Sepher Zevach Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abarbanel.

Estimate

$5,000–$7,000

Hammer price

$9,500

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Vincenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1557

Description

DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.

references

Yudlov, 19; Yaari, 17; Yerushalmi, pl. 21.

summary

RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Tipped into the volume is a note from the Librarian of the Valmadonna Trust recounting that The British Library’s Dr. Peter Lawson observed the “blotching” on the pages of this blue-paper copy was due to a chemical reaction to the dying process and that the printing occurred thereafter. Soon after this Hagadah was printed the Church-sponsored burning of the Talmud occurred in Cremona and Vicenzo Conti`s Hebrew press was destroyed. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 11.

ff. 64. Tile-page provided in facsimile, f. 47 torn, few neat repairs, leaves with natural paper faults. Modern blind-tooled morocco over thick wooden boards. Housed in custom slip-case. Sm. 4to.

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