Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction Dec 3, 2019

Kedem, Dec 3, 2019. 153 lots, estimates 1500 - 120000 $.

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Lots in this catalog (153)

• Lot 1: Miniature Torah Scroll – Poland, 19th Century / Velvet Mantle with Gold Embroidery and Rhinestones – Europe, — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 2: Illuminated Parchment Esther Scroll – Italy, 18th Century — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 3: Large, Illuminated Esther Scroll – Hungary and Eretz Israel, 19th Century — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 4: Parchment Esther Scroll – Illustrations and Gold Leaf — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 5: Ornamented Parchment Manuscript – Prayers and Blessings for the Torah Reading – Eiwanowitz, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 6: Birkat Kohanim Amulet – Italy, 18th/19th Century – Protection from Evil Eye and for a Mother and Her Newborn — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 7: Manuscript Ilan Sefirot – Long Parchment Scroll – 18th/19th Century — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 8: Illuminated Parchment Ketubah – Ancona, 1741 — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 9: anuscript, VeYiten Lecha Prayer for Motzaei Shabbat – Segulah for Livelihood and Success – Italy, 19th Century — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 10: Illustrated Parchment Manuscript – Keter Kehuna – Prayers for the High Holidays, Three Festivals, and More – Pápa, 1833 — $12,000 - $20,000
• Lot 11: Sephardic Manuscript – Kohelet and Shir HaShirim, with the Rashi Commentary – 14th/15th Century — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 12: Manuscript – Rashi Commentary on the Torah – Yemen, 14th/15th Century — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 13: Homily Handwritten by Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Algazi – Jerusalem, 1742 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 14: Manuscript, Otzerot Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Vital – Europe, 18th Century — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 15: Collection of Draft Leaves Handwritten by the Steipler – Glosses and Additions to His Books Kehilot Yaakov — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 16: Certificate of Appointment for Rabbi Meir Margolies, Author of Meir Netivim, — $120,000 - $150,000
• Lot 17: Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Natan of Breslov (Moharnat) – From Sefer HaChezyonot by Rabbi Chaim Vital — $18,000 - $22,000
• Lot 18: Two Letters – From Rebbe Ze'ev Wolf of Strikov and Rebbe Dov Berish of Biala – To Their Father, — $30,000 - $40,000
• Lot 19: Letter of Good Year Wishes from the First Rebbe of Biala, R. Yitzchak Yaakov Author of Divrei Bina – 1886 — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 20: Letter Signed by Rebbe Mordechai Dov Twersky of Hornostaipil, Son-in-Law of the Divrei Chaim — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 21: Manuscript, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 22: Lengthy and Interesting Halachic Responsum from R. — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 23: Photograph of the Rebbe of Belz – Postcard Sent to a Nazi Soldier During the Holocaust — $2,000 - $6,000
• Lot 24: Lengthy Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Baal Shem of Michelstadt Rabbi Zekel Leib Wormser – "Good Advice" — $50,000 - $60,000
• Lot 25: Approbation Signed by Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg Author of HaKetav VehaKabbalah — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 26: Letter from Leading German Rabbis to the Prussian Minister of War – Handwritten by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 27: Collection of Letters from German Rabbis – Regarding Laying Flowers in Honor of the Deceased – Including Letters from — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 28: Letter from the Chafetz Chaim – Radin, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 29: Three Letters from Rabbi Shimon Shkop – Grodno, 1938 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 30: Marriage Certificate Signed by Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk, as Mesader Kiddushin – Jerusalem, 1946 – Rare — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 31: Tena'im – For the Betrothal of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky – Jerusalem, Iyar 1951 — $4,000 - $8,000
• Lot 32: Mishneh Torah by the Rambam – Complete Set, — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 33: Mishneh Torah by the Rambam – Volume IV – Nezikin-Shoftim – Venice, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 34: Signature of R. Moshe Yonah Rabbi of Safed, Disciple of the Arizal – On the Title Page of Bechinat Olam, Venice, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 35: Avot Olam – Venice, 1719 – Copy of the Ramchal — $20,000 - $40,000
