Hagadah shel Pesach - The Institution of Passover. Prepared by the Brothers Moses Jacob and Aaron David Talker

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Vital Sakharam Agnihorty

Place

Poona

Publication

1874

Description

Title in Hebrew, Marathi and English. Hebrew and translation into Marathi translation on facing pages. Celebrated illustrations depicting local Bene Israel custom on opening nine pages.

references

Yudlov 1437; Yaari 1077.

summary

Unlike the earlier Bombay Hagadah (1846), whose “illustrations were still closely linked to their Amsterdam prototypes, those in the Poona Hagadah have managed to drift into a sphere of their own. Even as they retain the basic pattern, they are now palpably Indian in tone and detail” (Yerushalmi, 107).

ff. 2, (9), pp. (1), 5-50, 5. Lightly browned throughout, wormed in places, various paper repairs, lower portion of penultimate leaf supplied in facsimile. Modern calf. 8vo.

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