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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items

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Auction Name Rare and Important Items Total Sales (USD) 1,333,689.00
Auction Date October 31, 2017 - October 31, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,191,000.00
Sale Number #58 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,638,000.00
Total Lots 165
Sold Lots 123 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,577,000.00
% of Lots Sold 74.55% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,198,000.00
Unsold Lots 42 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
104

Pair of Torah Scroll Finials - Berlin, 18th Century - From the Collection of the Jewish Community of Nottingham

18th Century USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 135,300.00
18

D'rush Na'eh - Leaf Handwritten by the Maharal of Prague - Hitherto Unprinted

ca. 16th century USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 79,950.00
40

Autograph Letter Signed by the First Gerrer Rebbe Yitzchak Meir Alter, Author of Chiddushei Harim - Wishes for "Success and Blessing in all Endeavors"

1857 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 73,800.00
52

Ruling Signed by the Nodah B'Yehuda - Prague, 1762

1762 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 61,500.00
33

Autograph Letter Signed by Rebbe Yitzchak Isaac of Zhydachiv - With a Letter by his Son, Rebbe Eliyahu - Recommendation for the Grandson of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk, with Blessings for "Everlasting Success"

ca. 1860s-1870s USD 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 49,200.00
83

Toldot Ya'akov Yosef - Korets, 1780 - First Edition of the Earliest Printed Chassidic Book - Book of Segula

1780 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 49,200.00
85

Tikkun HaKlali - Breslev, 1821 - First Edition of the Tikkun HaKlali - Segula for Livelihood, Health and Success

1821 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 46,740.00
17

Sefer HaAroch MiShach Part II - A Remarkable Discovery of The Lost Work by the Schach on Tur Yoreh De'ah - Only Copy in the World, Press Unknown, Printing Never Fully Executed

ca. 1920s-1940s? USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 34,440.00
48

Congratulatory Wedding Letter Signed by Rebbe Aharon of Belz

ca. 1935 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 34,440.00
55

Large Leaf Handwritten by the Chatam Sofer - Sermons for Yom Kippur and Sukkot, 1831

1831 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 34,440.00
38

Letter of Recommendation by Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, Rabbi of Sieniawa

1897 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,980.00
80

Siddur Rabbi Asher - Lviv, 1787 - Copy of the First Spinka Rebbe, Author of Imrei Yosef, and of His Son, Author of Chakal Yitzchak, With Their Own Signatures - Handwritten Kabbalistic Glosses

1787 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 29,520.00
7

Manuscript - Torah - Bukhara, 15th Century - Singular Bukharan Manuscript from the Middle Ages - Rare Testimony of an Early Source for the Ashkenazi Torah Tradition

second half of 15th century USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 24,600.00
8

Four Handwritten Volumes, the Five Books of the Torah - Tafsir Rasag in Judeo-Arabic - with Mesorah Gedolah, Mesorah Ketanah, and Machberot HaTijan - Micrographic Illustrations - Sana'a, Yemen, 1698 - Handwriting of the Dayan R. Moshe Elkati'i

1698 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 23,370.00
118

Photograph Album - Illegal Immigrants from the "Exodus" at a German Detention Camp / Refugees and DP Camps - Journalist Robert (Bob) Gary

1947-1948 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 23,370.00
127

Altneuland - Leipzig, 1902 - Dedication in the Hand of Theodor Herzl

1902 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,910.00
71

Temporary Passport of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman from the Holocaust Period - Vilna, 1940 - With His Last and Unknown Photograph, Taken Before His Murder

1940 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 19,680.00
105

Torah Scroll Pointer - Sweden, 1799 - From the Collection of the Nottingham Jewish Community

1799 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 19,680.00
64

Two-Volume Manuscript - Commentary of the Vilna Gaon on Tikkunei HaZohar / Hadrat Kodesh by the Vilna Gaon - Original Copy of Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Chaver, with Glosses Handwritten and Signed by him - Unprinted Glosses

early 19th century USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,450.00
116

Huge Archive of Negatives - Photographer Kurt Meyerowitz - Over 150,000 Negatives

mid-1950s to 1980s (mostly from 1960s and 1970s USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,450.00
27

Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz, Author of the Hafla'ah - Hitherto Unprinted Novellae on Tractate Nidah

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,530.00
28

Letter by Rebbe Aharon of Chernobyl, to his Son-in-Law, Rebbe David Moshe of Chortkiv - New Year Blessings

ca. late 1860s USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,300.00
86

Tefillat Nehorah Siddur - Slavita, 1833 - Nusach Sefarad

1833 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,300.00
110

Jerusalem - Auguste Salzmann - Paris, 1856 - Forty Photographs

1856 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,300.00
23

Leaf Handwritten by the Chida - Novellae on Tractate Megillah

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,070.00
  • 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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    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: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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