Hagadah shel Pesach- L’Haggadà Illustrata

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 134

(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). Ex-library. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf with central gilt initials MLT. Slightly rubbed. Sm. folio Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899

Trieste: Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen) 1864

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

A fine copy, most attractively bound. “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. Page 52 contains a rare direct depiction of God in Jewish iconography. Moses kneels before the Burning Bush in which God's bearded face is clearly discernible. See C. Roth, Printed Illuminated Haggadoth, in: Aresheth, Vol. III, pp. 27-8; British Library Exhibition Catalogue, Sacred (2007) p. 160