Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

Auction 85

November 7, 2019 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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The catalogue for this auction appears in two formats:

A comprehensive version fully describing and illustrating each of the 246 lots in the sale is available on our website.

A printed version of the catalogue contains highlights of the auction.

Rare books of note include Theodor Herzl’s novel “Altneuland” inscribed and signed by the Author to his wife’s sister (lot 93); Isaac ibn Sahula’s book of fables “Mashal HaKadmoni” the most celebrated illustrated Hebrew work of the 16th century (lot 128); Arthur Szyk’s expansively illustrated “Statute of Kalisz,” a paean to Polish-Jewish relations (lot 187). Within the section of American-Judaica is a heretofore unknown albumen photograph of Mordecai Manuel Noah (lot 18) and in the section of Holocaust-era items is a single lot of more than 1,200 historical documents (lot 95).

Outstanding art in this sale is an exceptional portrait by Isidor Kaufmann (lot 216) as well as an extensive archive of several hundred artworks all executed by Hermann Struck (lot 217).

A most noteworthy item of Judaica is one that stems from the Estate of Marilyn Monroe: A Menorah gifted to the screen legend by the parents of her new husband, the playwright, Arthur Miller (lot 234)

Further details, including additional photographs, of any lot in this auction is available upon request.

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Grouped product items
Product Name
Menorath HaMa’or [“The Candelabrum of Light”: Ethical Treatise] $500.00
Miphaloth Elo-him [“The Deeds of God”: on the question of creation ex nihilo, miracles, and prophecy] $500.00
Atereth Zekenim [“Crown of the Elders”: philosophy]. Appended short essay by Abrabanel, “Tzuroth HaYesodoth” [medieval science]. $1,200.00
Perush Nevi'im Acharonim [commentary to Later Prophets]. Along with text of Bible. $8,000.00
Divrei Rivoth [responsa] $400.00
Divrei Shalom [sermons and homilies to the Pentateuch] $400.00
Sefer Ho’il Moshe [sermons]. $500.00
Chavatzeleth HaSharon [commentary to the Book of Daniel, with text] $400.00
Maroth Hatzovoth [commentary to Former Prophets] $400.00
The New Jamaica Almanack and Register, Calculated to the Meridian of the Island for the Year of our Lord 1796. $3,000.00
Mordecai, Jacob (1762-1838). Autograph (untitled) Manuscript, written in English (with some Hebrew): Analysis and refutation of Christian readings of the Hebrew Bible. 38 pages. Incomplete at end. $12,000.00
A Form of Prayer for the General Fast to be Read in Synagogue on the 11th August in Commemoration of the Hurricane in the Year 1831. - A Form of Prayer for Tuesday 11th August 1835 After the Morning Amidah. $2,000.00
(Warder Cresson). Babylon the Great Is Falling! The Morning Star, or Light from on High. Written in Defence of the Rights of the Poor and Oppressed. $1,000.00
Isaac Leeser. Discourses, Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of the Jewish Religion. Delivered at the Synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the years 5590-5597. $1,000.00
Rosanna Dyer Osterman. Autograph Letter Signed, written in English to her brother in Baltimore, Leon Dyer. $1,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover. $5,000.00
Jonas B. Phillips. My Old Wife. A Favorite Ballad Sung by Mr. J[oseph]. P[hillip]. Knight & Mr. [Henry] Russell. The Poetry by Jonas B. Phillips Esq. The MusicComposed & Respectfully Dedicated to Mrs. Frederick F. Backus of Rochester, NY by Henry Russell. $1,000.00
