Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction May 24, 2022

Kedem, May 24, 2022. 120 lots, estimates 1000 - 1000000 $.

Kedem - Printed version

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Lots in this catalog (120)

Lot 1: Year-Round Selichot Following Ashkenazi Rite – Special, Rare Copy Printed on Blue Paper – Venice, 1548 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 2: Tefilot Vulgar – Italian Rite Siddur – Mantua, 1561 – Judeo-Italian — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 3: Adon Chasdecha – Venice, 1609 – Mi Kamocha Piyyut by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, with Italian Translation — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 4: Barchi Nafshi – Venice, 1628 — $1,200 - $1,400
Lot 5: Siddur Tefillat Yesharim – Pisa, — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 6: Machzor for the High Holidays and Festivals – Amsterdam, 1785 – Leather Binding with Silver Clasps – Pocket Size — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 7: Tractate Sotah – Venice, 1520 – First Talmud Edition Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 8: Tractate Bechorot – Venice, 1522 – First Talmud Edition Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 9: Mshnayot Order Zera'im with the Commentaries of the Rambam and the Rash of Sens – From the First Talmud Edition of — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 10: Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim – Venice, 1552-1563 – Printed by Giustiniani – Torah Section Scarce, Not in NLI — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 11: Book of Iyov with the Commentary of the Ralbag – Incunabulum – Naples, 1487 – First Printing of the Book of Iyov — $25,000 - $35,000
Lot 12: Two Works on Astrology – Venice 1485 – Composition Attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra – Incunable – Incomplete Copy — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 13: Avkat Rochel – Rimini, 1526 – Printed by Gershom Soncino — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 14: Sefer Keritut – Talmudic Methodology – First Edition – Constantinople, 1515 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 15: Neveh Shalom – Constantinople, 1538-1539 — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 16: Six Hebrew Grammar Books Bound Together – Venice, 1546 – Printed by Bomberg — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 17: Three Books by the Chassid Yaavetz – First Editions – Ferrara, 1553 — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 18: Commentary on Tractate Avot by the Chassid Rabbi Yosef Yaavetz – Adrianopolis, — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 19: Commentary on Tractate Avot – Lechem Yehuda – Sabbioneta, 1554 – Second Edition, — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 20: Sefer HaZikaron – Ferrara, 1555 – First Edition — $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 21: Igeret Orchot Olam – First and Rare Edition of the First Hebrew Work Describing America – Venice, — $25,000 - $35,000
Lot 22: Yesod Yosef and Likutei Yosef – Two Books by Rabbi Yosef of Rovne, — $1,200 - $1,500
Lot 23: Likutei Amarim – Tanya – Zhovkva, 1798 – First Edition of the Igeret HaTeshuva, Mahadura Kama — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 24: Or HaChochmah – Part I – Łaszczów, 1815 – Segulah for Easy Birth — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 25: Toldot Aharon – Berditchev, 1817 – First Edition — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 26: Tzemach Hashem LiTzvi – Berditchev, 1818 – First Edition — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 27: Likutei Moharan – Second Edition Printed in the Home of R. Natan of Breslov – Breslov, 1821 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 28: Meir Einei Chachamim – Sde Lavan, 1823 – First Edition – Copy of the Rebbe of Kontikoziva — $4,000 - $5,000
Lot 29: Tehillim Amarot Tehorot – Warsaw, 1838 – First Printed Chassidic Commentary on Tehillim — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 30: Discovery! – Tehillim with the Nora Tehillot Commentary – Zhitomir, Printed by Shapira ca. — $10,000 - $20,000
Lot 31: Derech Chaim by the Mitteler Rebbe – Two Editions: Kopust, After 1819 / Zhitomir, 1863 — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 32: Likutei Torah – Zhitomir, 1848 – First Edition / Torah Or – Zhitomir, 1862 – First Edition of Hosafot LeSefer Torah Or — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 33: Ohev Yisrael – Zhitomir, 1863 – First Edition — $2,000 - $2,500
Lot 34: Bnei Yissaschar – Part I – Zhovkva, 1850 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 35: Komarno Mishnayot – Complete Set – Lviv, 1862 – Title Page Printed in Black and Gold — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 36: Yismach Moshe – Lviv, 1848-1861 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 37: Zera Kodesh (Ropshitz) – Two Parts – Lviv, 1868 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 38: Minchat Chinuch – First Edition, Printed Anonymously – Lviv, 1869 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 39: Three Polemic Books Against Chassidut – Megaleh Temirin / Divrei Tzadikim / Bochen Tzadik — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 40: Three Leaves Handwritten by the Haflaa – Unpublished Novellae on Tractate Pesachim — $25,000 - $30,000
