Seder Hagadah shel Pesach

AUCTION 28 | Tuesday, April 05th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

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Lot 139

(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach

Title featuring central woodcut of Moses before the Burning Bush. 24 “pleasing and well executed woodcuts” (Yerushalmi). With Yiddish translation by Joel Brill printed in Wayber-taytsch type pp. (2), 54. Lightly stained. Modern vellum backed boards. 4to Yudlov 565; Yaari 399; Yerushalmi 86-7

Basle: Wilhelm Haas 1816

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $800

“In an age of the general decline of the art of the Hebrew book, the Basel Hagadah of 1816 commands attention as one of the more attractive editions published in the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi)