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Auction Name	Books \| Letters and Manuscripts \| Jewish Ceremonial Art and Photographs	Total Sales (USD)	154,487.50
Auction Date	December 02, 2025 - December 02, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Sale Number	#60	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Total Lots	378
Sold Lots	348.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	92.06%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
Unsold Lots	30	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
119	LeShem Zevach -- Altona, 1768 -- Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar	1768	Not Available	USD 4,000.00
120	Shaarei Torah -- Ujhel, 1872 -- Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar	1872	Not Available	USD 3,750.00
179	Large Collection of Books Printed in Hungary and Galicia -- Distinguished Copies		Not Available	USD 3,000.00
144	Commentary on Kohelet and Tehillim by Rabbi Moshe Yisrael de Mercado -- Amsterdam, 1653 -- First Edition	1653	Not Available	USD 2,375.00
124	Collection of Chassidic and Kabbalistic Books -- Distinguished Copies of Rabbis of Safed and Tiberias		Not Available	USD 2,250.00
1	Handwritten and Hand-Decorated Parchment Leaf -- Megillah Blessings -- Italy, 18th Century	18th Century	Not Available	USD 2,125.00
4	Esther Scroll in Decorated Case -- Possibly Russia, Turn of 20th Century	Turn of 20th Century	Not Available	USD 2,000.00
250	Letter of Blessing and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Kamenets, Iyar 1932	Iyar 1932	Not Available	USD 2,000.00
110	Yitav Lev -- First Edition -- Sighet, 1875 -- Five Parts in Five Volumes	1875	Not Available	USD 1,750.00
131	Collection of Books -- Distinguished Copies -- Rabbis and Kabbalists of Jerusalem		Not Available	USD 1,625.00
162	Maaseh Rokeach -- Amsterdam, 1740 -- First Edition -- Segulah Book for Happiness -- Fine Copy in Early Parchment Binding	1740	Not Available	USD 1,625.00
180	Large Collection of Books Printed in Hungary and Other European Countries -- 1865-1943	1865-1943	Not Available	USD 1,625.00
224	Manuscript -- Divrei Eliyahu, Sermons -- Jerusalem, 19th/20th Century	19th/20th Century	Not Available	USD 1,500.00
234	Manuscript, Bereshit Rabbah -- Yemen, 19th/20th Century	19th/20th Century	Not Available	USD 1,500.00
3	Small-Format Esther Scroll -- Illustrated -- Italy, 19th Century	19th Century	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
212	Three Talmudic Tractates Printed During the Holocaust -- Budapest-Miskolc, 1941 -- Decorated Title Pages	1941	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
218	Five Passover Haggadot -- Printed for She'erit HaPletah in Germany -- Fohrenwald, Ca. 1946	Ca. 1946	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
232	Manuscript, LaYesharim Tehillah (Ramchal) / Anthology of Haskalah-Era Poems		Not Available	USD 1,375.00
243	Large Collection of Various Leaves and Paper Items -- Ladino and Judeo-Arabic -- Sephardic Lands, Late 19th-20th Centuries	Late 19th-20th Centuries	Not Available	USD 1,375.00
37	Shaarei Tzion and Tikun Seudah -- Amsterdam, 1718 -- Early Leather Binding -- Pocket Format	1718	Not Available	USD 1,250.00
91	Collection of Chassidic Books, Biographies and Selections -- 1889-1937	1889-1937	Not Available	USD 1,250.00
248	Collection of Posters and Printed Leaves -- Public Affairs and Torah and Charitable Institutions -- Hungary and Poland, 1900s-1940s -- Letters of the Chafetz Chaim, Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, the Rebbes of Ostrovtza and Tetsh and Other Rabbis and Dayanim	1900s-1940s	Not Available	USD 1,250.00
108	Yismach Moshe -- Collection of Editions -- 1851-1934	1851-1934	Not Available	USD 1,187.50
282	Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1960 -- 200th Yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov	Elul 1960	Not Available	USD 1,187.50
286	Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Elul 1966	Elul 1966	Not Available	USD 1,187.50

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Top twenty-five by sale price