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Passover Haggadah – Beit Chorin – Metz, 1767 – With Rare Map – First Illustrated Haggadah Printed in France – Original Leather Binding
Beit Chorin – Passover Haggadah, with commentary of Alshich, Gevurot Hashem and Olelot Efraim. Metz: Moshe May and Joseph Antoine, 1767.
Two title pages, the first with an illustrated engraving. Copper-engraved illustrations based on those of Avraham son of Yaakov HaGer in the Amsterdam Haggadah.
Slight variants exist between copies in the text of the illustrated title page and caption with the printer's name at margin.
At the end of the Haggadah is a folding plate containing a map of the journeys of the Children of Israel from Egypt to the Land of Israel, with illustrations of the Tabernacle, its vessels and the high priest around the margins, with explanatory captions in German (the map is signed in print: "Colin Fecit 1753").
[2], 64 leaves + [1] folding map. Approx. 25 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark dampstains, and heavy food and wine stains to some leaves. Tears, including open tear affecting text. Original leather binding, with wear and defects. Map in good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and minor defects to margins and folds.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
First illustrated Haggadah to be printed in France, and one of the first printed Hebrew books in Metz. The illustrations were based on the Amsterdam 1695 edition. See: C. Roth, HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret ShebiDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, p. 24.
Otzar HaHaggadot 251.