Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
Passover Haggadah With Marathi Translation – Poona, 1874 – Copy of the Researcher and Collector David Solomon Sassoon – Printed and Handwritten Documents Pertaining to the Compiling and Printing of the Haggadah, and to the State of Indian Jewry
Opening: $1,500
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold for: $7,500
Including buyer's premium
Illustrated Passover Haggadah, with translation and laws in Marathi, edited by Moshe Yaakov and Aharon Daniel Telker. Poona (Pune, India): Vitthal Sakharam Agnihotri, 1874. Lithograph.
Text of the Haggadah and translation on facing pages, with corresponding pagination. Nine pages of illustrations at the beginning of the Haggadah.
Copy of the researcher and collector David Solomon Sassoon. His signature appears on inside front board: "D. S. Sassoon".
A printed booklet with copies of letters of recommendation for Aharon Daniel Telker, one of the editors of this Haggadah, was bound at the beginning of the Haggadah. A paper folder is bound after it, containing various handwritten and printed documents relating to the editors and the printing process of the Haggadah, including information on the state of Indian Jewry. English.
A piece of paper with the title (in Hebrew and Marathi) and the price of the Haggadah (in Marathi), presumably from the printed wrappers of the Haggadah, was pasted on one of the endpapers.
2, [9] leaves, [1], 5-50, 5-44, 5 pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Old half-leather binding. Damage to binding. Placed in a new slipcase.
Yaari 1077; Otzar HaHaggadot 1437.
Provenance:
1. Sassoon Collection.
2. Valmadonna Trust Library.
Text of the Haggadah and translation on facing pages, with corresponding pagination. Nine pages of illustrations at the beginning of the Haggadah.
Copy of the researcher and collector David Solomon Sassoon. His signature appears on inside front board: "D. S. Sassoon".
A printed booklet with copies of letters of recommendation for Aharon Daniel Telker, one of the editors of this Haggadah, was bound at the beginning of the Haggadah. A paper folder is bound after it, containing various handwritten and printed documents relating to the editors and the printing process of the Haggadah, including information on the state of Indian Jewry. English.
A piece of paper with the title (in Hebrew and Marathi) and the price of the Haggadah (in Marathi), presumably from the printed wrappers of the Haggadah, was pasted on one of the endpapers.
2, [9] leaves, [1], 5-50, 5-44, 5 pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Old half-leather binding. Damage to binding. Placed in a new slipcase.
Yaari 1077; Otzar HaHaggadot 1437.
Provenance:
1. Sassoon Collection.
2. Valmadonna Trust Library.
India and Baghdad
India and Baghdad