• Lot 36: Machzor Shaar Bat Rabim – Two Parts – Venice, 1711-1715 – Handwritten Kabbalistic Glosses, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 37: Ner Mitzva and Torah Or – Venice, 1598-1600 – Copy of Rabbi Yaakov ibn Tzur, the Yaavetz, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 38: Tzurat HaAretz by the Gaon of Vilna – Signatures of Rabbi Moshe Chaim of Baghdad and His Son Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim – — $4,000 - $8,000
• Lot 39: Torat Zevach – Lemberg, 1848 – Copy of the Author Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried Author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 40: Chafetz Chaim – First Edition – Glosses Handwritten by the Author — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 41: Chazon Ish on Tractates Gittin and Kiddushin – Vilna, 1932 – First Edition – Personal Copy of the Author, — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 42: Toldot Yaakov Yosef – Korets, 1780 – First Edition – First Printed Chassidic Book – Segulah Book — $20,000 - $40,000
• Lot 43: Maggid Devarav LeYaakov – Korets, 1784 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 44: Noam Elimelech – Second, Rare Edition – Shklow, 1790 – First Chassidic Book Printed in Shklow — $20,000 - $40,000
• Lot 45: Noam Elimelech – Slavita, 1794 – Printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira – With the Approbation of Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 46: Mevaser Tzedek (Zlotchov) – First Edition – Dubno, 1798 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 47: Otot HaShamayim, by Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Strizov, Teacher of the Yismach Moshe – Zhitomir, 1805 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 48: Kedushat Levi – Zhovkva, 1806 – Second Edition Printed in the Author's Lifetime — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 49: Likutei Maharin and Toldot Yitzchak ben Levi – Berditchev, 1811 – First Edition — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 50: Degel Machaneh Efraim – Korets, 1810 – First Edition — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 51: Or Pnei Moshe – By Rabbi Moshe Sofer of Pshevorsk – Mezeritch, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 52: Sidduro Shel Shabbat – First Edition – Mohyliv, 1813 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 53: Likutei Moharan Kama – First Edition – Ostroh, 1808 – Foremost Book of the Writings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 54: Likutei Moharan Tinyana – First Edition – Mohyliv, 1811 – Segulah Book — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 55: Toldot Aharon – Berditchev, 1817 – First Edition – Wide Margins — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 56: Ahavat Shalom (Kosov) – Lviv, 1833 – First Edition — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 57: Maor VaShemesh – First Edition, Breslau, 1842 – With False Imprints for "Lemberg, 1785" — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 58: Bnei Yissaschar – Zhovkva, 1846 – First Edition, Printed Without Title Page, with a Fine, — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 59: Bat Ayin – First Edition – Jerusalem, 1847 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 60: Be'er Mayim Chaim – Zhitomir, 1860 — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 61: Ohev Yisrael – Zhitomir, 1863 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 62: Or HaGanuz – First Edition – Segulah Book – Lviv, 1866 — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 63: Beit Aharon (Karlin) – Brody, 1875, First Edition – Fine, Exceptionally Wide-Margined Copy, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 64: Zohar Chai (Komarno) – Lviv-Premishla, 1875-1881 – First Edition – Complete Set — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 65: Likutei Amarim – Tanya – Zhovkva, 1798 – First Edition of Igeret HaTeshuva Mahadura Kama — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 66: Likutei Amarim – Tanya – Zhovkva, After 1805 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 67: Or HaGanuz LaTzaddikim – Teachings of the Baal HaTanya – Zhovkva, 1800 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 68: Biurei HaZohar – Kopust, 1816 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 69: Ner Mitzva VeTorah Or – Kopust, 1820 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 70: Imrei Binah – Kopust, 1821 – First Edition — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 71: Three Books – First Editions of the Three Parts of Shaar HaTeshuva VehaTefillah, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 72: Responsa of the Baal HaTanya – Zhitomir, 1857 – Exceptionally Wide Margins / Bound with Other Books — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 73: Zohar Chadash – One of the First Books Printed in Slavita by Rabbi Moshe Shapira – Slavita, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 74: Chok LeYisrael – Slavita, 1825-1826 – Complete Set – First Edition of Chok LeYisrael Printed in Slavita — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 75: Tikkun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba – Slavita, 1827 — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 76: Mishnayot with Commentaries – Slavita, 1822 / 1830 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 77: Tikunei HaZohar – Printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira – Slavita, 1821 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 78: Tikunei Zohar – Zhitomir, 1863 – Glosses Handwritten by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 79: Tehillim with the Amarot Tehorot Commentary – Zhitomir, 1857 — $10,000 - $12,000
