Seder Hagadah.

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 153

(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah.

41 lithographed ff. Hebrew and Marathi on facing pages, prepared by Haim Joseph Hallegua. Title framed by Biblical heroes, 13 cuts of the Seder procedure, and an illustration of the necessary Seder ingredients, all represented in a distinctly Indian style. Lightly browned, pencil annotations in Marathi, modern vellum, 4to Yaari 656 (mispaginated); Yerushalmi 97-8

Bombay: Abraham Gamal 1846

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

The first Hagadah with a translation into Marathi, the indigenous language of the Jews of India.