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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Jerusalem: Art, Photographs and Books - Amos Mar Chaim Collection

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Auction Name Jerusalem: Art, Photographs and Books - Amos Mar Chaim Collection Total Sales (USD) 72,375.00
Auction Date October 22, 2025 - October 22, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #104b High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 80
Sold Lots 69.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 86.25% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
190

Bonfils -- Large Collection of Photographs of Jerusalem -- Ca. Second Half of the 20th Century

Ca. Second Half of the 20th Century Not Available USD 4,750.00
171

Large and Important Collection of Maps of Jerusalem -- 15th-19th Centuries

15th-19th Centuries Not Available USD 4,250.00
200

Collection of Early Photographs -- American Colony Photographers -- Hand-Colored Photographs

Not Available USD 3,250.00
194

Temple Mount / Al-Haram al-Sharif -- Large Collection of Photographs -- Late 19th or Early 20th Century

19th or Early 20th Century Not Available USD 3,000.00
179

Large Collection of Prints -- Panoramas of Jerusalem -- 19th / Early 20th Century -- Lithographs and Photogravures

19th / Early 20th Century Not Available USD 2,750.00
186

Collection of Jerusalem Photographs -- Peter Bergheim (1813-1895) -- Second Half of the 19th Century

Second Half of the 19th Century Not Available USD 2,750.00
202

Collection of Orientalist Photographic Portraits -- Jerusalem, 19th Century -- Khalil Raad, Garabed Krikorian, Joseph Tannous Tumayan / Rare Photograph by Alexandre Gherardi

19th Century Not Available USD 2,750.00
175

Jerusalem and the Temple -- Large Collection of Panoramas -- 17th-19th Centuries

17th-19th Centuries Not Available USD 2,500.00
151

Plan of the Temple Mount -- Large-Scale Architectural Sketch from the First British "Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem" -- England, 1865

1865 Not Available USD 2,375.00
137 Cornelis de Bruijn

Cornelis de Bruijn -- A Voyage to the Levant -- London, 1702 -- Panorama of Jerusalem and Numerous Engravings

1702 Not Available USD 2,250.00
170

Map of Jerusalem -- Ermete Pierotti -- Paris, 19th Century

19th Century Not Available USD 2,250.00
193

Collection of Photographs -- Western Wall -- Bonfils, Zangaki Brothers, American Colony, and Others

Not Available USD 2,250.00
158

Hand-Colored Map of Jerusalem -- Cologne, 1576 -- From the First German Edition of Civitates Orbis Terrarum

1576 Not Available USD 2,125.00
187

Large Collection of Jerusalem Photographs -- Zangaki Brothers -- Second Half of the 20th Century

Second Half of the 20th Century Not Available USD 1,750.00
148

Le Temple de Jerusalem, by Melchior de Vogue -- Paris, 1864 -- Hand-Colored Plates

1864 Not Available USD 1,625.00
157

Hand-Colored Map of Jerusalem -- Cologne, 1575 -- From the First Latin Edition of Civitates Orbis Terrarum

1575 Not Available USD 1,375.00
201

Jerusalem and its Inhabitants -- Large Collection of Color Photochrom Prints -- "Photochrom Zurich", 19th Century

19th Century Not Available USD 1,375.00
206

Collection of Books with Photographs of the Holy Land -- Late 19th / Early 20th Century

Late 19th / Early 20th Century Not Available USD 1,250.00
155

Hand-Colored Map of Jerusalem -- August Christian Fleischmann, after Christian van Adrichem -- Nuremberg, Ca. 1736

1736 Not Available USD 1,125.00
173

"Destruction of Jerusalem" / "Jerusalem" -- Two Incunabula Leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle -- Nuremberg, 1493 -- Latin Edition

1493 Not Available USD 1,125.00
195

Collection of Unsigned Photographs -- Jerusalem, 19th Century -- Including Photos by Francis Frith

19th Century Not Available USD 1,125.00
172

Temple in Jerusalem -- Large and Fine Collection of Prints -- 15th-19th Centuries

15th-19th Centuries Not Available USD 1,062.50
184

Francis Frith -- Photographs of Sinai and Palestine -- London, 1862

1862 Not Available USD 1,062.50
138

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land -- Peter Villiger -- Konstanz, 1603 -- First Edition

1603 Not Available USD 1,000.00
177

Large Panorama of Jerusalem -- Cornelis de Bruyn -- The Netherlands, 1698

1698 Not Available USD 1,000.00
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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