Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

AUCTION 33

June 20, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

Fine Judaica, Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters Sold at Kestenbaum & Company
on June 20th, 2006

June 29, 2006—Kestenbaum & Company’s June 20th auction of Fine Judaica featured Printed Books & Manuscripts including The Professor Abraham J. Karp Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts; Illustrated Books from the Library of Jacobo Furman, Santiago, Chile; and Books & Autograph Letters by several members of the Gratz Family, Philadelphia.

While the American-Judaica section of the sale did not perform as a group quite as well as in previous auctions, the top lot of the day was nonetheless in that category. A beautifully bound Hebrew Pentateuch printed in 1726 which belonged to Reverend Moses Mendes Seixas of Newport, Rhode Island, brought in $35,400. Thomas Moore’s New York Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1772 with an unrecorded view of New York locating the “Jew’s Synagogue” was also well-received in the American-Judaica section, realizing $10,620 against a pre-sale estimate of $6,000-8,000.

Further sale highlights were the Basle 1692 Hebrew Bible with all parts bound in one volume in a fine contemporary binding, which attained $15,340 against an estimate of $8,000-12,000; and the first prayer book printed in England, London, 1740, which achieved $7,670. against its pre-auction estimate of $5,000-7,000. A lovely binding--Seder Ha’tephiloth Mikol Ha’shanah in a beautiful Dutch, hand-colored vellum Hebrew binding, 1786, was also notable, reaching $14,160, well over its pre-sale estimate of $8,000-10,000.

In the manuscript section, noteworthy lots included a French Ketubah with beautiful floral motifs typical of French folk art, Bayonne, 1758, which sold for $11,800, and Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Yemen, 1598, which was bought for $9,440 against an estimate of $7,000-9,000. Other highly desirable lots were in the Liturgy section: Seder Pidyon ha-Ben, a most aesthetic manual for redeeming the firstborn, Dutch, circa 1800, which reached $8,260, more than doubling its pre-sale estimate of $3,000-4,000 and Sepher Seder Nashim [“A Book for Women”], which garnered $5,015, against its pre-auction estimate of $2,000-3,000.

A final lot that generated interest was Martin Engelbrecht’s Temple des Juifs, a rare Jewish “peep show” depicting Amsterdam’s resplendent Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, with the Congregation at prayer, Augsburg, circa 1740. It realized $4,130 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,000-3,000.

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Grouped product items
Product Name
(BIBLE $12,000.00
(CHINA) $200.00
Minhagim $4,000.00
(LADINO) $1,200.00
(SWEDEN) $1,500.00
(ITALY). $2,500.00
(GERMANY) $1,500.00
(SURINAM) $2,000.00
(GERMANY) $300.00
(HISTORY). $100.00
(ZIONISM). $2,000.00
(KABBALAH). $6,000.00
(MEDICINE). $900.00
(CHASSIDISM) $2,500.00
(CHASSIDISM) $7,000.00
(CHASSIDISM) $1,500.00
Di Farshvundene Velt / The Vanished World. $300.00
Abudarham [commentary to prayers, including Passover Hagadah] $500.00
SHEM TOV IBN FALAQUERA. Sepher Ha-Mevakesh [A survey of human knowledge in the form of a philosophical dialogue in rhymed verse and prose] $500.00
Halichoth Eli [Talmudic methodology in alphabetical order, plus novellae on Talmud and Rambam] $600.00
Einei Moshe [commentary to the Book of Ruth, with text] $300.00
Nettles, Stephen. An Answer to the Jewish Part of Mr. Selden’s History of Tithes $500.00
