Bidspirit auction | (TRIESTE, 1864). Hagadah shel Pesach.

(TRIESTE, 1864). Hagadah shel Pesach. Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew issue only (see below). Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Musical arrangements on final page. pp. (2), 24 (i.e. 42). Stained in places. Original boards, spine sunned. Folio. Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899. Trieste, Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen), 1864. “The Trieste Hagadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished illustrated edition produced in Europe during the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi 102-105). Different in format and design from any edition that preceded it, the Trieste Hagadah’s engraved illustrations, though inspired by the iconographic themes of the past, display a welcome freshness of design. Two issues were published simultaneously, one entirely in Hebrew and the other accompanied by an Italian translation (see next lot).