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Auction Name: Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Letters, Objects
Auction Date: 03/31/2020 - 03/31/2020
Sale Number: #70
Total Lots: 418
Sold Lots: 333
Lots Sold: 79.67%
Unsold Lots: 85

Total Sales (USD): 483,370.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
210		Avot DeRabbi Natan	1788	Not Available	USD 30,000.00
267		Leaf Handwritten by the Chatam Sofer - Homily on Parashiot Yitro, Mishpatim and Teruma (Homily on the Verse "And He will Bless Your Food and Your Drink, and I will Remove Illness from Your Midst")		Not Available	USD 18,000.00
113		Meor Einayim (Chernobyl) / Yismach Lev	1798	Not Available	USD 14,000.00
430		The Complutensian Polyglot Bible	1517	Not Available	USD 14,000.00
257		Manuscript - Kavanot Gedolot by Rabbi Chaim Vital	18th Century	Not Available	USD 8,000.00
69		Mesilat Yesharim	1740	Not Available	USD 7,500.00
386	the Lubavitcher Rebbe	Two Pages, Draft Handwritten by the Lubavitcher Rebbe		Not Available	USD 7,000.00
199		Babylonian Talmud – Zhitomir	1858-1864	Not Available	USD 6,000.00
221		Kitzur Shelah	1816	Not Available	USD 5,500.00
30		Mishnayot Orders Zera'im and Taharot with the Commentaries of the Rambam and the Rash of Sens	1522	Not Available	USD 5,000.00
96		Rabbi Yaakov Emden's Siddur	1745-1747	Not Available	USD 4,800.00
254		Shulchan Aruch with Be'er Hetev		Not Available	USD 4,800.00
269		Manuscript, Novellae on Tractates Bava Batra, Chullin and Shevuot	1800s	Not Available	USD 4,600.00
276		Taharot HaKodesh	1733	Not Available	USD 4,400.00
149		Avodat Yisrael (Kozhnitz)	1842	Not Available	USD 4,400.00
259		Manuscript - Segulot, Amulets, Incantations and Hashbaot		Not Available	USD 4,400.00
35		Hilchot Rav Alfas	1559	Not Available	USD 4,000.00
314	Rabbi Shlomo Eger	Responsum Letter from Rabbi Shlomo Eger	1824	Not Available	USD 4,000.00
161		Set of Chumashim		Not Available	USD 4,000.00
238		Asara Maamarot by Rabbi Menahem Azariah da Fano		Not Available	USD 4,000.00

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Swann Auction Galleries: Family papers of the distinguished Ruby-Jackson family, Portland, Maine, 1853-1961. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Family papers of the Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens & the persons who served him, 1866-1907. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Autograph book with inscriptions by orators Moses Roper & Peter Williams, 1821-54. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Archive of letters, postcards, and greeting cards sent by Romare Bearden, 1949-87. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: E. Simms Campbell, A Night-Club Map of Harlem, in inaugural issue of Manhattan, 1933. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Papers of the comedian Nipsey Russell, including a letter from MLK, 1929-2000. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Early German-American anti-slavery broadside, Sclaven-Handel, Philadelphia, 1794. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Edmonia Lewis, prominent sculptor, carte-de-visite by Henry Rocher, c. 1866-71. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, 44 issues, San Francisco, 1967-1971. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Ernest Withers, I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, silver print, 1968. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: March For Freedom Now!, poster for the 1960 Republican Convention. $4,000 to $6,000.
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Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: MITCHELL, John (1711-1768). A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America. Copperplate engraving with original hand color. London, 1755. $250,000 to $350,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Brown Pelican (Standing), Plate 251. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London, 1827-1838. $175,000 to $225,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Fish Hawk or Osprey, Plate 81. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London: 1827-1838. $100,000 to $150,000.

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Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545 - 1618). The Historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China… London, 1588. $100,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688). [World Map] Kun-Yu Ch'uan-Tu. Engraved twelve sheet map with vertical sections joined to form six sheets. Korea, Seoul, c. 1860. $100,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: SANGGI, Chong (1678-1752). Korean Atlas. Manuscript map on mulberry bark paper. C. 1750-1790. $100,000 to $150,000.

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Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Plate 66. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London, 1827-1838. $80,000 to $120,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AKERMAN, Anders (1721-1778). & AKREL, Frederik (1779-1868). Pair of Celestial and Terrestrial Globes. Stockholm, c. 1800. 23 inch diameter, each. $60,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: BENNETT, Lieut. William Pyt (d. in action, 1916). AN IMPORTANT AND APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED SERIES OF GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPHS OF LHASA AND TIBET TAKEN DURING THE CELEBRATED YOUNGHUSBAND MISSION OF 1904. $60,000 to $80,000

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