Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah...aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 178

(HAGADAH).

Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah...aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert

ONE OF ONLY 350 NUMBERED COPIES. Facsimile Edition. Edited by Bruno Italiener. Two volumes: Text (including 17 black-and-white plates) and Plates. * Accompanied by: 4-page prospectus. Original half-morocco over patterned boards, extremeties of text volume touch rubbed. Plate volume in original publisher's slip-case. Folio and 4to Yudlov 3094; Yaari 2064; Mayer 1147

Leipzig: 1927-28

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $650

“An exceptionally fine facsimile of one of the most remarkable illuminated Haggadahs.” A. Marx, The Darmstadt Haggadah, in: Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (1944) pp. 256-70. An important scholarly treatment