Winner's Auctions Ltd: Winter Sale, 152, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 08, 2026 - February 08, 2026
Page Size: 191 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

"I plead with supplications, my children, to awaken filial compassion toward their father"

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
152

Holocaust Relief Funds Controversy:

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 475.00
153

An Important and Historic Letter by the Mashgiah of Baranovichi the Holy Gaon Rabbi Israel Yaakov Lubchansky hy"d

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
154

"I Do Not Know Whether I Shall Take Part in the Journey to the Holy Land" -- A Rare and Fascinating Autograph Letter by the Lechem Shlomo of Shamloy to the Kabbalist R. I. A. Z. Margolies, on the Eve of Passover 1935

1935 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
155

A letter of reconciliation on the eve of Yom Kippur between two towering Torah giants; from the gaon Rabbi Hayyim Yehuda of Sasnitz, Av Beit Din of Smorgon, to the Aderet

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
156

"America Is Founded upon Three Things That Destroy the World!"

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 275.00
157

The Kollelim Controversy in Safed -- a letter from the leaders of the Bessarabia Kollel to the leadership of the General Committee.

Safed 1853 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
158

A Rare Letter from the Young Student Shlomo Wolbe (later: "the Elder of the Mashgichim") to His Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yerachmiel Eliyahu Botschko

Mir 1937 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 750.00
159

"Pinsk--Karlin: Whose Community Was It?" -- A Historical Letter by Rabbi Shmuel David Wolkin on the Rabbis of His Native City

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
160

A Rare Letter Concerning Aliyah to the Land of Israel

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 325.00
161

Important historical item: Sale of Chametz deed of the Jewish community of Prien (Lithuania) in the handwriting of the Av Beit Din and bearing the signatures of over one hundred members of the community

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
162

A Personal Family Letter by Rabbi Aharon Baksht, Av Beit Din of Shavli, to His Son Rabbi Simcha Zissel

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
163

An Early and Rare Rabbinical Ruling by the Mara de-Ara de-Eretz Yisrael Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and His Rabbinical Court.

Jerusalem 1888 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 500.00
164

"Woe to Me If I Speak" -- A Sharp Polemical Letter by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Schachter, Av Beit Din of Constanta, Against the Ruling of the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Yaakov Meir

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
165

Unpublished! Letter by Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook to his close friend Rabbi Yerachmiel (R. A.) Boczko.

(1915). USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 550.00
166

"Who sacrificed their lives for the sanctification of God's Name" a historic letter from the heads of the Novardok Yeshiva.

Ostrowiec 1934 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
167

"That I remained with a great debt after the wedding..."

USD 250.00 - 300.00 USD 237.50
168

"On the Explanation of Electrical Force"

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,125.00
169

Letter by Rabbi Yehuda Yudel Rosenberg.

Montreal 1922 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 500.00
170

A long and exceptionally rare letter, in the holy handwriting of the eminent gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Rabinowitz, Av Bet Din of Ponivez

USD 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 USD 1,500.00
171

An Important Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,187.50
172

"Mehadrin min ha-Mehadrin"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
173

Manuscript: Ledger of the "Va'ad Ha-Kelali" (General Committee).

Jerusalem 1923 USD 700.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
174

"The Merit of Those Who Seek to Bestow Merit"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 USD 1,375.00
175

The first yeshiva established after the Holocaust! A historic letter from the righteous gaon Rabbi Gershon Liebman.

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 400.00
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000