Kestenbaum and Company: Rare Hebrew Books, from the Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul., 112, Brooklyn
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | BACHIAH BEN ASHER. | Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Chumash]. |
Cracow | 1592-3. | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 27 | BALMES, ABRAHAM DE. | Mikneh Avram (Sepher Dikduk) [grammar]. |
Venice | 1523 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 28 | BENJAMIN BEN MATTITHIAH (OF ARTA). | Sepher Binyamin Z'ev [responsa]. |
Venice | 1539 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 475.00 |
| 29 | (BIBLE, Psalms). | Sepher Tehilim. With commentary by David Kimchi (RaDa'K). |
Naples | 1487 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 30 | (BIBLE, Psalms). | Sepher Tehilim. With commentaries by R. David Kimchi (RaDa'K) and R. Yoseph Chayun (ReYa'CH). |
Salonika | 1522 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 31 | (BIBLE). | A Fine Complete Set. Four volumes bound in 17th century uniform full vellum. |
Venice | 1524-5. | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 32 | (BIBLE, Hebrew). | Complete, bound in five volumes. |
Paris | 1545-46. | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 33 | (BIBLE, Pentateuch, Five Megiloth and Haphtaroth). | Chamishah Chumshei Torah. |
Venice | 1548 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 34 | (BIBLE, Psalms). | Sepher Tehillim. |
Venice | 1549 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 35 | (BIBLE). | Complete in four volumes. With Onkelos and commentary by Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi, Targum, etc. |
Venice | 1617-19. | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 36 | (BIBLE). | Sepher Tehillim... Liber Psalmorum. |
Hamburg | 1636 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 37 | (BIBLE, Judeo-German). | Translated by Yekuthiel b. Yitzchak Blitz. |
Amsterdam | 1676-1679. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,000.00 |
| 38 | (BIBLE, Chumash and Haphtaroth). | Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis. |
Amsterdam | 1726 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 39 | (BIBLE). | Sepher Arba'ah Ve'Esrim. With commentary Minchath Shai by Yedidiah Solomon Norzi. |
Mantua | 1742 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 40 | (BIBLE). | Chamishah Chumshei Torah, im Tikun Sofrim [Pentateuch, Haftaroth and Megiloth]. With commentaries.Complete in five volumes. |
Amsterdam | 1764 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 41 | (BIBLE). | Derech Selulah: Chamishah Chumshei Torah, im Tikun Sofrim [Pentateuch, Haftaroth and Megiloth]. With commentaries, including the Biur of Mosses Mendelssohn.Complete in five volumes. With a lengthy list of subscribers. |
Furth | 1801-03. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 42 | (BIBLE, Pentateuch, Haphtaroth). | Tikun Sophrim. |
London | 1824 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 575.00 |
| 43 | (BIBLE). | Arbah Ve'Esrim. |
Livorno | 1834 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 525.00 |
| 44 | (BIBLE, Hebrew & Ladino). | Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. |
Vienna | 1845 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 45 | (BIBLE, Pentateuch). | Torath Ha'Elo-him: The Law of God. Edited, and with Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by Isaac Leeser. |
Philadelphia | 1845-6. | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 137.50 |
| 46 | CAMPANTON, YITZHAK. | Darchei HaGemara [Talmudic methodology]. |
Mantua | 1592 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 47 | CHAGIZ, SHMUEL. | Mevakesh Hashem [sermons and homilies on the weekly Torah portion]. |
Venice | 1596 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 48 | CHAGIZ, SHMUEL. | Sepher Devar Shmuel [commentary to Midrash Rabah - Devarim]. |
Venice | 1596 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 49 | CHANANIAH OF MONCELICE. | Pirkei Shirah [extensive commentary to this liturgical poem]. |
Mantua | 1661 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 212.50 |
| 50 | (CHASSIDISM). | Aharon Halevi Horowitz of Strashelye. Avodath HaLevi [Chassidic discourses on Chumash and Festivals]. * Bound with: Likutim. |
Lemberg (Lvov) | 1861 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
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