The Information of Francisco de Faria, Delivered at the Bar of the House of Commons, Munday the First Day of November, 1680. $1,800.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA). $6,000.00
(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement] $7,000.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA) $500.00
GASTER, MOSES. History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, The Cathedral Synagogue of the Jews in England, Situate in Bevis Marks. A Memorial Volume... to celebrate the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of its Inauguration, 1701-1901 $300.00
VITAL, CHAIM, Sepher Ha-Techunah, [formulae and calculations to determine the New Moons, Solar and Lunar cycles, Seasons and systems of intercalculation] $600.00
Kundmachung…Auftheilung der Domesticalbe=dürfnisse bei den jüdischen Religionsgemeinden in Mähren $1,500.00
Kithvei Ch.N. Bialik u-Mivchar Targumav [The Collected Works of Bialik, with a Selection of His Translations]: Vol. I - Poems; Vol. II - Stories; Vol.III - Don Quixote; Vol. IV - William Tell $500.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumashei Torah (-end) $2,500.00
Samaritan. PENTATEUCH). (Biblia Sacra Polyglotta). Textus Hebraeo-Samaritanus $4,000.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] $500.00
Boothroyd, B[enjamin], Ed. Biblia Hebraica. Hebrew, without points, after the text of Kennicot. Accompanied with English notes, critical, philological, and explanatory $150.00
The Song of Solomon. With Twelve Full Page Plates and Various Other Decorations by Herbert Granville Fell $500.00
The Song of Songs with six illustrations and decorative borders by Sir Edward Burne-Jones $300.00
Le Cantique des Cantiques qui est sur Salomon [Song of Songs]. Illustrated by a pioner of the Abstract Art Movement, Frantisek Kupka (Czech, 1871-1957) $600.00
Die Erzählenden Bücher des Alten Testaments. Erster Band. Das Buch Esther und das Buch Hiob $250.00
Koheleth David / Collectio Davidis. Prepared by Isaac Metz and Eleazar Emden $900.00
Copinger, Walter Arthur. The Bible and Its Transmission. BEING AN HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS, AND THE GREEK, LATIN AND OTHER VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE (BOTH ms. and PRINTED) PRIOR TO THE REFORMATION $1,200.00
The Jewish Encyclopedia $150.00
DEINARD, EPHRAIM. Koheleth America. Catalogue of Hebrew Books Printed in America from 1735-1925 $900.00
Seder Ha’tephiloth Mikol Ha’shanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Polish Jews. With Psalms and Techinoth. Divisional titles $10,000.00
Schneur Zalman of Liady. (Tanya) - Igereth HaKodesh [fundamental exposition of Chabad Chassidism] $4,000.00
*MENACHEM MENDELOF RIMINEV. Menachem Zion. Bound with: AZULAI, CHAIM YOSEPH DAVID. Seder Avodah, Avodath ha-Kodesh. AARON B. YEHUDA HA-LEVI. Zoth Torath Ha-Adam. CHAGIZ, MOSHE, Tzror Ha-Chaim* $500.00
DAVID SHLOMO OF TOLCHIN. Hithoreruth HaTephilah [on the Chassidic mode of prayer] $300.00
Or la-Yesharim [“Light to the Just”: Novellae to Talmudic Tractate Pesachim] / Sepher Pethil Techeileth [“A Thread of Blue”: polemic against recently Innovated Radzyner Techeileth] $400.00
Ha’atakath Mekithvei Admo”r mi-Bobroisk Bedevar Mischar Ha’Ethrogim [“Copies of letters of Rebbe of Bobroisk Concerning the Trade in Citrons.”] $1,500.00
LIEBERMAN, CHAIM. Der Rebbe un der Satan $200.00
Vitebsk [Memorial Volume] $900.00
Shtrom [“stream”]. Monthly Yiddish periodical. No. 1 and No. 2. (bound together in one volume) $700.00
AUERBACH, ISAAC. Girsa di-Yenuka [Hebrew grammar for children] $300.00
Alpha-Beitha Metzuyereth [“Illustrated in Color, According to the “Natural Method.”] $1,500.00
