Moreshet Auctions: Winter Auction, 80, Jerusalem

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Auction Report
Auction Date
January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025
Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76

Extremely Rare! Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Kaplan, the Iluy of Rakov, to His Wife the Rebbetzin -

Minsk 1880 Not Available USD 1,625.00
77

First Time Auctioned! Rare Letter with Divrei Torah by the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Natan Note Handelsman Rav of Kleck and Kiev and Author of Netivot Or -

Kleck 1891 Not Available USD 250.00
78

Historical Letter with the Full Lengthy Signature of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira - about the Prohibition on Learning in Non-Religious Schools

Jerusalem 1922 Not Available USD 750.00
79

Lengthy and Fascinating Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Dov Glickson, the Son-in-Law of Maran Rabbi Chaim of Brisk -

Warsaw 1928 Not Available USD 750.00
80

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein the Rosh Yeshiva of Hebron - about His Son-in-Law the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Aharon Hacohen 4 Days after His Wedding! Sivan 17

1929 Not Available USD 275.00
81

Fascinating Letter Handwritten and Signed by Maran Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grdozinsky - Adressed to the Gaon Rabbi Nechemya Malin the Rosh Yeshiva of Brisk

Not Available USD 1,500.00
82

Extremely Rare! "And Especially for Those who Love Slabodka" Lengthy and Fascinating Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky -

Not Available USD 1,250.00
83

For Two Hundred Years There has not been such an Iluy Letter Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Pogromansky and with his 3 Signatures (!) - Extremely Rare!

Not Available USD 3,250.00
84

Important Letter by Maran the Mashgi'ach Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler - from the Time He was Staying in New York for the Wedding of His Son-in-Law, Rabbi Geldzahler

Not Available USD 687.50
85

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Farber of London - with References to the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Levin

London 1958 Not Available USD 237.50
86

Touching Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Zeev Gurevich the Rosh Yeshiva of Gateshead - to Rabbi Hillel Medalia

Gateshead 1959 Not Available USD 406.25
87

Rare! Posek Hador Rabbi Moshe Feinstein - Especially Lengthy Responsum of Seeven Pages! Handwritten and Signed by Him

New York 1975 Not Available USD 4,500.00
88

The Torah of America: Lengthy Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Halevi Roderman to Maran Posek Hador Rabbi Moshe Feinstein -

Baltimore Not Available USD 1,000.00
89

Captivating Letter of Friendship Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Shneur Kotler the Rosh Yeshiva of Lakewood -

1965 Not Available USD 875.00
90

First Time Auctioned! Talmudic Ma'aracha on Dinei Shtarot Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Bezalel Rakov Av Beit Din of Gateshead -

Not Available USD 250.00
91

Bundle of Manuscripts of Six Lengthy Responses on Matters of the Mikveh by Ashkenazic Sages - One Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Wolf Hamburger Av Beit Din of Furth

Not Available USD 5,000.00
92

Fascinating Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Kopel Lowenstein Av Beit Din of Bischofsheim and Author of Mincha Tehora -

Bischofsheim 1853 Not Available USD 250.00
93

Not Published! Der Greiditzer Tzaddik: Lengthy Letter with Divrei Torah Handwritten by the Gaon the Mekubal and Wonder-Worker Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher Av Beit Din of Greiditz -

Polshen 1838 Not Available USD 1,875.00
94

Special Letter of Chidushei Torah Forming an Entire Work by the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Oislander the Right Hand of the Gaon of Shamloy -

Not Available USD 250.00
95

Touching and Fascinating Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Friedling Av Beit Din of Biskovich Author of Ratz Katzvi -

Biskovich 1929 Not Available USD 250.00
96

Letter of Invitation to a Din Torah Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Yonatan Shteif -

Brooklyn 1949 Not Available Not Sold
97

Mishnayot Seder Kodashim "As Printed in Berditchev" - The Press of Rabbi Moshe Shapiro Slavita

Slavita 1830 Not Available USD 937.50
98

Chumash "Or HaHayyim" Vayikra -- printed by Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapira Slavita 1832 New luxurious leather binding -

Slavita 1832 Not Available USD 4,500.00
99

Discovery!!! Extremely Rare! Bibliographically Unknown: Siddur Zhytomyr Seder Tefillor for All Year Round with Teitch - The Press of the Shapiro Brothers

Zhytomyr 1860 Not Available USD 40,000.00
100

Holy of holies: a filament of straw from the bed of the Rebbe Elimelech of Luzhansk -

Not Available USD 3,500.00
  • Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: The New-England Primer Improved. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. Boston: Printed and Sold by John Boyles, 1770. EXTREMELY RARE AMERICAN PRIMER.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Lansford W. Hastings. The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. Cincinnati. George Conclin, 1845. THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: J. D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1951. first edition, a fine copy, in an unrestored first issue dust jacket.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. THE VERY FINE A.E NEWTON COPY.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: J. K. Rowling. Only known complete set of full unbound imposed sheets for the First Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel in Three Volumes. By a Lady. London: for the author by C. Roworth and published by T. Egerton, 1811. FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. First Editions, First Impressions. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955. A VERY FINE SET.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Declaration of Independence. In: The Pennsylvania Ledger: Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey Weekly Advertiser. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, No. LXXVII, 13 July 1776.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1685. THE FOURTH FOLIO.
    Heritage Auctions, May 8-9: Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1965. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
  • 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
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
    April 30th & May 1st
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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