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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Passover Haggadah, "with a beautiful commentary and fine illustrations of the signs and wonders G-d did for our ancestors", with commentary of R. Yitzchak Abarbanel and a map of Eretz Israel. Amsterdam: Asher Anshel son of Eliezer Chazan and Yissachar Ber son of Avraham Eliezer, 1695. Two title pages, the first one illustrated with copper engravings.
This Haggadah, illustrated by the artist Avraham HaGer (a German priest from Rhineland who converted to Judaism in Amsterdam), was the first Haggadah to be illustrated with copper engravings, and one of the first Hebrew books to be illustrated with this printing method, which, as the second title page asserts, is infinitely superior to previously used woodcuts. This edition served as a prototype for many subsequent Haggadot, either by inclusion of the map or by imitation of its illustrations (for more information on this Haggadah, see article by Cecil Roth, HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret ShebiDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, pp. 22-25).
[1], 26 leaves + [1] folding map. 28.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and dark food and wine stains. Wear, worming, tears and open tears, affecting title frame, text and a few illustrations, partially repaired with tape. Close trimming, slightly affecting upper part of title frame. Stains, folding marks and tears to folding map (marginal open tears), mostly repaired with tape and paper strips to verso of map (tears in center of map without loss to illustrations).
Variant. The first title page was printed in two forms. The bottom half of the title page is the same in both, depicting Moses and Aaron. The upper part of the title pages differs. The more common version has six miniature circles with various Biblical scenes. The present variant has a large illustration of Moses kneeling next to the Burning Bush (a title page of this type later appeared in the Amsterdam 1712 edition). Besides this, there are minor differences in the text on the title page.
Otzar HaHaggadot 93.
Category
Passover Haggadot
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Two books in one volume, with woodcut illustrations – Birkat HaMazon with Passover Haggadah, and Sefer Minhagim, printed in Amsterdam in 1723.
1. Birkat HaMazon, Ashkenazic and Polish rite, with Passover Haggadah. Amsterdam, [1723]. With Yiddish translation and illustrations. Deleted ownership inscription on title page.
Otzar HaHaggadot no. 145.
2. Sefer Minhagim, by R. Shimon HaLevi Ginzburg. Amsterdam, 1723. Yiddish. Many woodcut illustrations throughout book.
Birkat HaMazon: [1], 2-71 leaves. Minhagim: [1], 2-61 leaves. Approx. 19 cm. Varying condition, first book in fair condition, second book in fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Worming, affecting text. Marginal tears and open tears to several leaves. Title page of Birkat HaMazon detached. Early parchment binding, with defects, partially detached.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Sefer HaMinhagim, "following the order of creation – from the beginning of the year to the end of the year", with Passover Haggadah, containing many woodcut illustrations. Amsterdam: Leib Zoesmans, 1768.
Contains Havdalah, Kiddush for Shabbat and festivals, blessings after meals and Kiddush Levanah, Passover Haggadah and blessing for the first night of the Omer, blessing for the Shofar, order of annulling vows, Chanukah candle-lighting, blessings on the Megillah for Purim, order of circumcision, Zeved HaBat and Pidyon HaBen, wedding psalm and blessings, blessings over pleasures and bedtime reading of Shema.
The text is supplemented by 15 fine woodcut illustrations prepared for this edition, as stated on the title page: "And we added the entire Haggadah… with fine new illustrations…".
The text follows the Sephardic rite. Titles and laws printed mostly in Spanish (in Latin characters).
An interesting advertisement is printed on the last page: "These books of customs and all sorts of books, whether new or old, can be purchased from Mr. Shlomo Levi Maduro, bookseller, residing in Stromarkt street, Amsterdam".
[1], 2-49 leaves, leaf 52. Lacking leaves 50-51. 15 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark food and wine stains. Wear and signs of use. Small marginal tears to several leaves, including open tears slightly affecting text. Close trimming, slightly affecting text in several places. New leather binding, with defects.
Otzar HaHaggadot 252.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Sefer HaMinhagim, "following the order of creation – from the beginning of the year to the end of the year", with Passover Haggadah, containing many woodcut illustrations. Amsterdam: Gerard Johann Janson for Shlomo Levi Maduro, 1775.
Contains Havdalah, Kiddush for Shabbat and festivals, blessings after meals and Kiddush Levanah, Passover Haggadah and blessing for the first night of the Omer, blessing for the Shofar, order of annulling vows, Chanukah candle-lighting, blessings on the Megillah for Purim, order of circumcision, Zeved HaBat and Pidyon HaBen, wedding psalm and blessings, blessings over pleasures and bedtime reading of Shema.
The text is supplemented by 14 fine woodcut illustrations prepared for this edition, as stated on the title page: "And we added the entire Haggadah… with fine new illustrations…".
The text follows the Sephardic rite. Titles and laws printed mostly in Spanish (in Latin characters).
Handwritten notes (in Dutch) on several leaves (on one leaf, printed instructions deleted with ink, replaced by handwritten lines).
[1], 2-48 leaves. 15.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark food and wine stains. Light wear. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Early binding, with leather spine, with slight defects.
Otzar HaHaggadot 273.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Passover Haggadot
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Sold for: $2,750
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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 Avraham son of Yaakov HaGer in the Amsterdam Haggadah.
Elaborate original leather binding, with gilt decorations on both sides of binding and spine, and original color endpaper.
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).
[2], 64 leaves + [1] folding map. Approx. 20 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair to fair-good condition. Stains, including dark food stains and dampstains (many stains to several leaves). Original leather binding. Minor defects to binding. Map in fair condition. Stains. Wear. Tears to folding marks and edges of map, affecting illustrations.
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.
Otzar HaHaggadot 251.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Passover Haggadah, with Yiddish translation. Grammatical notes and Siach Yitzchak on grammar, by R. Isaac Satanow. Berlin: Chinuch Nearim Society, 1785. Yiddish and Hebrew on facing pages.
Original leather binding (repaired).
German translation and commentary by Yoel Brill. Printed by David Friedlander, a leading member of the Haskalah movement, friend and disciple of Moses Mendelssohn. After title page appears a printed dedication to Friedlander's wife, and on the verso of the leaf appears an introduction by the translator, Yoel Brill, addressed specifically to Jewish women.
First Haggadah with German translation and commentary, of the German Haskalah.
Isaac Satanow (1732-1804) was a strange and enigmatic figure, an exceptionally talented and erudite Torah scholar, among the founders of the Haskalah movement. He authored dozens of books, some of which were pseudepigraphic, having been attributed by him to earlier writers. Satanow also published books authored by Torah scholars of the Middle Ages and books of Hebrew poetry, such as Beur Milot HaHigayon and Machbarot Immanuel.
[4], 58 leaves. 16 cm. Gilt edges (somewhat faded). Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark food stains Original leather binding (repaired), with gilt decorations. Defects to binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 318.
Some copies, containing typographical variants and comprising [50] leaves, are known to exist (see Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, item 184859).
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value