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Kestenbaum and Company: Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Art

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Auction Name Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Art Total Sales (USD) 539,312.50
Auction Date March 16, 2017 - March 16, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 312,120.00
Sale Number #72 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 442,780.00
Total Lots 239
Sold Lots 140 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 514,490.00
% of Lots Sold 58.58% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 729,960.00
Unsold Lots 99 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
139 IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON.

Mivchar HaPeninim [“Choice Pearls”: Anthology of Sayings]. Translated from the Arabic by Judah ibn Tibbon.

 1484 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 62,500.00
226 José Moskovits (1926-2014).

An extraordinary world-wide study on anti-Semitism, created by the Holocaust survivor and prominent Argentinean reparation lawyer, José Moskovits (1926-2014).

 1974-78 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 56,250.00
168

Seder Tefilloth MiKol HaShanah KeMinhag Kehiloth Ashkenazim [Order of Prayers for the Entire Year].

 1579 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 50,000.00
64

Psalterium, Hebreum, Grecum, Arabicum & Chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis.

1516 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 32,500.00
261 SCHNEERSON, YOSEF YITZCHAK & MENACHEM MENDEL. (Sixth and seventh Grand Rabbis of Lubavitch) And others.

Collection of c. 63 Typed Letters Signed letters all written to Benjamin Glazer, New York.

1943-51 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 31,250.00
244 HALBERSTAM, YECHEZKEL SHRAGA OF SHINOVA.

Letter Signed (with final sentence in autograph), written in Hebrew

1896 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 30,000.00
240

Takanoth of the Bikur Cholim Society, Frankfurt am Main.

 1760 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 17,500.00
253

A Prayer-Book for the weekday and Sabbath, as well as selected holiday prayers. According to Italian (Roman) rite.

 1739 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,500.00
234 BEN-DAVID (BLAU), RUTH & AMRAM BLAU

An important collection of 19 fascinating Autograph Letters Signed (and related materials), written in Yiddish and Hebrew.

 1965-66 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,250.00
118

Safe Conduct Pass of Aron Weksler of Bia?ystok, Poland.

14th December, 1939 / 30th July, 1940 / 31st July, 1940 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,000.00
256

Created by Yaacov Agam . The Scroll of Esther.

 1980 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,375.00
31

Seder HaTephiloth - The Form of Daily Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.

 1826 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,500.00
144 Simonis, Johann.

Onomasticum Veteris Testamenti sive Tractatus Philologicus [“Lexicon of the Old Testament with Philological Treatise.”]

 1741 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,500.00
30 Washington, George.

A Collection of the Speeches of the President of the United States... Addresses to the President, with His Answers.

 1796 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,875.00
95

Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and “Bi’urim”

1712 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
119

Four Bank of England counterfeit notes forged by Jewish concentration camp prisoners, under Operation Bernhard, based in Sachsenhausen.

 1943 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,562.50
90 Wolf Ehrenfried von Reizenstein.

Der Vollkommene Pferde-Kenners [“The Complete Horse-Guide.”]

 1764 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,250.00
85 DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum.

 1628-29 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,625.00
115 Shaul Tchernichovsky.

Shaul Tchernichovsky. Typed Letter Signed,

1938 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,625.00
258

Livro do Hazan David de Iman[uel] da Silva das Observacoens & Costums do K. K. de Amsterdam.

 Late 18th-century USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,312.50
211 Edited by Dr. Michal Weichert.

Yiddish Te’ater [quarterly journal].

1927 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,000.00
206 SHIMON B”R YOCHAI (Traditionally attributed to).

Zohar Chadash…Umedrash Hane’elam [kabbalah]

 1793 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,750.00
136 HUTNER, YITZCHAK.

Torath HaNazir [novellae on Maimonides’s laws of the Nazarite.]

 1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,500.00
246

Kabbalistic commentary to passages in the Zohar pertaining to the various names of God, aspects of the soul and related topics.

16th century) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,375.00
210

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

 1858-64 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,062.50
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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