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
162

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1953 -- Guidance on Health and Alleviation of Worries -- "When You Think Even for a Moment About How You Merit to Work in an Institution Founded by the Rebbe, My Father-in-Law, the Prince of Israel..." -- Blessings for L

1953 Not Available USD 1,375.00
163

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1953 -- Blessing for Birthday and for Easy Pregnancy and Birth -- "May G-d Grant You Lengthy Days and Good Years, and Success in Your Holy Work in Proper Education"

1953 Not Available USD 1,750.00
164

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1953 -- Blessing for the Birth of a Daughter

1953 Not Available USD 1,375.00
165

Letter of Blessing and Guidance from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1953 -- With Handwritten Blessing: "Success and Proper Health"

1953 Not Available USD 1,625.00
166

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1963 -- Blessing for Moving into a New Home -- With Handwritten Addition, Wishing Success in Disseminating Judaism and Chassidut

1963 Not Available USD 3,250.00
167

Kuntres 11 Nisan (5750) and Dollar Bill Received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Distribution Held in the Rebbe's Home

11 Nisan (5750) and Dollar Bill Received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Not Available USD 812.50
168

Kuntres Maamarim 5682, and Two One-Dollar Bills Distributed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 10th Shevat, 1992

1992 Not Available USD 1,375.00
169

Kovetz 22 Shevat and Five-Dollar Bill Received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- On the Yahrzeit of His Wife Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka

Not Available USD 2,000.00
170

Letter of Rebbe Yisrael Perlow of Karlin, the "Frankfurter" -- Advice and Blessings for Health and Shanah Tovah

Not Available USD 1,500.00
171

Letter from the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz -- Abundant Blessing and Success, Easy Sustenance and Grace -- Grosswardein, Kislev 1933

1933 Not Available USD 8,125.00
172

Letter of Blessings from the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka -- Selish, 1940 -- "May All the Women Going to Immerse... Be Completely Healthy and Successful in All Their Ways, and be Blessed with All Salvations"

Selish 1940 Not Available USD 8,125.00
173

Manuscript of Rebbe Yoel Moskowitz of Shotz -- Shotz, Ca. 1920s-1930s

Shotz, Ca.1920s-1930s Not Available USD 625.00
174

Letter of Rebbe Shalom Moskowitz of Shotz -- Shanah Tovah Blessings -- London, Elul 1951

London 1951 Not Available USD 2,125.00
175

Letter of Rebbe Mordechai Shalom Yosef of Sadigura -- Consolation for the Passing of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer -- Tel Aviv, 1953

Tel Aviv 1953 Not Available USD 312.50
176

Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov -- Cheshvan, 1976 -- "May G-d Bless Your Strength... May You Succeed in All Your Endeavors, And Be Satisfied and Full of G-d's Blessing, With Health... And Lengthy Days..."

1976 Not Available USD 625.00
177

Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov -- Cheshvan, 1983 -- "May G-d Bless Your Strength... May You Succeed in All Your Endeavors, And Be Satisfied and Full of G-d's Blessing, With Health... And Lengthy Days..."

1983 Not Available USD 625.00
178

Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov -- Elul, 1986 -- With Blessing for Success and Shanah Tovah Handwritten by the Rebbe

1986 Not Available USD 625.00
179

Shanah Tovah Letter from the Netivot Shalom of Slonim -- Elul, 1961

1961 Not Available USD 375.00
180

Collection of Invitations of Rebbes -- Some with Handwritten Letters -- 1950s-2000s

1950s-2000s Not Available USD 525.00
181

Letter of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, Rabbi of Lodz -- Lodz, 1892

Lodz 1892 Not Available USD 1,500.00
182

Letter of Approbation of Rabbi Shmuel Zanvil Klepfish, Head of the Warsaw Beit Din -- Warsaw, 1892

Warsaw 1892 Not Available Not Sold
183

Letter of Approbation of Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen Feigenbaum, Head of the Warsaw Beit Din -- Warsaw, 1892

Warsaw 1892 Not Available Not Sold
184

Torah Letter -- By Rabbi Akiva Sofer, Rabbi of Pressburg -- Lomnyca-Poprad, Elul 1931

Lomnyca-Poprad 1931 Not Available USD 687.50
185

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- Vilna, 1910 -- On Rabbinic Issues and Halachic Decisions

Vilna 1910 Not Available USD 937.50
186

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- On Attaining the Chafetz Chaim's Signature for an Announcement to South African Jews, And Publishing the Writings of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk -- "I Am Always Bothered His Sons, the Great Rabbis, Have Not Published It"

Druskininkai 13th Elul Not Available USD 3,000.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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