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Auction Name	Books \| Letters and Manuscripts \| Jewish Ceremonial Art and Photographs	Total Sales (USD)	154,487.50
Auction Date	December 02, 2025 - December 02, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Sale Number	#60	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Total Lots	378
Sold Lots	348.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	92.06%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
Unsold Lots	30	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
119	LeShem Zevach -- Altona, 1768 -- Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar	1768	Not Available	USD 4,000.00
120	Shaarei Torah -- Ujhel, 1872 -- Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar	1872	Not Available	USD 3,750.00
179	Large Collection of Books Printed in Hungary and Galicia -- Distinguished Copies		Not Available	USD 3,000.00
144	Commentary on Kohelet and Tehillim by Rabbi Moshe Yisrael de Mercado -- Amsterdam, 1653 -- First Edition	1653	Not Available	USD 2,375.00
124	Collection of Chassidic and Kabbalistic Books -- Distinguished Copies of Rabbis of Safed and Tiberias		Not Available	USD 2,250.00
1	Handwritten and Hand-Decorated Parchment Leaf -- Megillah Blessings -- Italy, 18th Century	18th Century	Not Available	USD 2,125.00
4	Esther Scroll in Decorated Case -- Possibly Russia, Turn of 20th Century	Turn of 20th Century	Not Available	USD 2,000.00
250	Letter of Blessing and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Kamenets, Iyar 1932	Iyar 1932	Not Available	USD 2,000.00
110	Yitav Lev -- First Edition -- Sighet, 1875 -- Five Parts in Five Volumes	1875	Not Available	USD 1,750.00
131	Collection of Books -- Distinguished Copies -- Rabbis and Kabbalists of Jerusalem		Not Available	USD 1,625.00
162	Maaseh Rokeach -- Amsterdam, 1740 -- First Edition -- Segulah Book for Happiness -- Fine Copy in Early Parchment Binding	1740	Not Available	USD 1,625.00
180	Large Collection of Books Printed in Hungary and Other European Countries -- 1865-1943	1865-1943	Not Available	USD 1,625.00
224	Manuscript -- Divrei Eliyahu, Sermons -- Jerusalem, 19th/20th Century	19th/20th Century	Not Available	USD 1,500.00
234	Manuscript, Bereshit Rabbah -- Yemen, 19th/20th Century	19th/20th Century	Not Available	USD 1,500.00
3	Small-Format Esther Scroll -- Illustrated -- Italy, 19th Century	19th Century	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
212	Three Talmudic Tractates Printed During the Holocaust -- Budapest-Miskolc, 1941 -- Decorated Title Pages	1941	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
218	Five Passover Haggadot -- Printed for She'erit HaPletah in Germany -- Fohrenwald, Ca. 1946	Ca. 1946	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
232	Manuscript, LaYesharim Tehillah (Ramchal) / Anthology of Haskalah-Era Poems		Not Available	USD 1,375.00
243	Large Collection of Various Leaves and Paper Items -- Ladino and Judeo-Arabic -- Sephardic Lands, Late 19th-20th Centuries	Late 19th-20th Centuries	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
37	Shaarei Tzion and Tikun Seudah -- Amsterdam, 1718 -- Early Leather Binding -- Pocket Format	1718	Not Available	USD 1,250.00
91	Collection of Chassidic Books, Biographies and Selections -- 1889-1937	1889-1937	Not Available	USD 1,250.00
248	Collection of Posters and Printed Leaves -- Public Affairs and Torah and Charitable Institutions -- Hungary and Poland, 1900s-1940s -- Letters of the Chafetz Chaim, Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, the Rebbes of Ostrovtza and Tetsh and Other Rabbis and Dayanim	1900s-1940s	Not Available	USD 1,250.00
108	Yismach Moshe -- Collection of Editions -- 1851-1934	1851-1934	Not Available	USD 1,187.50
282	Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1960 -- 200th Yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov	Elul 1960	Not Available	USD 1,187.50
286	Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1966	Elul 1966	Not Available	USD 1,187.50

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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