Large, albumen carte-de-visite photograph of <<Mordecai Manuel Noah.>> $6,000.00
Carte-de-visite photograph of a Union Cavalryman, with autograph signature on front: “Isidore Kastner.” $2,000.00
A coin-silver soup-ladle made by <<Solomon Ralph Biesenthal >>of Louisville Kentucky (1829-1903). Engraved “Remember Jetta Gerstley.” Marked: “SRBiesenthal Louisville.” $1,000.00
Lithograph portrait by Max Rosenthal of Dr. Isaac Leeser, Rabbi of the Jewish Congregation “Beth El-Emeth” Philadelphia. Born 1806 - Died Feb. 1st 1868. $2,000.00
The Constitution and By-Laws of the Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia. $5,000.00
Wise, Isaac Mayer (1819-1900). Autograph Letter Signed written in German to Rabbi Max Landsberg (1845-1927) on letterhead of The Israelite & Die Deborah. <<* On verso:>> Autograph response from Landsberg back to Wise. Written in pencil. $1,000.00
Minhag America - The Daily Prayers, for American Israelites, Revised in Conference. With: Select Prayers for Various Occasions In Life. Edited by <<Isaac Mayer Wise.>> $600.00
Mordecai Manuel Noah. Group of four items relating to his play: The Wandering Boys or the Castle of Olival. $1,200.00
The Constitution of New Hampshire as Amended by the Constitutional Convention Held at Concord, on the first Wednesday of December, 1876. $700.00
Congregation Shaaray Tefila. West End Synagogue… Ceremony of Laying the Corner Stone. $500.00
Playbill for “The Jewel of Asia” a Comic Opera in Honor of the Seventeenth Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. $400.00
“A Scroll Honoring the United Nations. Special V-Day Services Temple Oheb Sholom, Goldsboro, North Carolina. Commemorating the Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany.” $1,000.00
<<(MANHATTAN PROJECT).>> Rosh HaShana Sermon Delivered to Members of the Manhattan Project by Rabbi Elias Schwartz. $5,000.00
Lancelot Addison. The Present State of the Jews: (More Particularly Relating to those in Barbary) Wherein is Contained an Exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious, to which is Annexed a Summary Discourse of the Misna, Talmud, and Gemara. $500.00
John Xeres. An Address to the Jews …Containing His Reasons for Leaving the Jewish, and Embracing the Christian Religion. $500.00
Samuel Marochitanus). Tractatus Rabby Samuelis - Errorem Iudeorum Indicans. $1,000.00
Francisco de Torrejoncillo. Centinela contra Judíos puesta en la Torre de la Iglesia de Dios. $400.00
Heimer, Ernst. Der Giftpilz. Ein Stürmerbuch für Jung und Alt ["The Poisonous Toadstool: A Book for Young and Old.”] $1,500.00
Group of 30 books and pamphlets, most anti-Semitic, few German-Jewish related. All German language. $1,000.00
Summa Divi Thomae Aquinatis Ordinis Praedicatorum Contra Gentiles quam Hebraice Eloquitur / Kitzur MeHaKadosh Thomas Me’Aqunio MiKet HaDarshanim Neged HaGoyim [systematic exposition against non-Christians]. $700.00
Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]. $600.00
Abraham bar Hiya. Tzurat Ha’Aretz. Ashpira Hagadol (called Maroth Ha‘Ofanim). Sepher HaGalgal. Edited by Jonathan of Rozinai. $400.00
Kol Malecheth Higayon Le’Aristotle [philosophy - paraphrase of Aristotle’s Organon]. Translated into Hebrew by Jacob ibn Machir. $400.00
(Abu Ali al-Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Sina). HaKanon HaGadol - Canon Medicinae. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Nathan of Cento (HaMe'ati). $30,000.00
Kad HaKemach. $500.00
Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]. $600.00
Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch] $600.00
Shulchan (shel) Arba [on proper conduct at the table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come, and resurrection of the dead]. $400.00
