Seder Hagadah shel Pesach

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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

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Lot 112

(HAGADAH).

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach

With translation and commentary into Judeo-German. With eight colored lithographed illustrations ff.28. Opening leaf laid down, few paper repairs, stained. Modern boards. 8vo Yudlov 724; Yaari 523 (unseen, based upon a reference in Weiner); Vinograd, Breslau 192

Breslau: Leib Sulzbach & Sons 1833

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

Apparently the First Hebrew Printed Book Issued With Colored Illustrations. No copy in The National Library, Jerusalem. The illustrations have been culled from genre illustrations of the day, whose themes coincidentally and sometimes amusingly relate to the Hagadah text. See Zohar Shavit and H. Ewers (eds.), Deutsch-juedische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur von der Haskalah bis 1945 ... Ein bibliographisches Handbuch (Stuttgart and Weimar, 1996) With thanks to Dr. Brad Sabin Hill, Christchurch, Oxford, for his comments and pointing out the reference above