Bidspirit auctions | Kestenbaum & Company Auction Aug 20, 2019

Kestenbaum & Company, Aug 20, 2019. 179 lots, estimates 40 - 2000 $.

Kestenbaum & Company -

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Lots in this catalog (179)

• Lot 21: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Two pamphlets on the relationship between Reform Judaism and Zionism: <<*>> — $100 - $150
• Lot 20: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Group of 19 liturgucal, educational and related texts from the Classical Reform Movement. 1. — $1,200 - $1,800
• Lot 22: (ANTISEMITICA) Martin Luther. The Jews and Their Lies. Portrait of Luther. pp. 64. Original printed wrappers. — $100 - $150
• Lot 39: (COOK-BOOK) Sara Vos. Oorspronkelijk Israëlietisch Kookboek [“Original Jewish Cookbook.”] Dutch text. pp. 177. — $100 - $150
• Lot 51: (COOK-BOOK) Giti Neni. A Zsido Haziasszony Konyve, Hasznos Tudnivalok, Koser Szakacskonyv [“The Jewish Housewife Book, — $100 - $150
• Lot 63: (FRENCH JUDAICA) Elie Aristide Astruc. L’Agneau Pascal: Sermon Prononce le 5 Avril 1863 au Temple Israelite De Paris. — $60 - $90
• Lot 94: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) “Murder! Sir Harold MacMichael, Known as High Commissioner for Palestine, — $60 - $90
• Lot 103: (LITURGY) Machzor KeMinhag K”K Aschkenazim, Yishmerem Ha’El. With commentary following the PaRDe”S tradition. — $400 - $600
• Lot 104: (LITURGY) Machzor MiKol HaShanah KeMinhag Ashkenaz, im HaYotzroth MiShabbath Chol HaMoed shel Pesach VeSukkot, — $400 - $600
• Lot 108: (MAIMONIDES, MOSES) Sepher HaMitzvoth, Mesudar MeChadash al Seder HaTorah, — $50 - $70
• Lot 123: WESSELY, NAPHTALI HERZ (HARTWIG) Masechta Avoth. — $150 - $200
• Lot 129: (DREYFUS AFFAIR) Musée des Horreurs. Number 32 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu. Lithographed poster, multi-colored tones. — $400 - $600
• Lot 163: POLISH BRASS SABBATH CANDELABRUM Three sconces raised above a pair of rampant lions supporting a large central Star — $150 - $250
• Lot 38: (COOK-BOOK) Wittwe Joseph Gumprich. Vollständiges Praktisches Kochbuch für die Jüdische Kü — $100 - $150
• Lot 66: (GENEALOGY) Neil Rosenstein. Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Siblings. Extensive family-tree. — $200 - $300
• Lot 68: (HAGADAH) Chad Gadja - Das Pessachbuch. Edited by Hugo Herrmann and S.Y. Agnon. First edition. Over 40 illustrations, — $60 - $90
• Lot 81: (HUMOR) Kotlier, Abraham. Masechta Derech Eretz (Hachadashah). <<* With:>> Machzor Katan. << — $100 - $150
• Lot 83: HUTTER, ELIAS Dictionarium Harmonicum Biblicum: Ebraeum, Graecum, Latinum Germanicum. pp.(8), 889, (155). — $300 - $500
• Lot 89: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) A Brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, Jerusalem, published by the Supreme Moslem Council. — $400 - $600
• Lot 91: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) Tefillat Hazkarah Be’ad Nishmot Acheinu VeAchyoteinu HaNeheragim Be’Eretz Yisrael. — $100 - $150
• Lot 105: (LITURGY) Selichoth [penitential prayers] According to Polish rite, as established by Anglo-Jewry. ff. 113. — $300 - $500
• Lot 160: LARGE ENGLISH SILVER ETHROG CONTAINER Rectangular, with hinged lid, set on ram-head supports. Marked. — $200 - $300
• Lot 32: (CEREMONIES) Shimon Levi Ginzberg. Minhagim. Text in Yiddish. ff. 58. Worn and stained, trace wormed, closely shaved. — $200 - $300
• Lot 36: (COOK-BOOK) Flora Wolff. Koch- und Wirthschaftsbuch für Jü — $120 - $180
• Lot 43: (COOK-BOOK) Sarah Curriel. Fru Curriels Kogebog, Jø — $200 - $300
• Lot 73: (HOLOCAUST) Ordonnance en date du 18 Octobre 1940. French text. pp. (2). Browned. Sm. folio. — $200 - $300
• Lot 79: Horowitz, PinCHas Hafla’ah. Two volumes: Sepher Kethubah. ff.(1), 6, 180, (1), 86. (2).<< *>> — $400 - $600
• Lot 100: LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM Gesammelte Werke [collected works]. Ten volumes bound in eight. Inscribed to J. — $60 - $90
• Lot 130: (DREYFUS AFFAIR) Musée des Horreurs. Number 40 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu. Lithographed poster, multi-colored tones. — $400 - $600
