Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction May 25, 2021

Kedem, May 25, 2021. 124 lots, estimates 2000 - 500000 $.

Kedem - The preview and the auction will be held at our offices in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Health, 8 Ramban St. Jerusalem

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Lots in this catalog (124)

• Lot 1: Bible – Paris, 1543-1546 – Pocket Edition – Fine, Complete Set in Fifteen Volumes – Original Parchment Bindings — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 2: Tehillim, with Vocalization and Cantillation Marks – Venice, 1590 – Fine Copy — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 3: Psalterio de David – Tehillim in Spanish – Printed for the Marrano Community in Livorno – Livorno, 1655 – Miniature — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 4: Torah Nevi'im and Ketuvim in Spanish – Amsterdam, 1661 – Printed by Joseph Athias — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 5: Tehillim – Safed, 1833 – The First Book of Tehillim Printed in Eretz Israel – Fine Copy, — $7,000 - $9,000
• Lot 6: Fragments of a Siddur with Laws in Ladino (Presumably Only Extant Fragments) – Salonika, 1569 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 7: Passover Haggadah – With Many Decorations and Illustrations – Venice, — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 8: Tikkun Keriah LeChol Layla VeYom – A Sabbatian Order of Tikkunim Compiled by Nathan of Gaza – Additional Engraved — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 9: Sephardi Rite Siddur – For Weekdays, Shabbat and Special Days, Festivals and Fast Days, with Calendar – Amsterdam, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 10: Miniature Siddur – Amsterdam, 1739 – Fine Copy, with Original, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 11: Siddur Tefillat Yisrael – Jerusalem, 1842 – First Siddur Printed in Jerusalem — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 12: Sodot Gedolim MiChachmei HaEmet – Constantinople, — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 13: Lekach Tov, by Rabbi Moshe Najara (with a Poem by His Son Rabbi Yisrael Najara) – Constantinople, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 14: Three Books in One Volume: Chelkat Mechokek – Venice, 1603 / Lev Chacham – Constantinople, — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 15: Masoret HaMasoret, by Rabbi Eliyahu Bachur – Venice, 1538 – First Edition – Copy of Vittorio Eliano, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 16: Tzedah LaDerech – First Edition – Ferrara, 1554 — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 17: Leaf Fragments of Tractate Shabbat, Babylonian Talmud – Soncino, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 18: Jerusalem Talmud – Krakow, 1609 – All Parts in One Volume — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 19: Babylonian Talmud – Amsterdam-Frankfurt am Main, 1715-1722 – Complete Set in Twelve Volumes — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 20: Parchment Manuscript – Milchamot Hashem, — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 21: Two Manuscripts – Formulary of Legal Documents, Novellae, Poems, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 22: Manuscript – Commentary on the Book of Iyov, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 23: Decorated Parchment Manuscript, Sephardi-Rite Selichot – Produced by Fortunata Fiano – Italy, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 24: Illustrated Manuscript – Psalms for Festivals – Italy, 19th Century — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 25: Illustrated Manuscript – Songs for a Brit Milah – Italy, 19th Century — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 26: Manuscript with Ornamental Title Page – Prayerbook for the Kohen for the High Holidays and Kiddush Levana – Amsterdam, — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 27: The Rothschild Miscellany – Elaborate Facsimile of a 15th Century Manuscript — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 28: Manuscript, Ir David, by R. David Oppenheim – Handwritten by the Author – Unpublished Work — $30,000 - $40,000
• Lot 29: Illustrated Manuscript on Parchment, Prayers for the Chazzan and Gabbai – Brill Shul in Pressburg, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 30: Manuscript – Pinkas of the Bikur Cholim Society in Kraków – Much Information about Members of the Community – — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 31: Three Items – Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch and the Rothschild Family: Eulogy Handwritten by Rav Hirsch for Baroness — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 32: Lengthy Letter from Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 33: Letter of Blessings, — $250,000 - $350,000
• Lot 34: Five Leaves Handwritten by the Haflaa – Unpublished Novellae on Tractate Pesachim — $30,000 - $50,000
• Lot 35: Manuscript, — $100,000 - $200,000
• Lot 36: Manuscript, Homilies for the High Holidays by the Yismach Moshe – Glosses Handwritten by the Yitav Lev of Sighet, — $100,000 - $200,000
• Lot 37: Zohar, Bereshit – Slavita, 1809 – Copy of Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum, the Yismach Moshe — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 38: Babylonian Talmud, Tractates Gittin and Nazir – Zhitomir, — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 39: Babylonian Talmud, Tractates Beitzah, Moed Katan, Megillah, — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 40: Miflagei Reuven – Zhovkva, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 41: Document in German – German Signature of Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova – Shinova, — $25,000 - $30,000
