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

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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
187

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- On Assistance to Shemitah-Observant Farmers in Eretz Israel, Shemitah Year 1938 -- Addressing the Irrelevance of Heter Mechirah After the Arab Revolt

1938 Not Available USD 1,250.00
188

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- Vilna, 1938 -- Recommendation for a Student of His Yeshiva Immigrating to Eretz Israel -- "May the G-d of Recompense Reward Their Work in Full..."

Vilna 1938 Not Available USD 875.00
189

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- Vilna, Cheshvan 1939 -- To the Brisker Rav, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz and the Yeshivas Exiled to Vilna at the Beginning of the Holocaust

Vilna 1939 Not Available USD 3,250.00
190

Letter of Blessing and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Kamenets, Sivan 1931 -- "All Blessings and Successes, Lengthy Days, Wealth and Happiness"

Kamenets 1931 Not Available USD 1,625.00
191

Letter of Blessing and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Kamenets, Adar I 1938 -- "May You Be Blessed With All Blessings and Successes and All Satisfaction Forever"

Kamenets 1938 Not Available USD 1,750.00
192

Letter of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- On the Kollel in the Kamenets Yeshiva -- Nisan 1938

1938 Not Available USD 2,500.00
193

Letter of Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Dean of Grodno Yeshiva -- Shevat, 1934

1934 Not Available USD 2,500.00
194

Letter of Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro, Rabbi of Kovno -- Kovno, 1938

Kovno 1938 Not Available USD 550.00
195

Two Letters from Rabbi Kook -- From His Trip to the United States in 1924 -- "May We Merit to Meet with Joyous Hearts on the Holy Soil"

1924 Not Available USD 1,500.00
196

Letter of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook -- Jerusalem, 1932

Jerusalem 1932 Not Available USD 2,250.00
197

Collection of Letters of Rabbis of Soviet Russia -- To Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook in Eretz Israel -- 1930s

1930s Not Available USD 1,625.00
198

Letter of Recommendation from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Brisk, 1934

Brisk 1934 Not Available USD 10,000.00
199

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Jerusalem, Nisan 1947

Jerusalem 1947 Not Available USD 6,250.00
200

V-Mail (Airgraph) from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav, To Rabbi Abramsky -- Jerusalem, Tamuz 1944 -- Opposing the International Assembly of Rabbis in Eretz Israel

Jerusalem 1944 Not Available Not Sold
201

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Eretz Israel, Ca. 1950

Eretz Israel, Ca.1950 Not Available USD 6,250.00
202

Draft of Poster by the Brisker Rav and Rabbi Abramsky -- Opposing the Inauguration of Heichal Shlomo -- With Handwritten Corrections by Rabbi Abramsky

Not Available USD 500.00
203

Letters of Rabbi Yisrael Soloveitchik -- Printing the Writings of His Uncle Rabbi Chaim of Brisk -- Johannesburg, 1949-1950

Johannesburg 1949-1950 Not Available USD 575.00
204

Collection of Letters and Manuscripts Regarding Holocaust Agunot -- From Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana of Warsaw, "Father of the Agunot"

Not Available USD 750.00
205

Invitation to the Chazon Ish to Participate in an Assembly of Torah Leaders During the Holocaust -- 13th Tevet 1942

1942 Not Available Not Sold
206

Torah Letter -- From Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer -- Jerusalem, Nisan 1939

Jerusalem 1939 Not Available USD 1,375.00
207

Draft of Approbation by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer to Avi Ezri by His Disciple Rabbi Shach -- Jerusalem, 1948

Jerusalem 1948 Not Available USD 1,250.00
208

Letter of Rabbi Aharon Kotler -- On the Independent Education System and the Poalei Agudat Yisrael Movement -- New York, Av 1960

New York 1960 Not Available USD 2,500.00
209

Dedication for a Wedding -- By Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach -- Kletsk, 1926

Kletsk 1926 Not Available Not Sold
210

Torah and Shanah Tovah Letter -- Rabbi Elazar Man Shach -- Bnei Brak, 1957

Bnei Brak 1957 Not Available USD 1,250.00
211

Letter of Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz -- Opposition of American Orthodox Jewry to Religious Persecution in Eretz Israel -- U.S.A. 1963

U.S.A. 1963 Not Available USD 525.00
  • 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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