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Auction Name Important Judaica - Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 2,268,500.00
Auction Date December 20, 2017 - December 20, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,632,000.00
Sale Number #n09687 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,503,000.00
Total Lots 89
Sold Lots 51 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 5,673,000.00
% of Lots Sold 57.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 8,268,000.00
Unsold Lots 38 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 27.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
165

An Exceedingly Rare Ashkenazic Hebrew Bible with Numerous Micrographic Decorations, Scribe: Mattithiah ben Jedidiah

 ca. 1250-1275 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 555,000.00
171

An Exceptional Copy of the Sefer Minhagim of Rabbi Samuel of Ulm, Accompanied by Numerous Other Historical, Rabbinic, and Literary Texts

 second half of the 15th century USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 435,000.00
132

Tefillah mi-Kol ha-Shanah ke-Minhag ha-Ashkenazim, with Seder ha-Haggadah shel Pesah (A Previously Unknown and Earliest Extant Complete Western Ashkenazic Daily Prayer Book and Haggadah),

1519-1520 USD 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 USD 312,500.00
169

Pentateuch with Masorah

 ca. 1300 USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 237,500.00
168

Torah Scroll

 ca. 1470 USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 150,000.00
155

The Haggadah, Executed by Arthur Szyk, Edited by Cecil Roth

  1940 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 56,250.00
118

A Monumental Micrographic Manuscript Plaque

 1853 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,000.00
183

Miniature Torah Scroll

 19th century USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 43,750.00
131

Sefer ha-Mitsvot (Book of the Commandments), Rabbi Moses Maimonides,

ca. 1510-1525 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 40,000.00
182

Taschenbuch von dem Jahre 1845 (A Beautifully Illustrated and Calligraphed Autobiographical Almanac)

 1845 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 37,500.00
154

A Full Run of Israel’s Messenger,

1904-1941 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 32,500.00
134

Hebrew Bible, Venice: Daniel Bomberg

 1521 USD 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 27,500.00
107

An Elaborate Painted Shivviti

 ca. 1800 USD 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
108

Hatan Bereshit Plaque Presented to Joseph Fernandes Nunes

 1755 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,000.00
109

Hatan Torah Poem in Honor of Manoah Raffaele Ascarelli

 1782 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
147

A Six-Volume Set of the Sephardic Liturgy with English Translation, Translated by Alexander Alexander

 1771-1776 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 16,250.00
141

Sefer Yetsirah (The Book of Creation), Attributed to the Patriarch Abraham

 1562 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
145

Sefer Hit’abbekut (Polemic against Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and Other Suspected Sabbatians)

 1762-ca. 1769 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,750.00
136

Babylonian Talmud

 1520 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,500.00
174

An Alphabetically-Arranged Pharmacology Handbook

 16th-17th centuries USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,000.00
179

Sefer Shehitot u-Bedikot (Book on the Laws of Ritual Slaughter and Inspection)

 1804-1806 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,000.00
120

Papercut Birth Amulet

 19th century USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
137

Hebrew Bible

 1539-1543 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,750.00
123

A Magnificent Wall Map of the Holy Land

 1658 or later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,125.00
128

J’Accuse...! (Famous Open Letter in Defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus), Émile Zola

 1898 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,125.00
  • 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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