Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

AUCTION 6

November 17, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Including A Private Collection of Jewish Art and Illustrated Books and
The Holy Land Collection of The Late Erich Wronker
The durability of the Hebrew Book market was on display at this Kestenbaum & Company auction. The sale featured a fine assortment of early printed Rabbinic Literature, luxury editions of illustrated Hagadoth and Holy Land memorabilia.

Undaunted by the topsy-turvy state of the world economy at the time, dealers, collectors and curators bid aggressively for the authentic rare Hebrew printed books. Consignors and dealers had been speculating for months how this tight-knit sector of the book market might react to recent tumbles in the larger economy. By the end of the evening, all agreed that demand for luxury Judaica remained strong.

No doubt, bidders were driven to enthusiasm by the remarkable martial gathered by Mr. Daniel E. Kestenbaum, a world renowned expert in the fields of Hebraica and Judaica. Highlights of the sale included:

The first English translation of the Pentateuch by an American for an American Jewish audience; Isaac Leeser's crowning literary achievement, published in Philadelphia in 1845-6, sold for $9775. (Lot 12).
The second Biblia Rabbinica, the first Hebrew bible to be printed with the Massoretic text, printed in 1524-5 by Daniel Bomberg in Venice, fetched $17,250. (Lot 27).
A very early document establishing political rights for Jews resident in Poland, signed by King Sigismund Augustus and dated 17th June, 1562, fetched $16,100. (Lot 270).

(Note: all prices include buyers premium)

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Grouped product items
Product Name
Opera $250.00
(MUSIC) $500.00
(MAPS). $600.00
(MAPS). $700.00
(MAPS). $600.00
(MAPS). $500.00
Tzevo’oh $700.00
(MAPS). $600.00
Jerusalem $1,800.00
Palastina $200.00
(MISHNAH). $1,000.00
Altneuland $300.00
Chad Gadjo. $1,500.00
Sepher Eilim $4,000.00
Opera quædam $700.00
Tikun Nefesh $2,000.00
Lev Aharon [commentary to the Books of Joshua and Judges, with text] $250.00
Sepher Hazichronoth [ethics] $700.00
Nachlath Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers, with text] $12,000.00
Abudraham [commentary to prayers] $2,000.00
*Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. BOUND WITH (As Originally Issued): Sepher Eilim Letruphah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna]** $1,500.00
Sepher Hilchoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic Code] $1,200.00
Lechem Setarim. $250.00
Me’ametz Koach [sermons and eulogies] $300.00
Chavatzeleth Hasharon [commentary to Book of Daniel, with text] $9,000.00
BRESLAU, ARYEH LEIB. Penei Aryeh [responsa] $700.00
HADASSAH, the Jewish Orphan. Anonymous. Illustrated with fine cuts. $300.00
BIBLE, Hebrew and English. PENTATEUCH). Torath Ha’elo-him - The Law of God. Edited and “With Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised” by Isaac Leeser. $8,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $7,000.00
(LEESER, ISAAC). A Memorial Offering Upon the Death of that Great, Wise, Good and Beloved Man, Minister and Guide of the Congregation Beth El Emeth, Philadelphia. $7,000.00
RAPHALL, MORRIS J. New York Evening Express [Daily Newspaper]. Front-page containing entire text of Discourse by Rabbi Morris J. Raphall “The Bible View of Slavery” preached at the Synagogue Bnai Jeshurun, Greene Street, New York. $2,000.00
SNEERSON, HAYIM ZVI. Palestine and Roumania. A Description of the Holy Land, and the Past and Present State of Roumania and the Roumanian Jews. $3,000.00
SCHREIDER, ABRAHAM. Toldoth Anshei Hashem. $600.00
(LITURGY). The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Edited and Revised by Abraham De Sola. $900.00
Seder Hatephiloth [prayers through the year] $800.00
AVKATH ROCHEL [eschatology] $1,200.00
CHEMDATH YAMIM [Kabbalistic homilies through the year] $900.00
