Kestenbaum and Company: Rabbinic Autographs and Passover Haggadot, 105, Brooklyn

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 04, 2024 - April 04, 2024
Page Size: 116 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

(KABBALAH). Raziel HaMalach. FIRST EDITION.

Amsterdam 1701 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,500.00
2 YEHUDAH HALEVI.

Sepher HaKuzari [philosophy]. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Yehudah ibn Tibbon. With commentary Kol Yehudah by Yehudah Moscato.

Venice 1594 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
3 VOLOZHINER, CHAIM.

Nephesh HaChaim.

Vilna & Grodno 1824 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
4 VOLOZHINER, CHAIM.

His personal copy of: Atzmoth Yoseph [novellae and discourses to Masechta Kiddushin] by Yoseph ben Yitzchak ibn Ezra. ff. 120. Interior lightly stained with expert repaired worming. Binding expertly repaired retaining original patterned front and rear co

Furth 1767 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 68,750.00
5 GANZFRIED, SHLOMO.

His personal copy of: Sepher Ir Damesek Eliezer [novellae to Torah and Haphtarot] by Eliezer of Rozvedov (Rozwadow). Zolkiev, 1764.

Zolkiev 1764 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
6 EPSTEIN, YECHIEL MICHEL.

Aruch HaShulchan: Inscribed and signed by the Author.

Warsaw 1893 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
7 MALBIM, MEIR LEIBUSH.

Sepher Ikrei Dinim by R. Daniel Tirani. Sudilkov, 1835. Opening two leaves only.

Sudilkov 1835 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
8 SALANT, SHMUEL.

His personal copy of: Derech HaMelech [sermons, including in memory of the author's father and of his mother] by Yechiel Mechel ben Yehudah Leib. [Shklov], 1798.

[Shklov] 1798 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
9 MOSHE BEN NACHMAN

Peirush al HaTorah. Manuscript in Hebrew. Spain, c. 1400.Genesis / Bereishith (end of Parshath Toldoth - end of Parshath Vayetze).

Spain c. 1400. USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
9A MENACHEM MENDEL OF SHKLOV.

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew [on Kabbalistic topics]

(Jerusalem) c. 1824. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
10 ABRAMSKY, YECHEZKEL

Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to the Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv on London Beth Din letterhead.

London 1941 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
11 ALTER, AVRAHAM MORDECHAI

Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew. Written to(?)

1927 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,250.00
12 AUERBACH, SHLOMO ZALMAN.

Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead to the Directors of Ezras Torah in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem 1982 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 562.50
13 AVRAHAM YA'AKOV OF SADIGURA.

The First Sadigura Rebbe, (1820-83). Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on behalf of R. Yoseph Vitashkes, who had fallen upon hard times.

Sadigura 1878 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 17,500.00
14 BENGIS, ZELIG REUVEN.

Typed Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to Rabbi Yosef Reines on letterhead of Yeshivat Ohel Moshe (Diskin).

Jerusalem 1942 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
15 BERLIN, CHAIM.

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to the directors of the Kollel Perushim and Chassidim in Jerusalem.

Kobryn (Belarus) 1895 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
16 BLOCH, YOSEF YEHUDA LEIB.

Typed Letter Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Yoseph Chaim Sonnenfeld ("grandfather of the Land of Israel.").

Telz 1929 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
17 CHOFETZ CHAIM.

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to R. David Potash, on letterhead stationery of 'Israel Meir Hakohen, author Chofetz Chaim and Mishnah Berurah' (Hebrew) and 'Rabin I.M. Kagan, Radun' (Polish).

Radun 1926 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,250.00
18 CHOFETZ CHAIM.

Typed Letter Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman.

Radin 1929 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
19 CHOFETZ CHAIM

Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew by Menachem Mendel Zaks, the son-in-law of the Chofetz Chaim, on letterhead of his father-in-law, to R. Dovid Potash of Tel Aviv.

Radun 1925 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,000.00
20 CHOFETZ CHAIM

Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew by R. Eliezer Zev Kaplan grandson of the Chofetz Chaim, on Yeshiva letterhead to Rabbi Moshe Shapira.

Radun 1935 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
21 ELYASHIV, YOSEF

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead:

(Jerusalem) (no year). USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
22 EPSTEIN, BARUCH HALEVI.

Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew, written to Avraham Harkavy.

Novogrudok 1908 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
23 EPSTEIN, YECHIEL MICHEL

Autograph Letter Signed and stamped, written in Hebrew to Rabbi Menachem Mendel.

Novhardok 1904 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,250.00
24 FEINSTEIN, MOSHE

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead.

New York 1980 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 937.50
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