Auction Reports

Kedem Auctions Ltd.

Auction Info

Sale Name
Rare and Important Items
Auction Date
05/02/2023 - 05/02/2023
Year of Sale
2023
Sale Number
#92a
Total Lots
108
Sold Lots
102
Lots Sold
94.4%
Unsold Lots
6
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
756,500.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
554,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
840,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
653,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
977,300.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
77.41%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
756,500.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
46 the Apter Rebbe. Tehillim with the Rashi and Metzudot commentaries, Yiddish translation and Seder Maamadot

1864

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 57,500.00
30 Rebbe Menachem Nachum [Twersky] of Chernobyl. Meor Einayim, Chassidic essays on the Torah,

1798

 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 32,500.00
77 R. "Yisrael Meir son of R. Aryeh Zev HaKohen". Leaf handwritten by the Chafetz Chaim, with the text of the title page for his book Likutei Halachot on Tractates Zevachim and Menachot

ca.1899.

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 32,500.00
110 Decorated Esther scroll, including the blessings over the Megillah reading …

ca.1800

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 32,500.00
112 Ketubah recording the marriage of the groom Shabbetai son of Avraham Zevi to the bride Devorah daughter of Eliezer Di Castro.

1837

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 25,000.00
16 Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Rosh Hashanah – with Rashi and Tosafot, Piskei Tosafot, the Rambam's commentary on Mishnayot, and Rabbenu Asher.

1521

 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 23,750.00
64 Five Books of the Torah, Mikraot Gedolot, with 32 commentaries.

1860

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 21,250.00
48 Rebbe Yisrael Dov Ber Gelernter of Yashnitza (Jasienica Rosielna) Revid HaZahav, Torah novellae and selections,

1879

 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 21,250.00
1 R. Elazar [of Worms] Sefer HaRokeach, composed by R. Elazar [of Worms] son of R. Yehuda.

1505

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 20,000.00
95 Official decoration bestowed upon members of the entourage accompanying Kaiser Wilhelm II on his visit to the Holy Land, …

1898

 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 18,750.00
19 Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Mo'ed Katan – with Rashi and Tosafot, Piskei Tosafot, the Rambam's commentary on Mishnayot, and Rabbenu Asher.

1539

 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 18,750.00
39 R. Nachman of Breslov. Likutei Moharan (Kama and Tinyana),

1821

 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 17,500.00
45 R. Moshe Chaim Efraim Ashkenazi Rabbi of Sudilkov (Sudylkiv), grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Degel Machaneh Efraim, Chassidic teachings on the Torah,

1810

 USD 10,000.00 - 18,000.00 16,250.00
68 Early amulet for protection of the home, customarily given by R. Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir, the Yismach Moshe, and other rebbes.

ca.late 19th century.

 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 15,000.00
17 Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Chullin – with Rashi and Tosafot, Piskei Tosafot, the Rambam's commentary on Mishnayot, and Rabbenu Asher.

1521

 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 15,000.00
94 Some 290 postcards printed on the occasion of the official visit of the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, to the Holy Land.

1898

 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 12,500.00
18 Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat – with Rashi and Tosafot, Piskei Tosafot, Rambam's commentary on Mishnayot, and Rabbenu Asher.

1530

 USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 12,500.00
63 Machzor HaShalem, set of five machzorim, for the High Holidays and the Three Festivals, with commentaries, Yiddish commentary and supplications.

1965

 USD 20,000.00 - 50,000.00 12,500.00
32 the kabbalist R. Yaakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezeritch. Arizal Siddur Kol Yaakov, Part I – weekday prayers, and Part II – prayers for Shabbat and festivals, with homilies and the kavanot of the Arizal,

1804

 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 12,500.00
12 R. Moshe Isserles Torat HaOlah, philosophical-kabbalistic explanations regarding the Temple and sacrifices, by R. Moshe Isserles – the Rema.

1570

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 11,250.00
56 R. Tzvi HaKohen Katz. Nachalat Tzvi, halachic novellae on Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer,

1661

 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 10,625.00
11 the Rambam Moreh Nevuchim by the Rambam, with the Shem Tov and HaEfodi commentaries.

1551

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 10,000.00
21 R. Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels Chiddushei Aggadot on the Talmud, by R. Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels – the Maharsha, two parts:

1627; 1631.

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,750.00
97 Some 220 undivided-back postcards featuring pictures of the Holy Land.

late 19th and early 20th century.

 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,750.00
9 Five Books of the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim.

1573-1574

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 8,125.00
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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.
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    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
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    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
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    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
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    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€
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    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
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