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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items

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Auction Name Rare and Important Items Total Sales (USD) 1,954,593.00
Auction Date July 07, 2020 - July 07, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,519,000.00
Sale Number #72 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,684,000.00
Total Lots 180
Sold Lots 163 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,661,500.00
% of Lots Sold 90.56% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,911,000.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin

Case File of Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin, Upon His Arrival in Sadigura/ Travel Document Used by the Rebbe to Illegally Cross the Russian Border

 1842 / 1842 USD 200,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 344,400.00
129

Manuscript, Tefillah L'Moshe on Tehillim by the Yismach Moshe - Many Hitherto Unprinted Sections

 1880 USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 110,700.00
68

Babylonian Talmud

 1817-1822 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 73,800.00
142

Manuscript of the Rama of Fano - Mahadura Kama of His Books Pelach HaRimon and Yayin HaRekach

 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 56,580.00
91

Letter of Rabbinic Ordination Signed by the Noda BiYehuda, with the Signatures of the Dayanim in His Beit Din, Leading Prague Torah Scholars

 1760 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 49,200.00
35

Likutei Moharan Kama

 1808 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 46,740.00
90

Certificate of Appointment, Appointing Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar as President of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem

 1951 USD 40,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 41,820.00
78

Large Collection of Letters from the Rebbe Rayatz and His Son-in-Law the Lubavitcher Rebbe, with Their Signatures and Many Additions in Their Handwriting - Many Blessings for Livelihood, Health, New Year and Repayment of Loans

 1926-1979 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 36,900.00
113

Siddur and Tehillim of The Ribnitzer Rebbe

 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 34,440.00
131

Tur Choshen Mishpat, Two Parts

 1716 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 34,440.00
150

Manuscript of the Chatam Sofer - Homily for 7th Adar

 1805 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 31,980.00
89

Letter with Blessings for Complete Recovery and Success - Signed by the Tzaddik Rebbe Yeshaya'le of Kerestir

 1920 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 29,520.00
133

Ten Pages Handwritten by Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik Safrin of Komarno

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 29,520.00
138

Even HaEzer (Raavan)

 1610 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 29,520.00
147

Manuscript - Siddur HaAri

 1793 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 29,520.00
109

Siddur HaGra BeNigle UveNistar ?– Copy of the Chafetz Chaim, with his Signatures and Handwritten Corrections

 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 27,060.00
111

Siddur and Tehillim of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 27,060.00
135

Responsa Me'il Tzedaka

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 24,600.00
97

Knesset HaGedolah

 1692 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 22,140.00
52

Five Books of the Torah - First Edition of the Panim Yafot by the Haflaa

 1825-1826 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 18,450.00
117

Tzror HaMor

 1545 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,450.00
29

Degel Machaneh Efraim

 1810 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,220.00
130

Handwritten Leaf, Novellae Revealed to the Yismach Moshe in a Dream - Variations from the Printed Versions

 After 1850 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 17,220.00
79

Collection of Letters of Blessings and Guidance from the Lubavitcher Rebbe / Archive of Rabbi Yisrael Hess

 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,990.00
15

Maggid Devarav LeYaakov - Likutei Amarim

 1781 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 14,760.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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