Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction May 2, 2023

Kedem, May 2, 2023. 112 lots, estimates 1500 - 60000 $.

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Lots in this catalog (112)

• Lot 1: Sefer HaRokeach – Fano, 1505 – First Hebrew Book Printed with a Title Page — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 2: Tanya Rabati – First Edition – Mantua, 1514 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 3: Anti-Jewish Book by the Hebraist Pietro Galatino – Printed by Gershom Soncino in Attempt to Gain Support for Printing — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 4: Mikneh Avram – Venice, 1523 – Hebrew-Latin Edition – Fine Copy with Contemporary Binding – Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $2,500 - $3,500
• Lot 5: Responsa of the Maharik – First Edition – Venice, 1519 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 6: Responsa of the Rashba (Attributed to the Ramban) – Venice, 1519 – First Edition – Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 7: Sefer HaTerumah – Venice, 1523 – First Edition – Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 8: Mikraot Gedolot – Venice, — $40,000 - $50,000
• Lot 9: Complete, Miniature Bible – Antwerp, 1573-1574 – Two Volumes in Original, Elegant Leather Bindings — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 10: Or Amim by Rabbi Ovadia Sforno – Bologna, 1537 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 11: Moreh Nevuchim – Venice, 1551 – First Edition of Moreh Nevuchim Commentaries, Shem Tov and HaEfodi — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 12: Torat HaOlah – First Edition Printed in the Lifetime of the Author, the Rema – Prague, 1570 — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 13: Torah Commentary by the Abarbanel – First Edition – Venice, 1579 – With 17th Century Eyeglasses — $3,000 - $3,500
• Lot 14: Responsa She'erit Yosef – Kraków, 1590 – First Edition — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 15: Lechem Rav – Prague, 1608 – Approbation by the Maharal of Prague – Only Edition — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 16: Tractate Rosh Hashanah – Venice, 1521 – First Talmud Edition Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $25,000 - $30,000
• Lot 17: Tractate Chullin – Venice, 1521 – First Talmud Edition Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $18,000 - $20,000
• Lot 18: Tractate Shabbat – Venice, 1530 – Second Talmud Edition Printed by Bomberg — $15,000 - $18,000
• Lot 19: Tractate Mo'ed Katan – Venice, 1539 – Third Edition Printed by Daniel Bomberg — $18,000 - $22,000
• Lot 20: Chiddushei HaRashba on Tractate Chullin – Venice, — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 21: Chiddushei Aggadot by the Maharsha – Two Parts – First Editions Printed in the Author's Lifetime – Lublin-Kraków, — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 22: Babylonian Talmud – Munich, 1948 – First Post-Holocaust Printing of the Talmud for War Survivors — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 23: Roman Rite Machzor – Both Parts – Rimini, 1521 – Printed by Gershom Soncino — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 24: Two Roman Rite Machzorim – Machzor, Part II – Venice, 1587 / Machzor, Part II – Venice, 1606 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 25: Roman Rite Machzor – Two Parts – Venice, 1626 – Original Leather Bindings with Gilt Decorations – Signed by R. — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 26: Machzor Shaar Bat Rabim – Venice, 1711-1715 – Complete Set in Four Volumes – Glosses — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 27: Italian Rite Siddur – Miniature Edition – Original Leather Binding with Clasps – Venice, 1731 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 28: Siddur Following Eastern Ashkenazi Rite – London, 1770 – First Hebrew-Only Siddur Printed in England — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 29: Or Olam Books – Sod Yachin UBoaz / HaDerech HaTov VehaYashar – By Rabbi Meir Margolies, Author of Meir Netivim, — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 30: Meor Einayim (Chernobyl) – Slavita, 1798 – First Edition — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 31: Darkei Yesharim – Practices of the Baal Shem Tov and His Disciples – Zhitomir, 1805 — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 32: Arizal Siddur Kol Yaakov – First Edition – Slavita, 1804 – Siddur Chassidic Leaders Prayed from Regularly — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 33: Noam Megadim UKevod HaTorah – Lviv, 1807 – First Edition – Leaves with List of Pre-Subscribers, — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 34: Divrei Moshe (R. Moshe of Dolyna – Disciple of the Baal Shem Tov) – Medzhybizh, 1818 – First Edition — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 35: Kol Aryeh – By the Reprover of Polonne – Korets, 1798 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 36: Toldot Aharon (R. Aharon of Zhitomir) – Berditchev, 1817 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 37: Likutei Maharin and Toldot Yitzchak Ben Levi – Berditchev, 1811 – First Edition — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 38: Nachalat Shimon (Disciple