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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items

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Auction Name Rare and Important Items Total Sales (USD) 1,846,968.00
Auction Date May 15, 2019 - May 15, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,550,000.00
Sale Number #66 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,360,000.00
Total Lots 168
Sold Lots 136 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,086,000.00
% of Lots Sold 80.95% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,162,000.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
33

Noam Elimelech - Second, Rare Edition

 1790 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 116,850.00
120

Korban Chagiga - Copy of Rabbi Meir Margolies Author of Meir Netivim, Disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and one of his "Sixty Warriors"

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 110,700.00
47

Lengthy and Interesting Letter from Rebbe Meir of Premishlan - With Two of His Signatures

 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 61,500.00
80

Passport of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar -

1950s USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 61,500.00
30

Toldot Yaakov Yosef -

1780 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 51,660.00
15

Shelah Siddur Shaar HaShamayim - First Edition,

1717 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 46,740.00
42

Siddur HaRav (Baal HaTanya), with Commentary According to Kabbalah and Chassidut - Two Parts in Two Volumes

 1816 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 46,740.00
17

Five Books of the Torah with the Or HaChaim Commentary -

1741 USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 44,280.00
43

Likutei Moharan - First Edition

 1808 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 44,280.00
107

Leaf from the Chatam Sofer's Responsa Notebook - In His Handwriting and With His Signature

 1804 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 44,280.00
50

Letter of Approbation and Recommendation Handwritten and Signed by the Chiddushei HaRim, First Rebbe of Ger -

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 39,360.00
73

Letter of Salvations - Handwritten and Signed by the Baal Shem of Michelstadt, Rabbi Zekel Leib Wormser

 1821 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 39,360.00
35

Meor Einayim / Yismach Lev -

1798 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 36,900.00
34

Noam Elimelech -

1794 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 31,980.00
131

Silver Kiddush Cup - LiChevod Shabbat Kodesh

 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 31,980.00
111

Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Vital - From a Composition of Segulot, Cures and Practical Kabbalah

 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 29,520.00
7

Ashkenazi Rite Machzor -

1536 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,060.00
86

Letter of Recommendation from the Chafetz Chaim, for a Yeshiva Student from Eishishok -

1888 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 27,060.00
148

Ironic Letter Handwritten and Signed by Albert Einstein - in "Support" of the Austrian Policy toward the Jews

 1936 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,060.00
130

Tefillin Parashiot and Batim - Parashiot Written by the Sofer Rabbi David of Anipoli, Sofer of the Maggid of Mezeritch and His Disciples

 USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 24,600.00
84

Historic Letter from Prominent Torah Leaders, Regarding the Reopening of the Volozhin Yeshiva -

1894 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,140.00
29

Maggid Devarav LeYaakov - Likutei Amarim

 1781 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,910.00
119

Pnei Yehoshua - Signatures of the Kabbalist Rabbi Chaim Sanzer and of Rabbi David Tevele

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 19,680.00
13

First Edition of Shelah - With a Complete Composition of Handwritten Kabbalistic Glosses, from the Period of the Printing, by an Unidentified Author

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,450.00
18

Zera Shimshon -

1778 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 18,450.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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