Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 78:
(HAGADAH)
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Sold for: $9,500
Estimated price:
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5,000 - $7,000
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25%
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Sepher Zevach Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abarbanel.
DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. ff. 64. Tile-page provided in facsimile, f. 47 torn, few neat repairs, leaves with natural paper faults. Modern blind-tooled morocco over thick wooden boards. Housed in custom slip-case. Sm. 4to. Yudlov, 19; Yaari, 17; Yerushalmi, pl. 21.
Vincenzo Conti, Cremona: 1557.
RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.
Tipped into the volume is a note from the Librarian of the Valmadonna Trust recounting that The British Library’s Dr. Peter Lawson observed the “blotching” on the pages of this blue-paper copy was due to a chemical reaction to the dying process and that the printing occurred thereafter.
Soon after this Hagadah was printed the Church-sponsored burning of the Talmud occurred in Cremona and Vicenzo Conti`s Hebrew press was destroyed.
See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 11.
