Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction Feb 28, 2023
Kedem, Feb 28, 2023. 259 lots.
Kedem -
בקטלוג פרק נרחב המוקדש לתולדות ארץ ישראל וההתיישבות, ובו מספר פריטים יחידאיים - יומן בכתב-ידו של אחד ממעפילי ה"אקסודוס", מתווים מקוריים לסמל המדינה (שלא התקבלו לבסוף), וארכיון ענק, יחיד מסוגו, המתעד את פעילות חוות ההכשרה של דוד בן גוריון הצעיר ואלכסנדר זייד - חוות סג'רה ההיסטורית.
לצדם, מוצעים בקטלוג פריטים חשובים מראשית ימי הציונות והקונגרסים הציוניים, ובהם מכתב בחתימת-ידו של בנימין זאב הרצל – מכתב יוצא דופן החתום כנשיא "אוצר התיישבות היהודים", מהדורות ראשונות של החיבורים ההיסטוריים "מדינת היהודים" ו"אוטואמנציפציה!", ועוד.
בפרק השואה והאנטישמיות מוצעים, בין היתר, אוסף דרכונים גרמנים שהונפקו במיוחד ליהודים – "דרכוני J" – המתעדים את דרכו וגורלו של כל בעלים, דרכון דרכון וחותמותיו, תריסר גיליונות של העיתון הרשמי של גטו לודז' בעריכת מרדכי חיים רומקובסקי, ושתי מהדורות ראשונות של "הפרוטוקולים של זקני ציון" – הראשונות לראות אור באנגליה וארה"ב.
פרק האוטוגרפים מציע מכתב בכתב-ידו של הקצין היהודי אלפרד דרייפוס, ובו התייחסות נדירה ביותר למשפטו ולאמיל זולא – מהאזכורים המעטים לפרשה במכתביו, ולצדו גלויה משותפת, יחידה במינה, מאת מנהיגי "פועלי ציון" – דוד בן-גוריון, יצחק בן צבי, ברל לוקר ואחרים – כולם חתומים על גביה, וכן מכתבים בחתימות ידם של אלברט איינשטיין ומארק שאגאל, ועוד.
לצד כל אלו, מוצעים בקטלוג מהדורות נאות של כתבי ש"י עגנון, ספרי המקרא והמגילות, עותקים מן המהדורה הראשונה של ספרי פרנץ קפקא, יצירות אמנות והדפס מעשה ידי הרמן שטרוק, יעקב שטיינהרדט, פבלו פיקסו, ראובן רובין, נחום גוטמן ואחרים, ופריטים נוספים.
Lots in this catalog (259)
- Lot 1: Theodor Herzl – Signed Letter – Vienna, 1901
- Lot 2: Theodor Herzl – "Der Judenstaat" – First Edition (Incomplete Copy)
- Lot 3: "The Basel Congress" by Theodor Herzl – Vienna, 1897 – First Edition
- Lot 4: Second Zionist Congress – Delegate's Card Issued to Fabius Schach / Official Protocol, 1898
- Lot 5: Leon (Yehudah Leib) Pinsker, "Autoemancipation!
