Hagadah Shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel

(HAGADAH)

Solomon Proops

Amsterdam

1712

Instructions in both Judeo-Español and Judeo-German. Additional engraved title depicting Moses and Aaron flanking vignette of Moses and the Burning Bush. Numerous copper-plate engravings throughout the text. With folding map of the Holy Land (tipped in front) EXTRAORDINARILY FINE CONDITION, with exceptionally wide-margins

Yudlov 120; Yaari 73; Yerushalmi, plates 66-69. See C. Roth, “Printed Illuminated Haggadoth” in: Aresheth, Vol. III, pp. 22-24

Deluxe Copy, Printed on Premium Paper of the celebrated and Influential Second Amsterdam Hagadah Changes were undertaken in producing this 1712 Amsterdam following the appearance 17 years earlier of the first Amsterdam edition. Most significantly, this included the addition of two series of vignettes after the earlier the Venetian Hagadah (namely, the various stages of the Seder on f.2r. and the Ten Plagues on f.13r.). The marvelous Hebrew map of the Land of Israel sets the North with “Sidon” (today Lebanon) at the extreme left and South with the Reed Sea at the extreme right. There are many added frills of note (right to left): Pharaoh riding a crocodile; the 42 encampments of the Israelites in the wilderness; Jonah thrown overboard to quiet the tempest; King Hiram of Tyre’s fleet of rafts wending their way to the port of Jaffa; the eagle’s wings which are to airlift the Children of Israel out of Egypt; and finally, the “milk and honey” of the Promised Land. This copy is exceptionally well-preserved and printed on superior quality paper. It is highly uncommon to encounter such a splendid copy of the Hagadah