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Winner's Auctions Ltd: Winter Sale

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Auction Name	Winter Sale	Total Sales (USD)	199,850.00
Auction Date	February 08, 2026 - February 08, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	176,750.00
Sale Number	#152	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	237,350.00
Total Lots	191
Sold Lots	168.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	238,250.00
% of Lots Sold	87.96%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	318,050.00
Unsold Lots	23	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	62.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
90	An impressive copy. Shelah Nahat Shenei Luchot HaBrit.	1698	USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00	USD 18,750.00
5	Archive of the well-known public activist R. Yosef Levi Hagiz	N/A	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 7,500.00
68	Extremely rare. Menorat ha-Maor,	1722	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 6,250.00
98	Half a set of the Babylonian Talmud. Zhitomir. 10 volumes comprising 20 tractates	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,500.00
92	Chesed Le'Avraham. A Kabbalistic work by Abraham Azulai.	1685	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 4,000.00
129	Hiddushei Ri Migash -- the attributed copy of the Admor Rabbi Leibl'e Eger of Lublin	N/A	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,000.00
151	"I plead with supplications, my children, to awaken filial compassion toward their father"	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,750.00
100	Likkutim Yekarim.	1792	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,250.00
148	"And the objector speaks without understanding" an important responsum by one of the greatest halakhic authorities of Galicia, the Maharsham of Brezan, addressed to the miracle-working holy Admor Rabbi Shalom of Shatz	N/A	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,250.00
126	"It Was to Me Like Thunder in the Wheel" a rare letter (approx. 100 words) in the holy handwriting of one of the greatest Hasidic leaders of Poland, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, the Imrei Emet of Gur	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,125.00
144	A long and important letter by Rabbi Raphael David Saban Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of Turkey.	early 1940s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 3,000.00
99	She'erit Yisrael, by the "Tzaddik of Vilednik." First edition. Segulah book	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,750.00
128	"Your humble servant -- Eliezer Zusia";	N/A	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,750.00
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
111	Ohel David by Rabbi David Deutsch.	N/A	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,500.00
136	"The Yenuka of Stolin" A sacred letter from one of the greatest Hasidic Rebbes of his generation, the holy tzaddik Rabbi Israel Perlov of Karlin	N/A	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,500.00
150	A long letter in the holy handwriting of the gaon Rabbi Shaul Brach Av Bet Din of Kosice and Kral	N/A	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,500.00
14	Order of Prayers.	1736	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,375.00
72	Torah, Prophets, and Writings, in the Yiddish language.	1687	USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,375.00
16	Selichot for the Entire Year -- According to the Ashkenazic Rite.	1729	USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,250.00
18	Seder HaTefillot for the Entire Year.	1705	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,250.00
69	Twenty-Four Biblia Testamenti Veteris.	1667	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
70	Novellae of Rabbeinu Nissim, of blessed memory.	N/A	USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	USD 2,250.00
101	Be'er Moshe by the Admor Rabbi Moshe Elikim Beriah Hopstein of Kozhnitz. First edition	N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 2,250.00
122	Torat Gittin by Rabbi Jacob of Lissa, first edition.	N/A	USD 700.00 - 800.00	USD 2,250.00

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.