Kestenbaum and Company: Auction of Fine Judaica: Rare and Illustrated Books, Ceremonial Objects, Graphic Art & Holy Land Maps., 110, Brooklyn

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 171 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI"F).

Hilchoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic Code]. With many commentaries.

Sabbioneta 1555 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 312.50
2 MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /

RaMBa'M.

Venice, 1551 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
3

Takanoth [communal prohibitions, proscribing modesty in material pleasures].

Prague 1767 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
4

(Hebrew, Pentateuch) Chamishah Chumashei Torah. With Targum Onkelos and commentaries of Rashi, Ramban and ibn Ezra.

1662 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,250.00
5

Chumash. - Five Megiloth. - Haphtaroth.

Venice, 1588-89 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
6

Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]

Amsterdam 1631 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,000.00
7

Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. With Five Scrolls and Haphtaroth.

Amsterdam 1693 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8

Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end].

Amsterdam, 1700-03. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,375.00
9

Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

Berlin 1931-33. USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,500.00
10

Psalterium Sextuplex.

Lyon 1530 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
11

Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch with Targum, Five Scrolls and Haphtaroth for the entire year].

Venice 1702 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 750.00
12

Seder HaTephiloth [prayers for the entire year]. Translation into Judeo-German.

Amsterdam 1705 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
13

Seder Tephilah LeTa'anith [prayers for the Fast Days].

Amsterdam 1726 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
14

Machzor Sephardim LeYom HaGadol VeNora she Tzom Kippur

Florence 1735 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,250.00
15

Seder Tephiloth LeChodashim U'LeMo'adim [prayers for the entire year].

Amsterdam 1739 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
16

Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch].

Amsterdam 1746-47. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
17

Seder Tephiloth mikol HaShanah [prayers for the entire year].

Amsterdam, 1802 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,187.50
18

Italian Silver Binding. Chased in high relief with Baroque scrollwork. Covers with fish over Star-of-David. Central clasp. Marked with maker's mark FB script in circle and Turin style marks. Height: 5 inches. 19th-century.

Venice c. 1750. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
19 Avraham Klausner.

Minhagim.

Riva di Trento 1559 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,000.00
20 TYRNAU, ISAAC.

Minhagim [Customs of Aschkenazic Jewry in Poland, Bohemia and Moravia]. Translated from Hebrew to Yiddish by Simon Levi Ginzburg.

Amsterdam 1645 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
21

Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. ff. 71.

Amsterdam 1722 and 1728. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
22

Minhagim. Prepared by Shimon HaLevi Gunzburg.

Amsterdam 1723 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
23

Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected prayers and festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany.

Frankfurt a/Main 1727 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
24

Minhagim.

Frankfurt a/Main 1729 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,375.00
25

Sepher HaMinhagim al Seder Ma'aseh Bereishith.

Amsterdam 1768 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
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    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
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    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
  • Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
  • Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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