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Auction Name: Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Jewish Ceremonial Art and Photographs
Auction Date: 12/02/2025 - 12/02/2025
Sale Number: #60
Total Lots: 378
Sold Lots: 348.0
Lots Sold: 92.06%
Unsold Lots: 30

Total Sales (USD): 154,488.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
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	N/A	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	N/A	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	N/A	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
234	Manuscript, Bereshit Rabbah -- Yemen, 19th/20th Century	19th/20th Century	Not Available	USD 1,500.00
224	Manuscript -- Divrei Eliyahu, Sermons -- Jerusalem, 19th/20th Century	19th/20th Century	Not Available	USD 1,500.00
232	Manuscript, LaYesharim Tehillah (Ramchal) / Anthology of Haskalah-Era Poems	N/A	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
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
3	Small-Format Esther Scroll -- Illustrated -- Italy, 19th Century	19th Century	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

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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.