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Kestenbaum and Company: FINE JUDAICA: RARE PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & GRAPHIC ARTS

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Auction Name FINE JUDAICA: RARE PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & GRAPHIC ARTS Total Sales (USD) 356,525.00
Auction Date February 18, 2021 - February 18, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 195,400.00
Sale Number #92 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 290,800.00
Total Lots 264
Sold Lots 183 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 298,770.00
% of Lots Sold 69.32% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 443,730.00
Unsold Lots 81 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 80.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
78 HALBERSTAM, SHOLOM ELIEZER

(Admor of Ratzfert, 1862-1944). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead, to Chaim Fleischman.

 1941 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 37,500.00
61 EGER, AKIVA

(Foremost Posek, 1761-1837). Autograph Manuscript Signed, written in Hebrew.

 1820 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,750.00
145 (AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

(Jacob Cohen). "May He that formead and compleated the wonderous work of creation, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom… Bless, preserve, guard… The President and the Vice President of the Union. The Senate and the House of Representatives of the Unite

 1790 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 11,875.00
144 (AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

"To all Humane, Charitable and Well-disposed People…"

 1788 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,250.00
82 HALBERSTAM, YITZCHAK YESHAYA

(Of Tchechoyv (Czchów), 1864-1943). Postcard Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead to R. Shimon Aharon Deutsch of Szepesváralja, Hungary (now Slovakia).

 n.d USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,750.00
79 HALBERSTAM, SIMCHA YISSOCHER BER

(Cheshanover Rebbe, 1870-1914). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead.

 1907 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,125.00
20 (LITURGY).

Korban Aharon [Kitzur Ma’avar Yabok].

 1862 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 7,500.00
174 (AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

Rabbi B.C. Carillon. Sermon, Delivered during a Public Service, Held at the Reformed Synagogue of Spanish Town. For the Purpose of Supplicating the Divine Assistance in Favor of the Russo-Polish Jews, Against the Tyranny of Emperor Nicholas.

 1847 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,750.00
181 (BRAZIL).

John IV (João) Royal Order.

 1649 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,250.00
182 (BRAZIL).

Alfonso VI Royal Order.

 1657) USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,250.00
96 MEIR SIMCHAH HAKOHEN OF DVINSK

(The Ohr Same’ach, 1843-1926). Autograph Postcard Signed. Written in Hebrew to R. Moshe Rosen.

 1903 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,750.00
1 (BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL).

Attorney Dimitri Grigorivich Barsky (Chief defense lawyer for M.M. Beilis, 1871-1958). Autograph Manuscript written in Russian. Memoirs and Notes.

 1930’s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,500.00
37 (PINKAS).

<<(Petrova, Maramure? County, Rumania).>> Pinkas MehaChabirah Kadusha de’poh Yishuv <>

 1873 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,500.00
98 NATHANSON, YOSEPH SHAUL HALEVI

(Outstanding Posek in Poland, 1808-75). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to R. Ya’akov Shlomo Heilprin of Premishlan.

 (1851?) USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,500.00
269 (PHOTOGRAPHY).

<> "Snow: Kazimierz, Cracow."

 1938 (printed 1970’s) USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,500.00
26 (PINKAS).

<<(East End, London).>> Chevra Bnai Abraham - Anshei Chechenover.

 1892 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
76 HALBERSTAM, AVROHOM SHOLOM

(Stropkover Rebbe, 1854-1940). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to "Br?der Stern, Uzhhorod."

 c.1930 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,000.00
99 ORENSTEIN, YA’AKOV MESHULAM

(The Yeshu’os Ya’akov, 1775-1839). Document Signed (twice), written in Hebrew and German.

 1811 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,000.00
121 SOLOVEITCHIK, YITZCHAK ZEV

(The Brisker Rov, 1886-1959). Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Kahane. Additionally signed by Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Kaplan.

 1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,000.00
7 (GERMANY).

Large archive of c. 350 documents and letters to, and accumulated by, <> concerning the campaign to protect Kosher slaughter (Shechitah) in Germany.

 1930-34 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
70 GREENWALD, YA’AKOV YECHEZKIAH

("Vayaged Ya'akov," 1882-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew.

 1913 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
117 SHAPIRA, CHAIM ELAZAR

("The Minchas Eluzur," 1872-1937). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Yehoshua Baumol.

 1921 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
32 (PINKAS).

<<(Bucharest, Romania).>> Sepher HaZikaron [Memorial Book of the Talales Synagogue, Bucharest].

 1870’s - 1950’s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,500.00
53 ALFANDARI, SHLOMO ELIEZER

("The Saba Kadisha," c. 1826-1930). Letter Signed and stamped, written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruchem Diskin.

 192(?) USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,500.00
226 (LITURGY).

Selichoth [penitential prayers for the 15th of Kislev]. With evening service. Prepared by Isaac ben Chaim of Cracow and Berlin.

 1709 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,500.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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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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    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
  • 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, 1677.8
    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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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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    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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    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.
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