- Lot 6: "Album of the Holy Land" – American-Zionist Pictorial Album, Issued for the Zionist Congress in Basel – New York,
- Lot 7: Photo Album – Young Zionists in Koło, Poland,
- Lot 8: Album of Photographs – Hashomer Hatzair, 1920s-1930s – Belarus, Poland and Palestine
- Lot 9: "The Youth" – Volume of Issues – Tushiya, Warsaw, 1903-1905 – Eulogy for Theodor Herzl
- Lot 10: Gilt Lapel Pin bearing Relief Portrait of Theodor Herzl
- Lot 11: Leather Wallet – Presented by JNF Lithuania to Menachem Ussishkin – Kaunas, 1929 – Portraits of Herzl and Ussishkin
- Lot 12: Collection of Calendars – JNF – Cover Designs by Joseph Budko, Pesach Ir-Shay, Otte Wallish
- Lot 13: Collection of Membership Cards and Items of Ephemera – JNF and Various Charity Organizations and Zionist Bodies,
- Lot 14: Commemorative Album – Photographs from the Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Palestine – Taken by Empress Augusta Victoria
- Lot 15: Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Palestine – "Document on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Evangelical Church of the
- Lot 16: Sejera Farm – Thousands of Transaction Receipts, Bound in 44 Volumes – 1901-1913
- Lot 17: Collection of Architectural Drawings for Synagogues in Safed – Engineer Adolphe Starkmeth – Safed / Rosh Pinna, 1915
- Lot 18: "Small Guidebook for the Jewish Tourist in Palestine" – Vienna, 1911 – Inked Stamp of Hotel Kaminitz
- Lot 19: Hotel Hess, Tel-Aviv – Collection of Paper Items
- Lot 20: Purim – Collection of Photographs, Entrance Tickets to Parties, Lottery Tickets, and More
- Lot 21: Collection of Photographic Postcards – Maccabi and the Maccabiah Games, 1920s-1930s – Reuven Gross, Yosef Ironi,
- Lot 22: The Boxer Jack Levy – Collection of Medals, Photographs, and Letters,
- Lot 23: The Bertram-Luke Commission – Report on the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem,
- Lot 24: Four Posters and a Paper Sign – Organizations for the Promotion of the Hebrew Language – Poster Designed by I. Kagan
- Lot 25: Assassination of Chaim Arlozorov – Collection of Notices, Posters and Newspapers, 1933-1934
- Lot 26: A.B.C. of the Arab Case in Palestine – Jaffa, 1936
- Lot 27: "Right or Wrong, How to Act During an Air Raid" – Board Game – Published by the Shemen Factory in Haifa. WWII
- Lot 28: Handwritten Diary of one of the Exodus Illegal Immigrants – 1947
- Lot 29: Identification Tag and Three Medals – Fighters of the Irgun
- Lot 30: Decorated Wooden Album Cover – Latrun Detention Camp, 1946
- Lot 31: Album with a Carved Wood Cover – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947/1948
- Lot 32: Album with a Wooden Cover Inlaid with Stone – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1948/1949
- Lot 33: Chiseled Stone Plaque Set in Wood – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947/1948
- Lot 34: Wooden Box Inlaid with Carved Stone Plaque – The Bridge Between the Winter Camps in Cyprus – Cyprus, 1947/1948
- Lot 35: Wooden Box Inlaid with Carved Stone Plaques – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947/1948
- Lot 36: Album with Stone Cover / Collection of Photographs – Cyprus Detention Camps
- Lot 37: Wooden Box with Inlaid Carved Stone Plaques – "On the Rivers of Cyprus" – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1948/1949
- Lot 38: Wood and Stone Box – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947/1948
- Lot 39: "The State of Israel Has Been Established" – "BaAretz", Wall Newspaper Published by JNF, 1948
