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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items

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Auction Name Rare and Important Items Total Sales (USD) 1,954,593.00
Auction Date July 07, 2020 - July 07, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,519,000.00
Sale Number #72 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,684,000.00
Total Lots 180
Sold Lots 163 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,661,500.00
% of Lots Sold 90.56% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,911,000.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin

Case File of Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin, Upon His Arrival in Sadigura/ Travel Document Used by the Rebbe to Illegally Cross the Russian Border

1842 / 1842 USD 200,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 344,400.00
129

Manuscript, Tefillah L'Moshe on Tehillim by the Yismach Moshe - Many Hitherto Unprinted Sections

1880 USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 110,700.00
68

Babylonian Talmud

1817-1822 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 73,800.00
142

Manuscript of the Rama of Fano - Mahadura Kama of His Books Pelach HaRimon and Yayin HaRekach

USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 56,580.00
91

Letter of Rabbinic Ordination Signed by the Noda BiYehuda, with the Signatures of the Dayanim in His Beit Din, Leading Prague Torah Scholars

1760 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 49,200.00
35

Likutei Moharan Kama

1808 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 46,740.00
90

Certificate of Appointment, Appointing Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar as President of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem

1951 USD 40,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 41,820.00
78

Large Collection of Letters from the Rebbe Rayatz and His Son-in-Law the Lubavitcher Rebbe, with Their Signatures and Many Additions in Their Handwriting - Many Blessings for Livelihood, Health, New Year and Repayment of Loans

1926-1979 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 36,900.00
113

Siddur and Tehillim of The Ribnitzer Rebbe

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 34,440.00
131

Tur Choshen Mishpat, Two Parts

1716 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 34,440.00
150

Manuscript of the Chatam Sofer - Homily for 7th Adar

1805 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 31,980.00
89

Letter with Blessings for Complete Recovery and Success - Signed by the Tzaddik Rebbe Yeshaya'le of Kerestir

1920 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 29,520.00
133

Ten Pages Handwritten by Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik Safrin of Komarno

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 29,520.00
138

Even HaEzer (Raavan)

1610 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 29,520.00
147

Manuscript - Siddur HaAri

1793 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 29,520.00
109

Siddur HaGra BeNigle UveNistar ?– Copy of the Chafetz Chaim, with his Signatures and Handwritten Corrections

USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 27,060.00
111

Siddur and Tehillim of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 27,060.00
135

Responsa Me'il Tzedaka

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 24,600.00
97

Knesset HaGedolah

1692 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 22,140.00
52

Five Books of the Torah - First Edition of the Panim Yafot by the Haflaa

1825-1826 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 18,450.00
117

Tzror HaMor

1545 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,450.00
29

Degel Machaneh Efraim

1810 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,220.00
130

Handwritten Leaf, Novellae Revealed to the Yismach Moshe in a Dream - Variations from the Printed Versions

After 1850 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 17,220.00
79

Collection of Letters of Blessings and Guidance from the Lubavitcher Rebbe / Archive of Rabbi Yisrael Hess

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,990.00
15

Maggid Devarav LeYaakov - Likutei Amarim

1781 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 14,760.00
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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