Sepher Zevach Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 60

(HAGADAH).

Sepher Zevach Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel

Printer’s device on title. Poem on the verso of the title by the author's son, Judah Abrabanel (Leone Ebreo) in honor of his father. ff. 67. Some minor worming with minimal loss of text. Very faint stains. On f.2r. two words struck by Church censor, yet visible. Generally, clean, crisp copy. Modern calf, gilt extra by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, upper cover replicating the printer’s mark from the title - a vision of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. Slip-case. Sm. 4to Yudlov 13; Yaari 10; Yerushalmi 18

Venice: Marco Antonio Guistiniani 1545

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

A FINE COPY IN A MOST SUMPTUOUS BINDING. The First Hagadah Printed in Venice. Abrabanel brought to his commentary on the Hagadah the same style that made famous his commentary to the Torah: a richly conceptual, if somewhat prolix approach. Yerusahalmi (pl. 18) points out that ironically, the fanciful vision of the Third Temple on the title is actually a rough approximation of the Mosque of Omar