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Auction Name Sacred Splendor: Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 1,673,438.00
Auction Date November 20, 2019 - November 20, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,256,000.00
Sale Number #N10088 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,801,000.00
Total Lots 218
Sold Lots 101 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,391,800.00
% of Lots Sold 46.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,819,200.00
Unsold Lots 117 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
17 BOLOGNA

SIDDUR (DAILY PRAYER BOOK) ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN RITE,

1537 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 100,000.00
13

JERUSALEM TALMUD,

 [1522-1524] USD 25,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 60,000.00
37 RABBI JOSEPH CARO

SHULHAN ARUKH (HALAKHIC CODE), RABBI JOSEPH CARO, VENICE

 1564-1565 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 52,500.00
47

ORHOT HAYYIM (PENTATEUCH WITH THE OR HA-HAYYIM COMMENTARY OF RABBI HAYYIM IBN ATTAR), VENICE

 1742 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 52,500.00
208 RABBI MOSES MAIMONIDES

SEFER HA-MITSVOT (BOOK OF THE COMMANDMENTS), RABBI MOSES MAIMONIDES, [CONSTANTINOPLE

 CA. 1510-1525] USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 50,000.00
7

PSALTERIUM,

 1515 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 43,750.00
90 RABBI ISAIAH HA-LEVI HOROWITZ

SHA'AR HA-SHAMAYIM (PRAYER BOOK WITH KABBALISTIC COMMENTARY), RABBI ISAIAH HA-LEVI HOROWITZ, AMSTERDAM

 1717 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 43,750.00
211

TESHUVOT SHE'ELOT (RESPONSA AND LETTERS BY AND ABOUT RABBI MOSES MAIMONIDES), [CONSTANTINOPLE

 CA. 1513-1514] USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 43,750.00
277 TRANSLATED BY ISAAC PINTO

PRAYERS FOR SHABBATH, ROSH-HASHANAH, AND KIPPUR […] ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS, TRANSLATED BY ISAAC PINTO, NEW-YORK

 1766 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 43,750.00
5

BABYLONIAN TALMUD, TRACTATE TA'ANIT,

[CA. 1514] USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 42,500.00
21 ISAAC IBN SAHULA

MESHAL HA-KADMONI (FABLES), ISAAC IBN SAHULA, [VENICE]

 [CA. 1546-1547] USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 40,000.00
31 ATTRIBUTED TO RABBI SIMEON BAR YOHAI

SEFER HA-ZOHAR (THE BOOK OF SPLENDOR), ATTRIBUTED TO RABBI SIMEON BAR YOHAI, MANTUA

 1558-1560 USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 40,000.00
182 EDITED BY RABBI AARON BEN JEHIEL MIKHL HA-LEVI OF MICHALISZKI

SIDDUR (DAILY PRAYER BOOK) ACCORDING TO THE HASIDIC RITE (MINHAG SEFARAD), EDITED BY RABBI AARON BEN JEHIEL MIKHL HA-LEVI OF MICHALISZKI, SLAVUTA

 1827-1828 USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,500.00
1 EDITED BY RABBI JACOB LANDAU

PSALMS WITH THE COMMENTARY OF RABBI DAVID KIMHI, EDITED BY RABBI JACOB LANDAU,

1487 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 35,000.00
41 SIMEON HA-LEVI GÜNZBURG

MINHOGIM (YIDDISH CUSTUMAL), SIMEON HA-LEVI GÜNZBURG, VENICE

 1600-1601 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 35,000.00
125 WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ARYEH LEIB BEN DANIEL OF GORAJ

AN IMPORTANT ESTHER SCROLL, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ARYEH LEIB BEN DANIEL OF GORAJ, RADENSDORF, MARGRAVIATE OF BRANDENBURG, JULY 29

 1735 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 35,000.00
72 EXECUTED BY ARTHUR SZYK, EDITED BY CECIL ROTH

THE HAGGADAH, EXECUTED BY ARTHUR SZYK, EDITED BY CECIL ROTH, LONDON

 [1940] USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 32,500.00
162 RABBI MOSES ISSERLES

TORAT HA-HATTAT (TREATISE ON THE LAWS OF KASHRUT), RABBI MOSES ISSERLES, KRAKOW

 1569 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,500.00
32 ATTRIBUTED TO RABBI SIMEON BAR YOHAI

SEFER HA-ZOHAR (THE BOOK OF SPLENDOR), ATTRIBUTED TO RABBI SIMEON BAR YOHAI, CREMONA

 1559-1560 USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 30,000.00
224 RABBI NISSIM GERONDI

DERASHOT (DISQUISITIONS ON JEWISH PHILOSOPHY), RABBI NISSIM GERONDI, [CONSTANTINOPLE

 CA. 1533] USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,500.00
298 ILYA SCHOR

HASSIDIC FIGURES, "DIG, DANCE, AND DAVEN"

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 23,750.00
80 RABBI SHABBETAI HA-KOHEN

SELIHOT VE-KINOT (PENITENTIAL PRAYERS AND ELEGIES IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CHMIELNICKI MASSACRES), RABBI SHABBETAI HA-KOHEN, AMSTERDAM

 1651 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 22,500.00
206 DON ISAAC ABRABANEL

SEFER ZEVAH PESAH (PASSOVER HAGGADAH WITH COMMENTARY), DON ISAAC ABRABANEL, [CONSTANTINOPLE

 1505] USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,250.00
254 RABBI JOSIAH PINTO

KESEF NIVHAR (COMMENTARY ON GENESIS, EXODUS, AND LEVITICUS), RABBI JOSIAH PINTO, DAMASCUS

 1605-1606 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,250.00
294 ISAAC LEESER

DISCOURSES ON THE JEWISH RELIGION, ISAAC LEESER, PHILADELPHIA

 1867-1868 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,250.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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