Hagadah Shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and a digest of the commentaries "Ma'aseh Hashem," "Mateh Aharon," and "Chevel B'nei Yehudah"
AUCTION 39 |
Thursday, April 03rd,
2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 122
(HAGADAH).
Hagadah Shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and a digest of the commentaries "Ma'aseh Hashem," "Mateh Aharon," and "Chevel B'nei Yehudah"
Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1712
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
PRICE REALIZED $11,000
an attractive copy. Changes were undertaken in producing this 1712 Amsterdam following the appearance 17 years earlier of the first Amsterdam edition. Most significantly, there were added two series of vignettes after the earlier Venetian Hagadah (namely, the various stages of the Seder on f.2r., and the Ten Plagues on f.13r.)
The marvelous Hebrew map of the Land of Israel sets the North with “Sidon” (today Lebanon) at the extreme left, and South with the Reed Sea at the extreme right. There are many added frills of note (right to left): Pharaoh riding a crocodile; the 42 encampments of the Israelites in the wilderness; Jonah thrown overboard to quiet the tempest; King Hiram of Tyre’s fleet of rafts wending their way to the port of Jaffa; the eagle’s wings which are to airlift the Children of Israel out of Egypt; and finally, the “milk and honey” of the Promised Land. At bottom, the map is signed "Abraham bar Jacob," a German convert to Judaism. See Laor, Maps of the Holy Land, 876; E. and G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 52-54