Barchi Naphshi [ethical poem]. Translated into Italian by Jochanan Altrino. Hebrew and Italian on facing pages. $10,000.00
Mikneh Avram (Sepher Dikduk) $1,200.00
(“Hapenini”) Bechinath Olam [ethics]. $500.00
Jacob ben Isaac of Janow. Tze’enah Ure’enah [interpretation of the Chumash and Haphtoroth for women and children] $4,000.00
Hebrew Proverbs, Mishlei). With commentary by Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome. Edited by Chaim bar Isaac Halevi Aschkenazi (see colophon). $6,000.00
Hebrew). Complete, bound in five volumes. $6,000.00
Hebrew). Chumash [Pentateuch] only. $1,000.00
Hebrew, Latin and Greek). Biblia Hebraica. - Novum Testamentum Graecum. Interlinear Latin translation by Arias Montanus. Individual title-pages each with elaborate woodcut devices. $500.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah - Siphthei Chachamim [Pentateuch]. With super-commentary to Rashi by <<Shabthai Bass>>. With Megilloth and Haphtaroth. $1,000.00
Spanish). La Sagrada Biblia. Nuevamente Traducida al Español, e ilustrada con notas por Don Felix Torres Amat. Edicion reimpresa de la segunda Madrid. $4,000.00
Hebrew. Pentateuch And Haphtaroth). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With Judeo-German summaries. $1,500.00
Chumash [Five Books of Moses]. Text in Hebrew and English. Illustrations and ornamentation by the artist <<Shuki Freiman.>> $1,200.00
Lanckisch, Friederich. Concordantiae Bibliorum Germanico-Hebraico-Graecae [German-Hebrew-Greek Concordance of the Bible] $600.00
Marvin J. Heller. The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book. $600.00
Substantial collection of c. 270 volumes, all relating to the practice of the precept of circumcision. $10,000.00
Collection of c. 107 German-Jewish Calendars. For the years spanning 1840-1937 (few duplicates). $1,000.00
Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus. $600.00
Neun Originalholzschnitte Rabbi von Bacherach von Heinrich Heine. $1,000.00
Giuseppe Vigevano. Nisayon Ktav Lashon HaKodesh - Saggio di Caratteri Ebraici. [“Student’s Guide to Hebrew Calligraphy.”] $5,000.00
Las Excelencias de los Hebreos [“The Excellences of the Hebrews”]. $5,000.00
Elimelech of Lizhensk. Noam Elimelech [discourses on the Torah]. $4,000.00
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. Tzemach Tzedek [halacha and responsa] $600.00
Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. Ma’amarim VeSichoth shel K’K Admo’r Shlit’a MiLubavitch. $600.00
Judah Leib ben Ze’ev. Mesilath HaLimmud. $200.00
Ohel Mo’ed [lexicon of synonyms] $300.00
(TaSHBe”TZ.) Tiph’ereth Yisrael / Megilath Sepher / Ma’amar Se’udath Mitzvah [on the Book of Esther and holiday of Purim] $400.00
Ohev Mishpat and Mishpat Tzedek [two commentaries to the Book of Job]. $500.00
The Meaning of Relativity. Translated from the German by Edwin Plimpton Adams. $600.00
Peirush HaMiloth al Derech HaPeshat [exposition to the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis] $500.00
Shemesh Lashon HaKodesh - Sole della Lingua Santa. $800.00
Collection of items relating to the Freeland League: $1,000.00
Solomon Kaboli (Ed.) Shailoth U’teshuvoth MehaGe’onim [collection of 400 Gaonic responsa] $400.00
Jean Cinqarbres (Quinquarboreus). De Re Grammatica Hebraeorum Opus - De notis Hebræorum. $400.00
Ludovico Saint Franciscus. Globus Canonum et Arcanorum Linguae Sanctae ac Divinae Scripturae. $400.00
Johannes Avenarius. Sefer HaShorashim - Liber Radicum Seu, Lexicon Hebraicum, in Quo Omnium Vocabulorum Biblico. $500.00
Peirush HaHagadah. With Kabbalistic commentary by <<Yoseph Gikatilla.>> $600.00
