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Moreshet Auctions: Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Letters

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Auction Name Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Letters Total Sales (USD) 117,228.00
Auction Date May 23, 2018 - May 23, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #18 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 299
Sold Lots 131 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 43.81% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 168 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
351

Manuscript, 2 pages actually written by the holy hand of the ‘Holiest of Holies’ Rabbi Hayim Vital, the greatest student of the Arizal. Autograph from the book ‘Sefer HaPeulot.’

 Not Available USD 43,200.00
341

Chumash Or HaHayyim, copy of the Admor Rabbi Yisrael of Husiatyn.

 Not Available USD 9,600.00
416

Siddur Keter Tefila, stamped dedication by the Admor HaRayatz of Lubavitch when he was in Otebsk.

Not Available USD 9,000.00
216

Large ketubah illustrated on klaf parchment.

1875 Not Available USD 4,800.00
400

Letter from the Rogochover Rav Rabbi Yosef Ruzhin, Av Beit Din of Devinsk.

 Not Available USD 3,000.00
61

Basel Tanach, 1618-1619, 5 volumes.

1618-1619 Not Available USD 2,880.00
205

Cloth poster in Hebrew for Umberto, King of Italy, 19th century.

Not Available USD 2,400.00
404

Two letters, in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Hai Uziel correspond, framed together.

 Not Available USD 1,560.00
8

Psalms and Mishlei (Proverbs),

1857 Not Available USD 1,440.00
54

Peirush HaTorah (Commentary on the Torah) by Rabbi Don Yitzhak Abarbanel.

1579 Not Available USD 1,440.00
333

Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah, copy of the Admor Rabbi Yisrael of Husiatyn.

 Not Available USD 1,440.00
405

Shana Tova letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, signed by hand.

 Not Available USD 1,140.00
402

Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Haim Ozer Grodzinsky.

Not Available USD 1,020.00
75

Sefer Torah on klaf parchment given inside a pretty case

 20th century. Not Available USD 960.00
407

Rare $2 bill given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Purim.

 Not Available USD 960.00
56

Sefer HaChassidim,

1580 Not Available USD 900.00
390

Historical collection of around 110 documents of the Va’ad Klali, signed by Jerusalem sages.

1949 Not Available USD 900.00
11

Machzor for the High Holidays, nusachAshkenaz.

1862 Not Available USD 780.00
318

Ben Ish Hai, copy of the Elder Kabbalist Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi, with his holy signature.

 Not Available USD 780.00
384

Interesting letter with chiddushim, by Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz.

Not Available USD 720.00
254

Booklet of glosses on the Kabbalistic Siddur of Rav Shabtai of Rashkov.

 Not Available USD 660.00
225

Yom HaMedina Joint production of the Palestine newspapers on the day the state was declared a collector’s item

 1948 Not Available USD 600.00
291

Miniature shiviti on parchment the smallest ever found!

 Not Available USD 600.00
319

Sha’ar HaHakdamot, copy of the Elder Kabbalist Rav Khadouri, which he bound himself, and signed his initials by hand.

 Not Available USD 600.00
360

Large and important manuscript, for the whole year’s cycle

19th century. Not Available USD 570.00
  • 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
  • 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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