- Lot 40: "We Willed It – It Is No Longer a Fairy-tale" – Zionist-Revisionist Poster – The Establishment of the State of Israel
- Lot 41: Four Proposals for the Emblem of Israel – Sketches by David Gilboa – 1948
- Lot 42: Israel's War of Independence – Large Collection of Paper Items, 1948-49 – Draft Documents, Photos,
- Lot 43: Collection of Letters – Bringing the Fallen of Israel's War of Independence to Burial,
- Lot 44: Conquest of Gaza during the Sinai Campaign – Collection of Decrees and Documents Issued by the Israeli Military
- Lot 45: Manuscript: "The Golan Heights, " 1967-68 – Comprehensive Study, with Maps and Illustrations,
- Lot 46: "Kriah", Protest Publication – The "Balfour Protests" – All Issues Published Thus Far – July 2020 till July 2021
- Lot 47: "Mass'ei Yisrael" / "Even Sapir" – Two Travelogues documenting Journeys to the Jewish Diaspora – 19th Century
- Lot 48: Collection of Forms from the Registry of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki after the Great Fire of 1917 – 1923-1924
- Lot 49: Illuminated Certificate of Appreciation, for the President of the Nottingham Palestine Association – Nottingham,
- Lot 50: Yiddish Manifest: Recruitment of British Jews into the Military – London, WWI – "Jewish War Services Committee",
- Lot 51: Collection of Printed Items – Aid Organization "Federation of Ukrainian Jews" – London, 1920s
- Lot 52: "Makabbi Riga" – Program of the 20th Anniversary of Maccabi in Riga, 1938 – Color Illustration
- Lot 53: "The Different Classes of Human Life" – Antisemitic Print – Frankfurt, mid-19th Century
- Lot 54: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – First English Edition – London, 1920
- Lot 55: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – First American Edition – Boston, 1920
- Lot 56: The International Jew – A Series of Antisemitic Books Published by Henry Ford – Michigan, 1920-1922
- Lot 57: German Passport Issued to a Jewish Woman – Marked with the Letter J – Issued in the German Consulate in Jaffa
- Lot 58: German Passport Issued to a Jewish Woman – Marked with the Letter J – Wuppertal, 1935
- Lot 59: German Passport Issued to a Jewish Woman – Marked with the Letter J – Vienna,
- Lot 60: German Passport Issued to a Jewish Man – Marked with the Letter J – Kraków, 1938
- Lot 61: German Passport, Marked with the Letter J – A Jewish Girl who Perished in Auschwitz
- Lot 62: German Passport Issued to a Jewish Man – Marked with the Letter J – Breslau,
- Lot 63: Four German Passports for Jewish Aliens ("Fremdenpass") – Passport Stamped with the Letter J – Used to Escape to
- Lot 64: Medical Personnel Questionnaires – Issued to Jews – Nazi-Occupied Ukraine, 1942
- Lot 65: Ghetto-Zeitung – Newspaper of the Lodz Ghetto – Issues 1-12, March-May 1941
- Lot 66: Press Photograph – Liberation of Bergen Belsen – April, 1945
- Lot 67: "Majdanek" – Portfolio of Prints, 1945 – Red Army Artist Zinowij Tolkaczew (1903-1977)
- Lot 68: Provisional Identification Card of a Mauthausen Inmate – Mauthausen Concentration Camp following its Liberation by the
- Lot 69: Collection of Letters and Documents belonging to a Theresienstadt Survivor, 1945-49
- Lot 70: Autograph Letter Signed by Alfred Dreyfus – Rare Reference to the Dreyfus Affair, "Zola's beautiful letter,
- Lot 71: Letter Signed by Albert Einstein – Princeton, 1939
- Lot 72: Albert Schweitzer – Six Paper Items with Presentation Inscriptions to Members of the Dayan Family,
- Lot 73: Marc Chagall – Hand-Signed Letter – France, 1961 – "I am preparing large stained-glass windows for Jerusalem"
