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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items: A Two Part Auction

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Auction Name Rare and Important Items: A Two Part Auction Total Sales (USD) 802,283.00
Auction Date December 03, 2019 - December 03, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 585,500.00
Sale Number #69 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 899,000.00
Total Lots 238
Sold Lots 179 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,151,000.00
% of Lots Sold 75.21% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,700,000.00
Unsold Lots 59 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
44

Noam Elimelech

USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 36,900.00
134

Collection of Letters Handwritten and Signed by Rabindranath Tagore, Luareate of the Nobel Prize in Literature

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 34,440.00
32

Mishneh Torah by the Rambam Complete Set,

1574-1575 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 29,520.00
97

Dr. Israel Mehlman's Library

USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 24,600.00
138

A Letter Handwritten and Signed by Sigmund Freud

1938 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 24,600.00
53

Likutei Moharan Kama

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 19,680.00
58

Bnei Yissaschar

1846 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 19,680.00
31

Tena'im For the Betrothal of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky

1951 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 18,450.00
35

Avot Olam

1719 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 18,450.00
42 Yaakov Yosef

Toldot Yaakov Yosef

1780 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 18,450.00
45

Noam Elimelech

1794 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,990.00
17 Rabbi Natan of Breslov

Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Natan of Breslov (Moharnat)

USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 14,760.00
235

Di Hun vos hot Gevolt Hoben a Kam, from the "Kinder-Garten" Series of Children's Books

1919 Not Available USD 13,530.00
2

Illuminated Parchment Esther Scroll

18th Century USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,300.00
10

Illustrated Parchment Manuscript

1833 USD 12,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,300.00
50

Degel Machaneh Efraim

1810 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,300.00
104

Collection of Documents and Letters Signed by Kings and Emperors

16th-20th Centuries USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,300.00
28

Letter from the Chafetz Chaim

1926 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,070.00
12

Manuscript

14th/15th Century USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,455.00
54

Likutei Moharan Tinyana

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,455.00
91

Tractate Bechorot

1522 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,455.00
79

Tehillim with the Amarot Tehorot Commentary

1857 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,840.00
4

Parchment Esther Scroll

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,610.00
236 Mani Leib

Yingl Tsingl Khvat, by Mani Leib

1919 Not Available USD 8,610.00
34 R. Moshe Yonah Rabbi of Safed

Signature of R. Moshe Yonah Rabbi of Safed, Disciple of the Arizal

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,995.00
  • 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.
  • 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
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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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