Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel
AUCTION 31 |
Tuesday, December 13th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books
Lot 142
(HAGADAH)
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel
Sulzbach: Aaron ben Uri Lipman Fraenkel 1711
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
“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, pl. 64-5