Hagadah, oder Erzaehlung von Israels Auszug aus Egypten.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Clouth

Place

Cologne

Publication

1838

Description

Letterpress title, with fine additional lithographed title by D. Levy Elkan. Hebrew and German on facing pages. Musical appendix by Isaac Offenbach. German manuscript dedication on opening blank (translation of the Hebrew on binding).

references

Yudlov 799; Yerushalmi 94.

summary

The supplement contains the musical notations of selected Passover Seder melodies, scored by the father of Jacques Offenbach. An intriguing insight into the musical milieu in which the famed composer of operetta grew up. Provenance: The Warburg Family: Siegmund (Schmuel) Warburg (1835-1889) to his son Aby (Abraham) Warburg (1864-1933), a cousin of the art historian Aby M. (Abraham Moritz) Warburg (1866-1929).

pp. 91, 7, (8). Lightly foxed, usual staining. Contemporary boards, upper cover with personalized Hebrew acrostic poem gilt tooled on morocco paste-down, rubbed. 8vo.

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