Kestenbaum and Company: Auction of Hebraica & Judaica Rare Printed Books and Manuscripts Including the Eretz Israel / Holy Land Collection of the late Dr. Gershon Hait., 114, Brooklyn

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 18, 2025 - November 18, 2025

Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
205		Yochanan b. Isaac of Hoelleschau.	Amsterdam	1707	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 562.50
206		(Chumash and Haphtaroth). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis.	Amsterdam	1726	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
207		Seder HaTephiloth - The Form of Prayers, According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, as Read in their Synagogues, and Used in their Families.	London	1789-93.	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
208		"Rev. Solomon Hirschell. Chief Rabbi of the German Jews in London."	London	1811	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 375.00
209	Ernest Cremieu-Foa.	La Campagne Antisemitique: Les Duels, les Responsabilites. Memoire avec Pieces Justificatives.	Paris	1892	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
210		Los Protocolos de Los Sabios de Sion. El Gobierno Mundial Invisible: El Programa Judio para Subyugar al Mundo ["The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Hidden World Government: The Jewish Program to Subjugate the World."]	Leipzig	1930	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 437.50
211		El Comunismo es Obra del Judio Internacional ["Communism is the Work of the International Jew."]	Mexico City	1937	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 250.00
212		Dos Caras de la Misma Moneda: Sionismo y Antisemitismo ["Two Sides of the Same Coin: Zionism and Antisemitism."]	Mexico	1983	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
213	BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.	Masa'oth shel Rabi Benyamin - Itinerarium D. Beniaminis.	Leiden	1633	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 875.00
214		S. M. Perlman. Hassinim ["The Chinese."] With an Appendix: "The Jews in China, A Complete Record of their History and Present Condition in the Celestial Empire."	London	1911	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
215		Burial Service According to the Bagdad Rite.	Shanghai	1923	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 187.50
216		The Jewish Manual; Or, Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, With a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette. Edited by a Lady.	London	1846	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 6,875.00
217	MORPURGO, ELIO FREIHERR VON.	Portrait Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber.	Vienna,	1857	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
218	Flad, J.M.	The Falashas (Jews) of Abyssinia.	London	1869	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
219	SCHUDT, JOHANN JAKOB.	Judischer Merkwurdigkeiten ["Jewish Curiosities."]	Frankfurt and Leipzig	1714-18.	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 3,125.00
220		Auf Gottes Gnaden...	Schwerin	1710	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 687.50
221		Edict. Duke Carl I of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.	Wolfenbuttel (Lower Saxony)	24th August 1743	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
222		Vorstellung an die hohen Stande des Reichs von den Israeliten im konigreiche Baiern uber ihre kunftig politisch und burgerliche Stellung im Staate. ["Presentation... by the Israelites in the kingdom of Bavaria concerning their future political and civic p	Munich	1822	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
223		A patriotic Jewish Loyalty Certificate, dedicated to the new Kaiser, Friedrich III.	Aachen	1888	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 625.00
224		The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. Note Addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and other documents.	London	(1943).	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,000.00
225	Julian Gamoneda.	El Fascismo. Caricaturas. Ano 1939.	(Mexico	1939	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
226	Gyorgy Parragi.	Mauthausen.	Budapest	1945	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 156.25
227	Oszkar Zsadanyi.	Mindenki szolgaja. Feljegyzesek az oroszorszagi es ukrajnai munkaszolgalatosok kalvariajarol.	Budapest	1945	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 150.00
228		Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Report to the United States Government and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Lausanne, Switzerland, April 20, 1946.	Washington	1946	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 343.75
229	McLeod, Norman.	Illustrations to the Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan.	Kyoto	1878	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00

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Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.