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Auction 21 · Lot 1
AARON SAMUEL BEN MOSES SHALOM OF KREMENETS.
Hammer price $2,500
Auction 21 · December 4, 2003
Kestenbaum & Company Holds Inaugural Auction of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts at Their New Galleries
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Kestenbaum & Company Holds Inaugural Auction of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts at Their New Galleries
Offered for Sale by Auction on
Thursday 4th December, 2003
Kestenbaum & Company held their inaugural sale at their new galleries located at 12 West 27th Street in New York City on December 4, 2003. The auction, consisting of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of The Jews' College Library, London brought in more than $800,000. The bidding was brisk both in the salesroom and on the phones.
The sale, the second in a continuing series of Auctions devoted to selling exceptional Books and Manuscripts from the Jews' College Rare Book Room, featured numerous highly sought-after scholarly books from the College along with American Judaica, books relating to the Jews of India, and a significant collection of books and manuscripts relating to Spanish and Portuguese Jewry and their Sephardic heritage.
The top lot was an early incunable of Maimonides' Code of Jewish Law printed in Soncino in 1490 which realized $43,125. High prices were also achieved for a rare early Hebrew Bible, Pesaro, 1515-1516, which reached $35,650 against an estimate of $15,000-18,000 and another Hebrew Bible, a fine copy of the most scholarly edition of the Rabbinic Bibles, Basle, 1618-1619 which sold for $21,850 against an estimate of $10,000-12,000. Also of interest was Abraham Ibn Ezra's astronomical book with diagrams, Venice, 1485 which did well, bringing in $21,850.
Lots in this auction
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Auction 21 · Lot 2
Dialoghi di Amore.
Hammer price $3,250
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Auction 21 · Lot 3
Sepher Hazichronoth.
Hammer price $380
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Auction 21 · Lot 4
Darash Moshe [homilies]
Hammer price $1,000
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Auction 21 · Lot 5
Perush Nevi’im Rishonim [commentary to Former Prophets]
Hammer price $150
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Auction 21 · Lot 6
Perush Al Ha’Torah [commentary to the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $300
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Auction 21 · Lot 7
The Book of Psalmes. * Liber Psalmorum.
Hammer price $450
![(RaSHB”A). Teshuvoth Shailoth Le-RaMBa”N [responsa]](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_008.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 8
(RaSHB”A). Teshuvoth Shailoth Le-RaMBa”N [responsa]
Hammer price $2,300
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Auction 21 · Lot 9
The Testimony: An Address
Hammer price $300
![Halichoth Sheva [Grammatical Laws of Punctuation]](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_010.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 10
Halichoth Sheva [Grammatical Laws of Punctuation]
Hammer price $2,500
![Pirkei Moshe [commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers]](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_011.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 11
Pirkei Moshe [commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers]
Hammer price $3,000
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Auction 21 · Lot 12
ALSHEICH, MOSES
Hammer price $1,800
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Auction 21 · Lot 13
Romemoth E-l [commentary to the Book of Psalms]
Hammer price $4,500
![Rav Peninim [commentary to the Book of Proverbs]. *Bound with Chelkath Mechokek [commentary to the Book of Job].](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_014.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 14
Rav Peninim [commentary to the Book of Proverbs]. *Bound with Chelkath Mechokek [commentary to the Book of Job].
Hammer price $1,500
![RAPHALL, MORRIS JACOB. Ruchama [Hebrew]. Devotional Excercises for the Daughters of Israel… Upon the Various Occasions of a Woman’s Life.](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_015.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 15
RAPHALL, MORRIS JACOB. Ruchama [Hebrew]. Devotional Excercises for the Daughters of Israel… Upon the Various Occasions of a Woman’s Life.
Hammer price $8,750
Auction 21 · Lot 16
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
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Auction 21 · Lot 17
(LITURGY). Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German andPolish Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser
Hammer price $1,200
![CHAIM SHABTHAI. (MaHaRCHa”SH). Torath Chaim [responsa]. Parts I, II and III. [Vinograd, Salonika 211, 212 & 223]. Salonika, 1713,1715 and 1722](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_018.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 18
CHAIM SHABTHAI. (MaHaRCHa”SH). Torath Chaim [responsa]. Parts I, II and III. [Vinograd, Salonika 211, 212 & 223]. Salonika, 1713,1715 and 1722
Hammer price $2,800
Auction 21 · Lot 19
Beith Midoth
Hammer price $16,000
Auction 21 · Lot 20
Sepher Tanya
Hammer price $5,500
![Pfefferkorn, Johannes. Die Sturmglocke [“The Alarm Bell”]. n.p., 1514 * BOUND WITH: Luther, Martin. Dass Jesus Christus ein geborener Jude sei (“That Jesus Christ Was Born A Jew”) (Wittemberg, 1523)](/media/catalog/product/0/2/021_021.jpg?w=640)
Auction 21 · Lot 21
Pfefferkorn, Johannes. Die Sturmglocke [“The Alarm Bell”]. n.p., 1514 * BOUND WITH: Luther, Martin. Dass Jesus Christus ein geborener Jude sei (“That Jesus Christ Was Born A Jew”) (Wittemberg, 1523)
Hammer price $2,000
Auction 21 · Lot 22
Chrystostomus Dudulaeus Westphalus. Warhafftige Contrafactur
Hammer price $650
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Auction 21 · Lot 23
Eisenmenger, Johann Andrea. Entdecktes Judenthum, Oder Gruendlicher und Wahrhaffter Bericht, Welchergestalt die Verstockte Juden
Auction 21 · Lot 24
Megilath Anti’ochus
Hammer price $5,000