Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction May 8, 2024

Kedem, May 8, 2024. 107 lots, estimates 1500 - 120000 $.

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Lots in this catalog (107)

• Lot 37: Printed Aleph-Bet Chart – Ferrara, Ca. 1690 – Rare Chart — $2,500 - $3,500
• Lot 38: Printed Aleph-Bet Chart – Hebrew and Italian – Livorno, 1846 — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 39: Exquisite Torah Ark Curtain and Matching Torah Ark Valance – With Dedicatory Inscription of Salman son of Jakob Cleve — $80,000 - $100,000
• Lot 40: Large, Ornate Torah Case, with Matching Pair of Finials and Dedicatory Inscriptions – Rangoon, Burma, 1924 — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 41: Pair of Torah Finials – Filigreed Silver – Rotterdam, 19th Century — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 42: "Half-Crown" Torah Shield – Italy, 18th Century — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 43: Torah Shield and Torah Pointer – Antoni Riedel – Warsaw, 1884 / Ca. 1900 — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 44: Large Silver Hanukkah Lamp – Antoni Riedel – Warsaw, 1892 — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 45: Brass Hanukkah Lamp, Adorned with Putti Figures – Italy, 18th-19th Century — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 46: Hanukkah Lamp – Produced by "She'erit HaPletah" in the Marktredwitz DP Camp – Bavaria, 1947-1948 — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 47: Exquisite Silver Amulet Case – Ferrara, Italy, 18th Century — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 48: Four Ornamental Amulets / Gold Pendants – The Sassoon Family Collection — $2,500 - $3,000
• Lot 49: Small, Decorated Drinking Bowl – Afghanistan-Persia, 1930s-1940s – Dedicatory Inscription — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 50: Esther Scroll in Filigree Silver Case – Ottoman Empire (Greece) — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 51: Parchment Sheet – "Blessings over the Megillah" Framed by a Hand-Painted Engraving – Italy, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 52: Miniature Parchment Manuscript – Tefillat HaDerech and Kiddush Levanah – London, 1744 – Illustrated Title Page — $60,000 - $70,000
• Lot 53: Illustrated Parchment Ketubah – Iraqi Community in Singapore, 1899 — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 54: Legal Document on Parchment – Jewish Community of Ancona – Rome, 1710 — $2,500 - $3,500
• Lot 55: Miniature Illuminated Manuscript – Sefirat HaOmer, with Birkat HaLevanah and Piyyutim – Turin, 19th Century — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 56: Volume of Mohel Ledgers from Szeged – Documentation of Thousands of Circumcisions From 1806-1859 – Incantation against — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 57: Manuscript, Work on the Hebrew Calendar – Damascus, Ca. 18th Century — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 58: Ledger of the Chevra Kadisha of the Musta'arabi Community in Jerusalem – With Additions and Signatures by the Yisa — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 59: Avodat HaKodesh – First Book Printed in Jerusalem – Jerusalem, 1841 — $5,000 - $6,000
• Lot 60: Avodat HaKodesh – First Book Printed in Jerusalem – Jerusalem, 1841 – Variant — $5,000 - $6,000
• Lot 61: First Poster Printed in Jerusalem – Mudaat Zot – Jerusalem, 1841 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 62: Sefer HaTakanot – Jerusalem, 1842 – Including Rare Leaf of Approbations – Second Hebrew Book Printed in Jerusalem — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 63: Siddur Tefillat Yisrael – Jerusalem, 1842 – First Siddur Printed in Jerusalem — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 64: Passover Haggadah – Jerusalem, 1842 – First Haggadah Printed in Jerusalem — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 65: Printed Poster for a Sukkah – Ushpizin, — $5,000 - $6,000
• Lot 66: Mizrach Plaque – Chanukah Candle Lighting and Megillat Antiochus – Illustrations of Menorah and Holy Sites – Jerusalem, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 67: Calendar of Attributes of Days – Fine Lithographic Print – Jerusalem, 1862 – Exceptionally Rare, — $6,000 - $9,000
• Lot 68: Bat Ayin (Ovruch) – First Edition – Jerusalem, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 69: Meor Einayim (Chernobyl) – First Edition – Slavita, 1798 — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 70: Chumash with Or HaChaim and Prayer Service (Sefard Rite) – Zhitomir, 1854 – Complete Original Set, with All Title Pages — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 71: Tikkun Sofrim with Haftarot – Amsterdam, 1726 – Illustrated Title Pages, — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 72: Responsa Tashbetz – Amsterdam, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 73: Pair of Tefillin Dating to the First Generations of Chassidut – Given to the Maggid of Zlotchov by the Baal Shem Tov – — $100,000 - $250,000