• Lot 168: WHITE METAL DECORATIVE TRAY. — $100 - $150
• Lot 1: ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC Sepher Shamayim Chadashim [commentary to Maimonides’s Guide to the Perplexed] FIRST EDITION. ff. — $300 - $500
• Lot 9: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Isaac Mayer Wise. The Combat of the People: Or Hillel and Herod. — $300 - $500
• Lot 18: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Convocation Marking the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Jews in the United States. — $40 - $60
• Lot 31: (CEREMONIES) Isaac Tyrnau. Minhagim. Valmadonna binding. ff. 24, 24-35, 35-68. Stained in places. — $200 - $300
• Lot 48: (COOK-BOOK) What Shall I Serve? Famous Recipes for Jewish Housewives. Presented by the Rumford Company. — $60 - $90
• Lot 57: (COOK-BOOK) Molly Goldberg and Myra Waldo. The Molly Goldberg Cookbook. First Edition. — $40 - $60
• Lot 59: EINSTEIN, ALBERT Albert Einstein. Vier Vorlesungen über Relativitätstheorie, — $60 - $90
• Lot 80: (HUMOR) Max Jungmann (ed). Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor Und Kunst, 1919-1920. — $200 - $300
• Lot 87: (ISRAEL, — $150 - $200
• Lot 96: (ISRAEL, — $150 - $200
• Lot 98: (ISRAEL, STATE OF) Yediot Ma’ariv [newspaper]. — $300 - $500
• Lot 107: MAIMONIDES, MOSES Ex Rabbi Moses Majemonidae opere, quod Secunda Lex, Sive Manus Fortis inscribitur, — $100 - $150
• Lot 109: MARTINIUS, PETRUS Grammatica Hebraea. Three works in one volume. Marginalia and other inscriptions. pp. (16), 186, — $100 - $150
• Lot 122: WESSELY, NAPHTALI HERZ (HARTWIG). — $100 - $150
• Lot 134: (HOLOCAUST) Anti-Semitic poster from the “Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition” held in German-occupied Belgrade. — $600 - $900
• Lot 139: BAAL SHEM TOV STYLE SILVERED BRASS CHANUKAH LAMP With filigree decoration set on the shaped back plate and two — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 142: MINIATURE SILVER CHANUKAH LAMP In the antique style, pierced with lions and putti. — $120 - $180
• Lot 144: GERMAN PEWTER PASSOVER PLATE The shallow base later engraved with armorial of a double headed bird, — $400 - $600
• Lot 148: LARGE ENGLISH PEWTER PASSOVER PLATE Attributed to Samuel Smalley. Late 17th Century Later, — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 174: PAIR OF ISRAELI BOOK-ENDS Designed by Yehiel Hadany. Featuring the letters of the Modern Hebrew alphabet. — $100 - $150
• Lot 179: COLLECTION OF JEWISH TEXTILES Including embroidered Torah-Ark curtains, synagogue mats, personal bags. — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 6: (AMERICANA) Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire, — $100 - $150
• Lot 28: (CEREMONIES) Joseph Juspa Hahan (Nordlingen). Yoseph Ometz [laws and customs, especially of Frankfurt a/Main]. — $150 - $200
• Lot 37: (COOK-BOOK) Estella Atrutel. An Easy and Economical Book of Jewish Cookery, Upon Strictly Orthodox Principles. — $100 - $150
• Lot 62: ETTLINGER, — $300 - $500
• Lot 76: (HOLOCAUST) Philip Goodman. — $150 - $200
• Lot 82: (HUMOR) T.J. Carey. Hebrew Yarns and Dialect Humor. Illustrated throughout. pp. 90, (6). — $60 - $90
• Lot 102: (LITURGY) Seder HaTikun SheNohagim Likro BeLeil Hoshana Raba [readings for the night of Hoshana Raba] ff. 116. — $300 - $400
• Lot 124: (WORLD WAR I) Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen mannschaften des heeres. — $100 - $150
• Lot 126: (ZIONISM) Chavatzelet. Volume Four. 44 issues (of 46) spanning the year 5634, all bound into one volume. pp. 262, — $50 - $70
• Lot 131: (HOLOCAUST) Hans Schweitzer (signed under pseudonym, “Mjölnir”). Der Jude: Kriegsanstifter, Kriegsverlä — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 141: PETITE BEZALEL CHANUKAH LAMP Of white metal, with classic Bezalel motifs and markings. H: 15 cm (6 inches). 1920’s — $120 - $180
• Lot 158: PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER TORAH FINIALS Baluster form with two tiers of bells, — $500 - $700
• Lot 169: BEZALEL BRASS VASE Lip engraved with Hebrew lettering from Psalm 137: “If I Forget thee O Jerusalem …” Of tapering — $200 - $300
