The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis:
R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68).
The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:
The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.
Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).
As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:
The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.
Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).
Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).
Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions.
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LOT 72:
(ANGLO / AMERICA / CANADA). Hagadah shel Pesach. ...
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Sold for: $7,000
Start price:
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5,500
Estimated price :
$6,000 - $9,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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(ANGLO / AMERICA / CANADA).
Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover. According to the Custom of the Spanish, Portuguese, and German Jews. Translated by David Levi.
Yudlov 371.
London, D. Levi, 1794.
David Levi of London (1742-1801) produced a six-volume English translation of the Hebrew prayers, which served as the foundation for later editions published both in England and in America. Due to the accuracy of Levi’s translation of the Passover Hagadah in particular, it was reproduced almost verbatim in the first Hagadah that was printed in the United States (New York, 1837).
Thus this 1794 Hagadah is the basis from which the first American Hagadah came to be derived.
In addition to a beautiful binding, the present copy of the Hagadah boasts distinguished Canadian Jewish provenance. According to the inscription on the first page of the explanatory notes, it was given by Dorothea Hart (1747-1827) to her grandson Moses Eleazer David (1813-1892) in 1822.
Dorothea Catherine (nee Judah) was the wife of Aaron Philip Hart (1724-1800), a London-born Ashkenazi Jew who moved to Canada about 1760, settling in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. At the time of his death he was reputed to be the wealthiest man in the British colonies. David’s paternal grandfather, Lazarus (1734-76), helped found the Shearith Israel Congregation, the oldest in Canada, and the latter’s son Moses (1767-1814) was the first Jewish settler of Windsor, Ontario. Moses Eleazer, the first Jew born in the Windsor area, was also an active member of Montreal’s Shearith Israel community.
