The Hagadah shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Prayers Which are Used and Read by All the Families, in All the Houses of the Israelites

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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(HAGADAH).

The Hagadah shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Prayers Which are Used and Read by All the Families, in All the Houses of the Israelites

Translated by A. Alexander and Assistants. Engraved frontispiece of Moses slaying the Egyptian. Hebrew and English on facing pages with instructions in Ladino (f. 1) pp. 77. Lightly stained in places, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, rubbed,12mo Wiener 1; cf. Yerushalmi 74

London: for the Translator by W. Gilbert 1770

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $11,000

By 1770 the process of linguistic acculturation among Anglo-Jewry gave rise to this first issue of an English translation to the Hagadah. Indeed two versions were issued: for Aschkenazi Jews, and the present Hagadah - according to Sephardic usage. R. Lehmann in her Bibliography of English Hagadoth (no. 2) and Yaari (no. 167) record only the Aschkenazi issue, indeed the present edition is not in the British Library nor the Bodleian Library. Additionally this Hagadah represents the only known appearance of Ladino in a London imprint. Cf. Yerushalmi 74