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Auction Name Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art Total Sales (USD) 473,175.00
Auction Date May 12, 2026 - May 12, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #108 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 241
Sold Lots 237.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 98.34% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
181 Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Yisrael of Rhodes

Four Manuscripts – Unpublished Works by Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Yisrael of Rhodes

N/A Not Available USD 13,750.00
200

Poster Announcing Establishment of the Paris Sanhedrin – Paris, 1806 – Two Copies (Hebrew-French and Hebrew-German) Signed by the Assembly of Notables

1806 Not Available USD 13,750.00
158 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav – Jerusalem, Adar 1946 – Remarriage for the Holocaust Agunot – "I Consulted with Rabbi Isser Zalman and the Chazon Ish…"

1946 Not Available USD 11,250.00
90

Mizbach HaZahav – Basel, 1602 – Segulah for Protection from Plague

1602 Not Available USD 8,750.00
179 Ben Ish Chai

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Ben Ish Chai – Baghdad, 1900

1900 Not Available USD 8,750.00
87 Maharsha

Maharsha on Beitzah and Yevamot – Basel, Ca. 1599-1600 – First Edition of First Complete Published Book by the Maharsha, Printed Anonymously in His Lifetime

c. 1599-1600 Not Available USD 7,500.00
171

Large Collection of Letters of Rabbis and Tzedakah Collectors – Hungary, 1920s-1940s

1920s-1940s Not Available USD 7,500.00
74 Jacob Steinhardt

Passover Haggadah – Jacob Steinhardt – First Edition, Berlin, 1921 – Twenty Woodcuts Signed by the Artist

1921 Not Available USD 6,875.00
123

Bat Ayin (Ovruch) – First Edition – Jerusalem, 1847 – Includes Leaf with Pre-Subscribers from the Chassidic Settlement in Eretz Israel

1847 Not Available USD 6,875.00
153 Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Six Letters of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski – Public Fast for Rise of Anti-Semitism – Vilna, 1938

1938 Not Available USD 6,875.00
154 Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Seven Letters of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski – On the Anti-Shechitah Laws in Poland – Vilna, 1938-1939

1938-1939 Not Available USD 6,875.00
99

Mesamchei Lev – Kabbalistic Kavanot for Shofar and Segulot – Amsterdam, 1718 – Especially Rare

1718 Not Available USD 6,250.00
275

Portrait of Rabbi Moshe Nasch, Rabbi of Zwolle – Oil on Canvas – The Netherlands, Early 19th Century

Early 19th Century Not Available USD 5,750.00
56

Passover Haggadah – Amsterdam, 1695 – First Haggadah with Copper Engravings and Map of Eretz Israel – Variant Title Page

1695 Not Available USD 5,250.00
173

Collection of Handwritten Leaves – Homiletics, Halachah, Chassidut and Stories – Ca. 1800s-1900s

c. 1800s-1900s Not Available USD 5,250.00
218

Decorated Parchment Ketubah – Ancona, 1765 – Pacifico Family Coat of Arms

1765 Not Available USD 5,250.00
225

Decorated Paper Ketubah – Sephardic Community of Bucharest, Romania, 1870

1870 Not Available USD 5,000.00
75 Wolfgang Capito; Konrad Pellikan

Hebraicarum Institutionum – First Edition – Basel, 1518 – Hebrew Grammar by Wolfgang Capito (With Konrad Pellikan)

1518 Not Available USD 4,750.00
180

Manuscript, Tiklal Siddur for Festivals – Yemen, Ca. 1651

c. 1651 Not Available USD 4,750.00
248

Elaborate Silver Machzor and Leather Slipcase with Rosselli Family Coat of Arms – Rome, Ca. 1790-1800

c. 1790-1800 Not Available USD 4,500.00
15

Esther Scroll in Fine Filigree Silver Case – Eastern Europe, 19th Century

19th Century Not Available USD 4,250.00
43

Yiddish Bible – Printed by Yosef Athias – Amsterdam, 1679 – Rare First Edition, Unavailable to Modern Bibliographers

1679 Not Available USD 4,250.00
182 Rabbi Yehudah ibn Moyal

Manuscript – Sermons, Novellae and Selections, Handwritten by Rabbi Yehudah ibn Moyal, Head of the Mogador Beit Din, Author of Shevet Yehudah

N/A Not Available USD 4,000.00
254

Maamadot in Pocket Format – Elaborate Silver Binding – Venice, 18th Century

18th Century Not Available USD 4,000.00
20

Esther Scroll in Filigree Gilt Silver Case, Adorned with a Coral Stone – Ottoman Empire, 19th Century

19th Century Not Available USD 3,750.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000