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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items

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Auction Name Rare and Important Items Total Sales (USD) 1,200,812.50
Auction Date November 24, 2020 - November 24, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 931,500.00
Sale Number #75 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,423,000.00
Total Lots 143
Sold Lots 121 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,132,500.00
% of Lots Sold 84.62% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,745,000.00
Unsold Lots 22 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
88 Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra

Parchment Manuscript from the Rishonim Era, Commentary of Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra on the Torah

1381 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 137,500.00
110 Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov

Lengthy Polemic Halachic Letter by Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov (the First)

1895 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 50,000.00
108 Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh of Liska

Manuscript, Homilies for Rosh Hashanah, Handwritten by Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh of Liska

1864-1867 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 45,000.00
35

Pri Chadash, Yoreh De'ah

1769 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 40,000.00
64

Beit Yaakov

1696 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 37,500.00
79 Rabbi Chaim Vital

Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Vital, Segulot and Cures

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 37,500.00
91 Chatam Sofer

Large Leaf Handwritten by the Chatam Sofer, Sermon by the Chatam Sofer for 7th Adar, 1831

1831 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 31,250.00
103 the Haflaa

Leaf Handwritten by the Haflaa, Novellae on the Laws of Kashrut

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 30,000.00
38

Jerusalem Talmud, Order Moed

1743 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 27,500.00
62

Nezer HaRabbanut, Certificate of Appointment for Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar as Rabbi of the Chassidic Community of Klausenburg

1921 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 25,000.00
107 Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik Safrin of Komarno

Eight Pages Handwritten by Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik Safrin of Komarno, From His Commentaries to the Mishnah, Tractate Maaser Sheni

1847 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,000.00
13

Tikunei Shabbat Siddur, Nusach Sefard

1860 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 23,750.00
90 Baal Shem of Michelstadt, Rabbi Seckel Leib Wormser

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Baal Shem of Michelstadt, Rabbi Seckel Leib Wormser

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 22,500.00
36

Manuscript, Lengthy Responsum by the Yismach Moshe, Noteworthy, Unpublished Passage: "…I am Always Like a Doorsill to be Tread Upon, Ready to Respond to Whoever Asks"

1866 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 21,250.00
65

Korban Netanel

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 20,000.00
76

Large Collection of Books, Booklets and Illustrated Calendars

19th and 20th Centuries USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
77

Large Collection of Books, Booklets and Leaves Printed in Calcutta (India)

19th and 20th Centuries USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
27

Siddur of Rabbi Shabtai of Rashkov, Disciple of the Baal Shem Tov

1794 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 18,750.00
81

Letter from the Chida, With Blessings in His Handwriting and With His Signature

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
80 Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach

Three Pages Handwritten by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach, With His Signatures, from His Unpublished Composition on the Zohar, With Unpublished Novellae by the Arizal

1640s USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,250.00
12

Selichot According to Polish Rite

1819 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,750.00
37

VeCherev Pifiyot

1786 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
122 Rebbe Rayatz

Collection of Lengthy Polemic Letters Regarding the Mizrachi Movement and Teheran Children, by Rebbe Rayatz

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,750.00
3

Raziel HaMalach

1701 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,500.00
18

Degel Machaneh Efraim

1810 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,500.00
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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
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    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
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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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    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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