Steinberg, Judah. The Breakfast of the Birds and Other Stories. Translated from the Hebrew by Emily Solis-Cohen. $300.00
Bialik, Ch[aim] N[achman]. Sepher ha-Devarim [poems]. With: 16 illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud $400.00
Wahrhaft, Mordecai. Blue Box the Bold. Translated by Lawrence Weston $180.00
Blue-on-white Aleph Beith chart $1,500.00
Sepher ha-Temunoth ha-Rishon shel ha-Yeled [“The Child’s First Picture Book”] $500.00
Kisselov, Aaron Moses. Mishberei Yam [“Waves of the Sea”: Responsa] $1,500.00
*Adler, Marcus. Ha-Yehudim Be-China. Vilna, 1901. With: M. Birenbaum and D. Cassel. China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, Korea. Yiddish text. Illustrated. Warsaw, 1922** $300.00
Hannover, Martin Ad. Adolph Hannovers Fædrene og Mødrene Slægt, Udgivet i Anledning af Hundredaarsdagen. 1814 - 24 November - 1914 [Adoplh Hannover’s Father’s and Mother’s Lineage. Published for the Occasion of the Centenary. 1814 - 24. November - 1914 ] $300.00
(DREYFUS AFFAIR) $900.00
Leon, David de Ishac, de. Sermaõ da Boa Fama Moralmente Simbolizada. Pregado no K.K. de T.T. em quarta feira, em 27 Sivan Anno 5527 [sermon] $4,000.00
Tephillah ...Beth Ha-Knesseth Sephardim Be’eith Milchemeth Artzoth Europa $500.00
The Golden Haggadah $900.00
Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah $1,200.00
The Kaniel Megillah. Complete color facsimile of illuminated Scroll of Esther in the collection of Michael Kaniel. $700.00
The Kennicott Bible $3,000.00
The Rothschild Miscellany $4,000.00
The Barcelona Haggadah $3,000.00
Sendschreiben an Seine Hochwürden, Herrn Oberconsistorialrath und Probst Teller zu Berlin, von einigen Hausvätern jüdischer Religion $1,500.00
De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis. $9,000.00
Advertisement for “karka” (soil) from the Land of Israel for burial purposes, the proceeds to support the poor of Eretz Israel $1,500.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover $800.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach $200.00
pseudo). Hagode zur Vermählungs-Feier des Fräulein Nenele Weinberg mit Herrn Jacob Posen am 11. Siwan 5644 [Haggadah for the Marriage of Miss Nenele Weinberg with Mr. Jacob Posen on the 11th of Sivan, 5644 (1844)] $4,000.00
Masecheth Pesachim [Talmudic Tractate] $500.00
Undzer Churban in Bild / Our Destruction in Pictures. Collected and Edited by R. Olevski, D. Rosental, P. Trepman, for the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone $900.00
“Germany surrenders to the Allies...Churchill Telephones Stalin and Truman, Tonight Peace wiil be Announced.” $700.00
The Extermination of Polish Jews: Album of Pictures $500.00
Brycha 1945-1948. Home Through the Vale of Tears $600.00
HESS, SIMCHA BEN YEHOSHUA (“The Magid of Zalozitch.”) Ahavath Zion [travelogue of the Holy Land] $1,500.00
(HOMILETICS). $500.00
AVIEZER BEN ISAAC OF TITKIN. Sha’arei Tzedek LeZera Yitzchak (“Gates of Righteousness”: Kabbalistic Treatises) $600.00
(ISRAEL, LAND OF) $1,500.00
DEINARD, EPHRAIM. Milchemeth Tugarma Be’Eretz Yisrael [The war against Turkey in the Land of Israel] $300.00
Ve-Shavu Banim Le-Gevulam. Hoda”ah Le-kahal $700.00
Karnei Reshaim Agadea [“I wiil cut off the horns of the wicked.”] $700.00
Ben-Av”i, Itamar. Kera’on le-Hithchayuth Datheinu be-Artzah [An Appeal for Renewal of Our Religion in Her Land] $900.00
Davar [daily Hebrew Newspaper). “Medinath ha-Yehudim Kamah” [“The Jewish State Rises.”] $700.00
Luach Yoman Le-Shnath Taf Shin Cheth [daily calendar “for home and office”]. Hebrew and English with instructions pertaining to Jewish religious life, as well as ads for various economic ventures in Palestine. $150.00
Seder Hapragmatica $700.00