• Lot 74: Early Parchment Amulet for Protection of the Home – Customarily Given by Rabbi Yeshayah of Kerestir and the Yismach — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 75: Letter of Rebbe Meir Rosenbaum – Kretshnif, Sivan 1905 – Blessing for "Good Success and Help of Heaven in All Matters" — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 76: Letter of Rebbe Aharon of Belz to Rebbe Yisrael of Chortkov – Belz, 1927 – Over Two Lines of Handwriting and Signature — $50,000 - $60,000
• Lot 77: Marriage Certificate – Signed by Rebbe Elazar Rosenfeld of Oshpitzin (Son-in-Law of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz) – — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 78: Rare Invitation to the Wedding of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – Warsaw, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 79: Likutei Torah (Arizal) – Copy of the Rebbe Maharash of Lubavitch, with His Signature – Lviv, 1854 — $20,000 - $30,000
• Lot 80: Tosefot Bikurim – Shklow, 1809 – Copy of R. — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 81: Set of Mikraot Gedolot Chumashim – Warsaw, 1860 – Copies of Rebbe Yehudale of Dzikov — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 82: Knesset HaGedolah – Izmir, 1731 – Copy of the Noda BiYehudah, with his Signature — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 83: Maayan HaChochmah – Rödelheim, 1804 – Dedication of Rabbi Betzalel Ronsburg – Glosses — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 84: Magen Avraham – Amsterdam, 1732 – Copy of the Kabbalist Rabbi Nathan Adler, Teacher of the Chatam Sofer — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 85: The First Bible Printed in Yiddish – Amsterdm, 1676-1679 – Copy of Rabbi Shlomo Eiger with his Signatures, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 86: Marcheshet – Handwritten Glosses by the Chazon Ish — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 87: Manuscript – Anthology of Works on Reincarnation – Unknown Recension from Circle of Rabbi Moshe Zacuto – Italy, — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 88: Manuscript, Etz Chaim by R. Chaim Vital – Sephardic Lands, 18th Century – Glosses by Charshak — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 89: Manuscript, Siddur Kavanat HaRashash – Copy of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak HaKohen Tarab – Early 20th Century — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 90: Manuscript – Novellae of Rabbi Yehonatan Eibeshitz, Handwritten by His Disciples – Unpublished Novellae — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 91: Five Notebooks Handwritten by Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Bamberger, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 92: Manuscript of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach – Various Topics in Laws of Shabbat — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 93: Manuscript of R. Shmuel Rozovsky, Dean of Ponevezh Yeshiva – Novellae on Various Matters — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 94: Manuscript Booklet – Halachic Responsum by Rabbi Shmuel Avigdor Tosfaah – Nyasvizh, Ca. 1854 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 95: Halachic Responsum Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor – Novardok, Ca. 1854 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 96: Letter from Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, Rabbi of Łódź – With Short Torah Responsum — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 97: Interesting, Lengthy Letter from the Rogatchover, Rabbi Yosef Rosen – Shanah Tovah Blessing and Torah Thoughts — $2,500 - $3,000
• Lot 98: Letter of Blessings and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz – Kamenets, — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 99: Receipt from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz's Trip to the United States – Brooklyn, Cheshvan 1928 — $2,000 - $5,000
• Lot 100: Two Letters from Rabbi Shmuel David HaLevi Ungar – Trnava, 1930 / Nitra, 1937 — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 101: Eighteen Letters from Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl – Trnava, Nitra, Vienna and Elsewhere – 1930-1934 — $10,000 - $18,000
• Lot 102: Abudarham – Lisbon, 1489 – Incunabulum – First Edition – Second Book Printed in Lisbon — $10,000 - $12,000
• Lot 103: Rabbenu Bachya on the Torah – Naples, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 104: Hasagot HaRamban on Sefer HaMitzvot by the Rambam – Constantinople, — $40,000 - $60,000
• Lot 105: Pirkei Rabbi Eliezer – Constantinople, 1514 – First Edition – Copy of the Rothschild Collection, in Elaborate Binding — $80,000 - $120,000
• Lot 106: Rashi Commentary on the Torah and Five Megillot – Venice, — $100,000 - $150,000
• Lot 107: Itinerary of Rabbi Binyamin of Tudela – Constantinople, 1543 – First Edition – Highly Important Jewish Travelogue — $100,000 - $150,000