• Lot 42: Printed Receipt, with Blessings for "Offspring, Life and Sustenance", Signed by Rebbe Shlomo (Shlomke) of Zvil — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 43: Ben Porat Yosef – Korets, 1781 – First Edition – With the Igeret HaKodesh which the Baal Shem Tov Sent to Eretz Israel — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 44: Meir Netivim, Two Parts – By Rabbi Meir Margolies, Disciple of the Baal Shem Tov – Polonne, 1791-1792 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 45: Noam Elimelech – Second, Rare Edition – Shklow, 1790 – First Chassidic Book Printed in Shklow — $50,000 - $100,000
• Lot 46: Collection of Editions of the Book Noam Elimelech – Early 19th Century — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 47: Yismach Lev (Chernobyl) – Slavita, 1798 – Variant — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 48: Or HaMeir, Two Editions – First Edition – Korets, 1798 / Second Edition – Korets, After 1798 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 49: Yesod Yosef and Likutei Yosef – Two Books by Rabbi Yosef of Rovne, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 50: Degel Machaneh Efraim – Korets, 1810 – First Edition – Signature of Rabbi Aharon of Otchakov, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 51: Or Pnei Moshe – By Rabbi Moshe Sofer of Pshevorsk – Mezeritch, 1810 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 52: Pri HaAretz – Kopust, 1814 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 53: Levushei Serad – Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim and Yoreh De'ah – Collection of Editions — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 54: Kedushat Levi – Berditchev, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 55: Mevaser Tzedek (Zlotchov), Two Editions – First Edition – Dubno, 1798 / Second Edition with Additions – Berditchev, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 56: Toldot Aharon – Berditchev, 1817 – First Edition — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 57: Orach LaChaim – Berditchev, 1817 – First Edition — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 58: Tzemach Hashem LiTzvi – Berditchev, 1818 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 59: Noam Megadim UKevod HaTorah – Lviv, 1807 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 60: Tehillim Amarot Tehorot – Warsaw, 1838 – First Printed Chassidic Commentary on Tehillim — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 61: Ahavat Shalom (Kosov) – Lviv, 1833 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 62: Avodat Yisrael – Józefów, 1842 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 63: Ohev Yisrael – Zhitomir, 1863 – First Edition – Wide-Margined Copy — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 64: Likutei Halachot by Rabbi Natan of Breslov – Complete Set – First Editions — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 65: Zera Kodesh (Ropshitz) – Two Parts – Lviv, 1868 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 66: Yismach Moshe – Lviv, 1848-1861 – First Edition — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 67: All the Books of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz – First Editions – Munkacs-Zhovkva-Lviv, 1864-1877 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 68: Sidrei Taharot on Tractate Kelim – The "Talmud" Compiled by the Rebbe of Radzin – Józefów, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 69: Magen Avraham – Lublin, 1887 – First Edition – Segulah Book — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 70: Zohar – Complete Set in Three Volumes – Slavita, 1824 — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 71: Shenei Luchot HaBrit (Shelah) – Amsterdam, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 72: Toldot Shimshon – Segulah Book ("Ultimate Good, Longevity and Abundant Livelihood"), — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 73: Derech Chochmah by the Ramchal – First Edition – Amsterdam, 1783 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 74: Maaseh Rav – First Edition – Vilna and Horodna, 1832 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 75: Letter from the Cairo Genizah – Sent from Ramla to Jerusalem in 1054 (End of the Geonic Era in Eretz Israel, — $80,000 - $120,000
• Lot 76: Three Early Manuscript Leaves from a Genizah – Aggadah on the Amidah Prayer / Philosophical Composition on Divine — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 77: Two Early Manuscript Leaves from a Genizah – Unknown Piyyut by Rabbi Moshe Ibn Ezra / Qisat Esther — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 78: Four Early Manuscript Leaves from a Genizah – Kabbalistic Homily Criticizing the Rambam / Sections from Hilchot HaRif — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 79: Manuscript, Tiklal Siddur with Commentaries – Yemen, 1636 — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 80: Manuscript, Tiklal Siddur with Commentaries – Copied by Two Scribes – Yemen, 1702-1703 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 81: Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Vital – From His Work Etz HaDaat Tov — $35,000 - $40,000
