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Auction Name Books, Kodesh books, Hassidic books, Rabbinical letters, Manuscripts, Judaika, Art, Israeliana and more Total Sales (USD) 49,981.05
Auction Date July 26, 2021 - July 26, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #45 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 244
Sold Lots 171 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 70.08% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 73 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
252

Polemical letter handwritten by the Admor Rabbi Haim Eliezer Shapira (the Minchas Eliezer) of Munkatch to the administration of the Vaad Eida Charedit—

1932 Not Available USD 4,674.00
151

Manuscript with remedies and segulot—

18th century. Not Available USD 2,952.00
180

Handwritten letter signed by Gaon Rabbi Yonatan Shteif, to Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonnenfeld, as well as the handwritten response and signature of Rabbi Zonnenfeld.

1925 Not Available USD 1,968.00
197

Autograph copy of a never-before-printed drasha, handwritten by Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Elgazi (1743), with condolences and blessings for wealth and honor.

1743 Not Available USD 1,722.00
116

Ashkenazi Torah scroll (Ari) with a white velvet coat

Not Available USD 1,230.00
234

Manuscript—a large composition on the Torah, drash and chassidus, by an unknown gaon.

end of the 19th/early Not Available USD 1,107.00
248

Holy Letter - by the Holy Admor Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Biderman of Lalev - Nisan 5768.

5768 Not Available USD 922.50
249

The Shi'ah will help you in Rabbi Nachat from any yoch - a letter of congratulations in his holy handwriting and signed by the Admor Rabbi Yisrael Alter Magor "Beit Yisrael".

Not Available USD 922.50
145

Friday Night Correction Manuscript - Italy

18th Century Not Available USD 861.00
156

Letter about the division of money for the kollels. By Rabbi Berl Frankel, head of the Agudas Yisrael in Krakow, to Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonenfeld, Ga’avad of the Eida Charedit.

1925 Not Available USD 738.00
188

Rare and Attributed: Sefer Tzri Higun with the Letter of the Ramban - Hana Ta'o

Not Available USD 738.00
84

Scholar Johann Jacob Schweicher's Journeys to the Alps in Spectacular Wood Engravings -

1723 Not Available USD 676.50
158

Document signed by hand by Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonenfeld, the kabbalist Rabbi Haim Yehuda Leib Auerbach, and others, on the subject of takanot for preventing the keeping of the dead in Jerusalem.

1919, Jerusalem. Not Available USD 676.50
177

Sermon in the handwriting of Maran Posek Hador Hagarish Elyashiv ztl N. "[Before all vows]"

16X20 cm. Mild stains, good general condition. Not Available USD 615.00
178

Shas Talmud Bavli, complete, in one volume.

1954 Not Available USD 615.00
181

Chiddushei Torah handwritten by the Tzaddik Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher of Greiditz.

Not Available USD 615.00
183

Discovery: echoes of the attempt to appoint Rabbi Menachem Mendel Sack as Rabbi of Jerusalem. Letter of reply from his son Rabbi Moshe Sack to Rabbi Moshe Blau, head of the Agudas Yisrael in Jerusalem.

1932 Not Available USD 615.00
159

Letter filled with wonderful titles from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook, to Rabbi Yitzhak Yerucham Diskin.

1914 Not Available USD 584.25
166

Americana: Reports of the Knesset General Committee of the United States of America -

1922-1923 Not Available USD 584.25
146

Manuscripts Judgments and parts of ancient inscriptions - taken out of bindings -

End of the 16th century Not Available USD 553.50
142

The Book of Mushrooms for the whole year -

1932 Not Available USD 522.75
143

Large formatted siddur (for a chazan), for a regular weekday, shabbat, and moadim.

19/20th century. Not Available USD 522.75
235

Siddur Beit Yaakov of the Yaavetz, first section. Dedicated copy of the Admor Rabbi Aharon of Boyan Chernowitz, hy”d.

1928 Not Available USD 522.75
266

Tanya Munich—the first Tanya printed by the Rebbe during his father-in-law’s (the Rayatz’s) lifetime.

1947. Surviving Remnant. Not Available USD 522.75
24

2 Magnificent Facsimile Books "Crown of Damascus" "-

1978-1982 Not Available USD 492.00
  • 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
    Modern First Editions
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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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