Auction 19 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
List of Pesach Haggadot - Peterburg, 1901 - Inscription of Author - Copy of Avraham Ya'ari (Including his Glosses)
Opening: $250
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
List of Pesach Haggadot, which were printed worldwide over a span of four hundred years (1500-1900), by Shmuel Weiner. Peterburg, 1901.
Title page of book contains inscription by author (to poet Yosef Mazal of Manchester), beneath it notation and signature: "I have purchased it on Rosh Chodesh Tevet 1934 A[vraham] Ya'ari". This copy served Ya'ari throughout his composition "Bibliography of Pesach Haggadot" (Jerusalem 1961): Margins of sheets contain many dozens of listings of dates and notations in pencil in Ya'ari's handwriting (with several comments as: "We now have, I have listed", "I have seen without a translation", etc.).
[1], VII; 54; 12 pages. 29 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves, stains. Coarse tears on several leaves. Damaged cardboard binding.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman's private collection.
Title page of book contains inscription by author (to poet Yosef Mazal of Manchester), beneath it notation and signature: "I have purchased it on Rosh Chodesh Tevet 1934 A[vraham] Ya'ari". This copy served Ya'ari throughout his composition "Bibliography of Pesach Haggadot" (Jerusalem 1961): Margins of sheets contain many dozens of listings of dates and notations in pencil in Ya'ari's handwriting (with several comments as: "We now have, I have listed", "I have seen without a translation", etc.).
[1], VII; 54; 12 pages. 29 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves, stains. Coarse tears on several leaves. Damaged cardboard binding.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman's private collection.
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