of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk) – Łaszczów, 1815 – First Edition — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 39: Likutei Moharan – Second Edition Printed in the Home of R. Natan of Breslov – Breslov, 1821 — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 40: Or LaShamayim – Lviv, 1850 – First Edition – First Printing of the Author's Prayer for Livelihood, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 41: Avodat Yisrael (Kozhnitz) – Józefów, — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 42: Ohev Yisrael (Apta) – Zhitomir, 1863 – First Edition — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 43: Yismach Moshe – Lviv, 1848-1861 – First Edition – Complete Set in Five Volumes — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 44: Mishnat Chachamim – Ostroh, 1796 – Signatures of R. — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 45: Degel Machaneh Efraim – Korets, — $10,000 - $18,000
• Lot 46: Tehillim (Neshchiz) – Warsaw, — $40,000 - $60,000
• Lot 47: Toldot Yitzchak (Neshchiz) – Warsaw, 1868 – Segulah Book – Copy of Rebbe Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 48: Revid HaZahav – Lviv, 1869 – Important Ownership, — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 49: Shaar HaTefillah by the Be'er Mayim Chaim – First Edition – Sudylkiv, 1825 – Copy of Rebbe Shlomo Friedman of Chortkov — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 50: Arvei Nachal – Sudylkiv, 1825-1826 – First Edition – Copy of Rebbe Chaim Meir Yechiel Shapiro of Drohobych — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 51: Responsa Neot Deshe (by the Author of Arvei Nachal) – First Edition – Copy of Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Weisz of Svaliava, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 52: Etz Chaim (by the Arizal) – Lviv, 1864 – Copy of R. Shmuel Fränkel of Dorog Author of Imrei Shefer — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 53: Mareh Yechezkel – Sighet, 1875 – Dedication by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Paneth, First Rebbe of Deyzh, Son of the Author — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 54: Sidduro shel Shabbat – First Edition – Mohyliv, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 55: Divrei Chaim (Sanz) on the Torah, Festivals and Tractate Bava Metzia – First Edition – Munkacs, — $1,500 - $3,000
• Lot 56: Nachalat Tzvi – Venice, 1661 – Copy of the Divrei Yechezkel, First Rebbe of Shinova, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 57: Igeret HaKodesh (Vitebsk) and Sefer HaZechirah (by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev) – Russia-Poland, — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 58: Sefer Chassidim – Zhitomir, 1856 – Important Ownership – Many Handwritten Glosses — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 59: Or HaMeir (R. Ze'ev Wolf of Zhitomir) – Korets, After 1798 – Copy of the Divrei Shmuel, Second Rebbe of Slonim, — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 60: Or HaGanuz (Anipoli) – First Edition – Segulah Book – Lviv, 1866 – Copy of the Rebbes of Slonim, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 61: Otot HaShamayim, by Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Strizov, Teacher of the Yismach Moshe – Zhitomir, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 62: Geon Tzvi – Lviv, 1839-1840 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 63: Set of Machzorim of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – United States, 1965 – Custom-Made, — $20,000 - $50,000
• Lot 64: Set of Mikraot Gedolot Chumashim – Warsaw, 1860 – Copies of Rebbe Yehuda of Dzikov — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 65: Chafetz Chaim – First Edition – Vilna 1873 – Gloss Handwritten by the Author — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 66: Marcheshet – Glosses Handwritten by the Chazon Ish — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 67: Keri'ei Moed – Copy of Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, with His Signature and Glosses on Tikkun Leil Shavuot — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 68: Early Parchment Amulet for Protection of the Home – Customarily Given by Rabbi Yeshaya of Kerestir and the Yismach — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 69: Letter from "the Frankfurter", Rebbe Yisrael Perlow of Karlin – Passover Wishes, — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 70: Letter from the Ateret Yeshuah, Rebbe of Dzikov – Certificate of Ordination for a Shochet — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 71: Letter of Condolences and Encouragement From Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov – Av 1982 — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 72: Interesting Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Menachem Mann of Minsk – A Lithuanian Spiritual Giant – Neshviz, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 73: Letter of Blessings and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz – Kamenitz, Tevet 1939 — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 74: Large Collection of Torah Letters from Rabbi Mordechai Gifter Dean of the Telshe Yeshiva in the United States — $2,500 - $5,000
