Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover.

AUCTION 73 | Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 at 1:00

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

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Lot 120

(HAGADAH).

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover.

<<Second American Edition>> (see below). Text in Hebrew and English on facing pages. Title within type-ornament border. pp. 80. Lacking 1-2 leaves prior to p.10 and following the kiddush prayer. Ex-library, stained and creased, few leaves rehinged. Later boards with original upper printed wrapper (laid down) bound in. 12mo. Yudlov 941; Yaari 693; Not in Goldman (Hebrew Printing in America) who only refers to it in his description of no. 125.

New York: J. M. Jackson 1850

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

This Hagadah, noted on the title-page “Second American Edition,” is, in a sense, the first. - For the first edition that was printed in New York in 1837 by Solomon Henry Jackson states that it was “Translated into English by the late David Levy of London.” The present 1850 edition, published by Solomon Henry Jackson’s son, John M. Jackson, has no attribution to a foreign translator and is thus a “pure” American edition. Interestingly, in the passage of the Four Sons (p. 11), the question of the wise son has a variant reading of Othanu (“us”) rather than Ethchem (“you.”). <<Highly scarce. No copy has appeared at auction in a great many years.>>