5), 2-109, (1). Lightly browned, stamps on title, neat repairs to title-page. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Folio. Vinograd, Safed 12; Vinograd, Vilna Gaon 1543. Tzfath Yisrael Bak 1836. Discusses the Laws applicable to the Holy Land, based on Maimonides and in particular the rulings of the author’s mentor, the Vilna Gaon.  Written in a style approximating that of Yoseph Karo’s Code, the Shulchan Aruch (“Prepared Table”), hence the name Pe’ath HaShulchan (“Corner of the Table”).  The final leaf contain a vehement retort to a criticism of the Vilna Gaon and states that the critic who writes such nonsense, should “toil for forty years” to understand the depth of the Gaon’s brilliance. One of six books Israel Bak printed in Safed between the years 1832-1836.  The author, R. Yisrael ben Samuel of Shklov (1770-1839) was the leader of the Kollel Perushim, the followers of the Vilna Gaon in Eretz Israel.