Kestenbaum and Company: Auction of Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books & Manuscripts, 117, Brooklyn

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 11, 2026 - June 11, 2026
Page Size: 268 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
234 Herzl Theodor

Der Baseler Congress

Vienna 1897 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 125.00
235

N Books, including: Official Minutes of the First Zionist Congress

Vienna 1897; 1898; 1899 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
236

Judische Gesellschaft Reise nach Palastina

Budapest 1906 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 562.50
237 Herzl Theodor

The Congress Addresses of Theodor Herzl

New York 1917 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 218.75
238

Resolution Adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Chicago 1918 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
239 Sokolow Nahum

Hibbath Zion

Jerusalem 1934 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 62.50
240 Moyer Henry S.; Coleman J. Clarence L.; Berger Elmer

8 Books, including: Report on the Refugee Situation in France

New York; Chicago 1963-67 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
241

Untitled Woodcut Map of the Holy Land

Lyons 1506 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
242 Braun G; Hogenberg F

Hierosolyma Urbs Sancta

Cologne 1575 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
243 Braun G; Hogenberg F; Adrichom C

Ierusalem, et Suburbia eius

Cologne 1588 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
244 Ortelius Abraham

Typus Chorographicus, Celebrium Locorum In Regno Iudae et Israhel

Antwerp 1590 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 500.00
245 De Jode G; De Jode C

Terrae Sanctae quae Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars ea, quae Palaestina uocator, desecriptio

Antwerp 1593 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
246 Ortelius Abraham

Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio Et Vita

Antwerp c. 1601-1612 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
247

371 Auction Catalogues

1940’s-2020’s USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
248 Schatz Boris

7 Books, including: Bezalel. 7. Bericht

Berlin; Cincinnati; Jerusalem 1913; 1914; 1924; 1928; 1929; 1930 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
249 Budko Joseph

Der Babylonische Talmud in Auswahl

Berlin 1924 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
250 Avisar Aryeh

Havah Nagilah

Florence 1945 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 500.00
251 Roth Cecil

The Casale Pilgrim

London 1929 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
252 Dake C L; Phythian J Ernest; Eisler Max

N Books, including: L’Art et le Beau Jozef Israels

Paris; London c. 1910; 1912; 1924 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
253

Group of c. 41 volumes

1970’s- USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
254 Rubens Alfred

A Jewish Iconography

London 1981 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
255 Herrliberger David

Gottesdienstliche Ceremonien

Zurich; Basle 1746 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
256 Adler Cyrus; Casanowicz I.M.; Narkiss Mordechai; Barnett R.D.

N Books, including: Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Jewish Ceremonial

Washington; Paris; Jerusalem; London 1901; 1930; 1939; 1974 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 375.00
257

Collection of reference works, museum and other exhibition catalogues

N/A USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
258 Levy Alphonse

La Vie Juive

Paris 1886 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000