77 152 (HAGADAH). Peirush HaHagadah. With Kabbalistic commentary by Joseph Gikatilla. FIRST EDITION. Title within oval decorative cartouche. ff. (10). Ex-library, slight worming, some staining. Later marbled boards. Sm. 4to.[Yudlov 39; Yaari 28; Mehlman 1056.] Venice, Daniel Zanetti, (1602). $500-700 ❧ An early Hagadah commentary by the profound and penetrating Kabbalist, Joseph Gikatilla. It was later reprinted under the title Tzophnath Pane’ach. 153 (HAGADAH). Sha’arei Ratzon. Kabbalistic commentary by Chaim ben Abraham HaKohen of Aleppo. With commentary to other Festivals. FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Marginal notes. ff. 56. Stained in places, margins repaired and silked, Modern boards. Sm. 4to.[Vinograd, Salonika 244; Yaari 120; Yudlov 193 - all with variant collation.] Salonika, n.p., 1741. $2000-3000 ❧ THE FIRST KABBALISTIC HAGADAH. R. Chaim HaKohen was a disciple of R. Chaim Vital in Damascus, and thus third in a direct line of transmission from R. Isaac Luria (the Arizal). HaKohen served as rabbi of the community of Aleppo. He died in Italy, where he had traveled in 1655 in order to publish his writings. See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005) pp. 152-3, no. 161. 154 (HAGADAH). Hagadah shel Pesach - L’Haggadà Illustrata. Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew text with Italian translation. Musical arrangements on final leaf pp. (4), 64, (2). Stained in usual places, wear to opening few leaves. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Folio.[Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899]. Trieste, Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen), 1864. $800-1200 ❧ “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. A direct depiction of God appears on p. 52, a most unusual occurrence in Jewish art: Moses kneels before the Burning Bush in which God’s bearded face is clearly discernible. See C. Roth, Printed Illuminated Haggadoth, in: Aresheth, Vol. III, pp. 27-8; British Library Exhibition Catalogue, Sacred (2007) p. 160. Lot 152 Lot 153 Lot 154