- Lot 74: "Trial and Error", by Chaim Wezimann – Published by Shocken, 1949 – First Edition –Signed by Weizmann
- Lot 75: Collection of Letters addressed to the Zionist Attorney Dr. Moses Doukhan – Hand Signed by Chaim Weizmann,
- Lot 76: Poems, Stories and Translations by Ze'ev Jabotinsky (Altalena) – Paris, 1930 – Three-Volume Edition,
- Lot 77: "Yud" – Book of Poetry by Moshe Broderzon – Lodz,
- Lot 78: Postcard – Signed by David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Berl Locker,
- Lot 79: Autograph Letter Signed by David Ben-Gurion – Tel Aviv,
- Lot 80: "Mishpat Shalom" – Mendele's Mocher Seforim's First Book – Vilna, 1860
- Lot 81: "Ithiel the Cushite of Venice" – Hebrew Translation of "Othello" – Earliest Hebrew Translation of a Complete
- Lot 82: Franz Kafka – Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist, Four Stories) – First Edition – Berlin, 1924
- Lot 83: Franz Kafka, Amerika – First Edition – Munich, 1927
- Lot 84: Franz Kafka – Three First Editions – 1919-1926
- Lot 85: Collection of Books and Periodicals – Saint Petersburg, Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Lot 86: Seven Books in Yiddish (Bound Together) – Scientific Works and Translations from Russian – New York,
- Lot 87: Five Books – Hebrew Grammar / Slavic Words in the Hebrew Language – Saint Petersburg – 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Lot 88: Five Books in Russian – Talmud and Jewish Philosophy – Saint Petersburg, 1870-1926
- Lot 89: Six Books in Russian – Zionism, Settlement in Palestine, Jewish History,
- Lot 90: The Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia – The First Russian-Language Jewish Encyclopedia – Complete Set – Saint
- Lot 91: "Voskhod", Russian-Jewish Periodical – Saint Petersburg, 1881-1902
- Lot 92: "Jewish Life", Russian-Language Jewish-Zionist Periodical – Saint Petersburg, 1904-1907
- Lot 93: Early Advertisement Brochure,
- Lot 94: Jewish Socialist Paper "Der Morgenstern" – Issue No. 1, New York, 1890
- Lot 95: "Dos Naye Wort" (The New Word), Organ of the Independent Workmen's Circle – Boston, USA – Issues of 1914-1932
- Lot 96: Proletarishe Derziung,
- Lot 97: "Star of David" – Newsletter for Jewish Soldiers in the American Army – Japan and Papua New Guinea, 1945-1946
- Lot 98: "Der Idisher Advokat" – Collection of Issues – Cape Town, 1904-1914
- Lot 99: Two Jewish Periodicals – English and Yiddish – London, 1920s
- Lot 100: Ha'ischa ("The Woman") – Organ of the Dutch National Council of Jewish Women – Seven Volumes of Issues, 1932-1939
- Lot 101: "Schlemiel" – Humorous Artistic Periodical – Issues 1-24 – Berlin, 1919-1920
- Lot 102: "Der Chaver", Periodical for Children – Vilnius, 1920-1921 – Bound Volume of Issues, First Year of Publication
- Lot 103: "Illustrated Children's Library Shibolim" – Bound Volume of Booklets – Warsaw, 1920s
- Lot 104: "The Miller, His Wife and Their Millstones" – Illustrations by El Lissitzky – Warsaw, 1922
- Lot 105: "Five Blind Men" – Illustrated Children's Book – "Omanut" Publishers, 1922
- Lot 106: "The Ship and the Barge" – Illustrated Children's Book – "Omanut" Publishers, 1922
- Lot 107: "The Magic Ship" – Illustrated Children's Book – "Omanut" Publishers, 1922
- Lot 108: "The Jackals and the Elephant" – Illustrated Children's Book – "Omanut" Publishers
- Lot 109: "Esser Sichot LiYeladim" – Illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud – Jerusalem-Berlin, 1923
- Lot 110: "Sefer Hadevarim" ("The Book of Things") – Poems by Haim Nachman Bialik,
