The Hagadah Shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Thanksgiving, Which are Used and Read by All Families in Every House of the Israelites on the Two First Nights of Passover. Translated by A. Alexander

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

L. Alexander

Place

London

Publication

1787

Description

Second Edition. Engraved frontispiece depicting the toil at Pithom and Ramses. The Aby Moritz Warburg - Rosenthal of Oxford copy

references

Yudlov 326; Yaari 216; Lehman, Anglo-Jewish Hagadot (in Cecil Roth Festchriften), no.2a; cf. Yerushalmi 74

summary

Rare. Yaari located just one copy of this Hagadah - the present copy. Purchased from A. Rosenthal Ltd. Oxford. Catalogue XI (1948), no. 341. Aby Moritz Warburg (1866-1929), member of the German Banking Family, was an art historian and founded the Warburg Institute of London. This is the second edition of the Alexander Hagadah. The earlier editon of 1770 was the first Hagadah to be printed in English. See Kestenbaum & Company, Fine Judaica, 3rd June 1997, lot 261

pp. (1), 8, ff. 9-31, (4). Trimmed, stained in places. 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards, lightly rubbed. 8vo

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