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Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Alessandro Gardano

Place

Venice

Publication

1579

Description

Each page with double-ruled border. ff.240r-256v Hagadah with instructions in Judeo-German

summary

Unknown to Vinograd and Not Recorded by Any Other Bibliographer. Only one other copy extant, Schocken Library, Jerusalem. Alessandro Gardano printed precisely one other Hebrew book in his brief career, a Shulchan Aruch in 1578 (see Vinograd, Venice 632). Adams (F-146) records just a single publication by Gardano throughout the 16th century - Fallopius’ Secreti, 1578

ff.55-350. Lacking initial ff. 54 and at least one leaf at end, lightly stained, concluding ff.15 browned, final f.1torn. Unbound. 12mo

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