• Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
    Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
  • Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th May 2025
    Forum, May 29: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first edition, John Murray, 1859. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Forum, May 29: Astronomy.- Apianus (Petrus). Cosmographicus Liber a Petro Apiano Mathematico Studiose Collectus., first edition, Landshut, 1524. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum, May 29: Bound for Jean Grolier.- Negri Stefano. Stephani Nigri Elegantissime è Graeco authorum subditorum translationes, uidelicet., first edition, first issue, Milan, 1521. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 29: Gill (Eric). Eve, number 1 of 50, hand-coloured wood-engraving, signed at foot in pencil, [1926]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th May 2025
    Forum, May 29: America.- Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, Dickinson & Co., 1848. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Forum, May 29: Wodehouse (P.G.) Psmith USA, autograph manuscript of his novel "Psmith Journalist", signed and dated at end and dated "11 November 1909, Hotel Earle, 103 Waverley Place". £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 29: Women.- Wollstonecraft (Mary). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, first edition, uncut in original boards, 1792. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, May 29: Mathematics.- Whitehead (Alfred North) and Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., first editions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1910-13. £20,000 to £30,000.

Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Rare and Important Items, 102b, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 07, 2025 - May 07, 2025
Page Size: 85 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
154

Hand-Decorated Miniature Esther Scroll -- Housed in Elegantly Fashioned Silver Case -- Israel

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,750.00
155

Miniature Esther Scroll in Silver Case and Colorful Enamel

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,250.00
156

The Kennicott Bible -- Elaborate Facsimile

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
157

The Rothschild Miscellany -- Elaborate Facsimile of a 15th Century Manuscript

USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
158

Manuscript, Decorated Parchment Machzor -- Lisbon, Portugal, 15th Century -- Two Volumes -- Part of the Lisbon Machzor Brought to Jerusalem with the Aleppo Codex -- Unknown Manuscript

Lisbon, Portugal 15th Century USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 Not Sold
159

Parchment Manuscript Gathering of Roman-Rite Siddur -- Italy, 15th Century

Italy 15th Century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
160

Illustrated Manuscript -- Sefer Evronot -- Germany, 1615-1617

Germany 1615-1617 USD 6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,250.00
161

Manuscript, Anthology of Commentaries on the Zohar -- Italy, 17th/18th Century

Italy 17th/18th Century USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,250.00
162

Tikkunei Shabbat -- Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, by Scribe-Artist Jacob ben Judah Leib Shamas of Berlin -- Hamburg, 1723

Hamburg 1723 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 55,000.00
163

Passover Haggadah -- Illustrated Manuscript on Parchment, by the Scribe Meir Kornik -- Amsterdam, 1792

Amsterdam 1792 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,750.00
164

Manuscript, Neviim and Ketuvim in Neo-Aramaic Translation -- Kurdistan, 1922-1924

Kurdistan 1922-1924 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
165

Mishnah -- Sabbioneta-Mantua, 1559-1563 -- Three-Volume Set

Sabbioneta-Mantua 1559-1563 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
166

Mishneh Torah by the Rambam -- Complete Set -- Venice, 1574-1575 -- First Edition of Kesef Mishneh by Rabbi Yosef Karo -- Signatures and Glosses

Venice 1574-1575 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,250.00
167

Responsa Chacham Tzvi -- First Edition -- Amsterdam, 1712

Amsterdam 1712 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
168

Shaarei Dura / Amudei Shlomo (Maharshal) -- Basel, 1599-1600 -- Distinguished Copies, Belonging to Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar and Earlier Rabbis

Basel 1599-1600 USD 4,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,250.00
169

Responsa Ne'eman Shmuel -- Thessaloniki, 1723 -- Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, with Signature of Rabbi Wolf HaLevi Boskowitz, Author of Seder Mishnah

Thessaloniki 1723 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,750.00
170

Tikunei HaZohar -- Slavita, 1826 -- Printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira

Slavita 1826 USD 6,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,625.00
171

Tanya -- Brooklyn, 1978 -- With Signature of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Brooklyn 1978 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,500.00
172

Unknown Childhood Photograph of the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- Yekaterinoslav, 1911/1912 -- Two Copies

Yekaterinoslav 1911/1912 USD 40,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
173

Collection of Rare Video Clips -- The Rebbe Rayatz in the United States, 1929-1940 / Melaveh Malkah Farbrengen Attended by Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary, Rabbi Itche Masmid, Rabbi Mordechai Chefetz / Videos of the Kramer Family

1929-1940 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 2,500.00
174

Collection of Photocopied Letters Sent by Rebbetzin Sheina Horenstein to Her Father the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch During the Holocaust -- Otwock, 1940-1941 / Photocopied Letter of Rebbetzin Malkah Zunis (Sister-in-Law of the Rebbe Rayatz) -- Never-Before-

Otwock, 1940-1941 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
175

Letter of Kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Elyashov, the Leshem -- Siauliai, 1893 -- "We All Depend Our Father in Heaven to Have Pity on His People and Declare Our Troubles Enough, and Provide Enough to Sustain Every Single Person Sufficiently"

Siauliai 1893 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,750.00
176

Lengthy Letter from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz -- Nisan, 1933 -- Call for Assistance to the Kamenets Yeshiva: "If We Are Not for Ourselves, Who Will Come to G-d's Help to Uphold His Torah Now..."

Nisan 1933 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,500.00
177

Letter of Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Dean of Grodno Yeshiva -- Cheshvan, 1935

Cheshvan 1935 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
178

Three Letters from Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski -- Vilna, Kislev 1933

Vilna Kislev 1933 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,750.00
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
    Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
  • Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th May 2025
    Forum, May 29: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first edition, John Murray, 1859. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Forum, May 29: Astronomy.- Apianus (Petrus). Cosmographicus Liber a Petro Apiano Mathematico Studiose Collectus., first edition, Landshut, 1524. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum, May 29: Bound for Jean Grolier.- Negri Stefano. Stephani Nigri Elegantissime è Graeco authorum subditorum translationes, uidelicet., first edition, first issue, Milan, 1521. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 29: Gill (Eric). Eve, number 1 of 50, hand-coloured wood-engraving, signed at foot in pencil, [1926]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th May 2025
    Forum, May 29: America.- Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, Dickinson & Co., 1848. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Forum, May 29: Wodehouse (P.G.) Psmith USA, autograph manuscript of his novel "Psmith Journalist", signed and dated at end and dated "11 November 1909, Hotel Earle, 103 Waverley Place". £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 29: Women.- Wollstonecraft (Mary). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, first edition, uncut in original boards, 1792. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, May 29: Mathematics.- Whitehead (Alfred North) and Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., first editions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1910-13. £20,000 to £30,000.