Seder Hagadah LePesach. $300.00
Beith Chorin. $2,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. $600.00
The Union Haggadah. Home Service for Passover Eve. $400.00
Hagadah shel Pesach - Haggada opowiadania o Wyjsciu Izraelitow z Egiptu. $500.00
The Venice 1629 Hagadah. Facsimile edition. $400.00
The Amsterdam 1712 Hagadah. Facsimile edition. $400.00
The Augsburg 1534 Hagadah. Facsimile edition. Produced by J. Schwarcz from the copy formerly in the collection of Chief Rabbi of Prague David Oppenheimer, and now housed in the British Library, London. $500.00
The Avignon 1765 Hagadah. Facsimile edition. $400.00
Group of c. 65 Hebrew printed leaves from a “Binding Geniza.” $1,000.00
(“The Tosfos Yom-Tov.”). Selichoth VePizmonim… HaGaon Eliezer Aschkenazi [penitential prayers relating to tensions during war to dispel sorrow and despair]. Plus additional prayers by R. Ephraim (Luntschytz) and R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller. $10,000.00
Altneuland [“Old-New Land”- a novel] $20,000.00
Three works bound in one volume. $1,000.00
<<An extensive collection of Holocaust-era documents.>> $30,000.00
Janusz Korczak: Prawo Dziecka do Szacunku [“The Child's Right to Respect.”] $1,000.00
Die Greuelpropaganda ist eine Lugenpropaganda … Atrocity Propaganda is Based on Lies, Say the Jews of Germany Themselves. $400.00
Philo-Atlas: Handbuch fuer die Juedische Auswanderung [“Guide for Jewish Emigration]. Edited by Ernst G. Lowenthal and Hans Oppenheimer. $800.00
Jules Romains (French novelist and President of International PEN, 1885-1972). Typed Letter Signed, on letterhead of International PEN, written in French, to the President of France [Albert Lebrun]. $2,000.00
Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt [“Jewish News Gazette.”] Collection of 65 issues of the Vienna edition. Numbers 9-12 (Jan.-Feb. 1940) and numbers 42-105 (May-Dec. 1940). $4,000.00
Group of twelve documents and certificates issued in China to the Polish Jew Mojsiej Abraham (Moshe Avraham) Trompler. $700.00
Rendelet [anti-Jewish Decree]. $1,000.00
*Gudstjenesten i Det mosaiske Troessamfunds Synagoge. <<>> Mindegudstjeneste [“Memorial Service.”].** $1,000.00
Boris Taslitzky. 111 Dessins Faits a Buchenwald, 1944-1945. $700.00
Co S Nimi? - Why We Do Not Want Them: Documentary Testimony of Nazi Propaganda about the Treasonable Activities of Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. Edited by Libuse Hanusova. $600.00
Together three works. $1,000.00
Police d'Israel, Quartier General, 6-eme Bureau. [Complete Transcript of the Adolf Eichmann Interrogation] $3,000.00
Fragment of a Torah scroll, defaced by a Nazi soldier. $2,000.00
*Two Jewish iconographic motifs drawn by Moshe Perl: <<>> Ten Commandments. <<>> Shevithi.* $5,000.00
Rollin Kirby. “Via Dolorosa.” $1,500.00
Four watercolor illustrations of unidentified Ghetto scenes. $600.00
Lithograph poster: Français Souvenez-Vous! [“Frenchmen, Remember!”] $800.00
Die Drahtzieher! [“The Masterminds!”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,500.00
Die Katze lässt das Mausen nicht! [“The Cat Won’t Leave the Mice Alone!”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,500.00
Washington in Kriegzeiten! - Brutstätte des Verbrechens [“Washington in War Time! Hotbed of Crime.”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,500.00
Ein weitblickender Englander [“A Far-sighted Englishman.”] Nazi propaganda poster. $2,000.00
Der Jude Kaufman übertrumpft! [“The Jew Kaufmann Trumps.”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,200.00
Immer wieder: Der Jude [“Time and Again: The Jew!!”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,200.00
