Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art, 105, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2026
Page Size: 219 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

Sephardic High Holiday Machzor -- Amsterdam, 1740 -- Miniature Format -- Original Decorated Leather Binding

Amsterdam: 1740 Not Available Unknown
27

Year-Round Machzor -- Six Volumes -- London, 1807 -- Engraved Portrait of Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell

London: 1807 Not Available Unknown
28

Beit Tefillah Sephardic Siddur -- Some Prayers in Red -- Vienna, 1857 -- Decorated Leather Binding -- Rare

Vienna: 1857 Not Available Unknown
29

Tikun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba -- Amsterdam, 1669 -- Original Wood and Leather Binding

Amsterdam: 1669 Not Available Unknown
30

Refuat HaNefesh -- Prayer for the Sick -- Amsterdam, 1692 -- Printed in Red Ink

Amsterdam: 1692 Not Available Unknown
31

Maasei Hashem -- Passover Haggadah -- Venice, 1583 -- First Edition -- Early Leather Spine

Venice: 1583 Not Available Unknown
32

Map of Eretz Israel from the Amsterdam Haggadah -- Engraving by Abraham bar Jacob -- Amsterdam, 1712 or 1781

Amsterdam, 1712 or 1781. Not Available Unknown
33

Passover Haggadah with Commentary of Abarbanel and Illustrations -- Furth, 1788 -- Rare Edition

Furth: 1788 Not Available Unknown
34

Passover Haggadah -- Luneville, 1806 -- With Emblem of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Second Year of His Reign

Luneville (France): 1806 Not Available Unknown
35

The Jerusalem Haggadah -- Verona, 1997 -- Impressive Bibliophile Haggadah, Illustrated by Yael Hershberg

Verona: 1997 Not Available Unknown
36

The Rothschild Miscellany -- Elaborate Facsimile of a 15th-Century Manuscript

Jerusalem-London, 1989 Not Available Unknown
37

Sefer HaShorashim (by the Radak) -- Napoli, 1491 -- Incunabulum -- Incomplete Copy

Napoli: 1491 Not Available Unknown
38

Tishbi -- Isny, 1541 -- First Edition -- Early Binding

Isny (Germany): 1541 Not Available Unknown
39

Leshon Limudim -- Constantinople, 1542

Constantinople: 1542 Not Available Unknown
40

Responsa of Rabbeinu Nissim (the Ran) -- Rome, 1545-1546 -- First Edition

Rome: 1545-1546 Not Available Unknown
41

Tzror HaMor (by Rabbi Avraham Saba) -- Venice, 1545

Venice: i 1545 Not Available Unknown
42

Sefer Mitzvot Gadol (Smag) -- Venice, 1547 -- Printed by Daniel Bomberg -- Ownership Inscriptions

Venice: 1547 Not Available Unknown
43

Ralbag on the Torah -- Venice, 1547

Venice: 1547 Not Available Unknown
44

Sefer HaShorashim (by the Radak) -- Venice, 1546-1548

Venice: 1546-1548. Not Available Unknown
45

Mirkevet HaMishneh (Abarbanel) -- Sabbioneta, 1551 -- First Edition

Sabbioneta: 1551 Not Available Unknown
46

Chazut Kashah (by Rabbi Yitzchak Arama) -- Sabbioneta, 1551 -- With Rare Index Leaves -- First Edition -- Variant

Sabbioneta: 1551 Not Available Unknown
47

Responsa Maharam Rothenburg -- Cremona, 1557 -- First Edition

Cremona: 1557 Not Available Unknown
48

Mekor Chaim (by Rabbi Shmuel Zarza) -- Mantua, 1559 -- Only Edition

Mantua: 1559 Not Available Unknown
49

Pirkei Moshe on Tractate Avot (by Rabbi Moshe Almosnino) -- Thessaloniki, 1563 -- Only Edition

Thessaloniki: 1563 Not Available Unknown
50

Tur Yoreh Deah with Beit Yosef -- Venice, 1564 -- Second Edition, Printed in Lifetime of Author Rabbi Yosef Karo

Venice 1564 Not Available Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000