• Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€
  • Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 37: Archive of the pioneering woman artist Arrah Lee Gaul, most 1911-59. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 66: Letter describing the dropping water level at Owens Lake near Death Valley, long before it was drained, Keeler, CA, 26 July 1904. $3,000 to $4,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 102: To Horse, To Horse! My All for a Horse! The Washington Cavalry, illustrated Civil War broadside, Philadelphia, 1862. $4,000 to $6,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 135: Album of cyanotype views of the Florida panhandle and beyond, 224 photographs, 174 of them cyanotypes, Apalachicola, FL and elsewhere, circa 1895-1896. $1,200 to $1,800
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 154: Catalogue of the Library of the United States, as acquired from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, 1815. $15,000 to $25,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 173: New Englands First Fruits, featuring the first description of Harvard in print, London, 1643. $40,000 to $60,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 177: John P. Greene, Original manuscript diary of a mission to western New York with Joseph Smith, 1833. $60,000 to $90,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 243: P.E. Larson, photographer, Such is Life in the Far West: Early Morning Call in a Gambling Hall, Goldfield, NV, circa 1906. $2,500 to $3,500
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 261: Fred W. Sladen, Diaries of a WWII colonel commanding troops from Morocco to Italy to France, 1942-44. $3,000 to $4,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 309: Los mexicanos pintados por si mismos, por varios autores, a Mexican plate book. Mexico, 1854-1855. $2,000 to $3,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 8: Diaries of a prospector / trapper in the remote Alaska wilderness, 5 manuscript volumes. Alaska, 1917-64. $1,500 to $2,500.
  • Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - Le terze rime di Dante, 1502
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Boccaccio, Giovanni - Il Decamerone. Di messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1516
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Giordano Bruno - Candelaio comedia del Bruno nolano achademico di nulla achademia; detto il fastidito. In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis, 1582
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Petrarca, Francesco - Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, 1504
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Legatura - Manoscritto - Medici - Cosimo III de' Medici / Solari, Giuseppe - I Ritratti Medicei overo Glorie e Grandezze della sempre sereniss. Casa Medici..., 1678
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni, e copiosi Rami adornata, 1757
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lot containing 80 printed guides and publications dedicated to travel and itineraries in Italy

Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items, 99b, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 05, 2024 - November 05, 2024
Page Size: 95 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
206 Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Letter of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- On the Brisker Rav and the Yeshivas Exiled to Vilna at the Beginning of the Holocaust -- Vilna, 1939

Vilna 1939 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,000.00
207 Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro

Letter by Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro, Rabbi of Kovno -- On the Negotiations for Unification of Agudat Yisrael and Mizrachi -- Kovno, 1938

Kovno 1938 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,750.00
208 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Torah Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Brisk, 1933

Brisk 1933 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
209 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Krynica, Elul 1938 -- On Attaining an Etrog from Eretz Israel in the Shemitah Year, and Shanah Tovah Blessings

Krynica, 1938 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,000.00
210 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Jerusalem, Tevet 1947 -- Regarding the Statute for Jerusalem -- Protecting Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel in the Wake of United Nations Trusteeship Council Resolutions to Internationalize Jer

Jerusalem, 1947 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
211 Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky

Two Letters from Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky -- On the Exile of the Kamenets Yeshiva During the Holocaust -- Raseiniai, Adar 1940 -- "The Yeshiva is Studying with Great Diligence and in Great Depth..."

Raseiniai, 1940 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,250.00
212

Rabbinical Ordination from Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook -- Jerusalem, 1927

Jerusalem 1927 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,250.00
213 Rabbi Aryeh Levin

Two Letters and Manuscript Incantation Against the Evil Eye Handwritten by Rabbi Aryeh Levin

USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,000.00
214 Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen, Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

Halachic Ruling -- Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen, Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein -- On the Rift Between the Israeli and American Branches of Peilim -- Kislev 1961

Kislev 1961 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,000.00
215

Collection of Letters and Documents -- On the Rift Between the Israeli and American Branches of Peilim -- 1962-1964

1962-1964 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
216 Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky

Two Letters from Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky -- On the Rift Between the Israeli and American Branches of Peilim -- Netanya and Brooklyn, 1963

Netanya and Brooklyn 1963 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,000.00
217 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

Letter of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein -- On the Rift Between the Israeli and American Branches of Peilim -- Chanukah 1963

Chanukah 1963 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,375.00
218 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, Rabbi Mendel Zaks, Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner and Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz

Letter of Leading American Yeshiva Deans -- Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, Rabbi Mendel Zaks, Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner and Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz -- Regarding the Rift Between the Israeli and American Branches of Peilim -- Adar 1964

1964 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,250.00
219 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

Two Letters from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein -- Cheshvan, 1972 -- "...Whoever Said That in My Name... Is Lying or Heard from Liars, and Every G-d-Fearing Person Should Not Rely on Halachic Rulings Attributed to Me... Rumors Cannot be Relied Upon, and One Must A

1972 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,750.00
220 Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Manuscript -- Lectures, Stories and Discourses of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Handwritten by His Disciple Rabbi Naftali of Nemirov -- Partly Written During Rabbi Nachman's Lifetime -- Unpublished Texts

USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 Not Sold
221

Letter of Lelov Rebbes and Leaders of the Chassidic Community in Jerusalem -- Sivan 1905 -- Opposing the Establishment of Secular Schools in Hebron -- With Blessings for Supporters of Torah Institutions in Hebron: "...May You Be Saved Eternally with All Y

1905 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,750.00
222 the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka

Seven Letters from the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka -- Selish, 1936-1938

Selish 1936-1938 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,250.00
223 Rebbe Shalom Moskowitz of Shotz-London

Letter of Rebbe Shalom Moskowitz of Shotz-London -- Blessings for Health and Segulah -- "She Should Do This... For at Least Thirty Years... And May She Soon Recover"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,000.00
224 the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch

Letter of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch -- Delivery of Flour and Matzah to Jews in Soviet Russia -- Riga, 1932 -- Addressed to Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky, Head Rabbi of London Beit Din, Author of Chazon Yechezkel

Riga 1932 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,875.00
225 the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Letter Handwritten by the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Written on the Margins of a Public-Private Letter for Shavuot -- Sivan 1951 - Shortly After His Appointment as Rebbe

1951 - Shortly After His Appointment as Rebbe USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,500.00
226 Avraham Sforno

Avraham Sforno, Uncle of the Biblical Commentator Rabbi Ovadia Sforno -- Two Handwritten Legal Documents (Latin and Italian) -- Bologna, 1477/1479

Bologna 1477/1479 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,250.00
227

Early Decorated Parchment Ketubah -- Mantua, 1668 -- Cases and Rimini Families -- Signature of R. Gur Aryeh HaLevi Finzi

Mantua 1668 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,750.00
228

Certificate of Appreciation Honoring Dr. Ignaz (Yitzchak) Kuranda, President of the Jewish Community of Vienna -- Color Lithograph with Illustrations of the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of Prague -- Prague, 1881

Prague 1881 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
229

Anti-Jewish Polemic -- Cologne, 1490-1500 -- Rare Book (Incunable) dating from the Earliest Years of the Printing Press

Cologne 1490-1500 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,000.00
230 Johannes Reuchlin

"De Arte Cabalistica" by Johannes Reuchlin -- Hagenau, 1517 -- First Edition

Hagenau 1517 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,125.00
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 51. Ortelius' Influential Map of the New World - Second Plate in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $5,500 - $6,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 165. Reduced-Size Edition of Jefferys/Mead Map with Revolutionary War Updates (1776) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 688. Blaeu's Superb Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 105. Striking Map of French Colonial Possessions (1720) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 98. Rare First Edition of the First Published Plan of a Settlement in North America (1556) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 181. Important Map of the Georgia Colony (1748) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 547. Ortelius' Map of Russia with a Vignette of Ivan the Terrible in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 85. Homann's Decorative Map of Colonial America (1720) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 642. Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 748. The Martyrdom of St. John in Contemporary Hand Color with Gilt Highlights (1520) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 298. Scarce Early Map of Chester County (1822) Est. $2,750 - $3,500