Mc LEOD, N. Japan and the Lost Tribes of Israel (cover title). Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan $1,500.00
(JACOBS, JOSEPH and LUCIEN WOLF). Catalogue of (the) Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887. Royal Albert Hall, And of Supplementary Exhibitions... $600.00
Yidden Kinstler [“Jewish Artists.”] Monographs $300.00
BARNETT, R.D. Editor. Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum London $500.00
*Two Catalogues of Pre-War German Judaica: Die Judaica-Samlung S. Kirchstein Berlin. Munich: Hugo Helbing, 1932. Hallo, Rudolph. Judaica. Marburg: Verlag des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars, 1932** $150.00
(JOHNSON, LYNDON B. $200.00
Aligoria Di Purim $150.00
Halevi, Judah. Mi-Kamocha [“Who is Like Unto You?”: Poem]. Translated by Moses Germanus $2,500.00
Zeh Seder Ha-Yom [prayers for rain] $1,500.00
*(SHADA”L). Castiglioni, Victorius. Yad Shada”l / Sciadali Monumentum. Includes: Hakdamah le-Dikduk Lashon ha-Ivri [Introduction to Hebrew Grammar: unfinished manuscript by Luzzatto]** $150.00
*Two graphic Yiddish broadsides exhorting the public to take various sanitary precautions: 1) Not to spit in public. 2) The necessity to wash hands and nails with soap and water prior to eating.** $2,500.00
Jerusalem. Oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum $500.00
Mishnayoth. Vocalized text based upon emendations by Yom Tov Lipman Heller and Solomon Adeni plus a dictionary of difficult words $2,000.00
Hodgkin, Thomas. Narrative of a Journey to Morocco, in 1863 and 1864 $1,800.00
Goldstein, Moses Elijah. King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba $1,500.00
Meimei Yisrael [“Waters of Israel”: Collected Poetry] $300.00
Loterie au profit de la Sociètè Israëlite soutenant la dépense nécessaire pour le mariage des Orphelines Juives $1,200.00
De Sacrificiis Libri Duo; Quorum Altero explicantur Omnia Judaeorum, nonnula Gentium Profanarum Sacrificia: Altero Sacrificium Christi [Of Sacrifices. Two Books: Book One - Sacrifices of Jews; Book Two - Sacrifice of Christ] $600.00
Einhorn, David. Meine Lieder [“My Poems”] $300.00
Shir Kalul Mi-Shnei Chalakim. By “Chanina Lipa ben Nathan Nata” $300.00
Brill, Joseph. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Le-Melamdim U-Morim [ satire on the difficulties associated with the teaching profession]. $700.00
Kiss, Gershon. Masechta Prohibishon [“Prohibition Tractate”] $300.00
The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World $6,000.00
*Toldoth Aaron [Biblical concordance to the Talmud]. Third edition. Sasportas, Jacob. Toldoth Jacob [supplement providing references to Jerusalem Talmud]. FIRST EDITION. Two works in one (as issued)** $600.00
Raskin’s Yiddesher Kalendar - Block Calendar for the Year 1939. Recording Jewish and Secular dates, one day per page. Includes daily historical facts and a daily joke in Yiddish. Times of Sabbath in international locations $300.00
Shir Hashirim - The Song of Songs $200.00
Chageinu [Our Holidays: Children’s Book] $500.00
SALOMON, GOTTHOLD. Twelve Sermons Delivered in the New Temple of the Israelites, at Hamburgh. Trans. Anna Maria Goldsmid $1,000.00
(YaSHa”R). Bechinath Hakabalah [on Leone di Modena’s Kol Sechal and (it’s sequel) Sha’agath Aryeh, a refutation of an attack on Jewish tradition by Uriel Da Costa, edited with voluminous critical notes] $300.00
Shtetl. Mayn Choruver Heim: a Gedekenish [My Destroyed Home: A Memorial] $3,000.00
Kvitko, Leib. Gringroz [“Green Grass” - poems] $1,500.00
(Founder of the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem). Di Geboyte Yerushalayim: A Chalom oyf’n Vohr [“Rebuilt Jerusalem: A Day-Dream”] $200.00
