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Auction 73 · Lot 1
Auction 73 · June 22, 2017
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
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AUCTION 73 - JUNE 22ND 2017
Headlining Kestenbaum & Company’s auction of Fine Judaica were a number of Early Printed Books including Jacob ben Asher's Arba'ah Turim, the second incunable edition (Soncino, c. 1490) which garnered $70,000 (Lot 173). The rare first edition of the Tosfos Yom-Tov's Ma'adanei Melech, Prague, 1619 achieved $8000 (Lot 128), and an extremely rare text by the Marrano Abraham Pereira, Livro que contem o termo é condiçoes... Amsterdam, 1659, earned $10,000 against a pre-sale estimate of $3,000-5,000 (Lot 159).
In the Manuscripts section of the auction was an an important, early manuscript of the Halachic Code Tur Choshen Mishpat which predated the first printed edition, it fetched $25,000 (Lot 299). Also noteworthy among the manuscripts was an important intellectual work, an autograph commentary to the Book of Ezekiel by Samuel David Luzzatto (commonly known as the Shadal) which brought in $13,000 (Lot 300). An elaborately engraved Dutch, 18th century Scroll of Esther from the estate of the late Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool achieved $11,500 (Lot 301). Among American related manuscripts was the earliest known Chevrah Kadisha manual in the United States (Richmond, VA, 1823) written by Jacob Mordecai, that was hammered at $12,000 (Lot 8).
A final highlight: A 10th-century kabbalistic fragment originally unearthed in the Cairo Genizah and among the very oldest extant manuscripts of Heichaloth literature - it had been offered in the celebrated Sassoon sale in the 1970’s and subsequently appeared at a Kestenbaum auction (hammer-price $5000) – sold on Thursday for $16,000 against an estimate of $5,000-7,000 (Lot 287).
Kestenbaum & Company’s forthcoming auction: Important Hebrew Printed Books: An Historic Collection will take place in the Fall of 2017.
Lots in this auction
Browse all 343 lots →![Abudraham [laws of and commentary to, the prayers]](/media/catalog/product/sale/73/073-002.jpg?w=640)
Auction 73 · Lot 2
Abudraham [laws of and commentary to, the prayers]
Hammer price $450
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Auction 73 · Lot 3
Zemiroth Yisrael [songs for Sabbath, holidays and joyous occasions according to the custom of Aden]. Edited by Shalom Adeni and Ben Zion HaTeymani.
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Auction 73 · Lot 4
Le’Dor Acharon [opposition by the Agudath HaRabanim to the proposal by Judah Epstein concerning the Agunah problem]. * And: Judah Epstein. Le’Shailath Ha’Agunah [a response to the above, along with related history].
Hammer price $100
Auction 73 · Lot 5
& AHRON ELIASBERG (Eds.) Das Buch von den Polnischen Juden.
![Sepher Ha’Ikrim [philosophy]](/media/catalog/product/sale/73/073-006.jpg?w=640)
Auction 73 · Lot 6
Sepher Ha’Ikrim [philosophy]
Hammer price $900
![Tephilah LeMoshe [sermons and homilies on the merits of Torah, with a commentary to Kriath Shema]](/media/catalog/product/sale/73/073-007.jpg?w=640)
Auction 73 · Lot 7
Tephilah LeMoshe [sermons and homilies on the merits of Torah, with a commentary to Kriath Shema]
Hammer price $900
Auction 73 · Lot 8
(Jacob Mordecai). God’s Unity & Enduring Grace, Prayer for the Sick, Funeral Service, Funeral Discourse, Resurrection of the Dead; for Mrs. R Lazarus.
Hammer price $12,000
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Auction 73 · Lot 9
Isaac Satanow. Shorashim.
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Auction 73 · Lot 10
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States. Vol. II, No. 44.
Hammer price $900
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Auction 73 · Lot 11
Nile’s Weekly Register. New Series. No. 18, Vol. XI.
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Auction 73 · Lot 12
Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey. Preaching Contract with the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews.
Hammer price $5,500
Auction 73 · Lot 13
Constitution and By-Laws of the American Jewish Publication Society.
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Auction 73 · Lot 14
Compendium of the Order of the Burial Service, and Rules for the Mournings. Compiled by Desire, and Published on Account of the Hevra Hesed Ve’Emeth of the K”K Sephardim Shearith Israel.
Hammer price $800
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Auction 73 · Lot 15
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
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Auction 73 · Lot 16
(Johann Heinrich Campe). Columbus - Sepher Metzi’ath Eretz America [on the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus].
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Auction 73 · Lot 17
Tephilah mikol HaShanah Minchah Ketanah LeHolchei Derech Ule’Ovrei Yamim LehaNos’im LiMedinath Amerika Hash[em] Y[ishmerem]
Hammer price $4,600
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Auction 73 · Lot 18
L(ewis) C(harles) Levin. Speech… On the Bill to to Raise a Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 7, 1846.
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Auction 73 · Lot 19
In Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848…The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to Whom was Referred the Memorial of H.M. Salomon, for Indemnification for Advances of Money Made by his Father During the Revolutionary War.
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Auction 73 · Lot 20
E. Porter Belden. New York, Past, Present and Future. * Bound with: New York, As It Is. And: The American Advertiser.
Hammer price $350
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Auction 73 · Lot 21
Max Lilienthal. Freiheit, Frühling und Liebe [“Freedom, Spring and Love.”]
Hammer price $1,300
Auction 73 · Lot 22
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
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Auction 73 · Lot 23
Mrs. Aurelia Rice. Two Novelettes: True Nobility. After the German of Otto Buchwald. [And:] Fortune Hunting. A Story of Jewish Life in America.
Hammer price $250
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Auction 73 · Lot 24
The Duty of Orthodox Congregations. A Sermon Preached Before the Congregation “Shearith Israel” New York…by the Reverend Meldola de Sola.
Hammer price $400