• High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: The Tubbs Mfg Co. wooden-type cabinet 27” w by 37” h by 22” deep.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: G.P.Gordon printing press 7” by 11” with treadle. Needs rollers, trucks, and grippers. Missing roller spring.
    High Bids Win
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    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wood Type 1 1/4” tall.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Awt 578 type hi gauge.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Cents and Pound Signs.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wooden type cabinet 27” w by 19” d by 38” h.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000.
  • ALDE, Dec. 9: BLAEU (JOAN) ET BORGOGNIO (GIO TOMASO). Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye…, La Haye, 1700. €25,000 to €30,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: BROWNE (JAMES D. HOWE). Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit. London, 1853. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: FELLOWS (CHARLES). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc. London, 1827. €30,000 to €40,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HACQUET (BELSAZAR). Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen…, Leipzig, 1785. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HAWES (BENJAMIN). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc made during the summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows, 1828.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: MARTEL (PIERRE) ET WINDHAM (WILLIAM). An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters…, London, 1744. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: PITSCHNER (WILHELM). Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859…, Berlin, 1860-1864. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: SCHEUCHZER (JOHANN JACOB). Natur-Geschichte des Schweizerlandes, samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Zurich, 1746. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: STUMPF (JOANNES). Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnosschaft Stetten, Landen, und Völckeren Chronicwirdiger Thaatenbeschreybung. Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1548. €2,500 to €3,500.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WALTON (ELIJAH) ET BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE). The Peaks and valleys of the Alps. London, 1868. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WYTTENBACH (JACOB SAMUEL). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description. Amsterdam, 1785. €15,000 to €20,000.
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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare and Important Items Total Sales (USD) 666,750.00
Auction Date November 05, 2024 - November 05, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 440,800.00
Sale Number #99b High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 651,800.00
Total Lots 95
Sold Lots 88 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 854,800.00
% of Lots Sold 92.63% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,275,800.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 52.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
236 Theodor Herzl

"Altneuland" -- First Edition, 1902 - Inscribed and Signed by Theodor Herzl to Prince Friedrich Wrede of Austria

1902 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 45,000.00
190

Meor Einayim (Chernobyl) -- First Edition -- Slavita, 1798

1798 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 32,500.00
177

Ben HaMelech VehaNazir -- Constantinople, 1518 -- First Edition

1518 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
247

Heinrich Heine -- Signed Letter Concerning Jews and Judaism -- Written Shortly Before his Passing, Paris, 1854 -- "This Grand Civilization of the Heart Was Preserved Thanks to an Unbroken Two-Thousand-Year-Old Tradition..."

1854 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 27,500.00
175

Mikraot Gedolot -- Venice, 1546-1548 -- Printed by Daniel Bomberg -- Fine Two-Volume Set

1546-1548 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,000.00
163

Shaar HaShamayim Siddur -- Siddur of the Shlah -- First Edition -- Amsterdam, 1717 -- Segulah Book -- Tehillim Volume Belonging to Rabbi Shmuel Salant

1717 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,500.00
222 the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka

Seven Letters from the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka -- Selish, 1936-1938

1936-1938 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,250.00
178 Rabbi Yehoshua ibn Shuaib

Sermons of Rabbi Yehoshua ibn Shuaib on the Torah -- First Edition -- Constantinople, 1523

1523 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
209 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Krynica, Elul 1938 -- On Attaining an Etrog from Eretz Israel in the Shemitah Year, and Shanah Tovah Blessings

1938 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,000.00
229

Anti-Jewish Polemic -- Cologne, 1490-1500 -- Rare Book (Incunable) dating from the Earliest Years of the Printing Press

1490-1500 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,000.00
232

"Juden Raus!" (Jews Out!) -- Antisemitic Board Game, Nazi Germany, 1938 -- Small-Scale Version with Advertising Leaflet, Distributed to Toy Stores

1938 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,750.00
161

Roman-Rite Machzor -- Special Copy Printed on Blue Paper, Unique Exemplar -- Mantua, 1556-1560

1556-1560 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
208 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Torah Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Brisk, 1933

1933 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
210 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Jerusalem, Tevet 1947 -- Regarding the Statute for Jerusalem -- Protecting Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel in the Wake of United Nations Trusteeship Council Resolutions to Internationalize Jer

1947 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
156

Passover Haggadah and Seder Sefirat HaOmer -- Miniature Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, 20th Century / Magnificent Silver Binding with the Fiorentini Family Crest -- Rome, 19th Century

19th Century USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
174

Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim -- Venice, 1544-1545 -- Especially Rare Edition

1544-1545 USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,500.00
198 the Chafetz Chaim

Letter of Blessings from the Chafetz Chaim -- To Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky -- Radin, 1932

1932 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,500.00
196

Hebron Community Pinkas -- 1884-1915 -- With Signatures of Leading Rabbis of the City -- Rabbi Eliyahu Mani, Rabbi Rachamim Yosef Franco, the Sedei Chemed and Others -- Important Manuscript for the History of the Jewish Community in Hebron

1884-1915 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,625.00
197 Rabbi David Tevele

Manuscript Booklet -- Halachic Responsa of Rabbi David Tevele, the Nachalat David -- Stowbtsy, 1849 -- With His Signature

1849 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,625.00
157

Parchment Manuscript -- Tikun Lailah -- Bedtime Reading of Shema and Other Prayers -- Frankfurt, Ca. First Half of 19th Century

Ca. First Half of 19th Century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,000.00
187

Five Books from the Library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar -- With Original Bindings from the Rebbe's Library

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
193

Tehillim -- Safed, 1833 -- Printed by Rabbi Yisrael Bak

1833 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,375.00
180 Rabbi Avraham Klausner

Sefer HaMinhagim of Rabbi Avraham Klausner -- Riva di Trento, 1558 -- First Edition of an Early Ashkenazic Book of Customs

1558 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,750.00
227

Early Decorated Parchment Ketubah -- Mantua, 1668 -- Cases and Rimini Families -- Signature of R. Gur Aryeh HaLevi Finzi

1668 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,750.00
244

The Six-Day War -- Large Collection of IDF Publications -- June 1967

1967 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,750.00
  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel Atlas Shrugged. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. Three Stories & Ten Poems. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. In Our Time. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The fourth edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Gell (William). The Topography of Troy, and its Vicinity, 1804. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Low (David). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, 1842. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: North America. Moll (Herman)..., This Map of North America..., circa 1725. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Bible [English]. [The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe, 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, newly Printed, 1602. £1,500 to £2,000. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Cuffee (Paul). Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, A Man of Color, Liverpool, 1811. £300 to £500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, signed limited edition, 1928. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, limited signed edition, 1932. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, 1945. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1997. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1954-55. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Wells (H. G.) The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1898. £1,000 to £1,500.
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