Boris Schatz: 31 Oil Paintings (Catalogue). Introduction by Prof. Joseph Klausner $500.00
Da Costa Mattos, Vicente. Breve Discurso Contra Heretica Pefidia do Judaismo [“Brief Discourse Against the Perfidious Heresy of Judaism”] $7,000.00
Concordias hechas, y firmadas entre la Jurisdicion Real, y el Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion [Agreement between the Royal Jurisdiction and the Holy Office of the Inquisition] $3,000.00
Da Costa, Isaac. Noble Families Among the Sephardic Jews. With: Brewster, Bertram. Some Account of the Capadose Family (Including Their Conversion to Christianity). And: Roth, Cecil. An Excursus on Their Jewish History $300.00
(“R. Chaim Brisker”). Chidushei Rabbeinu Chaim Ha-Levi [on Maimonides’ Yad Ha-Chazakah] $500.00
Fortlage, Arnold and Karl Schwarz. Das Graphische Werk von Hermann Struck [The Graphic Work of Hermann Struck] $600.00
Die Kunst des Radierens [The Art of Etching] $150.00
(Nassy, David de Isaac Cohen). Geschiedenis der Kolonie van Suriname [“History of the Colony of Surinam”] $7,000.00
Nieuwe Kaart van Suriname vertonende de stromen en land-streken van Suriname, Comowini, Cottica, en Marawini [“New Map of Surinam Showing Streams and Stretches of Land of Surinam, Comowini, Cottica, and Marawini.”] $4,000.00
Confirmationsfeier der Israelitischen Jugend gehalten in der Synangoge zu Stockholm $1,800.00
Program vid Purim-Naches den 16 Mars 1875 på aftonen [“Program of Purim Fun.”] $1,500.00
Wotton, W[illiam], D.D. Shabbath and Eruvin; Two Titles of the Misna or Code of the Traditional Laws. Translated into English, with Annotations $600.00
Ha’avarath Kol be-Machaneh ha-Ivrim! [Prospectus for the Vienna edition of Talmud] $1,200.00
Moda’ah Rabbah Le’Oraitha [Prospectus for the Vilna Edition of Talmud. As well as Alfasi, Midrash Rabbah, Eyn Ya’akov, Yoreh De’ah and Four Sections of Shulchan Aruch] $1,500.00
Moda’ath ha-Madpis [Prospectus for the Warsaw edition of Talmud] $1,200.00
Kvitko, Leib. 1919 [Poems] $600.00
Der Nister [Kahanovich, Pinchas]. Gedacht [Thought] $500.00
ALPERSON, MORDECAI. 30 Yahr in Argentina [“Thirty Years in Argentina”]: Memoirs of a Jewish Colonist $600.00
Koigen, David. In Shturm fun Geshikhte: Aroisgerissene Bletlakh fun Tog-Bukh 1914-1921 [In the Storm of History: Leaves Torn from Diary 1914-1921]. Translated from German original (“Im Sturm der Geschichte) by Z. Kalmanovich $500.00
Teater-Velt [Theater World: Illustrated Weekly]. Year I (1908): Nos.1-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13. Year 2 (1909): Nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 $500.00
BENJAMIN, Israel Joseph. Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855 $1,500.00
Sota. Hoc est Liber Mischnicus de Uxore Adulterii Suspecta [Sotah. Mishnaic Tractate of the Suspected Adulteress] $600.00
Weisgal, Meyer W. (Ed.) Theodor Herzl: A Memorial $300.00
BIDA. Le Juifs Devant Le Mur de Salomon $7,000.00
*Orden de las Oraciones Contidianas. Bound With (as issued): Calendar for the years 1693-1701 (with separate title)** $6,000.00
“Temple des Juifs.” A rare Jewish “peep-show” depicting Amsterdam’s resplendent Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, with the Congregation at prayer $3,000.00
BIBLE, Hebrew. Hosea cum Thargum [The Books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah and Jonah with Targum Jonathan, and commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra and R. David Kimchi]. Text and Targum in square Hebrew letters, commentaries in rabbinic type $7,000.00
*Levi, David. Lingua Sacra. Three parts in three volumes: Hebrew Grammar. Hebrew-English Dictionary. * English-Hebrew Dictionary** $2,500.00