• Lot 75: Manuscript of R. Avraham Auerbach Rabbi of Bonn – Ezri MiKodesh – 1820s-1830s — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 76: Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Eger – Draft Letter to His Father Rabbi Akiva Eger and Torah Novellae – Warsaw, 1807 — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 77: Leaf Handwritten by the Chafetz Chaim, — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 78: Manuscript of Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky – Novellae on Tractates Yevamot and Ketubot, and on Brit Milah – Bnei Brak, 1950s — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 79: Notebook Handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach – Using a Milking Machine on Shabbat – Jerusalem, 1948 — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 80: Volume of Manuscripts – The Ibn Tzur Family and Other Moroccan Torah Scholars – 19th Century — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 81: Emissary Pinkasim of the Maghrebi Community in Jerusalem – Signatures of Rabbis and Emissaries — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 82: Manuscript, Urim VeTumim and Goralot by Rabbi Avraham ibn Ezra – Rome, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 83: Manuscript, Songs Following the Roman Rite – Rome, 1825 – Decorated Title Page — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 84: Manuscript, Kabbalistic Kavanot for Shofar Blowing and Vidui – Italy, 1743 — $1,500 - $1,800
• Lot 85: Statements Defending the Right of Jews to Remain in Milan and Avoid Expulsion – Milan, 1589 — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 86: Jews of Rome – Three Printed Decrees from the 16th Century – Papal Bull Instituting Mandatory Sermons on Shabbat / — $2,500 - $3,500
• Lot 87: Printed Aleph-Bet Chart – Venice, 18th Century – Only Known Copy — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 88: Luchot Edut – In Support of Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeschutz – Altona, 1755 — $1,500 - $2,500
• Lot 89: VaYakem Edut BeYaakov – Polemic of Rabbi Yaakov Emden and Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeschutz – Altona, 1755 — $2,500 - $3,500
• Lot 90: Mitpachat Sefarim (Rabbi Yaakov Emden) – Altona, 1768 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 91: "B.d.S. Opera Posthuma" – The Writings of Baruch Spinoza, First Edition, Amsterdam, 1677 – First Edition of "Ethics, — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 92: "נייעס פאללשטענדיגעס קאכבוך" – ספר הבישול הראשון ביידיש – וינה-בודפשט, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 93: David Roberts, "The Holy Land" – First Quarto Edition – London, 1855-1856 – 250 Prints — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 94: Postcards Documenting Kaiser Wilhelm II's Visit to the Holy Land – A Collection Rare in its Proportions – Some 290 — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 95: "Jerusalemkreuz" – Decoration Awarded to Members of the Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II on his Visit to the Holy Land – — $15,000 - $25,000
• Lot 96: Envelope Mailed from the Camp of German Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Holy Land, — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 97: Collection of Early Postcards – Photographic and Illustrated Holy Land Postcards – Including Three Postcards with the — $7,000 - $10,000
• Lot 98: Large, High-Quality Collection of Postcards – Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine – Color Pictures of Moshavot, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 99: Large Collection of Glass Lantern Slides – Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine – Over 100 American Colony Slides — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 100: Call for Enlistment into the British Army – Poster designed by Otte Wallish – Early 1940s — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 101: Theodor Herzl – "Der Judenstaat" – First Edition – Vienna-Leipzig, 1896 — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 102: Autograph Letter Signed by Sarah Aaronsohn, the "Heroine of Nili" – Istanbul, 1915 — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 103: Autograph Letter Signed by Albert Einstein — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 104: Antisemitic Beer Stein – Expulsion of Jews from Germany – Ca. Late 19th Century — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 105: Pair of Rare, Magnificent Textile Items – Italy, — $60,000 - $80,000
• Lot 106: Brass Hanukkah Lamp – Early Architectural Type – Italy, 17th Century — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 107: Silver Amulet Case Decorated with a Sea-horse – Italy, 18th Century — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 108: Gilt Silver Filigree Amulet Case – Italy, 19th Century — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 109: Illustrated Parchment Manuscript – Seder Tikunei Shabbat by the Arizal, — $40,000 - $60,000
• Lot 110: Decorated Esther Scroll with the Blessings over the Megillah / Elaborate Silver Case with Family Emblem – Rome, — $30,000 - $40,000
• Lot 111: Esther Scroll in Large, Ornamented Silver Case – Poland, 19th Century — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 112: Decorated Parchment Ketubah – Rome, 1837 — $25,000 - $35,000