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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: The Leo Rapaport Collection

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Auction Name The Leo Rapaport Collection Total Sales (USD) 615,362.50
Auction Date May 24, 2022 - May 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 318,000.00
Sale Number #86b High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 444,800.00
Total Lots 54
Sold Lots 51 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 322,000.00
% of Lots Sold 94.44% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 450,300.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 136.66%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
124

Complete Booklet, Ten Leaves Handwritten by the Chatam Sofer – Sermons for Shabbat HaGadol and Pesach – Pressburg, 1811

1811 USD 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 225,000.00
148

Mikraot Gedolot – Venice, 1524-1525 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg – Mikraot Gedolot Edition Known for Its Accuracy and Beauty – First Edition Printed with the Masorah Edited by Yaakov son of Chaim ibn Adoniyahu – Accepted Text of the Bible – Set in Four Vol

1524-1525. USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 87,500.00
147

Volume from Daniel Bomberg's Famous Babylonian Talmud Edition – First and Rare Edition of Tractate Berachot, with Order Zera'im, Tractate Niddah and Order Taharot, Tractates Eduyot and Avot – Venice, 1520-1522 – First Editions Printed by Bomberg

1520-1522. USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 81,250.00
152

Tur with Beit Yosef – Three Parts – First Editions of Beit Yosef, Printed in the Lifetime of the Author Rabbi Yosef Karo – Yoreh De'ah – Venice, 1551 / Even HaEzer – Sabbioneta, 1553 – Choshen Mishpat – Sabbioneta, 1559 – Glosses of R. Avraham Yosef Shlom

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 47,500.00
136

Kol Bochim – Prague, 1621 – Hundreds of Unpublished Kabbalistic Glosses

1621 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 37,500.00
139

Responsa Besamim Rosh (Claimed to be a Pseudepigraph) – Copy of the Author's Father, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Berlin, With His Glosses – Gloss Relating to Responsum which Aroused the Polemic on the Authenticity of the Book

1793 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 21,250.00
146

Responsa of the Rosh – Constantinople, 1517 – First Edition

1517 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,500.00
127

Letter Signed by Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz – With Blessings for "Good Health", "Success in All Matters" and "Easy Livelihood"

ca. 1950s. USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
144

Toldot Adam VeChava – Rabbenu Yerucham – Constantinople, 1516 – First Edition – Signatures

1516 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,750.00
149

Sefer HaTerumah – Venice, 1523 – First Edition – Wide Margins

1523 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
135

Responsa of the Rashba – Bologna, 1539 – Signature of Rabbi Shalom Mizrachi Sharabi, the Rashash

1539 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,000.00
123

Manuscript, Keren Orah on Tractate Nazir – Manuscript Used to Publish the Book in 1868 – Additional Unpublished Glosses

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,500.00
142

Mizbach Kaparah – Lviv, 1861 – Signature and Glosses of Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Weisz of Svaliava, Author of Beit Yitzchak

1861 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,500.00
145

Sefer HaAruch – Pesaro, 1517 – Printed by Gershom Soncino – Signature of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Labaton

1517 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,500.00
165

Shenei Luchot HaBrit (Shelah) – Amsterdam, 1698 – Birth Year of the Baal Shem Tov

1698 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,250.00
122

Manuscript, Tzefirat Tifarah – Tarnopol, 1828 – Original Letters of Approbation by R. Aryeh Leib Katzenellenbogen Rabbi of Brisk and R. Yerucham Altschuler Rabbi of Bodki – Unpublished Composition on the Laws of Tefillin

1828 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
125

Manuscript (Chabad "Bichel") – Discourses of the Tzemach Tzedek and More – 19th Century

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,500.00
171

Collection of Books Printed in the 17th-19th Centuries – Signatures

17th-19th centuries USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,250.00
156

Responsa Maharik – Cremona, 1557 – Original Binding – Signatures

1557 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,500.00
126

Homily Handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich of Shamloy – Av 1938

1938 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,375.00
153

Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim and Yoreh De'ah – Krakow, 1606-1607 – First Edition of the Sources of the Rema's Glosses – Glosses and Signatures

1606-1607. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
129

Letter from Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – Chanukah 1961

1961 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,250.00
155

Issur VeHeter – Ferrara, 1555 – First Edition

1555 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
161

Taalumot Chochmah and Novlot Chochmah – Collected Philosophical and Kabbalistic Essays by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo of Candia – Hanau, 1629-1631 – First Printings of Shivchei HaAri and Works on the Arizal's Kabbalah – Glosses

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,750.00
143

Sefer Yetzirah – Mantua, 1562 – First Edition – Signature of Rebbe Chaim of Liska Author of Tal Chaim

1562 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
  • 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
  • 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
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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
    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.
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