Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Auction 101 session 2, 101b, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025
Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
137

Responsa HaRim (Ger) -- Jozefow, 1867 -- Copy of Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag, the Baal HaSulam -- Segulah Book for Stopping Plague

Jozefow 1867 Not Available USD 400.00
138

Shulchan Aruch HaRav (Baal HaTanya) -- Large Collection of Early Editions Printed 1849-1936

1849-1936 Not Available USD 937.50
139

Amudei Golah (Smak) -- Approbation of the Baal HaTanya -- Liadi, 1805 -- Only Hebrew Book Printed in Liadi

Liadi 1805 Not Available USD 812.50
140

Imrei Binah (Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch) -- Lviv, 1862 -- Copy of Rabbi Avraham David Lavut, Rabbi of Nikolayev (Grandfather of the Lubavitcher Rebbe) and Rabbi Moshe Nachum Yerushalimsky, Rabbi of Kielce

Lviv 1862 Not Available USD 937.50
141

Manuscript -- Discussion of Basic Principles of Chabad Chassidut -- Belarus, Nisan 1997

Belarus, Nisan 1997 Not Available USD 425.00
142

Manuscript, Selected Sermons and Stories, By a Disciple of the Torat Chesed of Lublin -- Eretz Israel, Ca. 1890s

Eretz Israel, Ca.1890s Not Available USD 1,125.00
143

"Copying of Letters of the Rebbe of Babruysk" -- Poster About the "Special Chabad Kollel" in Eretz Israel -- Poltava, 1913 -- Rare Poster, Not Recorded in Chabad Library Catalog

Poltava 1913 Not Available USD 425.00
144

Torah Or Siddur -- First Edition Edited by the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Brooklyn, 1941 -- Siddur Edited by the Rebbe Upon His Arrival in the United States in Summer 1941, Limited Edition

Brooklyn 1941 Not Available USD 6,875.00
145

Shanah Tovah Letter of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch -- With His Full Signature -- Elul 1948 -- Addressed to Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky, Head Rabbi of London Beit Din, Author of Chazon Yechezkel

With His Full Signature 1948 Not Available USD 1,500.00
146

Four Letters of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch (Signed by a Secretary) -- 1949 -- Blessing and Guidance on an Engagement Proposal, Torah Study and Livelihood

1949 Not Available USD 750.00
147

Letter of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch -- Iyar 1949 -- Blessings for Engagement -- With the Special Signature Used by the Rayatz in His Final Year

Iyar 1949 Not Available USD 1,500.00
148

Letter of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch -- Av 1949 -- Scheduling a Wedding and Blessing for Harmony -- With the Special Signature Used by the Rayatz in His Final Year

Av 1949 Not Available USD 1,875.00
149

Letter of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch -- Tishrei 1949 -- Blessings for a Wedding, Abundant Livelihood and Success in Educational Work -- With the Special Signature Used by the Rayatz in His Final Year

Tishrei 1949 Not Available USD 1,875.00
150

Shanah Tovah Letter from Rebbetzin Nechamah Dinah Schneerson -- Signed by Her Two Sons-in-Law, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary -- Elul, 1950 -- After the Passing of Their Husband

1950 Not Available USD 4,000.00
151

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1951 -- With Handwritten Addition, Wishing Success in Public and Private Affairs

1951 Not Available USD 1,750.00
152

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1952 -- Handwritten Blessing: "Success in Your Holy Work"

1952 Not Available USD 1,625.00
153

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1953 -- Handwritten Addition: "Awaiting Good News"

1953 Not Available USD 1,250.00
154

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1954

1954 Not Available USD 1,062.50
155

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1965

1965 Not Available USD 1,062.50
156

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1968

1968 Not Available USD 1,000.00
157

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1971

1971 Not Available USD 1,125.00
158

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1951 -- Blessing for Easy Pregnancy and Birth -- With Handwritten Addition Wishing "Welfare, Both Physical and Spiritual"

1951 Not Available USD 1,625.00
159

Letter of Blessing from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1951 -- With Handwritten Addition: "He Should Be Brought to a Chassidic Farbrengen"

1951 Not Available USD 1,875.00
160

Letter of Blessing from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1951 -- With Handwritten Addition: "Blessing for Real Welfare, Physically and Spiritually"

1951 Not Available USD 1,375.00
161

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1952 -- Guidance and Blessing for Easy Pregnancy and Birth -- "Not to Tell Until She Enters the Fifth Month"

1952 Not Available USD 1,875.00
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • 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€
  • 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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