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Haggadah, or Service for the Two First Nights of Passover, In Hebrew and English. As used in the houses of all families of the Israelites...Faithfully translated from the original Hebrew by A. Alexander...4th Edition. Corrected and revised. London: printed by and for L. Alexander, A.M. 5566 [1806].

4o. (252 x 7. 200 mm). Text in Hebrew and English. Engraved frontispiece (stipple engraving of "The High Priest in His Robes"), 9 full-page and four folding engraved maps and plans including very large "Map of the Land of Canaan" and "Map of the Journeyings of the Children of Israel" (each 365 x 426 mm), with list of subscribers. (Some browning). Contemporary sheep, upper cover with red morocco label gilt-lettered "P.S. Rowland" (rubbed at edges and extremities, spine very worn).

A FINE COPY of this extensively illustrated bilingual Haggadah, including finely detailed folding maps, all with the imprint of A. Alexander. Ya'ari 345.

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