Celebrated Illustrated Amsterdam Hagadah.
Hagadah with selections from the writings of the Abarbanel, author of Ma’asei Hashem, Mateh Aharon, and Chevel Bnei Yehuda, with comments and laws in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino.
Printed by Shlomo Proops, Amsterdam, 1712.
This is the famous ‘Amsterdam Haggadah’. The haggadah was printed for the first time in 1695, and then another edition in 1712 with slight changes.
Two title pages, the first with a drawing of Moshe and Aharon, and Moshe at the burning bush. Without the map.
Many pictures appear on the leaves of the haggadah. The pictures were made with a copperplate technique – this is one of the first Hebrew books which started using copperplate instead of woodcut.
Includes the copper engraving illustrations that most subsequent Hagadahs used as their illustrations. Avraham ben Ya’akov Hager (the convert), was the renowned artist who drew the pictures in the haggadah.
Regarding this haggadah and the drawings , see: HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret SheBaDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, page 24. Ya’ari 73; Otzar HaHaggadot 120.
Fair condition, paper repairs & repaired tears, age stains & red stains from binding, last page cut into & missing one line of text at bottom, old red damaged binding.
Old signature: Leif Son of Moshe Van Straten.
[1], 31 Leaves. 28.4 Cm.
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