Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Passover Haggadah – Amsterdam, 1662 – First Illustrated Haggadah Printed in Amsterdam
Opening: $3,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Passover Haggadah, with order of searching and destroying chametz, blessings and kiddush, and many illustrations. Amsterdam: Uri Phoebus son of Aharon HaLevi, 1662.
This is the first illustrated Haggadah printed in Amsterdam and is modeled on the Venice edition (1605). Woodcut illustrations.
With Yiddish translation, in Tzenah URenah font, to Echad Mi Yodea (the last leaf, containing the conclusion of Echad Mi Yodea and Chad Gadya, is lacking in the present copy).
Incomplete copy. [21] leaves. Lacking 3 leaves: leaves [2]-[3] and last leaf (with photocopy replacement; on leaves [2]-[3] the pages were photocopied out of order). 18.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and foodstains. Tears, including many open tears to title page and other leaves (large tear to one leaf), affecting text and illustrations, repaired with paper filling (with photocopy replacements in several places). New parchment binding.
On the illustrations in this Haggadah, see: Cecil Roth, HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret ShebiDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, p. 22.
Rare edition, listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on a photocopy from the Gans collection in Amsterdam.
Yaari 46; Otzar HaHaggadot 65; CB, no. 2693; Cowley, p. 560.
Passover Haggadot
Passover Haggadot