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Auction Name Online Auction: Jewish History and Zionism – Books – Art – Photography – Prints and Maps – Numismatics Total Sales (USD) 125,362.50
Auction Date July 23, 2024 - July 23, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #54a High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 299
Sold Lots 230 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 76.92% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 69 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

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

"To the People of Palestine" -- Broadside Proclaiming the Initiation of the British Mandate for Palestine -- Palestine, 1920 -- Reference to Balfour Declaration

1920 Not Available USD 4,000.00
49

Large Collection -- Passports and Travel Documents -- Jewish Travelers -- Early 20th Century -- Palestine Immigration Stamps

Early 20th Century Not Available USD 3,250.00
193

Collection of Some 1,000 "Shanah Tovah" Postcards -- Postcards Decorated with Birds and Flowers -- Germany and USA -- First Decades of the 20th Century

First Decades of the 20th Century Not Available USD 3,000.00
5 Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl -- Signed Autograph Letter, Addressed to Max Nordau -- Vienna, 1898

1898 Not Available USD 2,750.00
187

Large Assorted Collection of Postcards -- Some 400 Postcards -- Palestine, Different Publishers, 20th Century

20th Century Not Available USD 2,750.00
36

"The Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" -- Memorandum by British Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1928 -- "White Book" Stating Jews' Right to Pray in front of the Western Wall

1928 Not Available USD 2,500.00
224 David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion -- Pungent Letter Regarding the Yossele Schumacher Affair -- Jerusalem, June 1962

1962 Not Available USD 2,500.00
9

Last Will of Baron Maurice de Hirsch -- Official English Translation on Parchment -- London, 7 August 1896 -- With Notary Certificate on Parchment and Official British Wax Seal

1896 Not Available USD 2,375.00
124 Charles Wilson

Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem -- Notes, by Charles Wilson -- London, 1865 -- Street Map of Jerusalem

1865 Not Available USD 1,875.00
155 Rudi Weissenstein

Photo Album -- Photographs by Rudi Weissenstein, Taken during the Ceremony of Israeli's Declaration of Independence -- Tel Aviv, 1948 -- Album Created in 1988, for Israel's 40th Year

1948 Not Available USD 1,750.00
25

Assortment of Real Photo WWI Postcards / The Jewish Legion -- Palestine and Its Surroundings, Ca. 1914-1918

Ca. 1914-1918 Not Available USD 1,625.00
69

Large and Varied Collection of Paper Items Relating to the Yishuv in Palestine -- WWII and Israeli War of Independence / Conscription and Illegal Immigration -- Proclamations, Leaflets and Letters, 1940s

1940s Not Available USD 1,625.00
260

Album Missionis Terrae Sanctae -- Album of Prints in Two Volumes -- Milano, Late

Late Not Available USD 1,625.00
135 Henry Baker Tristram

Pathways of Palestine -- Travelogue in Palestine by Henry Baker Tristram -- Photographs by Frank Mason Good -- London, 1881-1882 -- Two Parts in Two Volumes

1881-1882 Not Available USD 1,500.00
221 David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion -- Autograph Letter to Moshe Dayan, on the Occasion of the Birth of His Granddaughter, 1964

1964 Not Available USD 1,250.00
250 Bernard Picart

The Religious ceremonies and customs of the several nations of the known world -- Bernard Picart -- London, 1733--1739 -- Complete Set -- Engravings

1733--1739 Not Available USD 1,250.00
31

"The Palestine News" / "Haaretz" -- Bound Volumes of Early Issues -- Cairo / Jerusalem, 1918-1920

1918-1920 Not Available USD 1,187.50
100 Frans Hogenberg, after Christian van Adrichem

Map of Jerusalem -- Frans Hogenberg, after Christian van Adrichem -- Koln, 1588 -- Two Large Hand-Colored Sheets

1588 Not Available USD 1,187.50
2 Theodor Herzl

Letter Signed by Theodor Herzl -- Vienna, 1901 -- Preparations for the 5th Zionist Congress in Basel

1901 Not Available USD 1,125.00
108 Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine -- First Edition -- London, 1650 -- Engraved Maps of Palestine and Other Engravings

1650 Not Available USD 1,062.50
149

Fifteen Aerial Photographs of Jerusalem -- 1930s-1940s -- British Airplanes above Jerusalem, Photographs by Keren Hayesod, and more

1930s-1940s Not Available USD 1,062.50
229 Marc Chagall

"Shan Tovah" Greeting Card, Handwritten by Marc Chagall -- Illustration of an Etrog -- France, 1963

1963 Not Available USD 1,062.50
34

"Immigration Ordinance" -- First High Commissioner for Palestine, Herbert Samuel -- 26 August 1920

1920 Not Available USD 1,000.00
101 Abraham Ortelius

Map of Palestine -- Abraham Ortelius -- Antwerp, 1590 -- Hand--Colored Engraving

1590 Not Available USD 1,000.00
236 Abraham Zacuto,

"De medicorum principum historia" -- Vol. I of the Collected Works of Abraham Zacuto, in Latin -- Lyon, 1644

1644 Not Available USD 1,000.00
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding
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