Seder Hagadah.

Estimate: $2,500–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Abraham Gamal

Place

Bombay

Publication

1846

Description

41 lithographed ff. Hebrew and Marathi on facing pages, prepared by Haim Joseph Hallegua. Title framed by Biblical heroes, 13 cuts of the Seder procedure, and an illustration of the necessary Seder ingredients, all represented in a distinctly Indian style.

references

Yaari 656 (mispaginated); Yerushalmi 97-8

summary

The first Hagadah with a translation into Marathi, the indigenous language of the Jews of India.

Lightly browned, pencil annotations in Marathi, modern vellum, 4to

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