Roosevelt Erfolge [“Roosevelt’s Achievements.”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,200.00
Die Maske Fällt! [“The Mask Falls!”] Nazi propaganda poster. $2,000.00
Das Lachen wird ihnen Vergehen!!! ["Their Laughter will Disappear!!!”] Nazi propaganda poster. $2,000.00
Wer ist am Kriege schuld? [“Who is to Blame for the War?”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,500.00
Parole 1943 [“Rallying Cry for 1943 - Unstoppably Forward until the Final Victory!”] Nazi propaganda poster. $1,000.00
A Budapesti Postamuszaki Igazgatosag Teruletehez Tartozo (Budapesti Egyseges) Halozat - Beturendes Tavbeszelonevsora [The Budapest Post Office District (Budapest Unified) Network - Alphabetical List of Phone Numbers]. $1,000.00
She’erith Yoseph [on Talmudic methodology] $400.00
Domingo de Soussa. Sermón En El Auto Público De Feé, Que El Tribunal De El Santo Officio De Nueva España, Celebró El Día Catorze De Junio De 1699 En El Real Convento De N.P.S. Domingo De México. $4,000.00
…Nos Don Francisco Xavier Mier y Campillo… Inquisidor General … A todos los Fieles habitantes ó moradores de ellos, de cualquier estado, calidad… $1,200.00
Mashal Hakadmoni [“Proverb of the Ancient”]. $20,000.00
Samuel Bochart. Geographiae Sacrae Pars Prior Phaleg Seu De Dispersione Gentium et Terrarum Diviosone Facta in aedificatione turris Babel. Cum Tabula Chorographica, & duplici Indice, 1. Locorum Scripture. 2. Rerum & Verborum. $2,000.00
Gagin, Chaim Abraham. Sepher HaTakanoth VeHaskamoth. $1,500.00
Olfert Dapper. Naukeurige Beschryving Van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant [Accurate Description of Syria, and Palestine or Holy Land]. $3,000.00
E. Heer van Seydlitz and Pieter van Aengelen. $1,000.00
Views in Palestine from the Original Drawings of <<Luigi Mayer.>> With an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Country, and its Remarkable Places. $4,000.00
Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville. Geographia Sacra ex Veteri et Novo Testamento Desumta, et in Tabulas Quatuor Concinnata. Additional engraved title and elaborate engraved dedication page. <<* Bound with:>> Onomasticon Urbium et Locorum Sacrae Scripturae. $2,000.00
Eslick’s Patent Dissected Map of Palestine. Designed Expressly to Impress upon the Minds of Children the Exact Shape & Position of Each Country. Manufactured by Philip Son & Nephew, London. $600.00
The Casale Pilgrim: A Sixteenth century Illustrated Guide to the Holy Places, Reproduced in Facsimile, with Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Cecil Roth. $400.00
First Anniversary Celebration, State of Israel. Madison Square Garden, Saturday Evening, May 14th, 1949. $500.00
Da Trievi, Pietro Pichi. Epistola a gli Ebrei d'Italia. $500.00
La Cuccagna Festa Data Dagli Ebrei. $500.00
Il Possesso della Eccmo. Signor Mose Israel Hazzan. $300.00
Kotsuji, Abram Setsuzau. The Origin and Evolution of the Semitic Alphabets $600.00
Yosiphon [historical narrative of the Second Temple period] $600.00
(Attributed to). Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic Code]. $500.00
(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim. - Dictionarium Hebraicum. Translated into Latin by <<Sebastian Münster.>> $500.00
(RaDa”K). Kotzer HaChelek Rishon HaMichlol / Compedium Michlol. Edited by R. Baynes. $600.00
[“Omnia in Eo:” compendium of Jewish Law]. (Attributed to Aaron HaKohen of Lunel). $6,000.00
[The Book of Esther with Ladino translation] $5,000.00
(Attributed to Aaron HaKohen of Lunel). Another edition. $400.00
Noda BeYehudah [responsa]. Mahadura Tinyana. $600.00
Sepher Agur. $7,000.00
