Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover. Prepared and translated by A. Alexander.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

L. Alexander

Place

London

Publication

1808

Description

Hebrew and English on facing pages. Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yode’ah and Chad Gadya translated into Yiddish (wayber-taytsch). 10 (of 15?) fine engraved copper-plate and steel illustrations. Ownership inscription of Emma Bensabat, dated November 1839.

references

Yudlov 515; Yaari 361.

summary

Yudlov notes that illustrations are lacking in almost all copies. Indeed, he locates only one complete copy, in a private collectio.

pp. 7, (1); ff. 38, (4). Stained in usual places. Later boards with endapers advertising the Lisbon binder and bookseller A. M. Verol Senior. Taped spine. 4to.

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