• 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.
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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Auction 101 session 2

Auction Reports

Auction Name Auction 101 session 2 Total Sales (USD) 339,550.00
Auction Date February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #101b High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 300
Sold Lots 223 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 74.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 77 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
38

Esther Scroll Decorated with Engravings -- Amsterdam, 18th Century -- Rolled on Wooden Handle

18th Century Not Available USD 11,875.00
127

Tikunei Zohar -- Belgorod, 1851 -- Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, With Kvittel Inscriptions

1851 Not Available USD 10,625.00
198

Letter of Recommendation from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Brisk, 1934

1934 Not Available USD 10,000.00
126

Large Collection of Books Printed in Hungary and Transylvania -- Chassidic, Homiletical and Halachic Books

Not Available USD 8,125.00
171

Letter from the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz -- Abundant Blessing and Success, Easy Sustenance and Grace -- Grosswardein, Kislev 1933

1933 Not Available USD 8,125.00
172

Letter of Blessings from the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka -- Selish, 1940 -- "May All the Women Going to Immerse... Be Completely Healthy and Successful in All Their Ways, and be Blessed with All Salvations"

1940 Not Available USD 8,125.00
144

Torah Or Siddur -- First Edition Edited by the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Brooklyn, 1941 -- Siddur Edited by the Rebbe Upon His Arrival in the United States in Summer 1941, Limited Edition

1941 Not Available USD 6,875.00
79

Mishneh Torah by the Rambam, Parts III-IV -- Venice, 1574 -1575 -- First Edition of Kesef Mishneh Commentary by R. Yosef Karo

1574 -1575 Not Available USD 6,250.00
199

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Jerusalem, Nisan 1947

1947 Not Available USD 6,250.00
201

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Eretz Israel, Ca. 1950

Ca.1950 Not Available USD 6,250.00
220

Collection of Letters from Around the World -- Sent to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem

Not Available USD 6,250.00
226

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

1833 Not Available USD 4,750.00
116

Large Collection of Chassidic and Halachic Books Printed in Galicia and Poland -- 1850-1925

1850-1925 Not Available USD 4,500.00
72

Maaseh Toviah -- Venice, 1707 -- Portrait of the Author Rabbi Toviah the Physician and Many Illustrations -- First Edition

1707 Not Available USD 4,000.00
150

Shanah Tovah Letter from Rebbetzin Nechamah Dinah Schneerson -- Signed by Her Two Sons-in-Law, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary -- Elul, 1950 -- After the Passing of Their Husband

1950 Not Available USD 4,000.00
120

Large Collection of Books Printed in Poland -- Chassidic and Halachic Books, Homiletics and Pilpul

Not Available USD 3,750.00
131

Letter of the Rebbe of Sassov and His Wife (Daughter of Rebbe Yoel of Satmar) -- Jerusalem, 1945 -- Attaining Visas for the Satmar Rebbe, News of the Rescue of His Brother-in-Law the Berach Moshe, and Inquiries About Relatives and Friends

1945 Not Available USD 3,750.00
89

Sifra DiTzniuta with Commentary of the Vilna Gaon

Not Available USD 3,500.00
114

Collection of Chassidic Books -- Printed in Lviv

Not Available USD 3,250.00
166

Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- 1963 -- Blessing for Moving into a New Home -- With Handwritten Addition, Wishing Success in Disseminating Judaism and Chassidut

1963 Not Available USD 3,250.00
189

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- Vilna, Cheshvan 1939 -- To the Brisker Rav, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz and the Yeshivas Exiled to Vilna at the Beginning of the Holocaust

1939 Not Available USD 3,250.00
186

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- On Attaining the Chafetz Chaim's Signature for an Announcement to South African Jews, And Publishing the Writings of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk -- "I Am Always Bothered His Sons, the Great Rabbis, Have Not Published It"

13th Elul Not Available USD 3,000.00
82

Hilchot Rav Alfas -- Sulzbach, 1762-1766 -- Fine Set in Original Bindings

1762-1766 Not Available USD 2,750.00
94

Kitzur Shnei Luchot HaBrit -- Zhitomir, 1854 -- Rare Complete Copy

1854 Not Available USD 2,750.00
53

Keter Yosef Kabbalistic Siddur -- Berlin, 1699-1700 -- All Three Parts -- Siddur, Tehillim and Maamadot

1699-1700 Not Available USD 2,500.00
  • 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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