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Auction 1 · Lot 160

Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah…aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert.

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

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Karl W. Hiersmann

Place

Leipzig

Publication

1927-28

Description

ONE OF 350 NUMBERED SETS. Edited by Bruno Italiener. Facsimile Edition. Two volumes, text (including 17 black-and-white plates) and plates.

references

Yaari 2064; Mayer 1147

summary

Important scholarly treatment of “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.
Original half-roan gilt, over patterned boards, rubbed, 4to and folio
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