• Lot 80: Kitvei Kodesh – Tehillim and Mishlei with Commentaries – Zhitomir, 1856 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 81: Passover Haggadah – Zhitomir, 1863 – Commentary of the Maggid of Chernobyl to Chad Gadya — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 82: Siddur HaRav MiLiadi (Baal HaTanya) – Zhitomir, 1863-1864 – Two Volumes — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 83: Arizal Siddur Kol Yaakov – First Edition – Slavita, 1804 – Siddur Chassidic Leaders Prayed from Regularly — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 84: Rabbi Yaakov Emden's Siddur – First Edition –Altona, 1745-1748 – All Three Parts — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 85: Machzor for Yom Kippur – Venice, 1792 – With a Printed Leaf, "Prayer for VaYaavor" by the Or HaChaim HaKadosh – Unicum — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 86: Tefillat Yisrael Siddur with Derech HaChaim – Altona, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 87: Tehillim, with the Naava Tehilla Commentary – Jerusalem, 1845 – Early Jerusalem Publication — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 88: Kehillot Moshe – Set of Large-Format Mikraot Gedolot – Amsterdam, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 89: Five Books of the Torah – English Translation by Isaac Leeser – Philadelphia, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 90: Ho'il Moshe Be'er – Two Volumes, Bereshit and Bamidbar – Rare Edition, — $12,000 - $15,000
• Lot 91: Tractate Bechorot – Venice, 1522 – Printed by Bomberg, First Edition — $12,000 - $15,000
• Lot 92: Six Orders of the Mishnah with the Commentaries of the Rambam and Rabbi Ovadia of Bartenura, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 93: Two Rare Sheets of Paper – Printed in Amsterdam 1709, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 94: Shenei Luchot HaBrit – First Edition – Amsterdam, 1648 — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 95: Igeret Baalei Chaim – Mantua, 1557 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 96: Terrae Sanctae, by Jacob Ziegler – The First Atlas of Palestine – Strasbourg, 1536 – Eight Maps — $6,000 - $10,000
• Lot 97: Dr. Israel Mehlman's Library – Thousands of Books on Various Topics — $40,000 - $50,000
• Lot 98: Collection of Items from the Home of the "Holy Shoemaker" Rabbi Moshe Yaakov Rabikov — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 99: il Painting by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Leon Patilon, "The Holy Painter" – Safed Alleyway — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 100: Silver Hanukkah Lamp – Warsaw, 1892 – Long-term Loan to the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 101: Carved Torah Ark Cresting – Romania, Late 19th or Early 20th Century — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 102: Passover Seder Plate by David Heinz Gumbel – "Chad Gadya" – Jerusalem, 1940s — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 103: Large Comprehensive Collection of "Görlitz Shekels" – Europe and the USA, 17th-20th Centuries — $12,000 - $15,000
• Lot 104: Collection of Documents and Letters Signed by Kings and Emperors – Europe, 16th-20th Centuries — $12,000 - $15,000
• Lot 105: Prayers for the Recovery of Empress Maria Theresa from Smallpox – Printed Booklet Issued by the Mantua Community, — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 106: Collection of Printed Booklets and Broadsides – The Jewish Community of Rome – Late 16th Century to Early 19th Century — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 107: Collection of Printed Booklets and Broadsides – The Jewish Community of Mantua – The 16th Century to the 18th Century — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 108: Important Collection of Seder HaHaaracha Booklets and Pragmatika Broadsides from the Jewish Community of Mantua – Tax — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 109: A Letter from Constantinople to Rome, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 110: Napoleon and the Jews – Various Printed Items – Prayers and Poems in Honor of Napoleon and Official Publications of — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 111: A Booklet Calling for the Establishment of an Assembly of Jewish Notables – The Assembly Convened Before the Grand — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 112: Four Printed Booklets – The Israelite Central Consistory of France / A Prayer for Empress Marie Louise – 1809-1811 — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 113: Collection of Handwritten and Printed Documents – Documentation of The Vienna Israelite Community (IKG) from Its Early — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 