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Sothebys: A Treasured Legacy: The Michael and Judy Steinhardt Judaica Collection

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Auction Name A Treasured Legacy: The Michael and Judy Steinhardt Judaica Collection Total Sales (USD) 550,251.00
Auction Date April 29, 2013 - April 29, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 238,600.00
Sale Number #N08961 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 337,100.00
Total Lots 25
Sold Lots 21.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,774,600.00
% of Lots Sold 84.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 6,385,100.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 8.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
178

AN IMPORTANT MICROGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATED OMER CALENDAR

1830 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 185,000.00
199

A DECORATED KETUBBAH FROM ANCONA,

 1840 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 100,000.00
79

A DECORATED KETUBBAH FROM VENICE,

 1716 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 78,125.00
8

A DECORATED KETUBBAH, SENIGALLIA,

 1851 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 37,500.00
86

AN AMULET FOR CHILDBIRTH, AMSTERDAM,

1700 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 22,500.00
339

A DECORATED KETUBBAH FROM INDIA,

1938 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
256 V. LENEPVEU (PSEUDONYM) 19TH/20TH CENTURY

MUSEE DES HORREURS (GALLERY OF HORRORS),

1899 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
88

A DECORATED KETUBBAH FROM AMSTERDAM,

1695 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
85

AN ILLUSTRATED ESTHER SCROLL FROM AMSTERDAM,

 1720 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 13,750.00
38

AN AUSTRIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GEM-SET ESTHER SCROLL CASE

1930 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,875.00
328

A DECORATED KETUBBAH FROM TETUAN, MOROCCO

 1850 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,375.00
89

A SILVER AND TORTOISESHELL BINDING, FITTED WITH AN ORDEN DE ORACIONES

1656 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,750.00
209

AN ITALIAN SILVER BINDING

1750 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,625.00
200

AN ITALIAN SILVER SMALL BOOK BINDING

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,313.00
303 PINKAS HEVRAT DEREKH HA-HAYYIM,

JERUSALEM:

 1885 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
59 GEORGE BRAUN AND FRANZ HOGENBERG

JEROSOLYMA, CITY MAP OF JERUSALEM

1572 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,438.00
348 EPHRAIM MOSHE LILIEN 1874 - 1925

ESTHER AND HER SERVANTS

1911 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,250.00
201

AFTER HIERONYMOUS HESS BASEL 1799 - 1850 "DIE BEKEHRUNG DER JUDEN IN ROM" AND "DAS INNERE EINER SINAGOGE IN ROM" : TWO LITHOGRAPHS

1823 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,750.00
349 EPHRAIM MOSHE LILIEN 1874 - 1925

A YEMENITE JEW

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
58

HANS VON FREIBURG THE JEW'S OATH

 1509 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,500.00
177 JOHANN ADAM KLEIN 1792 - 1875

DEPARTURE OF THE POLISH JEWS THROUGH THE GATE

 1818 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
  • <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.