Sepher MECHILTA [Halachic Midrash to the Book of Exodus] $7,000.00
Sepher shel Rabi Anshel…Mirkeveth Hamishnah. $1,200.00
Avodath Hakodesh. $1,200.00
Chovoth Halevavoth [pietism] $400.00
Travels of Rabbi Benjamin…through Europe, Asia and Africa, from the ancient Kingdom of Navarre to the Frontiers of China. $600.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew) $15,000.00
PENTATEUCH ONLY) $4,000.00
(BIBLE. Hebrew) $5,000.00
PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumashei Torah. $25,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew) $2,000.00
PSALMS). Edited by Thomas Erpenius. Latin and Syriac on facing columns. $600.00
Biblia en Lengua Espanola. Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca. $6,000.00
PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. $7,000.00
Biblia Hebraica. $600.00
Biblia Hebraica. A Large Paper Copy. $1,500.00
PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH) Tikun Sophrim - Quinque Libri Mosis. $1,800.00
PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumashei Torah. $500.00
PSALMS, PROVERBS AND JOB) $600.00
PROVERBS). Sepher Mishlei. Hebrew with interlinear Yiddish translation, and commentary. $700.00
PENTATEUCH, FIVE MEGILOTH AND HAPHTAROTH). Magen Sophrim. Edited with the commentary Minchath Shai by Solomon Norzi. $1,000.00
PSALMS). Sepher Tehillim. With meditative prayers. $900.00
PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumashei Torah. With commentaries Or Hachaim, Rashi, Ba’aal Haturim, Targums, etc. $3,000.00
Die Heilige Schrift der Israeliten. $600.00
Biblia, Antiguo Testamento. Traducida del Hebreo al Castellano. $6,000.00
The Kennicott Bible. $5,000.00
Group of c.55 Judaica and Hebrew Book catalogues. $500.00
*Catalogue de Vente de la Succession de feu M.D. Henriques de Castro… Amsterdam, 1899. Bücher aus Verschiedenem Besitz. With 24 plates. Frankfurt a/Main, J. Kauffmann Verlag, 1933.** $150.00
Group of c. 22 Hebrew Book catalogues. $200.00
Incunaboli Ebraici a Firenze. Florence, 1912. * (…) I Manoscritti Palatini Ebraici della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana e la Loro Storia. Vatican City,1935. * (AESCOLOY, AARON Z.) Bibliothek Jacob H. Wagner. Eine Übersicht. Berlin, 1926. $300.00
Catalogues des Manuscrits Hébreux et Samaritans de la Bibliothèque Impériale. $300.00
De Typographia Hebraeo-Ferrariensi… $300.00
*Annales Hebraeo-Typographici Sec. XV. WITH: Annales Hebraeo-Typographici ab an. 1501 ad 1540.** $600.00
Ohel Dawid. Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew And Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library. $1,200.00
(BIBLIOGRAPHY). STEINSCHNEIDER, MORITZ $500.00
Minchath Shelomoh-Katalog der Salo Cohn’schen Schenkungen. $500.00
Karo, Joseph. Shulchan Aruch-Even Ha’ezer. With commentary. $2,000.00
Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland $3,500.00
Bigdei Kohanim / id est, Vestitus Sacerdotum Hebraeorum $500.00
Birchath Avraham [commentary to Book of Genesis] $300.00
Heine, Heinrich. Der Rabbi von Bacherach $1,000.00
*Die Psalmen. Berlin, 1921. Gorelik, Sch. Jüdische Köpfe. Berlin, 1920. * Nadel, Arno. Das Jahre des Juden. Berlin, 1920. * Another Edition. Sonderdruck für den Heine-Bund, 1926.** $600.00
Synagoga Judaica...Das ist Erneuerte Juedische Synagog, oder Juden-Schuel $2,500.00
*Collection of 117 Jewish Calendars. 1800-1918 (lacking only 1832 and 1917). WITH: Eight 18th-century Calendars, 1776-1799** $10,000.00
Tyrnau, Isaac. Minhagim. According to the custom of Poland, Bohemia, Moravia and Germany. With ethical and life-cycle advice $6,000.00
Majern, Christoph Paul. Minhagim. Das ist derer heutigen Jüden Ceremonien und Gebräuche $900.00
Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland $1,200.00
Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland $1,000.00
GINZBERG, SIMON LEVI. Minhagim $1,500.00
LUCKMAN, ARIEH LEIBESH. Dinim Uminhagim Tovim $500.00
Shever Poshim $1,500.00
