Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Lot 160
(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel

Baroque frontispiece. Title within architectural arch. 14 copper-plate engravings. Historiated letters on pp.3r,13v. Hebrew and Yiddish translations of Echad Mi Yode’ah and Chad Gadya. Previous owner's inscription on frontispiece. ff. 20. Marginal repairs on title and throughout. Clean tear on ff.11, repaired. Browned in places, stained. Modern boards, folio Yudlov 115; Yaari 72

Sulzbach: Aaron ben Uri Lipman Fraenkel 1711

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
“The success of the Amsterdam Hagadah of 1695 was such that within a relatively short time its illustrations were copied in other places...First among the Amsterdam imitations was an edition published in Frankfurt a/Main in 1710. In quality and fineness of reproduction, however it was surpassed by the Hagadah that appeared in Sulzbach a year later. But while the printer consciously followed his Amsterdam model throughout, he also reserved something for himself. A new frontispiece and a new title page now replace the corresponding leaves in the former. The frontispiece is among the most imposing to be found in eighteenth-century Hebrew books and has a magnificent sculptured quality.” Yerushalmi, 64-5