Lot 41: Manuscript of R. — $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 42: Letter from Rebbe Menachem Mendel Paneth, First Rebbe of Deyzh, Disciple of the Chatam Sofer – Deyzh, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 43: Letter Signed by 15 Leading Rabbis – Including Signature of R. Mordechai Rokeach of Belz, — $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 44: Dedication for a Bar Mitzvah, Handwritten and Signed by the Gerrer Rebbe – On the Book Sefat Emet — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 45: Me'am Loez – Two Parts – Salonika, 1865-1866 – Including Bamidbar Volume, Not Listed in Bibliography of Hebrew Book — $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 46: El Tiempo, One of the Most Important Ladino Newspapers – Bound Volume of Issues – Istanbul, — $7,000 - $10,000
Lot 47: The Periodical Üstad – Judeo-Turkish and Ladino – Bound Volume of Issues – Izmir, 1899 – Rare — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 48: She'iltot – Venice, 1546 – Glosses of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach – Signature of Rabbi Moshe Galante, — $15,000 - $25,000
Lot 49: Manuscript – Handwritten by the Author Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Modena – Index to Ein Yaakov — $20,000 - $30,000
Lot 50: Manuscript, Responsum on the Recital of the Malachei Rachamim Piyyut – Handwritten by the Author, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 51: Letter from R. Shabtai Ventura Author of Nahar Shalom Rabbi of Spalatro – Spalatro, 1759 — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 52: Leaf Handwritten by the Chida – From an Unpublis6hed Composition — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 53: Manuscript – Segulot, Amulets, Incantations and Hashbaot – Practical Kabbalah Notebook of R. — $15,000 - $20,000
Lot 54: Ayin Roah – Unpublished Autograph Manuscript by Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon Shabtai Sinigaglia, Author of Shabbat shel Mi — $10,000 - $20,000
Lot 55: Manuscript – Prayers for the Cemetery – Italy, 18th/19th Century — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 56: Ketubah of Rabbi Refael Berdugo, "HaMalach Refael", — $4,000 - $8,000
Lot 57: Manuscript, Chupat Chatanim – Pinkas Zechirat HaKetubot Handwritten by R. — $5,000 - $10,000
Lot 58: Manuscript, Beit Tefillah – Supplications and Piyyutim – Handwritten by the Author Rabbi David Ben Shimon, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 59: Notebook of Novellae Handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari – Unpublished Halachic Novellae and Homiletics — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 60: Leaf Handwritten by the Ben Ish Chai – "…Therefore He Shall Merit a Son and Circumcise Him at Eight Days of Age, — $2,000 - $5,000
Lot 61: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Akiva Eger – Posen, 1820 — $30,000 - $40,000
Lot 62: Manuscript – Homilies and Novellae – By Rabbi Yaakov Meyer Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 63: Glosses Handwritten by Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 64: Letter from the Rabbis of Jerusalem to Montefiore – Rabbi Yeshayah Bardaki, — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 65: Pinkas of the Georgian Boys' School – Letters from Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Sonnenfeld – Jerusalem, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 66: Letter from the Chafetz Chaim – For the Rabbinical Conference in Kraków – Hrodna, Elul 1924 – Good Year Wishes — $20,000 - $30,000
Lot 67: Responsa of the Maharik – Copy from the Library of the Chafetz Chaim — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 68: Letter of Blessings and Acknowledgement from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz – Kamenitz, Iyar 1936 — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 69: Raziel HaMalach – Copy of the Mashgiach Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 70: Tena'im – For the Betrothal of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky – Jerusalem, Iyar 1951 — $80,000 - $100,000
Lot 71: Large Collection of Printed Proclamations – Toronto Community – Kashrut, Rabbinate, — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 72: Parchment Scroll – Farewell Letter for Rabbi Tzikinovski – Rio de Janeiro, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 73: Miniature Machzor – With Illustrated Passover Haggadah – Elaborate Miniature on a Single Sheet of Parchment Cut into — $350,000 - $450,000
Lot 74: Handwritten, Illuminated Parchment Plaque – Names of Members of the Cleansing Chevra Kaddisha in Rome – Rome, 1816 — $100,000 - $150,000
Lot 75: Decorated Manuscript on Parchment – Order of Brit Milah and Pidyon HaBen – Aszód, 1772 — $20,000 - $30,000
Lot 76: Parchment Manuscript – Pinkas Hazkarat Neshamot of the Bolsward Community, the Netherlands – 1824-1891 — $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 77: Decorated Parchment Manuscript – Prayers for the Gabbai and Cantor – Dedicated to the Brighton Hebrew Congregation – — $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 78: Ketubah Printed on Parchment – Jerusalem and Tétouan, 1913 — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 79: Pre-Expulsion Sephardi Torah Scroll – Scribed According to a Unique Tradition with Extensive Crownlet Decorations and — $150,000 - $200,000
Lot 80: Large Illustrated Esther Scroll – Bohemia, Second Half of 18th Century / Germany, 19th Century – From the Estate of Dr. — $8,000 - $10,000