114: Two Notebooks with Thousands of Examples of Stamps Manufactured in Jerusalem and Palestine, 1924-1931 — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 115: Advertising Poster of the "Beit HaAm" Cinema – Screening of a Film Documenting the Boxing Match between Max Baer and — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 116: "How to Prevent and Fight Infectious Diseases? — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 117: Wooden Hanukkah Lamp Made by a Jewish Prisoner at an Internment Camp on the Isle of Man – April 1941 – With a — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 118: Collection of Appraisals of Jewish-Owned Houses in Occupied France, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 119: "Protection Certificate" Issued by the Swedish Red Cross – Budapest, — $7,000 - $10,000
• Lot 120: Manuscript, Ledger of the Beit Din for Releasing Agunot and Agunim in the Wake of the Holocaust – Bergen Belsen Camp, — $6,000 - $10,000
• Lot 121: A Letter Handwritten and Signed by Theodor Herzl – Vienna, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 122: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Jacob Herzl, Theodor Herzl's Father – Vienna, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 123: Handwritten Leaf – Messianic Calculations by a Convert to the Bahá'í Faith — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 124: Three Photographic Postcards – Rare Documentation of Jewish Exiles from Palestine on Board of the United States Navy — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 125: An Interesting Letter Handwritten by Joseph Trumpeldor – London, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 126: Embroidered Torah Ark Curtain – The Balfour Declaration in the Form of a Menorah – A Decade Since the Balfour — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 127: The Cyprus Detention Camps – A Comprehensive Collection of Documents, Photographs, Philatelic Items, Works of Art, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 128: "In the Cyprus Exile", — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 129: Draft of an Article by David Ben-Gurion, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 130: Collection of Letters and Paper Items from the Estate of Dov Yosef – Letters from the War of Independence, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 131: Manuscript of the Book "Vietnam Diary" by Moshe Dayan – Passages that were not Printed in the Book / A Copy of the — $80,000 - $120,000
• Lot 132: "There Will Be No More Killing and We Shall Know No More Bereavement" – An Official Letter to Bereaved Military — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 133: The Archive of Photographer Nachum Gutman – More than 20,000 Photographs and Approximately 95,000 Negatives which — $50,000 - $80,000
• Lot 134: Collection of Letters Handwritten and Signed by Rabindranath Tagore, — $40,000 - $60,000
• Lot 135: Collection of Handwritten Items from the Estate of Shaul Tchernichovsky – Tales, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 136: Three Poems Handwritten by Rachel Bluwstein – Translations of Poems by Alexander Pushkin, — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 137: "A Wreath of Poems for Yocheved Bat-Miriam" – Twenty-Four Poems Handwritten by Prominent Israeli Poets – A Gift to the — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 138: A Letter Handwritten and Signed by Sigmund Freud – London, — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 139: A Scientific Letter Handwritten and Signed by Albert Einstein – Sent to Ernst Gabor Straus within the Framework of — $30,000 - $40,000
• Lot 140: Albert Einstein's Business Card, from the Estate of Ernst Mach – With a Scientific Sketch, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 141: A Leaf Handwritten by Nobel Prize Laureate, Physicist Richard Feynman — $7,000 - $10,000
• Lot 142: Collection of "Shanah Tovah" Postcards and Greeting Cards – Zionism, Palestine and the Cycle of the Year — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 143: Large, Quality Collection of Bookplates – Europe, USA and Palestine — $7,000 - $10,000
• Lot 144: "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans" – Monumental Chromolithograph, after a Painting by David Roberts – London, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 145: Two Portrait Miniatures – Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Germany, Late 18th Century — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 146: Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968) – The Temple Mount Viewed from the East – Oil on Canvas — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 147: Artur Markowicz (1872-1934) – Two Women – Pastel on Paper — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 148: Mané Katz (1894-1962) – Two Boys – Gouache on Cardboard — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 149: Chaim Gliksberg (1904-1970) – "Reizele" – Oil on Masonite — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 150: Chaim Atar (1902-1953) – Portrait of a Girl – Oil on Panel — $2,000 - $3,000