Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover.

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 16

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover.

<<Second American Edition>> (see below). Text in Hebrew and English on facing pages. Title within type-ornament border. pp. 80. Lacking 1-2 leaves prior to p.10 following the kiddush prayer. Ex-library, stained. Modern gilt-tooled calf with original upper printed wrapper (laid down) bound in. 12mo. Yudlov 941; Yaari 693; Not in Goldman (Hebrew Printing in America) who only refers to it in his description of no. 125; J.R.Marcus, Jewish Americana (Cincinnati, 1954) p. 95, no. 225.

New York: J. M. Jackson 1850

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

This Hagadah, noted on the title-page “Second American Edition,” is, in a sense, the first. - For the first edition that was printed in New York in 1837 by Solomon Henry Jackson states that it was “Translated into English by the late David Levy of London.” - The present 1850 edition, published by Solomon Henry Jackson’s son, John Marcus Jackson, has no attribution to a foreign translator and is thus a “pure” American edition. <<Rare.>> Only five copies known in American institutions. No copies in British institutions.