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Kestenbaum and Company: "K2" Online Sale: Hebrew and Judaic Printed Books

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Auction Name "K2" Online Sale: Hebrew and Judaic Printed Books Total Sales (USD) 69,087.50
Auction Date January 16, 2020 - January 16, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 30,000.00
Sale Number #87 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 45,300.00
Total Lots 276
Sold Lots 164 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 50,040.00
% of Lots Sold 59.42% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 75,730.00
Unsold Lots 112 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 91.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
17 Joseph Schwarz.

A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine. Translated by Isaac Leeser. Illustrated With Maps and Numerous Engravings.

 1850 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,875.00
176 Gagin, Chaim Abraham.

Sepher HaTakanoth VeHaskamoth.

 1842 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,875.00
20 Joshua ben Mordechai HaKohen Falk.

Sepher Avnei Yehoshua ["Stones of Joshua": philosophical commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers].

 1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,000.00
120 (ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA).

Biur vegam HaGahoth al kol HaZohar, Raya Mehemna, Idra Raba VeZuta.

 1810 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,750.00
28 Joshua Siegel.

Eiruv VeHotza’ah [on the permissibility of erecting an Eruv in Manhattan].

 1907 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,500.00
220 MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/RaMBa"M).

Mishneh Torah [Rabbinic Code]. Volume 3 only (of 4).

 1574 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,625.00
12

Printed Invitation to President’s Day Dinner from Uriah P. Levy, R.H. Cabell, and Sam J. Fisher.

 1829 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 1,375.00
23 Benjamin Szold.

Moses Mendelssohn: Eine Gedenkschrift zu dessen 150ster Geburtsfeier ["A Memorial on the 150th Anniversary of his Birth."]

 1879 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,250.00
25

Services at the Installation of Rev. Dr. David Philipson as Rabbi of Congregation B’ne Israel, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 8, 1888.

 -1888 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,250.00
167

League of Nations. Mandate for Palestine, Together with a Note by the Secretary-General Relating to its Application to the Territory Known As Trans-Jordan, under the provisions of Article 25.

 1922 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,187.50
61

(BIBLE, Hebrew, Psalms). Sepher Tehilim.

 1615 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,062.50
58

(BIBLE, Hebrew. Pentateuch & Former Prophets). Chamishah Chumshei Torah & Nevi’im Rishonim (only).

 1525 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 937.50
183 JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch].

 1620 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
15

Proceedings of the Fourth Convention of Merchants and Others. Held in Charleston, S.C., April 15, 1839, for the Promotion of the Direct Trade.

 1839 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
24

Eidut LeYisrael [evangelical periodical].

 1888 USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 812.50
26 Eliyahu Schick.

Derech Avoth [commentary to Pirkei Avoth].

 1895 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 812.50
35

Leaders of Traditional Judaism in America Received by President Coolidge.

 1926 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 812.50
181 ISSERLEIN, ISRAEL.

Pesakim U’Kethavim [responsa].

 1519 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 812.50
226 Othioth De’rAbi Akiva.

[Kabbalistic commentary on the Hebrew alphabet]. Attributed to Rabbi Akiva.

 1546 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
146

Das Jahr 1937 - Kalender der Berliner Juden.

 -1936 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 687.50
22

Hymns for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El.

 1871 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 625.00
98

A Books for a Cook, Economical and Tried Recipes. Published by the Jewish Women’s Relief Association of Brooklyn, N.Y.

 1909 USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 625.00
99

Choice Recipes. Compiled by Hortense Bondy.

 1929 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 562.50
67

(BIBLE). Tehillim [Psalms]. With introductions by the Chid"a and Ish Tov. Appended: Seder Pidyon Nephesh [Kabbalistic rite of self-redemption based on teachings of the Chid"a].

 1869 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 500.00
84 Chaim ben Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov.

Torath Chaim [discourses to the Chumash].

 1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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