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(ITALY, 1561). Zevach Pesach, With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and notes of the printer, Jacob Marcaria. With laws and customs of both Sephardim and Aschkenazim. Few marginal comments in an early hand. ff. (34). Opening few leaves laid to size, few stains, stamp removed, censors signatures (including one in Hebrew). Modern blind-tooled morocco. Folio. Yudlov 22; Yerushalmi pl. 27. Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria, 1561. THE ONLY HAGADAH PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1561. THE ONLY HAGADAH PUBLISHED IN RIVA DI TRENTO. Riva di Trento is a small northern Italian town situated alongside Lake Garda. Jacob Marcaria was a physician-scholar who published books covering all branches of Jewish scholarship. He often added lucid and erudite prefaces of his own appended to the Hebrew works he issued. This Hagadah contains not only a short preface by Marcaria, but also seven pages of his own commentary to the Seder. According to Yudlov, Marcaria’s additional commentary has never been republished.