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Kestenbaum and Company: Fine Judaica

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Auction Name Fine Judaica Total Sales (USD) 314,175.00
Auction Date June 16, 2022 - June 16, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 279,300.00
Sale Number #98 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 416,700.00
Total Lots 284
Sold Lots 215 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 362,970.00
% of Lots Sold 75.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 539,730.00
Unsold Lots 69 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
75

Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-Hashanah and Kippur..According to the Order of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Translated by Isaac Pinto.

1766 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 45,000.00
45 TEITELBAUM, YOEL

PERSONAL SILVER KIDDUSH CUP. Strapped belt above and below. Hallmarks on reverse: Height 4 and 1/4 inches (11 cm).

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 23,750.00
228 LUZZATTO, MOSHE CHAIM

(RAMCHA'L). Mesilath Yesharim ["The Path of the Upright"].

1740 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,750.00
117

Chamisha Chumshei Torah[-end]

1528 & 1533 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,250.00
240

Seder Kodshim. With commentary by Moses Maimonides (Ramba'm).

1522 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,375.00
225 LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL

(MaHaRa'L of Prague). Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethics].

1596 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,750.00
267

Masechta Nidah. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc.

1551 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,500.00
20 MALBIM, MEIR LEIBUSH

Autograph Legal Opinion Signed.

[1]858 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,250.00
180 Benjamin Senior Godines (ed.)

Me’ah Berachoth [Orden de Bendiciones].

1687-88 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,250.00
19 LIPSCHÜTZ, YISRAEL

Autograph Letter Signed written to his son, Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak (Isidor Lifschitz of Landsberg, 1812-77).

1841 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,750.00
226 LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL

(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Netzach Yisrael [homilies and elucidations on the Final Redemption and Messianic times].

1599 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,500.00
221

Tephilloth. Containing the Forms of Prayers Which are Publicly Read in the Synagogues, and Used in All Families.

1770 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,250.00
227 LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL

(MaHaRa'L of Prague). Chibur Ohr Chadash [commentary to Megilath Esther]. With: Ner Mitzvah [on Chanukah].

1600 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,250.00
89

Biblia en dos Colunas - Hebrayco y Espanol.

1762 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
181 Judah Leon de Joseph Perez.

Fundamento Solido, Baza y Thypo de la Sacro Sancta, y divina ley…por un methodo facil y distinto - Sepher Yesod Oz.

1728 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,000.00
53

Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium with prayers]. With commentary Sharvit HaZahav.

1837 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,500.00
5

Novellae of the Yismach Moishe, with AUTOGRAPH NOTATIONS BY HIS GRANDSON THE YITEV LEV, AND GREAT-GREAT GRANDSON, R. MOSHE DAVID TEITELBAUM OF SIGHET AND VOLOVA. 

1848-61 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
25

Notebook of Largely UNPUBLISHED TALMUDIC NOVELLAE by Rabbis from 18th Century Prague.

c.1780 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
140 AVRAHAM YEHOSHUA HESCHEL OF APT.

Oheiv Yisrael [homilies and sermons].

1863 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,000.00
9 FRADKIN, SHNEUR ZALMAN OF LUBLIN

Secretarial Letter Signed, with six lines in autograph as well as autograph edits. Written to R. Shmuel Salant.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
231 COHN, TOBIAS.

Ma'aseh Tuviah.

1707-8 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
41 HAGER, MORDECHAI

Large PERSONAL 26-string Gartel.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,500.00
71

Carte-de-visite photograph of Daniel Solis, Shochet of Congregation Mikveh Israel.

c. 1860's USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 3,250.00
259 SOLOMON IBN VERGA.

Shevet Yehudah [historiography].

1609 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,250.00
108 Azikri, Elazar.

Sepher Chareidim [on the halachic, ethical and religious reasons for the precepts].

1601 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,000.00
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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