Auction 10 · Lot 88

Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel.

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $17,000

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

author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Asher Anshel & Partners

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1695

Description

Additional engraved title depicting large figures of Moses and Aaron beneath six circular vignettes of Biblical themes. Numerous engraved copper-plate illustrations within the text. FINE FOLDING ENGRAVED HEBREW MAP OF THE HOLY LAND indicating the travels in the Wilderness and the division of the Land among the Tribes of Israel. All accomplished by the proselyte Abraham ben Jacob.

references

Yudlov 93; Yaari 59; Yerushalmi 59-62

summary

The First hagadah illustrated with copperplate engravings. A Handsome Copy. “While the Four Sons had been a traditional subject for Hagadah illustration, they had always appeared separately. In the Amsterdam 1695 Hagadah they are shown together for the first time. This was Abraham ben Jacob’s essential contribution to the pictorial development of the theme…In this form and in this grouping, the Four Sons were henceforth to appear in countless Hagadahs down to the present day.” Yerushalmi, pl.60.

ff. (1), 26, (1). Engraved title laid down, several inner margins rehinged, f.10 with clean tear, neatly repaired. Lightly browned, thumbed, stained in places. Later calf retaining original speckled calf covers with central gilt-tooled crest titled in Hebrew. Folio

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