Seder Hagadah le-Pesach / Services for the First Two Nights of Passover

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

J.H. Kantrowitz

Place

New York

Publication

1889

Description

Hebrew and English translations face `a face. Hebrew characters provided with nikud (vowel points). Commentary to Echad Mi Yode'a and Chad Gadya in Rashi script. Illustrated

references

Yudlov 1778;

summary

Editor Yerachmiel Tzevi Kantrowitz borrowed much from Chaim Liberman's 1879 edition of the Hagadah (see Goldman 141). See also See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) p. 304 (illustrated) Most original illustrations which have been commented upon at length, see Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 141, 144 (earlier editions of 1886 and 1887)

pp. 93. Trace foxed, fragile. Scribbles in pencil on front fly. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, loose. 8vo

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