Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
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• Instruction in the Mosaic Religion, by Joseph Johlson (1777–1851), translated by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 5590 [1830]. English and some Hebrew. First edition.
The work was written with the aim of instructing the wider Jewish public on the principles of the Jewish religion, its practices and customs. Leeser's first printed work.
VIII pages, 139 pages. 21.5 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains, several leaves with many stains. Old binding, with defects; tear to spine.
Singerman 489.
• Catechism for younger children, by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5605 [1845]. Second edition.
Study book for children, presenting the fundamentals of faith in question–answer form.
XII, 168 pages. 18.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Minor wear. Open tears affecting text, repaired with paper (with photocopy replacement). Old binding, with minor defects.
Singerman 901.
Isaac Leeser (1806–1868), German–born American rabbi and intellectual. An opponent of the American Reform movement. One of the first leaders of American Jewry, he devoted himself to establishing Jewish institutions and transmitting the Jewish religion and history to the wider Jewish public. He published many books, including the first Jewish English translation of the Bible ("The Leeser Bible"; 1853).
Provenance: Private collection.
![Kol Yisrael – La Voix D'Israel, local periodical, edited by Shlomo Benhayon. Oran (Algeria): [Shlomo Benhayon], November 1889](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/170.jpg "Issue of the Kol Yisrael Periodical – Oran, 1889 – Ladino, French and")
Kol Yisrael – La Voix D'Israel, local periodical, edited by Shlomo Benhayon. Oran (Algeria): [Shlomo Benhayon], November 1889. French and Judeo–Arabic.
Periodical of the local Jewish community. Issue 3, from the paper's first year. Mostly printed in Arabic in Hebrew characters (with Ladino); some French.
[1] double leaf (4 printed pages). Approx. 37 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains. Folding marks. Marginal tears and minor open tears to fold in center of leaf, affecting text.
Rare periodical. The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book only lists four issues from 1892. This is one of the first issues of the paper.
Provenance: Private collection.
Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, translated to Judeo–Tajik. Kokand (Bukhara, Uzbekistan): Rachamim David Baioff, 1914–1915. Judeo–Tajik (Bukharian in Hebrew characters). Three parts in three volumes.
Three volumes. Part I: [2], 12 leaves, 13–104 pages. Part II: [1], 2, 171 pages. Part III: [2], 171–356 pages. Overall good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text (primarily to vol. I). Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. New bindings.
Only part I is recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book; the present item includes all three parts.
This is the first book in Hebrew characters printed in Kokand.
Provenance: Private collection.
Facsimile – the Florsheim Haggadah. Zürich: Lichtdruck AG, 1985. Copy XXIV of 36 copies printed on parchment (altogether 936 copies were printed; 900 copies on paper).
Facsimile of the Florsheim Haggadah, a colorful illustrated manuscript from 1502. Produced based on a manuscript from the David Solomon Sassoon collection, with the funding of Alexander Florsheim. The margins of the Haggadah are filled with small vignettes, depicting various aspects of Jewish life in early 16th century Germany.
[18] leaves. Approx. 27 cm. Good condition. Elaborate leather binding. Slipcased.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.46.
The Golden Haggadah, elaborate facsimile published by The Eugrammia Press and the British Museum. London, 1970. Copy no. 269 (of 520 copies).
Elaborate facsimile of The Golden Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript from the 14th century. Illustrated title pages and color illustrations on gilt background.
[101] leaves. 25 cm. Thick, parchment–like paper. Good condition. Minor stains and defects to binding and spine. Slipcased.
Including a commentary volume by Bezalel Narkiss (in English).
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, Fac.44.
The Washington Haggadah. Facsimile published by the Library of Congress. Includes a commentary volume in English. Washington, 1991. Copy no. 405/550.
Facsimile of the Washington Haggadah, an East European illuminated manuscript, 1748. The manuscript was scribed by Yoel son of Shimon in 1478. In 1916, it was donated to the Library of Congress by the bibliographer and collector Ephraim Deinard.
