Winner's Auctions Ltd Auction 152

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
176	Letter of the holy gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Dushnitzer, "the Mashgiach, " of the Chafetz Chaim's yeshiva in Radin		N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,400.00	USD 1,187.50
177	Receipt from the Brisk Yeshiva.	Jerusalem	1970	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
178	Letter from Maran Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz to Rabbi Avraham Simcha Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of Safed.	Jerusalem	1968	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 625.00
179	"Rosh HaYeshiva" a rare letter by the holy gaon Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, of blessed memory.		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
180	"Kindness within Justice" a moving philosophical essay in the author's own handwriting by the leader of the generation, Maran the gaon Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman, of blessed memory		N/A	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,500.00
181	Illuminated Esther Scroll.	Western Europe	18th--19th century	USD 6,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
182	Large and Impressive Glass-Mirror "Mizrach" Plaque --	Bohemia?	Early 20th Century	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
183	An early illustrated notebook --	Pest,	early 18th century (c	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
202	"Ilan HaKodesh" Kabbalistic Amulet on Parchment, with Original Silver Case.		Late 19th -- early 20th century	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,250.00
203	A rare ketubbah on parchment, dated 1687, signed by Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, together with an original engraving of his portrait		N/A	USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	Not Sold
205	Unique and Moving: An Improvised Esther Scroll in Print and Manuscript -- A Handmade Scroll		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 187.50
206	Rare Series of Engravings (4): Jewish Life in Amsterdam --		1783	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
208	Torah scroll on parchment. Yemenite script		19th--20th century	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 625.00
209	Torah scroll written on brown gevil.	Tunisia.	Circa 19th century	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,625.00
217	Pair of "Dollar of Blessing" Banknotes from the Lubavitcher Rebbe --		1991	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,000.00
222	A large collection of approximately 60 catalogs from the auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's		N/A	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.

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