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Sale Name: Early Prints, Chassidut, Belongings of Tzaddikim, Amulets, Segula Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical letters, Chabad - Part 2
Auction Date: 02/22/2023 - 02/22/2023
Year of Sale: 2023
Sale Number: #140b
Total Lots: 226
Sold Lots: 123
Lots Sold: 54.4%
Unsold Lots: 103
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 350,920.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 202,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 269,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 333,400.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 441,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 79.56%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 350,920.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
142	Precious Find! Chamishah Chumshei Torah with Prayers. Sephard. Zhitomir. Unknown Edition		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	57,040.00
141	Sacred Zhitomir Tehillim. Unknown Edition. Zhitomir, 1861	1861	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	32,240.00
141	Sacred Zhitomir Tehillim. Unknown Edition. Zhitomir, 1861	1861	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	32,240.00
143	Collection of Tractates and Partial Tractates from the Press of Rabbi Moshe Shapira in Slavuta		USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	9,920.00
143	Collection of Tractates and Partial Tractates from the Press of Rabbi Moshe Shapira in Slavuta		USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	9,920.00
284	Israeli History. Jewelry that Belonged to the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir		USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	6,200.00
284	Israeli History. Jewelry that Belonged to the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir		USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	6,200.00
250	Wonder of Wonders: Collection of [5] Especially Powerful Amulets Given Directly by Rabbi Kadouri		USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	5,704.00
250	Wonder of Wonders: Collection of [5] Especially Powerful Amulets Given Directly by Rabbi Kadouri		USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	5,704.00
163	Most Foundational Work: Beit Yosef al Yoreh Deah - First Edition. Venice, 1551. Glosses	1551	USD 700.00 - 800.00	5,208.00
163	Most Foundational Work: Beit Yosef al Yoreh Deah - First Edition. Venice, 1551. Glosses	1551	USD 700.00 - 800.00	5,208.00
262	Manuscript - Torah Novellae by Rebbe Alexander of Plotzk - Copy that Belonged to the Admo"r of Vorka- Otwok		USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,960.00
146	Messilat Yesharim. Zhitomir. 1847	1847	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,968.00
161	Sefer Mitzvot L'HaRamba"m. Venice, 1550. Rare Edition. The Controvery Surrounding it Led to the Burning of the Talmud	1550	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,968.00
161	Sefer Mitzvot L'HaRamba"m. Venice, 1550. Rare Edition. The Controvery Surrounding it Led to the Burning of the Talmud	1550	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,968.00
244	Historic Discovery: Three Original Semichah Letters for the Misgeret HaShulchan, Handwritten by Italian Sages. Livorno, 1813	1813	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	3,720.00
174	Lechem Shamayim. The Ya'avetz's First Book. Wandsbek, 1733. Rare Book.		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,720.00
174	Lechem Shamayim. The Ya'avetz's First Book. Wandsbek, 1733. Rare Book.		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,720.00
244	Historic Discovery: Three Original Semichah Letters for the Misgeret HaShulchan, Handwritten by Italian Sages. Livorno, 1813	1813	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	3,720.00
188	Sefer Kol Bo. Copy that Belonged to the Gadol HaDor Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky. Interesting Dedication		USD -	3,472.00
242	Unique Letter of Recommendation from Rabbi Raphael Meldola, Av Beit Din of London, to Rabbi Michael Shlomo Yonah Av Beit Din of Torino. 1788	1788	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,472.00
242	Unique Letter of Recommendation from Rabbi Raphael Meldola, Av Beit Din of London, to Rabbi Michael Shlomo Yonah Av Beit Din of Torino. 1788	1788	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,472.00
167	Machzor According to the Custom of Bnei Romah. Venice, 1587. Original Copy! Exceptionally Rare	1587	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	3,224.00
200	Manuscript, Composition on Takfu Kohen. [Europe, 1800s]	1800s]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	2,976.00
200	Manuscript, Composition on Takfu Kohen. [Europe, 1800s]	1800s]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	2,976.00

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Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000