Bath Ayin [Chassidic homilies to the Pentateuch and Festivals] $1,500.00
Torath Chaim [novellae to the Pentateuch] $250.00
AARON BEN ASHER PERLOW OF KARLIN. Beith Aharon [on the Pentateuch, Festivals, etc.] $700.00
Raza Deyichuda [Kabbalistic meditations, an abridgment of his Oz Le’elo-him, a super-commentary to Shabbetai Tzvi] $1,800.00
Zeh Hashulchan... $1,500.00
Scharfstein, Edith and Sol. AlefBet, In Ryme and Story. With illustrations by Hy Neigher in color and black-and-white $200.00
Chanover, Hyman and Alice. Happy Hanukah Everybody. With illustrations by MAURICE SENDAK in color and black-and-white $900.00
Sidur Kol Benei Yehudah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the rite of the AR”I - the custom of Lubavitch $1,000.00
*Gezunt un Shpiyz [“Health and Nutrition”]. Vegetarian Cook Book** $400.00
Shtei Yadoth [essays on Talmud, Bible, liturgy, etc.] $1,200.00
Masa Be’eretz Hakedem [guide for visitors to the Holy Land and Egypt] $300.00
Milchamah Lehashem Be’amalek [on the usage of Ethrogim from the Isle of Corfu] $300.00
Igereth Shmuel [commentary to the Book of Ruth, with text, and accompanied by commentary by RaSH”I] $2,500.00
Ohev Mishpat [commentary to the Book of Job, with text] $600.00
Les Antiquites Judaïques et le Peintre Jean Foucquet $300.00
Sammlung der, die neue Organisation des Judenwesens im Grossherzogthum Psen betreffenden Gesetze, Instruktionen, Rescripte usw. im deutscher und zugleich hebraischer Schrift. $500.00
Tochuchoth Megulah Vehatzad Nachash $1,500.00
Sepher Ukelidus [Hebrew translation of the first Six Books of The Elements] $2,000.00
KIRSCHBAUM, MENACHEM MENDEL. Takanoth eich Lehithnaheg Ke’eith Be’eipher Hanisraphim $250.00
Menorath Hashulchan im Nethivoth Ayil $1,500.00
Sepher Hatakanoth Vehaskamoth $2,000.00
Biur Sepher Koheleth [commentary to Book of Ecclesiastes] $700.00
Shlomei Emunei Yisrael [Hebrew] - Treue Gläubige in Israel! $2,000.00
Sha’arei Orah. [an exposition of Kabbalistic symbolism] $500.00
Kithvei Kodesh Umelitzath $1,800.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach $90,000.00
Sepher Mateh Aharon. With commentary by Aaron Teomim $1,500.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel $60,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary Zera Yehudah by Judah Loeb ben Shimon of Mainz $700.00
Seder Hagadah Lepesach. With commentary in Judeo-German. Prepared by Solomon Zalman London $400.00
Beith Chorin. With commentaries $1,800.00
Hagadah Seder shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel $500.00
Hagadah Veseder shel Pesach. With commentary and translation into Yiddish. $6,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With instructions in Italian. Two text illustrations $2,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With translation and commentary in Yiddish $1,000.00
Lashon Chachamim. With commentary by Eliezar Nachman Foa. According to the rite of Rome $400.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach - Service for the Two First Nights of Passover $500.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With translation into Ladino. [Yudlov 1337; Yaari 993]. Vienna, 1869 $700.00
Chaluka Derabanan. With commentary by Isaiah Horowitz, Aaron Teomim and others $400.00
Hagadah shel Pesach Belashon Aravi $2,000.00
Hagadah of Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen $400.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. With Yiddish translation. Illustration on title page $250.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Woodcut illustrations by Jakob Steinhardt, Hebrew characters by Franziska Baruch $3,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach $400.00
Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah...aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert $700.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With translation and commentary in Judeo-Arabic $250.00
Hagadah schel Pesach $700.00
Die jüdischen Flüchtlinge in der Schweiz. Zur Feier des Pesach [Hebrew] -Festes im Jahre 5703 $900.00