Lot 81: Yaacov Agam – Esther Scroll – Ink and Silkscreen on Parchment — $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 82: Portrait of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Kraków, Son of the Chatam Sofer – Oil Painting — $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 83: Portrait of Rabbi Mordechai (Marcus) Jaffe, Rabbi of Schwerin, Descendant of Rabbi Mordechai Jaffe, — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 84: Painting by the Chassidic Artist Zalman Kleinman – "From Chaslavitch to Lubavitch" (Chassidim Travelling to the Rebbe) — $1,000,000 - $1,500,000
Lot 85: "The Binding of Isaac" – Painting by Yosef Zvi Geiger – Safed, Late 19th Century — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 86: Yosef Zvi Geiger – Papercut for the Holiday of Shavu'ot – Safed, 1914 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 87: Yosef Zvi Geiger – Papercut for the Holiday of Sukkot – "Be Strong as a Leopard" – Safed, 1910 — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 88: Zeev Raban (1890-1970) – Scribe – Sketch for a Brass Plaque — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 89: Jean-Baptiste Huysmans (1826-1906) – "Juive d'Alger" – Oil on Panel — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 90: Early, Elegant Spicebox – Venice, Early 18th Century — $15,000 - $25,000
Lot 91: Torah Shield and Pair of Finials from Szeged's First Synagogue in Its Early Years – Silversmith Franz Lorenz Turinksy — $40,000 - $60,000
Lot 92: Silver Chanukah Lamp – Society for Assisting the Sick and Burying the Dead – Szeged, Austro-Hungary, 1872. — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 93: Silver Chanukah Lamp – Lions and Palm Trees – Warsaw, 1886 — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 94: Seven Seals – Europe, — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 95: Silver Pseudo-Coin – "The Holy City of Jerusalem / King David and His Son King Solomon" – Europe, 16th Century — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 96: Printed Tablecloth with the Kiddush and Eruv Tavshilin Texts – Augsburg, 1759/60 — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 97: "Duka" – Gold-Embroidered Women's Head Covering – Tunisia, Late 19th or Early 20th Century — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 98: Bezalel Rug – Seven-Branch Candelabra and the Tablets of the Law – Jerusalem, Early 20th Century — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 99: Marbadiah Rug – David's Tower – Jerusalem, 1920s — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 100: Marbadiah Rug – Song of Songs – Jerusalem, 1920s — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 101: Anti-Jewish Book by the Friar Minor Pietro Galatino, Printed by Gershom Soncino – Ortona (Italy), 1518 — $4,000 - $5,000
Lot 102: Birkat HaMazon for Jews and Christians – Missionary Book – Printed by Paul Fagius, Isny, 1542 — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 103: "Schutz-Pass" Signed by Raoul Wallenberg – With Letter Given to the Passport Bearer, — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 104: Collection of Items Connected to the Leo Frank Affair – His Lynching and the Legal Battle for his Exoneration, — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 105: Autograph Letter Signed by Albert Einstein – Dealing with the Rising Power of Nazi Germany – "There are diseases that — $15,000 - $25,000
Lot 106: Letter Hand Signed by Albert Einstein – Princeton, NJ, — $15,000 - $25,000
Lot 107: Carl Gustav Jung – Large Collection of Letters and Photographs – Letters, Handwritten and Typewritten, Signed by Jung, — $100,000 - $200,000
Lot 108: Shai Agnon – Large Collection of Letters Addressed to Various People, including Dov Kimhi, Yitzhak Lamdan, — $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 109: Fascinating Letter from Yemenite Rabbi Zadok ben Shalom Yitzhari to David Ben-Gurion – Early First-Hand Account of — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 110: Official Coalition Agreement – Formation of Israel's Fifth Government Headed by Moshe Sharett, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 111: The Israel-Egypt Peace Process – Collection of Unique Souvenir Items – Begin's and Sadat's Signatures and Special — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 112: Theodor Herzl – "Der Judenstaat" – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 113: Theodor Herzl – "Medinat HaYehudim" (Der Judenstaat) – First Hebrew Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 114: Theodor Herzl – "A Jewish State" – New York, 1904 – First American English-Language Edition — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 115: "Zionism in Word and Deed" – New York, — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 116: Theodor Herzl – "Altneuland" – Kiev, 1903 – One of the Earliest Russian Translations — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 117: Journey of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Holy Land – Large Collection of Postcards – 1898 — $20,000 - $30,000
Lot 118: Pictures of Palestine by Leo Kann – A Complete, Rare Series of 24 Large Photogravures – Vienna, 1912 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 119: German Imperial Flag – WWI Field Hospital in the Augusta Victoria Compound – Jerusalem, 1917 — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 120: Collection of "Fire Marks" – Palestine – 19th through Mid-20th Centuries – Hebrew-Language "Fire Marks" — $5,000 - $7,000