Hagadah shel Pesach- L’Haggadà Illustrata.

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

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

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Lot 63

(HAGADAH).

Hagadah shel Pesach- L’Haggadà Illustrata.

Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew text with Italian translation. Musical arrangements on final leaf. pp. (4), 64, (2). Original green printed wrapper (front only) bound into contemporary marbled boards, some wear. Sm. folio Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899

Trieste: Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen) 1864

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

“The Trieste Hagadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished illustrated edition produced in Europe during the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi 102-105). Different in format and design from any edition that preceded it, the Trieste Hagadah’s engraved illustrations, though inspired by the iconographic themes of the past, display a welcome freshness of design. Two issues were published simultaneously, one entirely in Hebrew and the other accompanied by an Italian translation. See C. Roth, Printed Illuminated Haggadoth, in: Aresheth, Vol. III, pp. 27-8.