Facsimile: 38 leaves. Commentary volume: 211, [1] pages. Approx. 25 cm. Slipcased. Good condition. Minor defects to bindings and slipcase.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC. 53.
Die Darmstädter Pessach–Haggadah, elaborate facsimile of the Darmstadt Haggadah. Berlin: Propyläen, 1971–1972. With the commentary volume in English and German. Copy VI/L (altogether 600 copies were printed, of which 50 copies numbered in Roman numerals; in these copies the facsimile is leather–bound).
Elaborate facsimile of the Darmstadt Haggadah, an illuminated 15th century Haggadah. Printed on high–quality, parchment–like paper. With illustrations and gilt decorations.
Facsimile: [58] leaves. 35 cm. Commentary volume: 129, [1] pages. 35.5 cm. Placed in fabric covered slipcase. Good condition. Minor defects to bindings and slipcase.
Enclosed: advertorial brochure for the facsimile edition from the publishing house, with a facsimile of one leaf of the Haggadah (on regular paper), with explanations.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.13
The Birds' Head Haggadah of the Bezalel National Art Museum in Jerusalem. Two volumes. Jerusalem: Tarshish Books (printed by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe, Vienna, Austria), 1965–67. Copy 372/600.
Color facsimile edition of the illuminated Birds' Head Haggadah (Germany, ca. 1300), printed on thick, high–quality paper. Two volumes: facsimile volume (1965), and an introductory volume edited by Dr. Moshe Spitzer (1967; English).
The Birds' Head Haggadah is the earliest illuminated German Haggadah extant as an independent book. It is distinguished by its extraordinarily unique illustrations of human figures with birds' heads – a most peculiar innovation likely devised by the illustrator as a means of abiding by the biblical prohibition against rendering a graven image. Most of the figures are depicted wearing the so–called Judenhut ("Jewish Hat"), the conical head covering Jews were legally required to wear in Germany. The illustrations depict various biblical scenes, holiday customs and the Final Redemption.
Vol. I: [48] leaves, [1] colophon leaf. Vol. II: 126 pages, [1] leaf, [31] plates (numbered 129–159). 28 cm. Upper edges gilt. Both volumes with gilt–decorated leather spine. Slipcased. Good condition. Minor defects to bindings and slipcases. Tear and abrasions to facsimile spine.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.54.
Large collection of twenty–three facsimiles of Passover Haggadot and reference books on various Haggadot:
• Haggadah of Sarajevo, with introduction by Svetozar Radojcic, and with several colored plates from the Haggadah. Belgrade, 1953.
• The Kaufmann Haggadah. Facsimile of a manuscript from the Kaufmann collection in the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, 1957.
• Sarajevska Hagada [Haggadah of Sarajevo]. Belgrade, 1962. Foreword by Cecil Roth (Bulgarian).
• The Sarajevo Haggadah. New York, 1963. Foreword by Cecil Roth (English).
• Facsimile of a manuscript Haggadah scribed and illustrated by Natan son of Avraham Speyer of Breslau. Breslau (Germany), 1768. Tel Aviv, 1984. Foreword by Chaya Benjamin.
• Facsimile of an illustrated manuscript Haggadah by Yosef son of David of Leipnik. Darmstadt, 1733. Tel Aviv, 1985. Foreword by Shlomo Zucker.
• The Ashkenazi Haggadah: a Hebrew Manuscript of the Mid–15th Century from the Collections of the British Library, notes on the illuminations, transcription and English translation by David Goldstein. London, 1985.
• Facsimile of the Copenhagen Haggadah, Altona–Hamburg, 1739, scribed and illustrated by Uri Phoebus son of Yitzchak Eizik Segal. Tel Aviv, 1986. Foreword by Chaya Benjamin.
• The Sarajevo Haggadah, commentary booklet by Shlomo Zucker. Tel Aviv, 1986.
• Passover Haggadah by Yitzchak Tzoref. Bordeaux, 1713. Paris, 1987.
• The Kittsee Haggadah – 1770, facsimile. [Givatayim] 1987.
