Seder Hagadah shel Pesach

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 69
(HAGADAH).

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach

Second expanded edition. Inventive “stick-figure” illustrations by Otto Geismar. hebrew and German on facing pages Trace stained. Original cloth, front cover with illustration displaying the breaking of the chains of slavery toward a New Dawn. 4to Yudlov 3121; Yaari 2079; Yerushalmi 147-50

Berlin: 1928

Est: $200 - $300
“The Geismar illustrations are among the most unusual ever to adorn a Hagadah text. “ (Yerushalmi)