Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary Zera Yehudah by Judah Loeb ben Shimon of Mainz.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Bonaventura de Launoy

Place

Offenbach

Publication

1721

Description

Title within architectural border featuring Moses and Aaron, with cherubs bearing olive-branches flanking a zodiac sphere all within typographical borders. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Grace after Meals preceded by divisional title. Yiddish translations of ritual instructions, as well as Chad Gadya and Echad Mi Yode’a. With approbation of R. Jacob Katz Poppers of Frankfurt.

references

Yudlov 142; cf. Yerushalmi 70-2.

summary

A fine bibliophilic copy, printed with exceptionally wide margins.

ff. 36. Stained in places. Contemporary vellum, rebacked. Folio.

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