Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2402Location: BostonDate / Time: April 10, 2008 5:00PM
Description:
(Haggadah) Seder Haggadah shel Pesah 'im pitron be-lashon Sefardi Livorno: Elijah Benamozegh, 1867. 8vo., with 31 half-page with numerous woodcuts illustrating the Passover preparations, order of the Seder and the ten plagues.
Note: Livorno [Leghorn], Italy became in the 19th century the printing center for Jewish communities across North Africa and this edition was likely for export as it is printed with a Ladino translation.
Estimate $250-350