Seder Hagadah shel Pesach.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $250

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Solomon Casilzburg for Willhelm Hans

Place

Basel

Publication

1816

Description

Title featuring central woodcut of Moses before the Burning Bush. 24 “pleasing and well executed woodcuts” (Yerushalmi). With Yiddish translation by Joel Brill printed in Wayber-taytsch type.

references

Yudlov 565; Yerushalmi 86-7.

summary

First Hagadah printed in Basel. “In an age of the general decline of the art of the Hebrew book, the Basel Hagadah of 1816 commands attention as one of the more attractive editions published in the nineteenth century” (Yerushalmi).

pp. 54. Stained, margins worn. Original “chess-board” stiff wrappers, rubbed. Small 4to.

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