ALDE, Apr. 18: CASAS (BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS). La Découverte des Indes occidentales par les Espagnols, Paris, 1697. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, Apr. 18: GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. Primera parte de los commentarios reales, que tratan del orígen de los Yncas…, Lisbonne, 1609 [1608 au colophon]. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 18: GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. Histoire des Yncas rois du Pérou. On a joint à cette édition l'Histoire de la conquête de la Floride, Amsterdam, 1737. €800 to €1,000.

ALDE, Apr. 18: LAET (JOHANNES DE). L'Histoire du nouveau monde, ou description des Indes occidentales, Leyde, 1640. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 18: LAFITAU (JOSEPH-FRANÇOIS). Mœurs des sauvages amériquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps, Paris, 1724. €1,200 to €1,500.

ALDE, Apr. 18: ORRIO (FRANCISCO XAVIER ALEXO DE). Solución del gran problema acerca de la población de las Americas, Mexico, 1763. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, Apr. 18: [ROCHEFORT (CHARLES DE)]. Histoire naturelle et morale des Îles Antilles de l'Amérique, Amsterdam, 1716. €800 to €1,000.

ALDE, Apr. 18: TURGOT (ANNE-ROBERT-JACQUES). Mémoire sur les colonies américaines, sur leurs relations politiques avec leurs métropoles…, Paris, 1791. €1,000 to €1,200.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 30th March 2023

Forum, Mar. 30: Roman binding.- Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, translated by Johannes Lonicer, contemporary Roman binding by Niccolo Franzese, Basel, 1535. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: Raverat (Gwen). Comprehensive album of 530 wood engravings, circa 1909-1950. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: Hemingway (Ernest). Fiesta, first English edition, first impression dust-jacket, 1927. £15,000 to £20,000.

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Forum, Mar. 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: Dickens (Charles). Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, first impression, Chapman and Hall, 1861. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: Campbell (Colen) & others. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., vol.1-3 later editions, vol.4 & 5 first editions, [?1731]-31-67-71. £10,000 to £15,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 30th March 2023

Forum, Mar. 30: Geography.- Mela (Pomponius). Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis, Venice, Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn, 1478. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: America.- [?Espinosa y Tello (José)]. Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el Año de 1792, 2 vol. including Atlas, first edition, Madrid, 1802. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, Paris, 1824. £8,000 to £12,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 30th March 2023

Forum, Mar. 30: Botany.- Curtis (William). The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, 83 vol. in 62, 1794-1956. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 30: Darwin (Charles).- Lecky (W.E.H.) The Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe, 2 vol., Darwin's copy with inscription "Charles Darwin 1865", pencil marginalia and pencil notes, 1865. £7,000 to £10,000.
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers April 5 Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Speed (John). The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine... bound with The Prospect of the most Famous parts of the World, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. £20,000 to £30,000.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: China. De Jode (Cornelis), China Regnum, Antwerp [1593]. £7,000 to £10,000.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: World. Hondius (Henricus), Nova totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct: Henr. Hondio. Amsterdam, circa 1630. £5,000 to £8,000.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers April 5 Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: World. Blaeu (Willem Janszoon), Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct: Guilelmo Blaeuw, Amsterdam [1635 - 58]. £5,000 to £8,000.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Acosta (Emanuel). Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum ad annum usque à Deipara Virgine…, 1st edition, Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1571. £3,000 to £5,000.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Ruggieri (Francesco). Scelta di Architetture Antiche e Moderne della Citta di Firenze…, 4 volumes bound in two, Florence, Appresso l'Editore, 1755. £3,000 to £4,000.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers April 5 Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Parry (William). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, 6 vols in 5, 1st editions, 1821-27. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Hunter (John). A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds, 1st edition, 1794. £1,000 to £1,500.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Furber (Robert). The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers…, 1st quarto edition, London, 1732. £1,000 to £1,500.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers April 5 Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Friedman (Milton). A Theory of the Consumption Function, 1st edition, 1957. £500 to £800.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Clarkson (Thomas). The history of the ... abolition of the African slave-trade, 2 vols., 1808. £800 to £1,200.

Dominic Winter, Apr. 5: Civil War Pamphlets. A sammelband of 19 pamphlets relating to events of the English Civil War, 1640-1661. £2,000 to £3,000.

Kestenbaum and Company: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art, 100, Brooklyn

