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Auction Name Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Total Sales (USD) 134,868.75
Auction Date January 11, 2024 - January 11, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 74,380.00
Sale Number #104 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 114,120.00
Total Lots 179
Sold Lots 96.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 170,700.00
% of Lots Sold 53.63% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 263,200.00
Unsold Lots 83 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 51.24%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2 (CHOFETZ CHAIM). Yisroel Meir Kagan of Radin. Mishneh Berurah - Orach Chaim.

FULL THREE-LINE AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION IN THE HAND OF THE CHOFETZ CHAIM ONE THE OPENING PAGE.

1896 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 32,500.00
12 SCHNEERSON, CHAYA-MUSHKA - THE LUBAVITCHER REBBETZIN / Daughter of R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 1901-88).

Joint autographed letters signed, written in Russian, to Nacha Rivkin.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 23,750.00
106 PEREIRA, ABRAHAM.

Espejo de la Vanidad del Mundo ["A Reflection on the Vanity of the World."] pp. (40), 568, (8). FIRST EDITION.

1666 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,250.00
17 SCHNEERSOHN, YOSEF YITZCHAK

(RaYa"Tz, the sixth Grand Rebbe of Lubavitch, 1880-1950).

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,250.00
164

AMERICAN SAMPLER with Biblical / Jewish motifs.

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,000.00
57

The Jews at K'ae-Fung-Foo. Being a Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry, to the Jewish Synagogue at K'ae-Fung-Foo, on Behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among Jews.

1851 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,500.00
16 (SCHNEERSON FAMILY).

FOUR Original portrait family photographs. Sent by REBBETZIN CHAYA MUSHKA (MOUSSIA) SCHNEERSON and her sister Chana Schneerson (Gurary) to their close friend Necha (Nate) Rivkin of Jerusalem.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,000.00
171 ENGELBRECHT, MARTIN.

Synagogue Peep-Show. Augsburg, circa, 1750.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,750.00
13 SCHNEERSOHN, SHTERNA SORAH

(Wife of the fifth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson (RaSHa'B) and mother of the sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, 1860-1942).

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,500.00
83

Concentration camp currency from Theresienstadt (Terezin), Czechoslovakia. GROUP OF FIVE NOTES.

1943 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,500.00
97 JACOB DE CASTRO SARMENTO Antonius Le Duc, Walter Harris.

Dissertationes in novam, tutam, ac utilem methodum inoculationis, seu transplantationis variolarum : prima methodus auctoritate Regiae Majestatis Brittanicae comprobata 28. Julii 1721, et publicata cum criticis notis in varios autores de hoc morbo scriben

 1727 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,000.00
22

Seder Sepher shel Omer... According to the custom of the Jews in Venice.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
140 EINHORN, RABBI DAVID.

CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
62 (MONTEFIORE, MOSES).

Traduzione del firmano accordato da sua maesta imperiale il sultano Abd ool Medjid agli Israeliti del suo impero: a richiesta del cavaliere Sir Moise Montefiore F.R.S. ... li 11 Hesvan 5601, li 13 Ramazan 1256 (corrispondente ai 7 Novembre 1840): coll' ag

 1840 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,625.00
15 SCHNEERSOHN, NECHAMA DINA. (Wife of the Sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and mother-in-law of the Seventh Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 1881-1970).

Autograph Letter Signed written in Yiddish to Necha Rivkin.

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,375.00
23

Complete Scroll of Esther. SMALL Hebrew manuscript, accomplished in black ink on vellum. Composed on four membranes in 25 columns. Height (scroll): 2.5 inches.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,375.00
79 AGNES RAJZAI LUKACS.

Auschwitz Noi Tabor - Auschwitz Women's Camp. Edited by "Party of Socialist-Zionist (Ichud)."

1946 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,375.00
76

Report on the Relief Accorded to Polish Citizens by the Polish Embassy in the U.S.S.R. With Special Reference to Polish Citizens of Jewish Nationality. September, 1941 - April, 1943.

 1943 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
95

Census chart of RAFAEL TORNIGI.

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,250.00
61 INES DE BENEDETTI.

Poesia Nascosta. Ricette di Cucina ebraica in Italia.

(1949). USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,187.50
29

(PINKAS). (NEW YORK). Chevra Mishnayos Anshei Marmarosh.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,062.50
4 HAGER, MORDECHAI (Grand Rebbe of Vishnitz-Monsey, 1922-2018).

PERSONAL Retzu'ah from Rabeinu Tam Tefillin. Length: 27 inches.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,000.00
30

(PINKAS). NEW YORK. Golden Book of the Sisterhood and Society of Boro Park.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,000.00
104

Schocken-Bucherei.

 1933-39. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
126 LEVY, JULIUS.

TINTYPE PHOTOGRAPH mounted in gilt-brass brooch with original glass.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.