Haggadah.- Seder Haggadah Shel Pasah
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Haggadah.- Seder Haggadah Shel Pasah,engraved additional pictorial title depicting Moses and Aaron, folding map of the Holy Land and illustrations, printed title with woodcut ornament, woodcut historiated initials, pictorial title with slight loss of engraved border to upper and lower corners and with ink signature removed from blank central area, both faults repaired, folding map with several repaired tears (no loss to main image, but some to margins (heavier to lower)) and with a few small stains and a small abraision affecting part of lower vignette of ship on open ocean, pp.6/7 and 12/13 silked, pp.14-16 (2ff.) with repaired tear, within text and image, but with no loss, most ff. with marginal repairs to varying degrees, some soiling and staining, modern calf, gilt, folio, Amsterdam, Proops, 1712.
***A rare Haggadah with an important map by Abraham ben Jacob of the Holy Land, which depicts "the Exodus not as leaving but returning... [Abraham ben Jacob] depicts the traditional Goshen to the Jordan route, but adds another one beginning in Hebron and ending in Goshen, the route the family of Jacob took to Egypt" (A.J.Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1991, p.80)..
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