Morais, S[abato]. Address Delivered before the Managers and Pupils of the Hebrew Sunday School, on the Life and Character of Miss Rebecca Gratz, Its Founder and First Directress $2,000.00
Stockdale, John Joseph. The History of the Inquisitions $500.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $2,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $1,000.00
The Elite Directory for San Francisco and Oakland $1,500.00
Autograph Letter Signed from Barnard Gratz in New York to his brother Michael Gratz, Philadelphia. Makes mention of “Governor Franklin,” son of Benjamin Franklin $7,000.00
Manuscript copy of the “Petition of the Traders of 1763 to the King’s Council of Virginia. Fort Pitt, Sept. 1775.” $1,500.00
Two Stereo Viewcards of the San Francisco Earthquake 1. “Ruins of the Jewish Synagogue on Sutter St. near Powell; stood the great earthquakes of 1865 and 1868” 2. “Looking west from the Jewish Synagogue” $700.00
Business correspondence by Joseph Simon to his son-in-law Michael Gratz $1,200.00
Autograph Letter Signed, from Solomon son of Tzvi Bloch (Solomon Henry) to his first cousin, Yechiel (Michael Gratz of Philadelphia), concerning an inheritance $5,000.00
Autograph Letter Signed to Barnard and Michael Gratz of Philadelphia from their sister Leah and other family members, written from their birthplace of Langendorf, Silesia $10,000.00
Autograph Letter Signed. Congratulations conveyed to Michael Gratz from his brother Barnard Gratz, his wife Miriam Gratz, and their daughter Rebecca Gratz, on the birth of Michael and Miriam’s son, Benjamin $10,000.00
(MOSES MENDES SEIXAS). (BIBLE, Hebrew). Tikun Sopherim $40,000.00
Moore, Thomas (pseud.) The New York Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1772 $8,000.00
Pinto, Isaac de. Reponse de Mr. J. De Pinto, Aux Observations d'un Homme Impartial $6,000.00
The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1781 $5,000.00
Low’s Pocket Companion, and Complete Annual Leeward Island Register for MDCCXIV $25,000.00
(Parliamentary Act, West Indies). Toleration Laws. Copies of the Laws passed by the several Colonial Legislatures, for the Relief of the Catholics, the Removal of the Disabilities of the Jews, and of Free Persons of Colour, During the Last Six Years $7,000.00
Benjamin, Judah P. Speech of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 22, 1860. Defence of the National Democracy Against the Attack of Judge Douglas--Constitutional Rights of the States. $1,500.00
(LITURGY). Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser $1,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $500.00
Inkwell belonging to Hyman Gratz. Tan-jade Chinese inkwell, carved with nautical scene surrounded by three quill-pen holders. Inscription below: “H.H. Gratz, 1841” $900.00
The Jewish Year No. I. / Shabbath Bereishith $2,000.00
Document transcibed by “By me Phi. Isaacson.” “Joseph Colos releases to Thos. Cross…pasture lying in the Inhams calld Howsons Close late Thos. Melsops.” $600.00
(ANGLO-JUDAICA) $700.00
Responsum of Rabbi Joseph Joffe of Manchester concerning the permissibility of Ethrogim [citrons] from the Greek Isle of Corfu $700.00
Two Hebrew manuscript leaves on vellum. Square Sephardic script in two columns with vocalization points (nikud) and cantillation. $2,500.00
Jacob of Ramrupt (Rabbeinu Tam. Attributed to). Sepher ha-Yashar [“The Book of the Upright”] $1,000.00
Anonymous. Torah Novellae on first several Chapters of Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mispat $1,500.00
Joseph of Stadthagen. Divrei Zikaron [Musar and ethical exhortations based upon the laws of slaughter] $2,000.00
