Hagadah shel Pesach - L’Haggada Illustrata.

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 53

(HAGADAH).

Hagadah shel Pesach - L’Haggada Illustrata.

Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew only issue (see below). Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Musical arrangements on final page. With additional title-page <<printed on blue paper.>> pp. (2), 24 (sic, i.e. 42), (2). Trace stained, few neat marginal repairs. Bound in Valmadonna-custom gilt-ruled mottled mahogany calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Folio. Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899.

Trieste: Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen) 1864

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

“The Trieste Hagadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished illustrated edition produced in Europe during the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi 102-105). Different in format and design from any edition that preceded it, the Trieste Hagadah’s engraved illustrations, though inspired by the iconographic themes of the past, display a welcome freshness of design. Two issues were published simultaneously, one entirely in Hebrew and the other accompanied by an Italian translation.