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.