Dusseldorf, Moses. Ariadne al Naxos / Ariadne auf Naxos in Hebräischen von Moses Lazrus $1,500.00
Takanoth min ha-Chevrah ha-Kedoshah Agudath Nashim [“Enactments of the Holy Organization of Women”]. * On a separate paper: Signatures of women to Takanoth me-ha-Chevrah shel Agudath Nashim (Amsterdam, 1819) $1,500.00
(EGER, BUNIM). $4,000.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA) $12,000.00
Contrat de Mariage [Civil Marriage Contract between Abraham Weil of Saverne and Therese Josephs of Neuwiller] $400.00
Twelve Autograph Letters Signed by, (or relating to), Rabbi Mayer Charleville, Chief Rabbi of Metz. The correspondence consists of questions of ritual law, family and communal affairs $900.00
Bi-Se'udath Sivlonoth, mah she-amarti al ha-Chathunah [wedding sermon] $400.00
Shirath Todah ve-Ahavath [“A Poem in Honor of the Seventieth Birthday of Our Teacher Rabbi Isaac Chaim Heilbronn”] $900.00
Rabbi’s manual of laws and sermons related to death and mourning $500.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach $1,500.00
Vocabulario Ebraico $900.00
Printed Bill of Exchange for amount of 5000F, payable through the banking house of Salomon Heine in Hamburg $600.00
Certificate of Purchase of Seat in Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue $300.00
*Tikun Shtaroth …mi-Sepher Nachalath Siv’ah [“Contracts and Legal Forms from the Book Nachalath Siv’ah”]. With: Several Dutch-Jewish memorabilia** $900.00
(Napoleonic Wars) $700.00
Sepher Ha’itur [rabbinic law] $1,500.00
(ISRAEL, LAND OF) $1,000.00
Shtar Mechirath Chametz. Official Deed of Sale of Chametz of the Entire Israeli Army, Defence Ministry, Office of the Prime Minister and other military and governmnet bodies $1,200.00
Piazza, Moses Aaron Rachamim. Ma’aseh Oreg [compilation of sermons delivered in Livorno in the year 1790] $1,500.00
Seder Tephiloth u-Pizmonim ha-Nohagim le-Omram Poh Modena [“Prayers and Poems Customarily Recited Here, Modena.”] $1,800.00
Allun, Michele. Zikaron li-Bnei Yisrael [memoirs of the Aschkenazic Community of Mantua for Years 1831-1833] $600.00
Manual of Practical Kabbalah and Magic. $9,000.00
KAGAN, ISRAEL MEIR $1,500.00
KAGAN, ISRAEL MEIR $5,000.00
Seder Teki’ath Shophar [rite of Sounding the Ram’s Horn]. With Mystical Meditations by Isaac Luria $1,500.00
Seder Pidyon ha-Ben [Order of Redemption of the Firstborn] $4,000.00
Sepher Seder Nashim [“A Book for Women”] $3,000.00
Piyutim for Simchath Torah $600.00
Seder Keri’ath Shema al ha-Mitah [Order of prayers before retiring at night] $500.00
Seder Tephiloth u-Bakashoth le-Nashim Sha’ananoth Ne’erachoth Midei Chodesh be-Chodsho u-Midei Shabath be-Shabato [Prayers for women relating to conception, pregnancy and birth]. $900.00
(MANUSCRIPTS) $500.00
(Scroll of Esther) $600.00
Elmaleh, Judah ben Mordecai. She’eloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa] $700.00
/ RaMBa”M). Shmoneh Perakim $2,500.00
Kinoth la-Meithim [Elegies for the Dead] $900.00
/RaMBa”M). MISHNEH TORAH $9,000.00
Seder Tephiloth u-Mizmorim she-Omrim be-Chol Yom Kodem ha-Ma’amadoth…Seder Tikun Chatzoth Laylah ve-Yom [Pre-Dawn Prayers…The Midnight and Midday Vigil] $3,000.00
Anonymous. Shir Chadash $600.00
Todtenopfer für…des Herrn Landesgouverneur von Galizien…Franz Freiherrn v[on]Hauer [eulogy for the Governor of Galicia Franz Freiherrn von Hauer] $1,200.00
Pentateuch in Samaritan Hebrew script. Written by Jacob ben Aaron ben Solomon, Priest, in the tenth month of 1293a.h. [1876 c.e.] $5,000.00
*Secretarial Letter in German, Signed, to Ludwig Wolf in Dresden. With: Other documents relating to the Rothschild Bank** $700.00
Friedman, Aaron Tzvi. Tuv Ta’am [the necessity for Jews to maintain the laws of ritual slaughter] $2,500.00
