Kestenbaum and Company: Auction of Hebraica & Judaica Rare Printed Books and Manuscripts Including the Eretz Israel / Holy Land Collection of the late Dr. Gershon Hait., 114, Brooklyn

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 18, 2025 - November 18, 2025
Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
129 LURIA, YITZCHAK (AR"I HaKadosh).

Sepher HaKavanoth [mystical meditations, prayers and customs].

Venice 1624 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
130 MEIR BEN BARUCH (MaHaRa'M of Rothenburg).

Shailoth U'Teshuvoth [responsa].

Prague 1608 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,500.00
132 MELLI, ELIEZER.

LaKol Chefetz ve'hu Tikun Shetaroth [formulae of legal documents in accordance with Jewish law.]

Venice 1552 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,000.00
133 MENACHEM AZARIAH OF FANO.

Ma'amar Shivrei Luchoth - Yemin Hashem Romemah.

Safed 1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
134 MENASHE BEN YOSEPH BEN PORATH OF ILYA.

Binath Mikra.

Horodna (Grodno) 1818 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
135 MENASHE BEN YOSEPH BEN PORATH OF ILYA.

Alphei Menashe [philosophy and novellae on the Talmud].

Vilna 1822 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
136 (MIDRASH).

Pirkei Rebi Eliezer. Anonymous. (Attributed to R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus).

Venice 1544 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
137 (MINIATURE BOOK).

Seder Tephiloth [liturgy]. ff. 224.

Venice 1777-78. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
138 (MINIATURE BOOK).

Seder Tephiloth [prayers through the year].

Amsterdam 1778 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 937.50
139 (MINIATURE BOOK).

Seder Tikunei Shabbath [prayers, rites and songs for the Sabbath]. According to the meditative rite of the AR'I z'l.

Venice 1782 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
140 (MINIATURE BOOK).

Beth Tephilah [prayers for the whole year].

Pisa 1816 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
141 (MINIATURE BOOK).

(Bible, Hebrew). Sepher Torah Nevi'im U'Kethuvim.

Warsaw c. 1880. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 812.50
142 MIZRACHI, ELIYAHU.

Eliyah Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash].

Venice 1545 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
143 MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI.

Kitzur Mordechai v'Simanav [abridgment of Sepher Mordechai].

Cremona 1557 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
144 MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI.

Sepher Rav Mordechai [Halachic compendium].

Riva di Trento 1559 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
145 MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL HAKOHEN.

Sepher Rav Mordechai (Rhenish). With commentary by R. Menachem David of Tiktin.

Cracow 1598 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
146

Ahavath HaKadmonim. Siddur... Keminhag K[ehila] K[edosha] HaToshavim...Fez.

Jerusalem 1889 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
147 MOSHE BEN NACHMAN (RaMBa'N).

Torath Ha'Adam [laws concerning the sick and the dying, and the After-Life].

Venice 1595 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
148 MOSHE OF PREMESHYL.

Mateh Moshe [novellae to Shulchan Aruch].

Frankfurt 1720 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
149 MUELHAUSEN, YOM-TOV LIPMANN.

Sepher Nitzachon - Liber Nizachon.

Nuremberg 1644 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 687.50
150 NAJARA, MOSHE.

Lekach Tov.

Constantinople 1575 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,000.00
151 NATHAN BEN YECHIEL OF ROME.

Sepher Ha'Aruch.

Venice 1553 (erroneously recorded 1653). USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
152

Tephiloth U'Bakashoth - Plegtige Gebeden voor de Joodsche Gemeente te Rotterdam.

Rotterdam, 1793 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
153 PALACHI, HAIM.

Artzoth HaChaim [characteristics and laws of the Land of Israel].

Jerusalem 1872 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 437.50
154

Tzvi Hirsch Sommerhausen.

Hamburg 1844 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
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