• 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€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • 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.

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
101

Illuminated Manuscript. "The Song of Songs of Solomon."

Late 19th / early 20th century. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
102 (MORTARA, EDGARDO).

The Mortara Abduction. Speech of Hon. Samuel A. Law of Delaware in Support of Freedom of Conscience and in Opposition to Religious Intolerance.

Albany 1859 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
103 (MORTARA, EDGARDO).

Dr. Pius Maria Mortara cili Ditko Prozretelnosti, (Svezivotopis).

Brno 1894 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
104 (MORTARA, EDGARDO).

VICTOR SEJOUR. Autograph Manuscript Signed. From the preface to Tireuse de Cartes.

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
105 PIECHOTKA, MARIA & KAZIMIERZ.

The Wooden Synagogues of Poland. pp. 218, (2).

Warsaw 1959 and 1957. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 187.50
106

Beschreibung derer Sanctsagungs Gebetter, welche die Prager Judenschaft megen Ubweis chung des Feinds den 29ten Juni 1757 in der so genannten Synagog Alt-Neu Schul verrichtet haben.

Prague n.p. 1757. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
107 Ayer, Jules.

A Century of Finance, 1804 to 1904: The London House of Rothschild.

London 1905 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
108

Illuminated Manuscript in Hebrew. Complete Book of Ruth.

Eretz Israel? c. 1940. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,750.00
109 SASPORTAS, SOLOMON.

Zecher Rav - Memoria de los 613 Preceptos de la S. Ley, y siete de Sabios [mnemonic listing of the precepts].

Amsterdam 1727 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
110

(Manuscript). Notification Document of the Bailiff of the Court of Cervera concerning Samuel Cavaller(ia), a Jew from Cervera.

Cervera 1406 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,500.00
111

Plan de la Ville de Paramaribo, Suivant les Plans Hollandois.

Paris 1764 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
112

Jewish World Relief Conference.

Paris 1923 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 562.50
113 (Bamberger, Yitzchak Dov Halevi - The Wurzburger Rov.)

Amirah LeBeith Ya'akov [digest of laws on family purity, Challah and Sabbath candles].

Furth 1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
114

The Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home:

London & Jerusalem 1937 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
115 MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH (LEONE DA).

Kerk-Zeeden en de Gewoonten.

Amsterdam 1700 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
116 KIRCHNER, PAUL CHRISTIAN.

Judisches Ceremoniel.

Nurnberg 1724 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
117 PICART, BERNARD.

The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World. First edition in English.

London 1733 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 312.50
118 BUXTORF, JOHANNES.

(The Elder). Synagoga Judaica.

Frankfurt & Leipzig 1738 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
119 LEUSDEN, JOHANNES.

Philologus Hebraeus Continens. pp. 440.

Basle 1739 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
120 BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG.

Aufrichtig Teutsch Redender Hebraer, welcher grundlich zeiget den Ursprung und die Schicksaale des judischen Volcks, wie auch deroselben Kirchenweesen, Gottesdienst, Glauben=Articuln

Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1756 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
121 OPPENHEIM, MORITZ.

Bilder aus dem Altjudischen Familien-Leben.

Frankfurt a/Main 1882 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 750.00
122

Salli Kirchstein. Juedische Graphiker aus der Zeit von 1625-1825.

Berlin 1918 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 281.25
123

Mitzvoth U'Minhagei HaYehudim - Bilder aus dem Leben der Juden in Venedig.

Berlin c. 1920. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
124

RIMON. A Hebrew Magazine of Arts and Letters.

Berlin 1922-24. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 87.50
125 RABAN, ZE'EV.

Shir HaShirim - Song of Songs.

Berlin 1923 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
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