Auction 40 · Lot 112
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- $2,750
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HAGADAH).
printer
Leib Sulzbach & Sons
Place
Breslau
Publication
1833
Description
With translation and commentary into Judeo-German. With eight colored lithographed illustrations
references
Yudlov 724; Yaari 523 (unseen, based upon a reference in Weiner); Vinograd, Breslau 192
summary
Apparently the First Hebrew Printed Book Issued With Colored Illustrations. No copy in The National Library, Jerusalem.
The illustrations have been culled from genre illustrations of the day, whose themes coincidentally and sometimes amusingly relate to the Hagadah text.
See Zohar Shavit and H. Ewers (eds.), Deutsch-juedische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur von der Haskalah bis 1945 ... Ein bibliographisches Handbuch (Stuttgart and Weimar, 1996)
With thanks to Dr. Brad Sabin Hill, Christchurch, Oxford, for his comments and pointing out the reference above
ff.28. Opening leaf laid down, few paper repairs, stained. Modern boards. 8vo
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