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Auction Name
Important Judaica
Auction Date
12/17/2025 - 12/17/2025
Sale Number
#N11907
Total Lots
45
Sold Lots
34.0
Lots Sold
75.56%
Unsold Lots
11
Total Sales (USD)
3,038,380.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
2,366,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
3,888,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,617,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
4,308,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
70.52%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
63

A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah, Spain c. 1300

 c. 1300 USD 1,500,000.00 - 2,500,000.00 USD 1,514,000.00
64

Complete Cycle of Haftarot (Prophetic Readings), [Spain, 14th century]

 14th century] USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 241,300.00
73

AN IMPORTANT ESTHER SCROLL, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ARYEH LEIB BEN DANIEL OF GORAY, ITALY, CIRCA 1740

 CIRCA 1740 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 215,900.00
92

A Rare Monumental Ashkenazic Torah Scroll, [Northern Italy, ca. 1400]

 ca. 1400] USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 215,900.00
66

Hebrew Bible printed on parchment, Naples, 1492

 1492 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 190,500.00
84

Autograph Manuscript of Theodor Herzl's "The Family Affliction"

 N/A USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 95,250.00
93

A Historic Yemenite Torah Scroll

 N/A USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 69,850.00
68

MINHAGIM, SIMEON HA-LEVI GUNZBURG, AMSTERDAM: ELIJAH ABOAB [AND MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL], 1645

 1645 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 60,960.00
65

Pentateuch (Humash), with Targum Onkelos and Rashi's Commentary, Printed on Parchment

 N/A USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 44,450.00
91

Fourteenth-Century Scroll of Esther (Megillat Esther) on Carved Wooden Roller

 N/A USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 38,100.00
85

Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), Theodor Herzl

 N/A USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 35,560.00
67

Latter Prophets (Nevi'im Aharonim), with the Commentary of Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437--1508)

 N/A USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 31,750.00
62

Hebrew Biblical Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Autograph of the Last Maimonidean Nagid, David II ben Joshua Maimonides

 N/A USD 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 31,750.00
60

Two Leaves from a Samaritan Pentateuch

 N/A USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 31,750.00
89

An Illustrated Traveler's Prayer and Bedtime Shema (Tefilat ha-Derekh and Kriyat Shema 'al ha Mitah) [Germany,] 1757

 1757 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 25,400.00
75

An Illustrated Shehitah Kabbalah (license to perform ritual slaughter) granted to Daniel ben Moses David Terni

 N/A USD 6,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,320.00
72

Medical Diploma for Rabbi-Physician Leon Cantarini (Yehudah ha-Kohen Katz), Granted by the University of Padua, Padua, October 1623.

 October 1623. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 19,050.00
94

MINIATURE TORAH SCROLL, [EASTERN EUROPE: LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURIES]

 LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURIES] USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 17,780.00
61

Siddur (Prayerbook), [Persia, 13th century]

 13th century] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,510.00
6

An Italian Silver Book Binding, Gaspare Vanneschi, Rome, Circa 1760-70

 Circa 1760-70 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,240.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.