• The Rylands Haggadah, facsimile of a Spanish manuscript from the 14th century. London, 1988.
• Facsimile of a Sephardic rite Passover Haggadah printed in Amsterdam in 1840. Vermont, 1989.
• Manuscript Haggadah. Copenhagen, 1769. Darmstadt–Graz, 1989. With commentary volume.
• Four high–quality facsimiles of Haggadot from the National Library. Tel Aviv, 1989.
• The Sarajevo Haggadah. Ljubljana (Yugoslavia), 1983. Two copies. With foreword by Eugen Werber in separate booklet.
• Die Von Geldern Haggadah und Heinrich Heines "Der Rabbi von Bacherach". Germany, 1997.
• The Ansbach Haggadah, Ansbach 1747. Raanana, 1998.
• Haggada du Scribe Eliezer Seligmann de Rosheim écrite et illustrée à Neckarsulm en 1779. Strasbourg, 1998.
• The Saltellus Haggadah / foreword by Moshe A. Shaltiel–Gracian. Northbrook (Illinois), 2002.
• The Washington Haggadah, Copied and Translated by Joel Ben Simeon. With foreword and translation by David Stern. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2011.
• Pessach–Haggadah Codex orientalis 8, Hessische Landes und Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt. Advertising brochure for the facsimile edition of the Darmstadt Haggadah. [Berlin, 1971?].
• Work in German by Bruno Italiener, comprising his studies on illuminated Haggadot and the Darmstadt Haggadah. [Germany, 1920s?]. Lacking title page.
23 books. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv.
Die Haggadah von Sarajevo, eine spanisch–jüdische Bilderhandschrift des Mittelalters, by Dav. Heinr. Müller und Julius v. Schlosser. Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1898. First edition.
First edition of the first scientific work on the Sarajevo Haggadah, by the Assyriologist and the liturgy researcher David Heinrich Müller and the art historian Julius von Schlosser. The book studies the text of the Sarajevo Haggadah and its illustrations in comparison with other manuscript Haggadot, and is accompanied by many black–and–white and color pictures from the Haggadah.
Two parts: part I with commentaries, and part II with facsimile plates of the Haggadah. Fine bindings, with leather spines and gilt decorations.
vi, [1], 316 pages, xxxviii plates and [1] title page plate; [3] pages, 35 plates. 28 cm. Good condition. Some creases and defects. Minor marginal tears to some leaves (primarily to text vol.). Bindings slightly worn, with abrasions and tears to spines. Bookplate in both volumes.
Otzar HaHaggadot 2053.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.75.
The Haggadah: A New Critical Edition with English Translation, by Cecil Roth, with Drawings by Albert Rutherston. London: Soncino Press, 1930. Hebrew and English.
Haggadah with hand–colored illustrations (watercolor), produced by Albert Rutherston. Elaborate edition on handmade paper, with gilt edges and an elegant leather binding. Copy no. 38/110.
Yaari 2149; Otzar HaHaggadot 3291.
209, [1], xl pages. 30 cm. Good condition. Some stains.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, ALE.78.
The Bezalel Haggadah – Passover Festivity, "The Work Maty Grünberg who Drew Seventy Five Illuminations Engraved on Wooden Block…". New York: "Published with the Aid of the Friends of Bezalel Acdemy", 1984. Hebrew.
Copy no. 27 of a limited edition of 150 copies. 75 color plates (woodcuts), hand signed by the artist, placed in a fine half–leather binding.
The preparation of the present Haggadah was an initiative of "The Friends of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design" in New York. The illustrations were inspired by the "Golden Haggadah" (1320, Catalonia), held in the collection of the British Library, which is among the most exquisite illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages. To prepare the illustrations, Grünberg was granted a special permission to examine the original manuscript (acquired with the assistance of Bezalel Narkiss). The Haggadah took some five years to complete, and was published in New York in 1984.
[75] plates (woodcuts) + [2] leaves. Approx. 52 cm; box: approx. 55 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, ALE.63.