Steinschneider, Moritz $150.00
Kethubah [Marriage Contract] $2,000.00
Masecheth Berachoth $4,000.00
Masecheth Rosh Hashanah ve-Dinei Rosh Hashanah ve-Yom Kippur [Talmudic Tractate Rosh Hashanah and Laws of New Year and Day of Atonement] $4,000.00
*Three Legal Documents Processed by Beth Din of Amsterdam: Tena’im Acharonim [Nuptial Agreement]. Shtar Chalitzah [Certificate Pertaining to Levirate Marriage]. * Promissory Note** $300.00
Two further, (green) binders. Circa ff.70 each. Reflecting the biographic history of Zionism and the State of Israel $7,000.00

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AUCTION 33

June 20, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

Fine Judaica, Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters Sold at Kestenbaum & Company
on June 20th, 2006

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Product Title	AUCTION 33
Auction Date	Jun 19, 2006
Auction Time	1:00
Departments	Judaica
International Price	$0.00
Available for Sale	No
Short Description	Fine Judaica, Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters Sold at Kestenbaum & Company on June 20th, 2006 June 29, 2006—Kestenbaum & Company’s June 20th auction of Fine Judaica featured Printed Books & Manuscripts including The Professor Abraham J. Karp Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts; Illustrated Books from the Library of Jacobo Furman, Santiago, Chile; and Books & Autograph Letters by several members of the Gratz Family, Philadelphia. While the American-Judaica section of the sale did not perform as a group quite as well as in previous auctions, the top lot of the day was nonetheless in that category. A beautifully bound Hebrew Pentateuch printed in 1726 which belonged to Reverend Moses Mendes Seixas of Newport, Rhode Island, brought in $35,400. Thomas Moore’s New York Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1772 with an unrecorded view of New York locating the “Jew’s Synagogue” was also well-received in the American-Judaica section, realizing $10,620 against a pre-sale estimate of $6,000-8,000. Further sale highlights were the Basle 1692 Hebrew Bible with all parts bound in one volume in a fine contemporary binding, which attained $15,340 against an estimate of $8,000-12,000; and the first prayer book printed in England, London, 1740, which achieved $7,670. against its pre-auction estimate of $5,000-7,000. A lovely binding--Seder Ha’tephiloth Mikol Ha’shanah in a beautiful Dutch, hand-colored vellum Hebrew binding, 1786, was also notable, reaching $14,160, well over its pre-sale estimate of $8,000-10,000. In the manuscript section, noteworthy lots included a French Ketubah with beautiful floral motifs typical of French folk art, Bayonne, 1758, which sold for $11,800, and Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Yemen, 1598, which was bought for $9,440 against an estimate of $7,000-9,000. Other highly desirable lots were in the Liturgy section: Seder Pidyon ha-Ben, a most aesthetic manual for redeeming the firstborn, Dutch, circa 1800, which reached $8,260, more than doubling its pre-sale estimate of $3,000-4,000 and Sepher Seder Nashim [“A Book for Women”], which garnered $5,015, against its pre-auction estimate of $2,000-3,000. A final lot that generated interest was Martin Engelbrecht’s Temple des Juifs, a rare Jewish “peep show” depicting Amsterdam’s resplendent Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, with the Congregation at prayer, Augsburg, circa 1740. It realized $4,130 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,000-3,000.

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