• Lot 108: Hanhagat HaChaim – First Book Printed in Ladino – Thessaloniki, 1564 — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 109: Sermon of Maharal of Prague for Shabbat HaGadol – Prague, 1589 – Rare First Edition — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 110: Sefer Minhagim – Venice, 1593 – First Illustrated Edition, with the Famous, — $120,000 - $160,000
• Lot 111: Year-Round Ashkenazi Rite Siddur – Venice, 1587 – Exceptionally Rare Edition – Fine Copy — $18,000 - $25,000
• Lot 112: Ashkenazi-Rite Machzor, Part II – Venice, 1600 – Hundreds of Glosses (Book-Length) Handwritten by Rabbi Avraham Segre, — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 113: Siddur for Festivals – Venice, 1603 – Only Extant Copy — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 114: Year-Round Roman Rite Siddur – Venice, 1616 – Only Extant Copy — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 115: "Portae Lucis" – Rabbi Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla – Augsburg, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 116: Rabbi Jacob Judah Leon (Templo) – Rare Edition of Two of his Works: Solomon’s Temple and the Structure of the — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 117: "Las Excelencias de los Hebreos" by Isaac Cardoso, a Descendant of Marranos from Portugal – Amsterdam, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 118: "Letters to the Jews" – Book in Defence of Judaism – New York, — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 119: Pietro Della Valle – Memorial Book Dedicated to his Wife, Sitti Maani, 1627 / Book about the Persian Shah, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 120: Lord Byron – Hebrew Melodies, London, 1823 – Copy with a Fore-Edge Painted Panorama of Jerusalem — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 121: Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) – "Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives" – Signed Etching — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 122: "Libellus de Judaica confessione" – Johannes Pfefferkorn – Nuremberg, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 123: The Rinn Blood Libel – Innsbruck, 1745 – Engraving Depicting the Alleged Murder of the Young Boy Anderl Oxner — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 124: Antisemitic Composition – Call to Expel "The Pope’s Jews" from Avignon, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 125: "The Diary of Anne Frank" – Amsterdam, June 1947 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 126: Gershom Scholem – Autograph Draft of an Article, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 127: Sigmund Freud – Signed Autograph Letter – Vienna, — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 128: Theodor Herzl – "Der Judenstaat" – First Edition, with Original Cover — $6,000 - $10,000
• Lot 129: Pendant with Portrait of Theodor Herzl – "Day of the Shekel", 1919 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 130: Writ Signed by Mordecai Manuel Noah – American "Visionary of the Jewish State", — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 131: Mordecai Manuel Noah – Collection of Newspaper Issues with Articles on the Establishment of "Ararat" – USA, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 132: "Sefer Barkai" by Naftali Herz Imber – First Printing of "Hatikvah" – Jerusalem, 1886 — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 133: Handwritten Palestine Travelogue – Visit of an American Tourist to the Holy Land under Ottoman Rule, 1855 — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 134: Large Collection – Postcards Documenting Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Visit to the Holy Land, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 135: Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Visit to Jerusalem – A Collection of Unique Ephemera – Map of the Imperial Tent Camp, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 136: The Palestinian Arab Delegation to London – Collection of Documents, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 137: Ship’s Deck Log Book – Illegal Immigrant Ship "Atzma’ut", 1947-1948 – Filled Out in Handwriting by the Ship’s Captain, — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 138: Collection of Orders and Military Documents – End of the British Mandate for Palestine, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 139: Declaration of Independence – Entrance Ticket, Official Invitation, — $7,000 - $12,000
• Lot 140: "The State of Israel is Born" – Autograph Postcard, — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 141: Proclamation by the Provisional Government of Israel – May 14, 1948 — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 142: Extensive Collection of Israel's State Day Newspaper Issues, May 14-16, 1948 — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 143: State of Israel Banknotes – All the Series from the Establishment of the State until the Issue of the New Israeli — $5,000 - $6,000