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Auction Info

Sale Name: Afikoman Auction
Auction Date: 02/26/2023 - 02/26/2023
Year of Sale: 2023
Sale Number: #14
Total Lots: 25
Sold Lots: 25
Lots Sold: 100.0%
Unsold Lots: 0
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 1,071,730.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 593,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 838,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 593,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 838,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 127.89%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 1,071,730.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
21		‘Beis Yosef Orach Chaim, First Edition. Venice, 1550	1550	USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	155,000.00
20		“LaYehudim Haysa Orah” Long handwritten Drashah for Zayin Adar and Megillas Esther by the Chasam Sofer. Mattersdorf, 1806	1806	USD 120,000.00 - 150,000.00	142,600.00
23	the Noda B’Yehuda	Original autographed Letter by the Noda B’Yehuda. Prague, 1782	1782	USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	136,400.00
22	Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid	Tzava’as Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid. First Edition. Sefer Shimush Tehillim. Sabbioneta, 1551	1551	USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00	136,400.00
14		Incunabula. The Five Megillos with Commentaries. Naples, 1487	1487	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	111,600.00
9		Illustrated Passover Haggadah. Amsterdam, 1662	1662	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	62,000.00
1		Maseches Shekalim. Daniel Bomberg Press. Venice, 1527	1527	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	47,120.00
19		The Machine Matzah Controversy. Handwritten Essay by the Admor Rabbi Yoel of Satmar		USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	44,640.00
13		Artistic Handwritten Haggadah on Parchment. London, 1827	1827	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	44,640.00
6		Kabbalistic commentary on the Haggadah. Prague, 1585	1585	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	39,680.00
25		The first Jewish printing of the Chumash with English translation. London, 1785	1785	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	23,560.00
10		Illustrated Sefer HaMinhagim with Passover Haggadah. Amsterdam, 1774	1774	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	23,560.00
8		Haggadah with the Maharal of Prague’s Commentary. Gevuros Hashem. First Edition! Cracow, 1582	1582	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	17,360.00
24		Torah - Tikkun Sofrim. Amsterdam, 1666	1666	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	17,360.00
5		Year-Round Machzor. Shapira Press. Zhitomir, 1858	1858	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	12,400.00
3		Maseches Purim. Venice, 1552	1552	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	12,400.00
7		Haggadah with Commentary. Ma'ase Hashem. First Edition. Venice, 1583	1583	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	11,780.00
18		Mekor Chaim, First Edition. Zalkva, 1807	1807	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,704.00
11		Haggadah with Map of Eretz Yisrael. Amsterdam, 1781	1781	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,208.00
15		Tikkun for the Seventh Night of Passover. First Edition. Amsterdam, 1725	1725	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	5,208.00
2	Rabbi Yehuda Halevi	Mi Kamocha by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. Venice, 1586	1586	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,960.00
16		Sefiras HaOmer. Offenbach, 1823	1823	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,712.00
4		Holiday Prayers for Passover, Sukkos and Shavuos. Amsterdam, 1726	1726	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,728.00
17		Rare Sefiras Haomer Booklet. Amsterdam, 1817	1817	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,480.00
12		Haggadah with Ladino Translation. Livorno, 1867	1867	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,232.00

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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
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