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Passover Haggadah, With English Translation – London, 1808 – Portrait of Rabbi Solomon Hirschell Rabbi of London – ...
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Passover Haggadah, With English Translation – London, 1808 – Portrait of Rabbi Solomon Hirschell Rabbi of London – Original Leather Binding
Service for the Two First Nights of Passover, in Hebrew and English. London: E. Justins, 1808. Translated by R. Yitzchak son of R. Akiva.
Yiddish translation of the songs Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yodea and Chad Gadya at the end of the Haggadah.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of R. Solomon Hirschell, Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of London and the country.
Enclosed with the Haggadah is a piece of paper with a handwritten Zimun formula.
[1], 26 leaves. 29.5 cm. Fine margins. Good-fair condition. Stains, including food stains (many stains to several leaves). Small marginal tear to leaf with frontispiece, repaired with paper filling to verso. Original leather binding, worn and damaged (repairs to spine).
The frontispiece is rare (recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on the Florsheim copy).
Yaari 360; Otzar HaHaggadot 516.
