Auction 111 Rare Books, Manuscripts, Letters of Rabbis and Rebbes
Dec 11, 2018 (Your local time)
Israel
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LOT 76:

Haggadah Ginzei Knesset Yisrael. London, 1877. First Edition

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Passover Haggadah (with English translation), called Ginzei Knesset Yisrael, by Dovber Speiers and Eliezer Grojewsky. London, Distillatar press, 1877. First edition.

Important Passover Haggadah, copied from Rabbi Shabtai Sofer's well-known punctilious manuscript. Includes numerous additional commentaries, some of which were manuscripts found in the library of the Knesset Yisrael congregation in London. With English translation. This is the first edition of the haggadah, considered a masterpiece of the Jewish community in London.

VII, 48 pages, approximately 24 cm. Additional English title page. Otzar HaHaggadot 1483. Hebrew and English in facing columns.

Moderate condition. Loose pages and stains.


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