Haggadah for Passover. Copied and Illustrated by BEN SHAHN. With a translation and notes by Cecil Roth $1,800.00
The Golden Haggadah $600.00
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Haggadah and History $80.00
Hamekach Vehamemkar [laws of torts and securities] $500.00
Der Rabbi von Bacharach. Hand-colored illustrations by Kurt Tuch. ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES. Berlin, 1913. * Prinzessen Sabbath. Illustrated by Richard Hadel. ONE OF 110 NUMBERED COPIES signed by the artist. Berlin, 1921 $500.00
Pictorial Review, Vaad Hatzala Germany $400.00
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 $800.00
Sepher Techinoth Useguloth Vederech Eretz $900.00
Selichoth - Or the Jewish Propitiatory Prayer $600.00
Tephilah Beth Almin [burial and funeral prayers] $1,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Purim [parody of the Seder service in keeping with the mischievousness of Purim $600.00
Teshuvoth Harav [responsa] $2,500.00
Meir Nativ [Biblical concordance]. $250.00
Who’s Who in the State of Israel. Alex M. Aurel-Airely (Editor) . Two Parts in one. Second Part: An Economic, Administrative, Cultural, Social and Political Survey $100.00
(ISRAELS, JOZEF) $600.00
Zeh Seder Hahaskamah... $500.00
In Nome del Signore Iddio. Regole delle Tasse della Nationè Hebrea di Ferrara $1,500.00
MALACHI BEN JACOB HACOHEN. Shivchei Todah $600.00
Seder Hapragmatica $1,000.00
Kol Kore Meheichal [communal strife] $600.00
Letovath Hayishuv! $350.00
Viku’ach Shivah Harim-Dialogo dos Montes $5,000.00
Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London $600.00
Die Juden in der Karikatur $150.00
Juedische Graphiker aus der Zeit von 1625-1825 $1,000.00
A Jewish Iconography. A Revised Edition $1,500.00
Biur al Sepher Mitzvath Gadol [commentary to Moses of Coucy’s rabbinic code] $700.00
Arba Choroshim $300.00
Des Hochberuehmten Juedischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher $600.00
The Famous and Memorable Works... $200.00
Kisa’oth Lebeith David [philosophical sermons] $300.00
Die Verwandlung $1,800.00
Seder Birchath Lechol Hashanah [prayers through the year] $300.00
Siddur Tephiloth Hakara’im [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by the Karaite leader, Abraham Firkovitch $250.00
Shulchan Aruch [code of Jewish Law]. Vol. III (only, of 4) Even Ha’ezer $700.00
Simchath Hanephesh [“The Joy of the Soul”] $400.00
Kli Yakar [commentary to Former Prophets, with text] $1,200.00
*Philologus Hebraeus Continens. BOUND WITH: Phlilologus Hebraeo-Mixtus. * Phlilogus Hebraeo-Graecus** $1,500.00
Cahun, Léon. La Vie Juive $1,800.00
Heine, Heinrich. Der Rabbi von Bacherach $2,500.00
(LILIEN, E.M.) $1,500.00
Or Yisrael [responsa, including those from] $400.00
(Selichoth) [penitential prayers] $10,000.00
Machzor. Orden de Roshasanah y Kipur. Translado en Español $15,000.00
Seder Tachanunim [penitential prayers]. According to Aschkenazi rite. Prepared for the Shomrim Laboker Society $700.00
Machzor Sephardim Meyamin Nora’im [prayers for the Days of Awe] $900.00
Seder Kriah Vetikun [prayers and readings for the evenings of Shavu’oth and Hoshana Raba]. Compiled by Moses Cordovero and ascribed to Isaac Luria $600.00
Selichoth Leta’anith... $700.00
Slichah [penitential and other selected prayers]. According to Aschkenazi rite as practiced in Italy $400.00
Machzor [Festival prayers]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With the Five Scrolls $900.00
Seder Tephiloth [daily and Sabbath prayers, with other selections]. According to Sephardic rite $50,000.00
Mishmereth Haben $500.00
Tikun Shlomo [Sabbath prayers] $700.00
Seder Hatephilah al Derech Hasod [prayers through the year] $4,000.00
Seder Techinoth Uvakoshoth [supplicatory prayers] $500.00
Selichah Leyamim Noraim...[penitential prayers] $300.00
Selichoth [penitential prayers] $700.00
Sepher Hatarath Nedorim, Mesirath Moda’ah, Seder Tashlich [prayers of confession and release of vows, etc.] $600.00