Auction Details

Auction Date: 01/19/2023 - 01/19/2023

Page Size: 118 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Johanna Loewe (nee Auerbach).	Johanna Loewe (nee Auerbach). Briefe aus Amerika 1923-24 [an account of a journey to America].		1923-24	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 312.50
2	MORITZ POLLACK RITTER VON BORKENAU	Testimonial Certificate of Appreciation to MORITZ POLLACK RITTER VON BORKENAU	Vienna,	24th November, 1885	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
3		Record of the sale of properties by the Jew Michael Chlainsweindl to pay the grand-Jewry tax and related Jewish exclusionary feed.	Mölk (Melk, Austria)	30th December, 1366	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
4		Magnificent Testimonial Certificate of Appreciation to LEIB GERSHEVICH in gratitude for his wide-ranging assistance to the Jewish Community of Tientsin (Tianjin), China.	Tientsin (Tianjin)	9th September, 1937	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
5	Margaret Fraenkel.	Margaret Fraenkel. German-Jewish schoolgirl’s Autograph Album.	Berlin,	1898	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
6		Small archive of c. 100 papers concerning the arrest of RABBI IMMANUEL LOW in Hungary. Also concerning his scholarly work.	Budapest, Szeged, Berlin, New York, Paris, etc..	1920-21	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 281.25
7	JOSEPH FIAMETTA.	Hebrew Manuscript poem that describes an earthquake that occurred in Ancona on the 29th December, 1690.	Ancona	late 18th-century.	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
8		Small Archive Pertaining to the Yemenite Community of Kfar HaShiloach.	Jerusalem,	1935-67	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	Not Sold
9		Royal Universal (Proclamation) Liquidating the Debt of Jewish Kahals.	Warsaw,	29th February, 1792	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
10	EINSTEIN, ALBERT	Typed Letter Signed, written in English to Alton R. Chapple ON THE NECESSITY FOR MORAL COURAGE.	Princeton, NJ.	18th February, 1949	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 7,500.00
11	(HERZL, THEODOR)	BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF HERZL'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, MARGUERITE HERZL.	Paris,	31st March, 1900.	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,125.00
12		(CAIRO GENIZAH). Nine-leaf Fragment of Targum, Haftaroth for Festivals. ACCORDING TO THE UNIQUE RECITATION CUSTOM OF ERETZ ISRAEL.	Eretz Israel	c. 10th-11th century	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
13		(CAIRO GENIZAH). Eight-leaf Fragment of Targum, Exodus 10:1- 13:16. Contains the ENTIRE TORAH PORTION OF BO	Oriental,	11th-13th century.	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
14		(CAIRO GENIZAH). Group of three differing Fragments of Biblical Targum.	Ayyubid and Mameluke Empires,	c. 12th-14th centuries.	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
15		(CAIRO GENIZAH). Extraordinary Trilingual Fourteen-leaf Fragment of Leviticus 7:1-13:5 in Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic.	Yemen,	13th century.	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	Not Sold
16	(HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL). JOHANNA HIRSCH	JOHANNA HIRSCH Autograph Letter Signed, written in German to her (future) husband Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.	Braunschweig,	10th July 1831	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
17	(HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL) GELLA HIRSCH	GELLA HIRSCH Four Autograph Letters Signed, written to her son, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (and family), in Judeo-German, with some Hebrew and German.	Hamburg,	1849-59	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
18	ALFANDARI, CHAIM BEN YITZCHAK.	Seder Eliyah Rabbah VeZuta [laws of Agunoth].	Constantinople,	1719	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
19		Shulchan Aruch shel Ha’Ari z’l [Kabbalistic Code of Law].	(Posen),	c. 1650.	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
20	KLUGER, SHLOMO (of Brody, 1785-1869).	Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew. Four Responsa on Yoreh De'ah and RECORDED IN HIS PERSONAL LEDGER.	Brody,	1854	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 5,000.00
21	Anonymous.	(SATIRE). Shelosha Tzoa’kim V’Einan Ne’enin [polemical poem criticizing Ashkenazi synagogue cantors]. MANUSCRIPT IN HEBREW.	Eastern Europe,	Late-17th century	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
22	WASSERMAN, ELCHONON BUNEM	WASSERMAN, ELCHONON BUNEM Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to Rabbi Yosef Yechiel Gurevitch of Melbourne.	Kelme, Lithuania,	1940,	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
23		["a collection of epistles of early Chassidic masters.”] Letters of R. Yisrael of Polotzk, R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, R. Avraham of Kalisk, R. Leib Heneles, R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi and R. Chaim Chaikel of Amdur.		1778-92.	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,625.00
24	(MOISHE ELIEZER KRAMER).	The Life of Morris L. Kramer. A Biographical Sketch of a Jewish Scholar and Businessman. Compiled and Arranged by a group of his Friends and Admirers.	New York, Pinski - Massel,	1926	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
25	RABINOWITZ, YITZCHOK YA’AKOV	RABINOWITZ, YITZCHOK YA’AKOV. Letter Signed, New Year blessings, written in Hebrew.	Biala (Bia?a Podlaska, Poland),	1886	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,750.00

<center>Swann Auction Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana: March 30, 2023

Swann March 30: Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York, 1949. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann March 30: Papers of pianist-composer Lawrence Brown relating to Paul Robeson & more, various places, 1925-54. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann March 30: Freedom Summer archive of civil rights activist Karen Haberman Trusty, Atlanta & elsewhere, 1963-64. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann March 30: E. Simms Campbell, A Night-Club Map of Harlem, New York, 1933. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann March 30: Archive of letters from the sculptor Richmond Barthé to a close Jamaican friend, various places, 1966-85. $25,000 to $35,000.

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