Ma'aleh Beit Horin ve'hu Seder Haggadah shel Pesach.

£7,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Third edition of the celebrated Amsterdam Haggadah, complete with the Map of the Land of Israel and commentary by Moses Alscheich, Maharal (Yehuda Loew ben Bezalel) and Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz. Sephardic and Ashkenazic rite. Illustrated with copperplate engravings from the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah by Abraham bar Jacob (Avraham son of Yaakov Hager). Among the illustrations are the famous thirteen-panel depiction of the stages of the Seder and the ten-panel depiction of the plagues of Egypt. The important woodcut map from the same edition (absent in later editions) depicts territorial divisions of the Holy Land between the twelve Israelite tribes and also lists the 41 encampments of the Israelites on their journey from Egypt to the Holy Land. The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printers, publishers, and booksellers in Amsterdam. Solomon Ben Yosef (d. 1734), whose father may have been a Hebrew printer as well, was an established bookseller in Amsterdam and in 1704 had set up his own Hebrew press, which produced mainly liturgical books as well as works on halakhah, Kabbalah, Jewish ethics and history. From 1715 productions by Proops carried advertisements of books he had published, and in 1730 he issued a sales catalogue, the first such Hebrew publication. After his death, appointed guardians continued to operate the press, and even when his three sons took over, they continued trade under the old name until 1751, and later - under their own names. In 1785 Jose

• Binding: Hardcover

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