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	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Responsa of the Geonim -- Prague, 1590 -- Copy of Rabbi Yaakov Meir Biderman, Son-in-Law of the Sefat Emet	Prague:	1590	Not Available	Unknown
102	Tzvi LaTzaddik (Bluzhov) -- Cracow, 1925	Cracow:	1925	Not Available	Unknown
103	Huge Collection of Endpapers with Inscriptions, Signatures and Stamps -- Rebbes, Rabbis and Torah Scholars	Europe and worldwide, Eretz Israel and the United States,	from the 17th to 20th centuries.	Not Available	Unknown
104	Collection of Books -- Printed in Germany -- 1600s-1700s -- Distinguished Copies	Germany	1600s-1700s	Not Available	Unknown
105	Collection of Books -- 1861-1914 -- Signatures and Stamps of Rabbis of Hungary and Transylvania			Not Available	Unknown
106	Collection of Books from Library of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Weiss, the Gaon of Kleinwardein, Author of Brit Moshe on the Smag			Not Available	Unknown
107	Large Collection -- Biographies and Histories of Rabbis and Jewish Communities -- 1832-1945			Not Available	Unknown
108	Collection of Wills and Eulogies -- Rabbis and Tzaddikim of Hungary -- 1910-1943			Not Available	Unknown
109	Collection of Biographies of Tzaddikim and Rebbes -- Hungarian Jewry -- Ca. 1904-1943			Not Available	Unknown
110	Fragments -- Commentary of Radak on Yeshayahu -- Spain or Portugal, 14th/15th Century	Iberian Peninsula -- Spain or Portugal,	ca. 14th/15th century.	Not Available	Unknown
111	Manuscript, Tiklal Machzor for Festivals and High Holidays, With Commentaries -- Yemen, 18th Century	Yemen,	ca. 18th century.	Not Available	Unknown
112	Large Collection of Leaves and Gatherings Handwritten by Rabbi Yitzchak Menashe of Constantinopl	Constantinople,	ca. late 19th and early 20th centuries.	Not Available	Unknown
113	Manuscript Novellae of Rabbi Shmuel Halberstadt, Rabbi of Haguenau -- Europe, Mid-18th Century	Europe,	before 1753, ca. 1730s-1750s.	Not Available	Unknown
114	Collection of Manuscripts -- Homiletics and Kabbalah -- Eastern Europe, Ca. 1850s-1860s	Eastern Europe,	ca. 1850s-1860s.	Not Available	Unknown
115	Manuscript -- Rabbi Salomon Buber's Notes to Midrash Sechel Tov -- Author's Autograph -- Variants from Printed Edition	Lviv,	late 19th century.	Not Available	Unknown
116	Handwritten Leaves -- Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky -- Ca. 1960s-1970s	Bnei Brak,	ca. 1960s-1970s.	Not Available	Unknown
117	Letter from Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer -- Berlin, 1888	Berlin,	1888	Not Available	Unknown
118	Notable Letter by Rabbi Yaakov Lipschitz -- Heter Mechirah Controversy -- Kovno, Ca. 1888	Kovno,	1888	Not Available	Unknown
119	Letter of Rabbi Binyamin Eisenstadt, Rabbi of Utena -- 1892	Utena (Lithuania),	1892	Not Available	Unknown
120	Collection of Letters of Rabbis and Yeshiva Deans -- Poland, 1880s-1930s	Poland,	ca. 1880s-1930s.	Not Available	Unknown
121	Collection of Letters by Rabbis and Others -- Galicia, Poland and Ukraine -- 1900s-1930s	Poland and Ukraine,	ca. 1900s-1930s.	Not Available	Unknown
122	Letter of Blessing and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Kamenets, Av 1933	Kamenets],	1933	Not Available	Unknown
123	Letter of Shanah Tovah Blessings by Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Tishrei 1938	Kamenets],	1938	Not Available	Unknown
124	Collection of Letters of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- The Anti-Shechitah Laws in Germany -- 1934	. Vilna,	1934	Not Available	Unknown
125	Collection of Letters from Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- On the Anti-Shechitah Laws in Poland -- 1938	Vilna	1938	Not Available	Unknown

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
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.