Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and "Bi'urim" (synopses of commentaries of Ma'aseh Hashem, Mateh Aharon and Chevel B'nei Yehudah)

(HAGADAH).

Solomon Proops

Amsterdam

1712

exceptionally wide-Margined Copy In the Printer’s Original Calf Binding. Instructions in both Judeo-Español and Judeo-German. Additional engraved title depicting Moses and Aaron below vignette of Moses and the Burning Bush. Numerous copper-plate engravings throughout the text. Large Folding Map of the Holy Land. Original calf gilt covers both sides tooled with large cartouches decorated with cherubs surrounding the Proops name and depicting his printers’ mark.

Yudlov 120; Yaari 73; Yerushalmi, plates 66-69

Printer's Personal Copy of the Celebrated Second Amsterdam Hagadah. Changes were undertaken in producing this Amsterdam 1712 edition following the first Amsterdam edition (1695). Most significantly, this included the addition of two series of vignettes after the earlier 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 North with “Sidon” (today Lebanon) at the extreme left, and South with the Reed Sea at the extreme right. There are many added frills (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 airlifted the Children of Israel out of Egypt; and finally, the “milk and honey” of the Promised Land. See C. Roth, Printed Illuminated Haggadoth in: Aresheth, Vol. II pp. 22-4. A De-luxe, Wide-Margined Copy Printed on Thick Paper for the Printer’s Personal use.