• Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€

Auction Reports

Kedem Auctions Ltd.

Auction Info

Auction Name
Rare and Important Items
Auction Date
11/05/2024 - 11/05/2024
Sale Number
#99b
Total Lots
95
Sold Lots
88
Lots Sold
92.63%
Unsold Lots
7
Total Sales (USD)
666,750.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
440,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
651,800.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
854,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,275,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
52.26%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
236 Theodor Herzl

"Altneuland" -- First Edition, 1902 - Inscribed and Signed by Theodor Herzl to Prince Friedrich Wrede of Austria

1902 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 45,000.00
190

Meor Einayim (Chernobyl) -- First Edition -- Slavita, 1798

1798 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 32,500.00
177

Ben HaMelech VehaNazir -- Constantinople, 1518 -- First Edition

1518 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
247

Heinrich Heine -- Signed Letter Concerning Jews and Judaism -- Written Shortly Before his Passing, Paris, 1854 -- "This Grand Civilization of the Heart Was Preserved Thanks to an Unbroken Two-Thousand-Year-Old Tradition..."

1854 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 27,500.00
175

Mikraot Gedolot -- Venice, 1546-1548 -- Printed by Daniel Bomberg -- Fine Two-Volume Set

1546-1548 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,000.00
163

Shaar HaShamayim Siddur -- Siddur of the Shlah -- First Edition -- Amsterdam, 1717 -- Segulah Book -- Tehillim Volume Belonging to Rabbi Shmuel Salant

1717 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,500.00
222 the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka

Seven Letters from the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka -- Selish, 1936-1938

1936-1938 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,250.00
178 Rabbi Yehoshua ibn Shuaib

Sermons of Rabbi Yehoshua ibn Shuaib on the Torah -- First Edition -- Constantinople, 1523

1523 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
229

Anti-Jewish Polemic -- Cologne, 1490-1500 -- Rare Book (Incunable) dating from the Earliest Years of the Printing Press

1490-1500 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,000.00
209 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Krynica, Elul 1938 -- On Attaining an Etrog from Eretz Israel in the Shemitah Year, and Shanah Tovah Blessings

1938 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,000.00
232

"Juden Raus!" (Jews Out!) -- Antisemitic Board Game, Nazi Germany, 1938 -- Small-Scale Version with Advertising Leaflet, Distributed to Toy Stores

1938 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,750.00
161

Roman-Rite Machzor -- Special Copy Printed on Blue Paper, Unique Exemplar -- Mantua, 1556-1560

1556-1560 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,250.00
210 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Letter of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Jerusalem, Tevet 1947 -- Regarding the Statute for Jerusalem -- Protecting Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel in the Wake of United Nations Trusteeship Council Resolutions to Internationalize Jer

1947 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
208 Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik

Torah Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav -- Brisk, 1933

1933 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
156

Passover Haggadah and Seder Sefirat HaOmer -- Miniature Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, 20th Century / Magnificent Silver Binding with the Fiorentini Family Crest -- Rome, 19th Century

19th Century USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
198 the Chafetz Chaim

Letter of Blessings from the Chafetz Chaim -- To Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky -- Radin, 1932

1932 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,500.00
174

Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim -- Venice, 1544-1545 -- Especially Rare Edition

1544-1545 USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,500.00
197 Rabbi David Tevele

Manuscript Booklet -- Halachic Responsa of Rabbi David Tevele, the Nachalat David -- Stowbtsy, 1849 -- With His Signature

1849 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,625.00
196

Hebron Community Pinkas -- 1884-1915 -- With Signatures of Leading Rabbis of the City -- Rabbi Eliyahu Mani, Rabbi Rachamim Yosef Franco, the Sedei Chemed and Others -- Important Manuscript for the History of the Jewish Community in Hebron

1884-1915 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,625.00
157

Parchment Manuscript -- Tikun Lailah -- Bedtime Reading of Shema and Other Prayers -- Frankfurt, Ca. First Half of 19th Century

Ca. First Half of 19th Century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,000.00

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  • Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 51. Ortelius' Influential Map of the New World - Second Plate in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $5,500 - $6,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 165. Reduced-Size Edition of Jefferys/Mead Map with Revolutionary War Updates (1776) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 688. Blaeu's Superb Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 105. Striking Map of French Colonial Possessions (1720) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 98. Rare First Edition of the First Published Plan of a Settlement in North America (1556) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 181. Important Map of the Georgia Colony (1748) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 547. Ortelius' Map of Russia with a Vignette of Ivan the Terrible in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 85. Homann's Decorative Map of Colonial America (1720) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 642. Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 748. The Martyrdom of St. John in Contemporary Hand Color with Gilt Highlights (1520) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 298. Scarce Early Map of Chester County (1822) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
  • Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 37: Archive of the pioneering woman artist Arrah Lee Gaul, most 1911-59. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 66: Letter describing the dropping water level at Owens Lake near Death Valley, long before it was drained, Keeler, CA, 26 July 1904. $3,000 to $4,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 102: To Horse, To Horse! My All for a Horse! The Washington Cavalry, illustrated Civil War broadside, Philadelphia, 1862. $4,000 to $6,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 135: Album of cyanotype views of the Florida panhandle and beyond, 224 photographs, 174 of them cyanotypes, Apalachicola, FL and elsewhere, circa 1895-1896. $1,200 to $1,800
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 154: Catalogue of the Library of the United States, as acquired from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, 1815. $15,000 to $25,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 173: New Englands First Fruits, featuring the first description of Harvard in print, London, 1643. $40,000 to $60,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 177: John P. Greene, Original manuscript diary of a mission to western New York with Joseph Smith, 1833. $60,000 to $90,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 243: P.E. Larson, photographer, Such is Life in the Far West: Early Morning Call in a Gambling Hall, Goldfield, NV, circa 1906. $2,500 to $3,500
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 261: Fred W. Sladen, Diaries of a WWII colonel commanding troops from Morocco to Italy to France, 1942-44. $3,000 to $4,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 309: Los mexicanos pintados por si mismos, por varios autores, a Mexican plate book. Mexico, 1854-1855. $2,000 to $3,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 8: Diaries of a prospector / trapper in the remote Alaska wilderness, 5 manuscript volumes. Alaska, 1917-64. $1,500 to $2,500.
  • Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - Le terze rime di Dante, 1502
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Boccaccio, Giovanni - Il Decamerone. Di messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1516
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Giordano Bruno - Candelaio comedia del Bruno nolano achademico di nulla achademia; detto il fastidito. In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis, 1582
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Petrarca, Francesco - Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, 1504
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Legatura - Manoscritto - Medici - Cosimo III de' Medici / Solari, Giuseppe - I Ritratti Medicei overo Glorie e Grandezze della sempre sereniss. Casa Medici..., 1678
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni, e copiosi Rami adornata, 1757
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lot containing 80 printed guides and publications dedicated to travel and itineraries in Italy