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Moreshet Auctions: Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Judaica: Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 145,914.00
Auction Date September 04, 2017 - September 04, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 77,380.00
Sale Number #15 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 77,380.00
Total Lots 402
Sold Lots 249 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 115,150.00
% of Lots Sold 61.94% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 115,150.00
Unsold Lots 153 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 126.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
220

An Amulet on Parchment "Which Shakes All the Worlds" in the Handwriting of the Lofty Tzadik the Rebbe Rabbi Yeshayale Krestirer. Extremely Rare

 19th Century USD 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 31,200.00
242

Rambam with Ancient Handwritten Glosses. Constantinople, 1509

 1812 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 6,000.00
29

Sefer Tzava'ah, Zhitomir 1848.

 1848 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 3,840.00
161

Large Illustrated Leaf Holy Sites in Eretz Israel

 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,400.00
270

Sefer Ohel David, First Edition. With Additions in the Author's Handwriting. Vienna, 1820

 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,400.00
241

Sefer Ben Yehoyada. A Gift from the Ben Ish Chai to the Shoshanim L'David Yeshiva. Jerusalem, 1902

 1876 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 2,280.00
47

Lot of Four Rambam Books. Venice, 1547-1550

 1547-1550 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 2,160.00
228

A Banknote for Blessing and Success Given by Sidna Baba Sali to One of the Members of His Family

 USD 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,160.00
2

Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim. Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Slavita, 1820

 1820 USD 1,300.00 - 1,300.00 USD 1,800.00
388

A letter of greeting from the Rebbe to the bride and groom

 1951 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 1,800.00
46

Rambam - First Edition of "Hakesef Mishne'. Venice 1574

 1574 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 1,680.00
205

Likutey Moharan, Ostraha, 1821. Lacking copy.

 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 1,680.00
1

Machzor for the Three Pilgrimage Festivals - Slavita, 1823

 1823 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 1,560.00
207

Sefer Mevaser Tzedek. Dubno, 1798. First Edition. Rare

 1848 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,560.00
73

Lot of pages and remnants of pages removed from books.

 USD 120.00 - 120.00 USD 1,440.00
11

Babylonian and Jerusalemite Talmud - Zhitomir 1858-1863

 1858-1863 USD 700.00 - 700.00 USD 1,320.00
323

A Letter Written Entirely in the Handwriting and with the Signature of Rabbi Chaim Ozer, 1932

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,320.00
53

Handwritten - Sefer 'Menorat Hama'or. Yemen 19th Century

 19th Century USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 1,200.00
209

Torat Cohanim with the Commentary 'Asirit HaEfio' - Komarno. First Edition. Lemberg, 1848

 1883 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,200.00
206

The Book 'Beit Aharon' -Karlin, First Edition. Brody, 1875

 1798. , 1817 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 1,140.00
387

Shana Tova letter from the Rebbe to Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim zt "l 1966

 1956 USD 400.00 - 400.00 USD 1,140.00
44

Five Books of the Torah Venice 1617

 1617 USD 180.00 - 180.00 USD 1,080.00
204

The book of "Arbaa Chershim", first edition of the "Tzeitil Katan" by the author of the "Noam Elimelech" - Lvov, 1849.

 1875 USD 900.00 - 900.00 USD 1,080.00
362

A Letter in the Handwriting and with the Signature of the Rebbe Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov

 USD 800.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
386

Letters by the Lubavitcher Rebbe - To his Cousin, the Poet Zelda

 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 960.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    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
  • 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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