Talmud Yerushalmi. With Commentaries Bikurei Anavim, Pri Hillulim and Ya’las Chen. First edition Chicago 1887

Talmud Yerushalmi. With Commentaries Bikurei Anavim, Pri Hillulim and Ya’las Chen. First edition Chicago 1887.
Tractate Bikkurim of the Jerusalem Talmud with a three part commentary by R. Avrahom Eliezer Alperstein.
R. Avrahom Eliezer Alperstein (1853-1917) was born in Kobrin and studied under R. Yosef Dov Halevy Soloveitchik (Bais Ha’Levy) and R. Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (Ridvaz). He held a rabbinical post in Slabodka before Emigrating to America in 1881, where he was a Rav first in New York and later in Chicago. In 1901 he returned to New York where he became the first instructor at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (Yeshiva University) and was also a founder and vice president of Agudas Ha’Rabonim. Known as a tremendous Talmid Chochom, he lived in abject poverty refusing to get involved in the lucrative kashrus supervision business, considering it a sordid industry.
This sefer was followed by a second edition three years later. The most notable difference between the two editions is in the way R. Alperstein refers to his Chicago congregants; in this first edition he heaps florid praise upon them, while in the second edition he disdainfully chastises them as “wild boars.”
Goldman 568, Mishkin 8. 2, 48, 1 pages. 32 cm. Fine condition, minor damage to title page and final page. Modern binding.
The first volume of Talmud and the first Talmudic commentary printed in America.
Extremely scarce.
Opening bid $1500