Opusculum Recens Hebraicum… Sepher HaTishbi [lexicon of Hebrew words in the Talmud, Midrash and Hebrew of the Middle-Ages] $500.00
Tishbi - Lexicon Hebraicum Utilissimum. $500.00
Sha’ar Bath Rabim [prayers for festivals]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With commentary Hadrath Kodesh by Isaac Segal of Herrlisheim. Introduction by Isaac Pacifico. $2,000.00
(MaHaRSH”aL). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. $800.00
(RaMCHa”L). Leshon Limudim [rules of poetry, with Kabbalistic influence] $1,000.00
Ben Shmuel. $400.00
The Conciliator… A Reconcilement of the Apparent Contradictions in Holy Scripture. $500.00
Castillo, Martin Del. Arte Hebraispano. Dikduk Lashon Hakodesh Belshon Sepharadith. Grammatica de la Lengua Santa. $1,200.00
Pirkei Avoth [Ethics of the Fathers] $3,000.00
Historia de Gli Riti Hebraici. $1,500.00
Historia de Gli Riti Hebraici. Text in Italian. $500.00
Sha’arei Dura [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries $400.00
(Attributed to; “Revealed” to Moses b. Shem Tov de Leon). Sepher HaZohar [“The Book of Splendor.”] $1,000.00
Sha’iloth U’Teshuvoth Mahari”l [responsa]. $500.00
RaMBa”M). Sepher HaMitzvoth [“The Book of Precepts”]. Translated from Judeo-Arabic by Moses ibn Tibbon. $1,500.00
RaMBa”N). Torath Ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the After-Life]. $500.00
(Attributed to). Aruch HaKatzar [Talmudic lexicon]. $500.00
Simanei VeKitzurei HaMordechai. $500.00
Otzar Leshon ha-Kodesh - Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae $500.00
(“The Pele Yoetz.”) Sepher Damesek Eliezer - Chelek Orach Chaim [Halacha] $400.00
Az Ojsag Konyvtar. Hagada, Egy Lipotvarosi Vacsora Tortenete. $500.00
Dedicaçao Solene da Sinagoga Kadoorie Mekor H’aįm no Pôrto…Programa-Recordaçao do Serviço Litúrgico. $400.00
The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World. $4,000.00
Together three pamphlets. $500.00
Jacob's Bible Cards. Designed by Raban. $1,000.00
Tzeror Hamor [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch] $400.00
Mikra’ei Kodesh [Kabbalistic exposition to the Festivals and precepts] $400.00
Porath Yoseph [novellae on the works of R. Isaac Alfasi and R. Nissim Gerondi to Tractates Kethuboth and Chullin and independent novellae to Tractate Beitzah] $400.00
Ner Mitzvah [sermons based on Maimonides’s Thirteen Principles of Faith]. $300.00
Torah Or [homilies to the Book of Genesis] $400.00
Neveh Shalom [philosophy]. $300.00
(Attributed to). Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch] $1,000.00
Matzath Shimurim [Kabbalistic treatise concerning the precepts Mezuzah, Tzitzith and Tefillin] $600.00
Avodath Halevi-Moreh Tzedek [listing of the precepts according to the Torah portion of the week with reference to sources throughout Rabbinic literature]. $400.00
Introductio ad Litteras Hebraicas [“Introduction to Hebrew Letters.”] $4,000.00
J. [Julius de Aaron] Bueno Bibaz. Beknopte handleiding voor de Aardrijkskunde van de kolonie Suriname [“Geographic Guide to Surinam.”] $400.00
Le Statut de Kalisz. $12,000.00
Rewolucja w Niemczech [“Revolution in Germany.”] Polish text by Julian Tuwim. $3,000.00
(Talmud Yerushalmi). Seder Moed. $800.00
Masechta Yoma [concerning the Day of Atonement]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc. $1,000.00
Masechta Pesachim [concerning Passover]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc. $1,000.00
Masechta Zevachim [concerning sacrifices]. $3,000.00
Masechta Kerithoth [extirpation]. $3,000.00
Talmud Bavli. With commentaries. $5,000.00
Talmud Bavli. Replete with numerous commentaries. $4,000.00
Cumberland, Richard. The Jew: A Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane. $500.00
