Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art, 108, Jerusalem

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 12, 2026 - May 12, 2026
Page Size: 241 items in 10 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
178

Collection of Letters from Around the World – Rabbis of Hungary and Transylvania After the Holocaust

N/A Not Available USD 2,250.00
179 Ben Ish Chai

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Ben Ish Chai – Baghdad, 1900

Baghdad 1900 Not Available USD 8,750.00
180

Manuscript, Tiklal Siddur for Festivals – Yemen, Ca. 1651

Yemen c. 1651 Not Available USD 4,750.00
181 Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Yisrael of Rhodes

Four Manuscripts – Unpublished Works by Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Yisrael of Rhodes

N/A Not Available USD 13,750.00
182 Rabbi Yehudah ibn Moyal

Manuscript – Sermons, Novellae and Selections, Handwritten by Rabbi Yehudah ibn Moyal, Head of the Mogador Beit Din, Author of Shevet Yehudah

N/A Not Available USD 4,000.00
183

Manuscript – Goralot – Asia, 19th Century

Asia 19th Century Not Available USD 1,187.50
184 Rabbi Imanuel Aboab

Nomologia o Discursos Legales, by Rabbi Imanuel Aboab – Amsterdam, 1629

Amsterdam 1629 Not Available USD 812.50
185 Rabbi Yaakov Yehudah Leon (Templo)

Work on the Tabernacle (Templo) – Amsterdam, 1647 – Especially Rare First Edition / Four Other Works by Rabbi Yaakov Yehudah Leon (Templo) – With Engraved Plate

Amsterdam 1647 Not Available USD 1,750.00
186

Tikun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba with Tehillim – Amsterdam, After 1648 – Spanish Edition for Marranos – Rare

Amsterdam After 1648 Not Available USD 575.00
187 Daniel Levi de Barrios

Mediar Estremos – Amsterdam, 1677 – Work on Rosh Hashanah by Daniel Levi de Barrios – Rare

Amsterdam 1677 Not Available USD 1,250.00
188 Rabbi Yitzchak de Sola

Sermons of Rabbi Yitzchak de Sola – Amsterdam, 1704 – Original Leather Binding with Inscribed Owner's Name

Amsterdam 1704 Not Available USD 1,625.00
189

Torah Neviim and Ketuvim – With Spanish Translation – Amsterdam, 1762 – Large Format – Original Leather Binding – First Bilingual Hebrew-Spanish Edition, Funded by the Curacao Community in America

Amsterdam 1762 Not Available USD 2,125.00
190

Yosifon and She'erit Yisrael – Yiddish – Illustrated – Amsterdam, 1743 – First Edition of She'erit Yisrael – History of the Spanish Expulsion and Discovery of America – Early Leather Binding, With Decorated Clasps

Amsterdam 1743 Not Available USD 2,250.00
191

Yosifon and She'erit Yisrael – Yiddish – Illustrated – Amsterdam, 1771 – History of the Spanish Expulsion and Discovery of America – New Chapter on the Amsterdam Community 1745-1769

Amsterdam 1771 Not Available USD 687.50
192 Rabbi David Lida

Shir Hilulim – Song for Torah Scroll Inauguration by Rabbi David Lida – Amsterdam, 1680

Amsterdam 1680 Not Available USD 550.00
193 Cantor of Ashkenazic Community of Amsterdam

"Fine Song" for Torah Scroll Inauguration – Amsterdam, 1692 – By Cantor of Ashkenazic Community of Amsterdam – Rare, Bibliographically Unknown Booklet

Amsterdam 1692 Not Available USD 2,000.00
194

Statutes of Avodat HaKodesh Society – Amsterdam, 1729 – Portuguese – Rare

Amsterdam 1729 Not Available USD 1,250.00
195

Two Prayer Booklets – Amsterdam, 18th Century – Prayer Following Lisbon Earthquake / Inauguration of Adat Yeshurun Synagogue

Amsterdam 18th Century Not Available USD 625.00
196

Three Prayer Booklets – For Birthday and Wedding of Prince William V of Orange – Amsterdam, 1766-1768

Amsterdam 1766-1768 Not Available USD 937.50
197 Rabbi David HaKohen D'Azevedo

Triumph of Virtue – Amsterdam, 1788 – Sermon by Rabbi David HaKohen D'Azevedo, For Birthday of Dutch Prince

Amsterdam 1788 Not Available USD 250.00
198

Two Prayer Booklets – Amsterdam, 1793 – Prayer for the Dutch Army and the Defeat of the French Revolutionary Army

Amsterdam 1793 Not Available USD 750.00
199

Lamnatzeach Shir – Metz, 1792 – For Victory of French Revolution Without Siege of Metz – Hebrew and French – Rare

Metz 1792 Not Available USD 3,000.00
200

Poster Announcing Establishment of the Paris Sanhedrin – Paris, 1806 – Two Copies (Hebrew-French and Hebrew-German) Signed by the Assembly of Notables

Paris 1806 Not Available USD 13,750.00
201

Announcement and Prayer for the Welfare of Napoleon – Two Printed Leaflets – Paris, 1806

Paris 1806 Not Available USD 2,750.00
202

Kol Todah – In Honor of Emperor Napoleon's Visit to Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam – Amsterdam, 1811

Amsterdam 1811 Not Available USD 1,062.50
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000