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AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 144

(HAGADAH)

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Spanish text. Contemporary finely gilt-tooled calf, upper cover with a coat of arms composed of a crown, topping a medallion with three bees, surrounded by floral ornaments pp. 56. Trace worn along margins. 16mo Silva Rosa (1933), n. 73 (present location unknown). Not in Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, JNUL, JTSA, or BL

Amsterdam: Ishac Jeuda Leao Templo 1728

Est: $7,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $22,000

Extremely rare Spanish edition of the Hagadah printed in Amsterdam. Contrary to the large number of liturgical works printed in Spanish by the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam (more than one hundred different editions), only two separate Spanish editions of the Hagadah are known, including the present edition. Both are extremely rare. The first was printed by David Abenatar Melo in 1622 of which no copy was known until Den Boer and Salomon located a single surviving copy. See “Another Lost Book Found: the Haggadah by David Abenatar Melo” in: Studia Rosenthaliana 29 (1995) pp. 119-134. Only one other copy is extant of the present 1728 Hagadah, held at the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, purchased from A. Rosenthal, Oxford, (Catalogue XI: Anglo-Judaica,1948, no. 1416)