Seder Birchath Hamazon. With translation and commentary in Yiddish $900.00
The Worms Machzor $3,000.00
Die Alten Juedischen Heiligthuemer $600.00
De Judaeis et Eorum $300.00
Chochmath Mano’ach [glosses to the Talmud] $1,000.00
Seder Haha’arachah Vehanhagah [Communal regulations and obligations] $700.00
Tzok Ha’ittim [“Sufferings of the Times”] $600.00
Parshath Ha’ibur $1,000.00
Haskamoth...[prospectus] $900.00
With commentary Eitz Hachaim by Jacob Chagiz $1,200.00
Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code] $1,500.00
Sha’ar Hagemul [on eschatology] $2,500.00
Drasha [sermon on the fundamentals of faith] $1,200.00
Sepher Nitzachon-Liber Nizachon $2,500.00
Zemiroth Yisra’el [poetry] $3,000.00
Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familien-Leben $1,500.00
Hagadah shel Tel Aviv $400.00
Tena’im Le’Purim $400.00
Die Royte Hagadah $400.00
Die Neue Amerikanische Hagadah $400.00
Hagadah Leprachoth [“The Leper’s Hagadah”] $600.00
Ma’arecheth Ha’elokuth [Kabbalah] $1,500.00
Ma’arecheth Ha’elokuth [Kabbalah] $900.00
Histoire Générale des Cérémonies, Moeurs, et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde $3,000.00
Group of c.104 postcards of European Synagogues (including Karaite synagogues). Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $5,000.00
Group of c.59 postcards of Jewish Types (European). Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $2,500.00
Group of c.52 postcards of Jewish Types (Sephardic). Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $2,000.00
Group of c.103 postcards of Jewish New Year greetings. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $2,500.00
Group of c.43 American anti-Semitic postcards. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $1,500.00
Group of c.63 European anti-Semitic postcards. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $4,500.00
Group of c.18 postcards concerning the Dreyfus Affair. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $1,200.00
Group of c.106 postcards of Jewish life and street-scenes. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $3,000.00
PRÄGER, MOSES $500.00
Beschreibung wegen Hoher Geburth...Erzherzogens von Oesterreich...Leopoldi $4,000.00
(LITURGY). Seder Tikunei Shabbath [for Sabbath table, and other readings] $2,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim. Divided for recitation according to the seven days of the week $3,000.00
(LITURGY). Machzor [Festival and occasional prayers]. Part II $2,000.00
(LITURGY). Selichoth mikol Hashanah [penitential prayers]. According to the custom of Poland, etc $2,500.00
(PRAGUE IMPRINT) $2,500.00
Minchah Bilulah [homilies to the Pentateuch] $1,000.00
Mikvah Yisrael [Halachic polemic] $600.00
Sepher Torath Ha’adam [ethics] $600.00
Mishpat Hamelech - Jus Regium Hebræorum $600.00
Jüdischer Merkwürdigkeiten $1,800.00
Divrei Hayamim Leyisra’el [concerning social welfare for the Jews of Jerusalem] $1,200.00
Sepher Hazohar [“The Book of Splendor”] $1,500.00
Three-quarter length lithographed portrait $3,000.00
Lechem Shlomo [novellae and sermons] $500.00
Memoria de la Real Academia de la Historia Sobre la Inscripcion Hebrea de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Tránsito de la Ciudad de Toledo, que con el Titulo de Ilustracion Publicó Don Juan Josef Heydeck el Año de 1795 $1,000.00
(STEINHARDT, JAKOB). $500.00
Fortlage, Arnold and Karl Schwarz. Das Graphische Werk von Hermann Struck $700.00
Die Kunst des Radierens $600.00
Die Balalaika. Ein Versreigen von Arthur Silbergleit. With 8 lithographs by Struck. $600.00
Masechta Derech Eretz Upirkei Ben Azzai $7,000.00
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN). $18,000.00
Pnei Aryeh Zuta [homilies on the Pentateuch] $300.00
Sepher Likutei Tzvi [collected ethical prayers and readings] $400.00
Chazon Lamoed [commentary to the Book of Daniel, with text] $500.00
Masechta Avoth $300.00
