The Hagadah Shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Thanksgiving, Which are Used and Read by All Families in Every House of the Israelites on the Two First Nights of Passover. Translated by A. Alexander.

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Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 135

(HAGADAH).

The Hagadah Shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Thanksgiving, Which are Used and Read by All Families in Every House of the Israelites on the Two First Nights of Passover. Translated by A. Alexander.

Second Edition. Engraved frontispiece depicting the toil at Pithom and Ramses. The Aby Moritz Warburg - Rosenthal of Oxford Copy. pp.(1),8,ff.9-31,(4). Trimmed, stained in places. 19th century calf-backed marbled boards, lightly rubbed. 8vo Yudlov 326; Yaari 216; Lehman, Anglo-Jewish Hagadot (in Cecil Roth Festchriften) no.2a; cf. Yerushalmi 74

London: L. Alexander 1787

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

Yaari (216) located just one copy of this Hagadah - the present copy. Purchased from A. Rosenthal Ltd. Oxford. Catalogue XI (1948) no. 341. Aby Moritz Warburg (1866-1929), member of the German Banking Family, was an art historian and founded the Warburg Institute of London. This is the second edition of the Alexander Hagadah. The earlier editon of 1770 was the first Hagadah to be printed in English. See Kestenbaum & Company, Fine Judaica 3rd June 1997 lot 261.