Auction 65 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Mar 12, 2019 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 39:

Passover Haggadah - Maaleh Bet Chorin - Amsterdam, 1810 - With the Map - Original Leather Binding

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Maaleh Bet Chorin, Passover Haggadah, with commentaries (Maharal, Alshech, Abarbanel, and others) and illustrations. Amsterdam: Proops widow, 1810. Two title pages (the first one illustrated with copper engravings). Many engraved illustrations. At the end of the book, a map of Eretz Israel is enclosed, showing the travels of the Jewish people in the desert and the division of the Land amongst the tribes. The map and copper engravings are after the illustrations of Avraham HaGer in the Amsterdam Haggadah, 1712. [2], 9, 50 leaves + folded map (detached from the book). 26 cm. Good condition. Dampstains. Map in fair-good condition, dampstains, tears to right margin of the map, affecting illustration. Original ornamented leather binding, rubbed, with marbled endpapers. The enclosed map is detached, and may originate from one of the earlier editions of the Haggadah, printed between 1712 and 1781.

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