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Passover Haggadah – Lunéville, 1806 – With Emblem of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Second Year of His Reign
Opening: $300
Sold for: $2,000
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Passover Haggadah, with halachot. Lunéville (France): Avraham Prizek, [1806].
Leather binding (non-original), with silver decorations (marked) and gold pin (late).
On last page, royal emblem of Emperor Napoleon I, inaugurated as Emperor of France about two years earlier, in December 1804.
32 leaves. 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, some dark. Much wear; creases. Tears and open tears to margins of several leaves, slightly affecting text of one leaf (without loss). Decorated leather binding, with defects and worming.
Otzar HaHaggadot 499.
Only some 16 Hebrew books (including two Haggadot, one of which is the present one) were printed in Lunéville.
Passover Haggadot
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