Auction 53
Rare and Important Items
Nov 15, 2016
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Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 16:
Passover Haggadah with Illustrations - Bombay, India, 1846 - First Bene Israel Haggadah
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Sold for: $2,400
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Passover Haggadah with Illustrations - Bombay, India, 1846 - First Bene Israel Haggadah
Haggadah, with Marathi translation and illustrations. Bombay (India), [1846]. Lithograph of manuscript. Text and translation on facing pages.
Original illustrations. Illustrated title page, with figures of Moshe and Aharon [inspired by the title page of the 1712 Amsterdam Haggadah]. Illustrations of the simanim of the Seder and the Seder ritual dish [inspired by the Livorno Haggadah illustrations].
The first Haggadah printed according to the custom of the Bene Israel Jews in India.
[5], 35 [should be 36] leaves. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains. New binding.
Ya'ari Haggadot 656; Otzar HaHaggadot 895. Ya'ari, The Hebrew Printing in the East, Bombay, no. 92.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
