Kestenbaum & Company to Auction Fine Judaica on May 2nd including Holy Land and Travel – The Collection of Nathan Lewin, Esq.
- by Bruce E. McKinney
Material relating to the Alfred Dreyfus Affair includes the L’Aurore newspaper issue with Emile Zola’s iconic J’Accuse headline, Paris, 1898, estimated $2,000-3,000 (Lot 107); and the first Hebrew edition of Theodor Herzl’s Medinat HaYehudim: Der Judenstaat, Warsaw, 1896, estimated at $2,000-3,000 (Lot 290).
Among the map related books in the auction is Johann Simonis’ Onomasticum, featuring the celebrated “grapevine map” of the Holy Land, Halle, 1741, estimated at $10,000-15,000 (Lot 178).
Within the Manuscript section of the sale is the Seder Hagadah shel Pesach, with Festival prayers – extracted from the Siddur Reb Asher. The Hagadah itself is extracted from the Reb Asher Siddur, Lemberg, 1787, the pre-sale estimate $80,000-120,000 (Lot 349). Another prominent lot is an original manuscript proclamation from 1935 praying for the recovery and restoration to health of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel, signed by dozens of Rabbinic leaders and Chassidic Rebbes, estimated $25,000-30,000 (Lot 375). Another lot, no. 387, is an autograph manuscript written by the Baal Shem of Michelstadt, estimated $15,000-18,000.
Other material in the Manuscripts section include autograph letters by renowned Rabbis and historical figures including Rabbi Meir Arik of Tarnow, Rabbi Naphtali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) of Volozhin, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, R. Dov Berish Weidenfeld (Tchebiner Rav), members of the Schneerson family of Lubavitch and Prof. Albert Eintstein.
For further information contact Jackie Insel at 212-366-1197.
ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