Pesikta Zutratha [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy] $500.00
Sefer Yad HaMelech [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]. $600.00
Bolla della Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Clemente XI, a fauore degli Ebrei, & altri Infedeli conuertiti alla Fede Cristiana. $600.00
Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]. $500.00
*(Theoretical physicist and Noble Prize winner, 1879-1955). Typed Letter Signed, written in German to Jesse M. Mendheim of New York City. <<>> With: Accompanying envelope.** $3,000.00
(Rabbi in Fürth, Bavaria and Washington Heights, New York. 1894-1983). $6,000.00
Shulchan Aruch al Derech Ha’Emeth [i.e. Nagid U’Metzaveh]. With: Tikunei Teshuva. $10,000.00
Varied collection of 18 individual manuscripts. $5,000.00
(Israel Ba’al Shem Tov). Shivchei HaBeSH”T [collected tales of the founder of the Chassidic Movement] $3,000.00
Avraham Elimelech Perlow of Karlin-Pinsk (1891-1942). Hebrew Manuscript Shana-Tovah Greetings, with extensive New Year’s blessings to the Rebbe from his followers. $1,000.00
Ya’akov Meir b. Avraham Moshe Lehren and Zalman b. Yehuda Ber Rubens of the the Pekidim and Amarkalim Society. Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to Yitzchak Dov HaLevi Bamberger “the Würzburger Rav” and R. Avraham Wechsler of Schwabach. $1,500.00
Ledger Book recording Hebrew minutes of meetings $1,000.00
Rachash Levav [responsa]. $800.00
Moses Galante. Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. Published by the author’s son Yedidiah Galante, with his novellae to several Talmudic Tractates. Includes novellae of R. Isaac Aboab on Beitzah, Ra”N on Shavu’oth, and Rit”Ba on Bava Metzi’a. $400.00
Limud Le’Leilei Chag Sukoth [Readings from the Zohar, Torah, Mishnah and related sources pertaining to the seven”Ushpizin,” the Divine guests who visit each day of Sukkoth] $1,200.00
“Vayishlach Ya’akov.” [The Merchant’s Prayer.] Biblical verses recited by traveling merchants as a prayer for safekeeping over the week’s sojourn. $600.00
Illustrated Hebrew Manuscript. $4,000.00
Hebrew Scroll of Esther accomplished in traditional Aschkenazi calligraphic hand on vellum. Black ink on six membranes set out in 24 columns. Slightly faded in places from use. Height of scroll: 14 inches (35.5 cm). $6,000.00
Contemporary illuminated Hebrew Scroll of Esther accomplished in traditional hand on vellum. $4,000.00
(1853-1921) Portrait of a Young Hasid (Wearing Shtreimel). $150,000.00
An extraordinary collection of c. 600 works of art and related items by Hermann Struck. $30,000.00
Synagogue Prayers, Venice. $12,000.00
Rabbi Michel (Jechiel) Hirsch (1722-80). $5,000.00
Half-length portrait, facing right. $4,000.00
A Plan of Fort St. George and the City of Madras. $1,200.00
Service on the Day of Atonement by the Israelite Soldiers of the German Army before Metz 1870. $2,000.00
The Russian-Turkeyish [sic] War "Pllwna". $2,000.00
NO LOT $0.00
Poster. “Jewish War Sufferers, Shall They Plead in Vain?” $1,000.00
They’re Still Giving. Are You? - Be Generous in Victory. Minnesota United War Sevice Fund. $1,000.00
“You Saved Them in 1917, Will You Let Them Starve Now?” $1,200.00
Portrait of Theodor Herzl accomplished in micrographic form. $1,000.00
Three Rabbis. $1,000.00
Rabbinic Scholar. $1,200.00
Rabbis in Debate. Carved in wood. $1,000.00
“The Procession.” Hand-knotted wall-hanging. $4,000.00
Embroidered multicolored silk thread on linen, with lace trim. $12,000.00
Brass-plated metal Menorah. $100,000.00
Havdallah plate, inscribed in Hebrew: “Mitzvath Hashem Barah Me’irath Einayim - Gut Vokh, Gut Yohr. $3,000.00
