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Passover Haggadah – London, 1843 - Copper-Plates and an Illustrated Title

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Start price: $340

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A Passover Haggadah with English translation and illustrations, by Isaac Levi. London, Hyam Barnett press. 1843. 71, [1] pp., [4] picture plates. 21.1 cm.

The Passover Haggadah according to the German and Polish rite. The songs at the end include a German translation in square letters. With copper-engraved illustrations. Some copies have an additional illustrated title page from a festival prayer book published in London, 1807.

Wartime owner’s inscription: Hans Herbert Hammerstein, Internment Camp Hay, N.S.W., Australia. Included is biographic information regarding the owner, a teacher from Bonn, Germany, who was interned during the war in an "Enemy Alien" Internment camp in Australia.

Good condition.

Yaari 629. Otzar HaHaggadot 863.