Hagadah shel Pesach...The Institution of Passover

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 104
(HAGADAH).

Hagadah shel Pesach...The Institution of Passover

Prepared by the Brothers Moses Jacob and Aaron David Ialker. Hebrew and Marathi on facing pages. Celebrated woodcut illustrations depicting local Bene Israel custom on opening 9 pages. The Samson Ephraim Ezekiel Penkar (Bombay) copy Title neatly repaired on verso, lower corner of f.3 torn with loss, few leaves wormed along extreme lower margins without loss. Modern boards. 8vo Yudlov 1437; Yaari 1077

Poona: Vital Sakharam Agnihorty 1874

Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $1,100
Unlike the earlier Bombay (1846) Hagadah whose “illustrations were still closely linked to their Amsterdam prototypes, those in the Poona Hagadah have managed to drift into a sphere of their own. Even as they retain the basic pattern, they are now palpably Indian in tone and detail.” Yerushalmi 107-10