Of oval form, upper portion with vignette roundels depicting the Baal Shem Tov and the Lubavitcher Rebbes: $6,000.00
Attractive, elegant design, featuring eight candle-sockets centered by free-standing Star-of-David. L: 19 inches (48 cm); H: 10 inches (25 cm). $2,000.00
Issued to commemorate the inauguration of the “Rite Portugais” Synagogue on Rue Buffault, Paris. $3,000.00
Lid painted in Hebrew with the words “Mazal-Tov;” sides of cup captioned in Hebrew with verse from Proverbs 18:22: “He who has found a wife has found what is good.” With Schumann “SPM” blue underglaze mark. $800.00
Made of two pieces of leather sewn together. The front bears three leather toggle closures, with lengthy strap. Length: 11 inches (28cm). $800.00
Central eagle (Ger: Adler) surrounded by Hebrew saying: “Kether Shem Tov, Kether Torah, Kether Kehunah” (Ethics of the Fathers, Chap. 4, Mishnah 17). And: “A Keepsake to the Greater Kohen, from the Minor Kohen.” Drawstring closure. 8.5 x 9.5 inches. $1,000.00
With “Jerusalem” at center in Hebrew calligraphic letters. Length: 12.5 inches (31.75 cm). $2,000.00
King David playing his harp, captioned in Hebrew below. Designed by Ze’ev Raban. Marked “Bezalel Jerusalem” lower center. Fixed with brass rivets to wooden base. Silver hook on reverse. The whole: 7.5 x 7.5 inches (19 x 19 cm). $2,000.00
Art nouveau design by Ze’ev Raban. $2,000.00
First commemorating the Partition Plan, the United Nation’s resolution of separate Jewish and Arab independent States in Palestine. $600.00
Two synagogue and one Sukah scene; each signed by <<M. Farbmann>> (one additionally signed in Hebrew and dated 1922). $1,000.00

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Auction 85

November 7, 2019 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Product Title	Auction 85
Auction Date	Nov 6, 2019
Auction Time	1:00pm
Departments	Israeli & International Art, Judaica
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Short Description	Viewing Beforehand: Sunday, 3rd November - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Monday, 4th November - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Tuesday, 5th November - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Wednesday, 6th November - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm No Viewing on the Day of Sale The catalogue for this auction appears in two formats: A comprehensive version fully describing and illustrating each of the 246 lots in the sale is available on our website. A printed version of the catalogue contains highlights of the auction. Rare books of note include Theodor Herzl’s novel “Altneuland” inscribed and signed by the Author to his wife’s sister (lot 93); Isaac ibn Sahula’s book of fables “Mashal HaKadmoni” the most celebrated illustrated Hebrew work of the 16th century (lot 128); Arthur Szyk’s expansively illustrated “Statute of Kalisz,” a paean to Polish-Jewish relations (lot 187). Within the section of American-Judaica is a heretofore unknown albumen photograph of Mordecai Manuel Noah (lot 18) and in the section of Holocaust-era items is a single lot of more than 1,200 historical documents (lot 95). Outstanding art in this sale is an exceptional portrait by Isidor Kaufmann (lot 216) as well as an extensive archive of several hundred artworks all executed by Hermann Struck (lot 217). A most noteworthy item of Judaica is one that stems from the Estate of Marilyn Monroe: A Menorah gifted to the screen legend by the parents of her new husband, the playwright, Arthur Miller (lot 234) Further details, including additional photographs, of any lot in this auction is available upon request.

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