• Lot 82: Manuscript, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 83: Two Leaves Handwritten by the Chida – Kabbalistic Kavanot for Weekdays and Shabbat — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 84: Two Handwritten Leaves from the Book Chukot HaDayanim – Spain or Italy, — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 85: Kli Yakar by Rabbi Shmuel Laniado – Venice, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 86: Ein Yaakov – First Edition, Both Parts – Salonika, 1516-1522 – Hundreds of Handwritten Glosses, — $20,000 - $30,000
• Lot 87: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzeira of Morocco – The Abir Yaakov — $12,000 - $18,000
• Lot 88: Prayer "So That He and His Household be Saved from Danger" – Jerusalem, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 89: Illustrated Passover Haggadah – Bombay, India, 1846 – First Bene Israel Haggadah / Calendar in Marathi – Bombay, 1854 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 90: Passover Haggadah With Marathi Translation – Poona, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 91: Doresh Tov LeAmo – Newspaper in Judeo-Arabic – Lithographed – Eleven Volumes of Issues – Copies of the Researcher and — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 92: HaDover – First Newspaper in Iraq and Only Hebrew Newspaper Printed in Baghdad – Lithographed – Volume of Issues – — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 93: Letter Describing a Journey to Palestine on Board the USS Delaware in 1834 – One of the First American Ships to Reach — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 94: Book of Tehillim in Hebrew and Latin – Cambridge, — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 95: Bible – Philadelphia, 1814 – First Hebrew Bible Printed in America — $10,000 - $12,000
• Lot 96: The Book of Esther and the Book of Ruth for the Blind – Philadelphia, 1838 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 97: The Order of Prayer for Divine Service, Reform Prayerbook – First Edition Revised by Dr. Samuel Adler – New York, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 98: Register of the Ahavath Chesed Congregation in Manhattan (Later the Central Synagogue) – Thousands of Marriage and — $40,000 - $60,000
• Lot 99: Travel Book Through Holy Scriptures, by Heinrich Bünting – Magdeburg, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 100: "Map of the Holy Land as it is in the Bible" – From Be'er HaLuchot, by Jacob Auspitz – Vienna, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 101: Judith, Travelogue of Judith Montefiore's Visit to Palestine – Copy Signed by Moses Montefiore — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 102: Collection of Coins and Medals – Souvenirs of the Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Palestine – Germany, 1898 — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 103: Large Collection of Color Glass Slides – Ottoman Palestine – Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Jerusalem, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 104: Frank Hurley (1885-1962) – Three Photographs of Australian Soldiers in the WWI Palestine Campaign – Photograph of — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 105: Ephraim Moses Lilien – Etching – Women at the Western Wall — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 106: The Dreyfus Affair – Large Collection of Postcards — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 107: Two Postcards Handwritten by Mala Zimetbaum – The First Jewish Woman to Escape Auschwitz-Birkenau – Sent from — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 108: Collection of Rare Travel Documents, — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 109: Babylonian Talmud – Munich, 1948 – First Post-Holocaust Printing of the Talmud for War Survivors – Complete, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 110: Antisemitic Letter, Handwritten and Signed by Richard Wagner – Lucerne, 1869 — $20,000 - $30,000
• Lot 111: Interesting Letter by Albert Einstein, Hand Signed – Princeton, — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 112: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Marie Curie, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 113: The Calendar of the Soul – Handwritten by Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Anthroposophy — $25,000 - $30,000
• Lot 114: "Sefer Barkai" by Naftali Herz Imber with his own Handwritten Dedicatory Inscription – First Printing of "Hatikvah" – — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 115: Two Ceasefire Agreements Signed in the Course of Israel's War of Independence – Galilee Panhandle and Jordan Valley, — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 116: Recording of Menachem Begin's "Proclamation of the State" Speech on "Kol Tzion HaLochemet" Radio Station – May 15, — $500,000 - $800,000
• Lot 117: Parchment Ketubah – Elaborate Engraved Border – The Hague, The Netherlands, 1767 — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 118: Torah Scroll in Early Sephardic Script, with Variations from the Masorah – Romaniote Community in the Balkans, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 119: Torah Scroll in Early Ashkenazic Script, — $10,000 - $12,000
• Lot 120: Embroidered Torah Binder – Gift of Laura, Daughter of Abraham Treves – Italy, 1730/31 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 121: Passover Kiddush Cup – Germany, 18th Century — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 122: Hanukkah Lamp – Poland, Late 18th Century — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 123: Embossed Hanukkah Lamp – The Netherlands, 19th Century — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 124: Decorated Ceramic Tiles with the Blessing "You Shall be Blessed When You Come, — $2,000 - $4,000