Hagadah shel Pesach - L’Haggada Illustrata.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,400

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen)

Place

Trieste

Publication

1864

Description

Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew only issue (see below). Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Musical arrangements on final page. With additional title-page printed on blue paper.

references

Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899.

summary

“The Trieste Hagadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished illustrated edition produced in Europe during the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi 102-105). Different in format and design from any edition that preceded it, the Trieste Hagadah’s engraved illustrations, though inspired by the iconographic themes of the past, display a welcome freshness of design. Two issues were published simultaneously, one entirely in Hebrew and the other accompanied by an Italian translation.

pp. (2), 24 (sic, i.e. 42), (2). Trace stained, few neat marginal repairs. Bound in Valmadonna-custom gilt-ruled mottled mahogany calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Folio.

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