*Historische Nachricht von der Judengemeinde in dem Hofmarkt Fürth. Historische Nachrichten von der Juden-Gemeinde...Nürnberg** $900.00
Gollerbach, E. and L.S. Jaffe. Yudovin, Gravjuri na Dereve [Russian]. $700.00
Protection During Childbirth. Incorporating numerous Kabbalistic devices, charts and other displays. Composed in a Separdic square and cursive Hebrew script, black ink on vellum $1,200.00
Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew. Ordination (Kethav Moreinu) of Aaron Bichler. One page with integral blank $1,500.00
Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew. Ordination of Joshua b. Solomon Tzvi Hakohen of Volozhin. One page with integral blank $1,000.00
Five manuscript leaves (or portions) comprising texts from the Books of Exodus (with Nikud) and Leviticus (without Nikud) and Babylonian Talmudic Tractates Gittin, Kethuboth and Yevamoth. $5,000.00
Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium]. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1585]. Amsterdam, 1745 $5,000.00
Manuscript Micrographic half-length portrait of “The Great Sage and Chief Rabbi of the Province of Posen” full-bearded and wearing skull-cap. Executed by Joseph Katz of Freistadt. $7,000.00
Anthology of various ethical and Zoharic teachings, several possibly unpublished. Includes various works of Elijah, Gaon of Vilna and his followers including Chaim Volozhin $2,000.00
(Torath Hakena’oth). Single printed leaf (f.5) with Autograph Manuscript Notations in cursive script by Emden suggesting that the prophecies emanating from the Sabbatians is the result of Black Magic $5,000.00
(sic, actually Joseph). Sepher Meshalim. Black ink on paper $3,000.00
Typed Letter Signed, in German, extending invitation to participate in the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basel. “With Zion’s Greetings…” Additionally signed by Ozer Kokesch(?), Herzl’s aide-de-camp. $1,000.00
A collection of nine Dutch manuscript documents relating to the Dutch-Jewish noble Families de Pinto and Lopes Suasso $6,000.00
Receipt signed by Meir Urbach and Jacob Judah Halevi, to David Tevele Kirschner and Ze’ev Hertzfled. Printed document finished in manuscript $600.00
Ledger Book of the Burial Society of the Kollel Chassidei Volhyn in Jerusalem. Includes outlays for medical expenses, land purchases, loans, etc $600.00
Letter of Appointment (Shadar) on behalf of the R. Meir Ba’al Haness Fund sending emissary to Texas and California to collect funds $1,500.00
Autograph Letter Signed to one Simcha Fuerst concerning business affairs, suggesting that Fuerst correspond with Elijah Gutmacher over this matter. * With the petitioner’s letter to R. Gutmacher below $700.00
Marriage Contract. Copper-engraving on vellum. The text in brown ink, Sephardi cursive Hebrew script. Uniting David ben Joseph de Pinto and Clara bat Aaron de Pinto. Signed (twice) by Haham Solomon Ayllon below $7,000.00
Marriage Contract. Text in black ink, on paper. Sephardic cursive Hebrew script, text in Hebrew and Judeo-Persian $2,000.00
KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC (Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land. 1865-1935) $1,200.00
Seder Tekiath Shophar. Instruction, meditations and procedures for the Blowing of the Shophar $600.00
Seder Hataroth Nedarim $2,000.00
Seder Kabalath Shabbath [prayers upon the onset of the Sabbath] $1,800.00
Document Signed by King Sigismund Augustus of Poland, establishing political rights for Jews resident in Poland. Latin text. Verso with later Hebrew inscriptions relating to freedom to engage in commerce $10,000.00
Pruzbal Document for R. Salant, listing all his debtors. Witnessesed by the Beth Din of Jerusalem and signed by Meir Urbach and Jacob Judah Halevi $900.00
Extraordinary account of prophecies of Zadok of Grodno, predicting the Coming of the Messiah in the year 1706 - fifty years folllowing the 1666 Revelation of Shabthai Tzvi $3,000.00
Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew. Offering thanks for donation. One page on printed letter-head $600.00
Sepher Hayichus $900.00
Theatrum Terræ Sanctæ... $3,000.00
(Editor). Souvenirs de Jerusalem. Album Dessine par M. Le Contre-Amiral Paris $3,000.00
Dictionnaire Historique Critique, Chronologique, Geographique et Litteral de la Bible $1,000.00
CHATEAUBRIAND, (FRANCOIS RENE DE). $400.00
*Tent Work in Palestine. Two volumes. Illustrated. New York, 1878. WITH: HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL. Landscape Illustrations of the Bible. Two volumes. Numerous plates. London, 1836** $500.00
Yosef Da’ath [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch] $5,000.00
A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Comprising Recollections, Sketches, and Reflections Made During a Tour in the East $300.00
Narrative of the United States’ Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea $200.00
Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c. $400.00
Extracted from Hagadah shel Pesach $1,500.00
Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina. $500.00
Carte dela Situation du Paradis Terrestre... $400.00
Palestina, Sive Terræ Sanctæ Descriptio $2,000.00
Terrra Sancta quæ in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol: Palestina $600.00
A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem... $600.00
HORNSTEIN, SAUL BEN PINCHAS. Fine lithographed colored Mizrach $4,000.00
OLIPHANT, LAURENCE $250.00
Beschreibung des Morgenlandesund einiger anderer lander $700.00
Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata $900.00
*Biblical Researches in Palestine. Three volumes. Third edition. With maps and plans. London, 1867. WITH: PALMER, E. H. The Desert of the Exodus. Two volumes. With maps and plates. Cambridge, 1871.** $400.00
SAULCY, F. DE $250.00
Opisanie sviatago bolzhiya grada Ierusalima... $3,000.00
Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine $300.00
Blumen Buch des Heiligen Lands Palestinæ $900.00
Kessef Nivchar [Kabbalistic sermons to the Pentateuch] $25,000.00

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AUCTION 6

November 17, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Product Title	AUCTION 6
Auction Date	Nov 16, 1998
Auction Time	1:00
Departments	Judaica
International Price	$0.00
Available for Sale	No
Short Description	Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including A Private Collection of Jewish Art and Illustrated Books and The Holy Land Collection of The Late Erich Wronker The durability of the Hebrew Book market was on display at this Kestenbaum & Company auction. The sale featured a fine assortment of early printed Rabbinic Literature, luxury editions of illustrated Hagadoth and Holy Land memorabilia. Undaunted by the topsy-turvy state of the world economy at the time, dealers, collectors and curators bid aggressively for the authentic rare Hebrew printed books. Consignors and dealers had been speculating for months how this tight-knit sector of the book market might react to recent tumbles in the larger economy. By the end of the evening, all agreed that demand for luxury Judaica remained strong. No doubt, bidders were driven to enthusiasm by the remarkable martial gathered by Mr. Daniel E. Kestenbaum, a world renowned expert in the fields of Hebraica and Judaica. Highlights of the sale included: The first English translation of the Pentateuch by an American for an American Jewish audience; Isaac Leeser's crowning literary achievement, published in Philadelphia in 1845-6, sold for $9775. (Lot 12). The second Biblia Rabbinica, the first Hebrew bible to be printed with the Massoretic text, printed in 1524-5 by Daniel Bomberg in Venice, fetched $17,250. (Lot 27). A very early document establishing political rights for Jews resident in Poland, signed by King Sigismund Augustus and dated 17th June, 1562, fetched $16,100. (Lot 270). (Note: all prices include buyers premium)

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