- Lot 111: "Book of Fulfilled Wishes" – Tom Seidmann-Freud – Germany, 1929
- Lot 112: "Artistic Alphabet" – Ben-Zion Zuckerman – Vilnius, 1920
- Lot 113: Aleph-Bet – Hermann Fechenbach – Berlin, 1936
- Lot 114: "Illustrated Alphabet" – Tel Aviv, 1920s
- Lot 115: "Aleph-Bet" – Poems by Levin Kipnis, Illustrations by Ze'ev Raban – Berlin, 1923
- Lot 116: "Ma'ase HaEz", Children's Book by S.Y. Agnon – Illustrations by Ze'ev Raban – Jerusalem, 1925
- Lot 117: "Aleph" – Illustrations by Meir Gur-Aryeh and Ze'ev Raban – Tel-Aviv, 1930
- Lot 118: Advertising Cards Illustrated by Peretz Ruschkewitz – "Totzeret HaAretz" (Local Produce) – Palestine, 1930s or 1940s
- Lot 119: Grete Wolf-Krakauer (1890-1970) – Original Sketches for a Game of Blocks aimed at Teaching the Letters of the Hebrew
- Lot 120: Photograph – Boris Schatz and Students of Bezalel
- Lot 121: The Five Books of Moses – 47 Lithographs by Abel Pann
- Lot 122: "Come,
- Lot 123: Three Lithographs – Shmuel Ben David and Avraham Gerzowitsch (Gershoni) – Bezalel
- Lot 124: Avraham Gerzowitsch (Gershoni) – The Dome of the Rock – Lithograph
- Lot 125: Nechemia Bedarshi (1897-1953) – Sketch for a Filigree Work – Cover for "Sefer HaYovel", 1916
- Lot 126: Nechemia Bedarshi (1897-1953) – Portrait of Theodor Herzl – Sketch for a Filigree Work
- Lot 127: Nechemia Bedarshi (1897-1953) – Portrait of Theodor Herzl – Miniature
- Lot 128: Nechemia Bedarshi (1897-1953) – Rachel's Tomb – Miniature
- Lot 129: Nechemia Bedarshi (1897-1953) – Dome of the Rock – Miniature
- Lot 130: Nehemia Bedarshi (1897-1953) – Nachlaot, 1925 – Oil on Canvas
- Lot 131: Ten Bookplates – Hermann Struck, Joseph Budko, E. M. Lilien, and Others
- Lot 132: Large, High-Quality Collection of Bookplates – Europe, USA and Palestine, 20th Century
- Lot 133: The Book of Bereshit – Published by the Soncino-Gesellschaft – Berlin, 1931
- Lot 134: Legende von Rabbi Elia dem Einfaeltigen, by Abraham Horodisch – Limited Edition – Berlin, 1934
- Lot 135: S.Y. Agnon – "Atem Re'item" – Bibliophile Edition, Numbered – Jerusalem, 1959
- Lot 136: Koren Bible – Jerusalem, 1963 – First Edition
- Lot 137: The Birds' Head Haggadah – Facsimile Edition, Tarshish Publishing House – Jerusalem, 1965-67
- Lot 138: The Song of Songs, Illuminated by Owen Jones – Chromolithographed English Edition – London, 1849 – Fine Binding
- Lot 139: The Song of Songs – Limited Edition with Signed Etchings by Willy Jaeckel – Berlin, 1923
- Lot 140: The Song of Songs – Bibliophile Edition in German, with Hand-drawn Initials – Hanover, 1920
- Lot 141: Book of Ruth, Russian Translation – Woodcuts by Vladimir Favorsky – Moscow, 1925
- Lot 142: Ephraim Moses Lilien – Collection of Books,
- Lot 143: Uriel Birnbaum – Collection of Books / Passover Greeting Card
- Lot 144: Donna Johanna von Castilien, by Jakob Wassermann – Lithographs by Hans Meid – Fine, Gilt-Decorated Leather Binding
- Lot 145: "Die Balalaika" by Arthur Silbergleit – Lithographs by Hermann Struck – Limited Edition,
- Lot 146: Vilna – Poem by Zalman Shneur – Lithographs by Hermann Struck – Berlin, 1923
- Lot 147: Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968) – "Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem", 1938 – Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
- Lot 148: Jacob Pins (1917-2005) – "Beggars Quarreling", 1953 – Woodcut
- Lot 149: Jacob Pins (1917-2005) – Portrait of a Woman, 1992 – Woodcut
- Lot 150: Anatoly Kaplan – "The Enchanted Tailor" – Lithographs