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Auction 5 · Lot 1
Auction 5 · June 23, 1998
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
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Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Including Property From The Late Professor
Sefton D. Temkin and
The Late Sigmund S. Harrison
Kestenbaum & Company’s season ended with a rare assortment of Early Printed Hebrew Books from such important 16th century centers of Jewish life as Venice, Constantinople and Salonika, crafted by gifted printers: Soncino, Bomberg, di Gara, Bragadin, Adelkind, and Yaabetz — notable figures in the struggle for Jewish cultural continuity in the wake of the Spanish Expulsion.
Highlights included:
An exceptionally fine copy of the Yalkut Shimoni, a Midrashic anthology to the Bible, attributed to Shimon the Preacher of Frankfurt, Salonika, 1521-26, sold for $31,050.
Isaac Arama's Akeidath Yitzchak, philosophical and allegorical sermons on the` Pentateuch, Salonika, 1522, fetched $24,150.
The first printed edition of Ethics of the Fathers, printed in Soncino, by Joshua Solomon Soncino in 1484, which made $69,000.
Joseph de Caceres Spanish translation of the famous French epic-poem on the Creation by du Bartas, Los Siete dias de la Semana, Sobre la Criacion del Mundo, Amsterdam, 1612, sold for $33,350.
An illuminated Marriage Contract from Basra in the Persian Gulf dated the 3rd of Tamuz 1877, brought $5,750.
A fine calligraphic 19th century German Woman's Vernacular Prayer-book fetched $4,600.
Lots in this auction
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Auction 5 · Lot 2
Tzurath Ha’aretz. * With (as issued): ELIJAH MIZRACHI. Kitzur Malecheth Hamispar.
Hammer price $2,800
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Auction 5 · Lot 3
Abudraham [commentary to prayers]
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Auction 5 · Lot 4
Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]
Hammer price $1,300
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Auction 5 · Lot 5
Sepher Ikrim [philosophy]
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Auction 5 · Lot 6
Igereth [poem “Mi Kamocha” recited on the Sabbath preceding Purim]
Hammer price $550
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Auction 5 · Lot 7
Tzava’ah Yekara [ethics]
Hammer price $300
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Auction 5 · Lot 8
Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]
Hammer price $2,500
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Auction 5 · Lot 9
Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]
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Auction 5 · Lot 10
Sepher Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]
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Auction 5 · Lot 11
Bnai Chayai [novellae and sermons]
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Auction 5 · Lot 12
Hanhagath Hachaim [ethics]
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Auction 5 · Lot 13
Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]
Hammer price $700
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Auction 5 · Lot 14
Mesoreth Habrith Hagadol [masoretic readings]
Hammer price $500
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Auction 5 · Lot 15
(ANGLO-JUDAICA)
Hammer price $1,200
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Auction 5 · Lot 16
Pirush al Rambam [super-commentary to Maimonides]
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Auction 5 · Lot 17
Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical sermons on the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $21,000
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Auction 5 · Lot 18
Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical sermons on the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $300
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Auction 5 · Lot 19
Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical sermons on the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $500
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Auction 5 · Lot 20
Makhil Koheleth [commentary to the Book of Ecclesiastes, with text]
Hammer price $5,000
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Auction 5 · Lot 21
Tanchumoth E-l [homilies to the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $3,500
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Auction 5 · Lot 22
Or Hachaim [commentary to the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $850
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Auction 5 · Lot 23
Compendium Hebreae Chaldeae Quae Grammatices.
Hammer price $500
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Auction 5 · Lot 24
Biur Al Hatorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $2,000