Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Passover Haggadah – Beit Chorin – Metz, 1767 – With Rare Map – First Illustrated Haggadah Printed in France
Opening: $800
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Passover Haggadah – Beit Chorin, with commentary of Alshich, Gevurot Hashem and Olelot Efraim. Metz: Moshe May and Joseph Antoine, 1767.
Two title pages, the first with an illustrated engraving. Copper-engraved illustrations based on those of the convert Avraham son of Yaakov in the Amsterdam Haggadah.
There are known to be slight differences between copies in the text of the illustrated title page and marginal caption with the printer's name.
At the end of the Haggadah is a folded plate containing a map of the journeys of the Children of Israel from Egypt to Eretz Israel, with illustrations of the Tabernacle, its vessels and the high priest around the margins, with explanatory captions in German (the map is signed in print: Colin Fecit 1753).
Signature on illustrated title page: "Natan son of R. Efraim".
[2], 64 leaves + [1] folded map. 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (dark food stains to several leaves). Worming, slightly affecting text and illustrated title page frame, partially repaired with paper. Tears, including small open tears affecting text and marginal tears to several leaves, partially repaired with paper. Map complete and in good condition, with stains. Inscriptions to several leaves. New binding.
First illustrated Haggadah to be printed in France, and one of the first printed Hebrew books in Metz. The illustrations were based on the Amsterdam 1695 edition. See: C. Roth, HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret ShebiDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, p. 24.
Yaari 162; Otzar HaHaggadot 251.
Passover Haggadot
Passover Haggadot