• Lot 13: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Program of the Closing Exercises of the Sabbath School Mishkan Israel. At the Synagogue, Sunday, — $60 - $90
• Lot 17: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Russia and the American Passport. Address of Louis Marshall of the New York Bar, — $60 - $90
• Lot 24: (BIBLE) Liber Geneseos Hebraice Accedunt e Psalmis Sex Primi [The Book of Genesis in Hebrew, — $50 - $70
• Lot 25: (BIBLE) Mikra - Biblia Hebraica. Edited by Heinrich Opitz. Latin side-notes. Additional engraved title-page. — $200 - $300
• Lot 26: (BONYHAD) Moshe HaLevi Pollak. Sepher Tikkun Moshe, HaShayach LeSefer Vayedaber Moshe [sermons and novellae]. — $100 - $150
• Lot 75: (HOLOCAUST) Invitation to the National Proclamation Dinner in honor of the Signatories: “The Proclamation on the Moral — $150 - $250
• Lot 110: MONTEFIORE, MOSES Clipped Autograph Signature of Sir Moses Montefiore. Attractively framed alongside profile portrait. — $100 - $150
• Lot 112: MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN. Melecheth HaDikduk HaShalem - Opus Grammaticum Consummatum, ex Varijs Elianis Libris Concinnatum. — $300 - $500
• Lot 155: CONTINENTAL SILVER SPICE TOWER Central square filigree body set with hinged door and pennants at four corners, — $200 - $300
• Lot 8: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Emanuel Hecht. — $300 - $500
• Lot 10: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Isaac Mayer Wise. The First of the Maccabees. FIRST EDITION. Title page set in typographic border. — $300 - $500
• Lot 15: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Moses Mielziner. The Institution of Slavery Among the Ancient Hebrews, — $200 - $300
• Lot 16: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Opinions of the World’s Press on Volume I of the Funk & Wagnalls Jewish Encyclopedia. pp. 40. — $70 - $100
• Lot 30: (CEREMONIES) Gumpel, Israel and Koppel. — $200 - $300
• Lot 35: (COOK-BOOK) Sarah Cohn. — $100 - $150
• Lot 49: (COOK-BOOK) Mildred Bellin. Modern Kosher Meals, — $100 - $150
• Lot 52: (COOK-BOOK) Kochbuch für den jüdischen Haushalt und Grossbetrieb: Ausgabe B, Speisefolge fü — $200 - $300
• Lot 56: (COOK-BOOK) 60 Selected Recipes - Kosher. All are diary-based recipes. Illustrated throughout, — $60 - $90
• Lot 58: DISRAELI, BENJAMIN (Lord Beaconsfield). Nes LaGoyim, o, Tancred. — $50 - $70
• Lot 97: (ISRAEL, STATE OF) [“White Paper.”] Palestine: Statement of Policy by his Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom. — $200 - $300
• Lot 121: VITAL, CHAIM Sepher Sha’ar HaHakdamoth [Kabbalah] First Edition. Floral border on title page, — $300 - $500
• Lot 156: ISRAELI SPICE CONTAINER Designed by Pal-Bell. — $60 - $90
• Lot 172: HEBREW-DIAL MANTELPIECE CLOCK Neo-classical style mantle clock of microarchitectural structure. c. 1930 Faç — $400 - $600
• Lot 61: ETTLINGER, JACOB Sepher Bikurei Ya’akov al Hilchoth Sukah VeLulav. First Edition. — $200 - $300
• Lot 67: (GENEALOGY) Neil Rosenstein. Rashi’s Family Tree. Extensive manuscript, ink on paper. Approx. — $200 - $300
• Lot 84: IDEL, YEHUDAH LEIB HALEVI Afikei Yehudah [sermons] ff. 135. Browned, wormed and stained. Recent boards. 4to. Vinograd, — $100 - $150
• Lot 106: (LITURGY) Tikunei Yesharim - Tikun Leil Shavuot VeTikun Leil Hoshana Raba. ff. (116). Trimmed, worn through use, — $200 - $300
• Lot 14: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Joseph Krauskopf. Epochs of Jewish History, Epoch I: The Mosaic Age. — $100 - $150
• Lot 19: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Group of 20 volumes, comprising: Speeches, Sermons, and Essays from the Classical Reform Movement. — $1,200 - $1,800
• Lot 55: (COOK-BOOK) Betty D. Greenberg, Althea O. Silverman. The Jewish Home Beautiful. First Edition. — $100 - $150
• Lot 90: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) The Supreme Awqaf Council. A Brief Guide to the Dome of the Rock and Al-Haram Al-Sharif. — $100 - $150
• Lot 95: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) Short Handbook of Palestine. Restricted. Five folding plates: map and weather charts. pp.72. — $100 - $150
• Lot 119: (TALMUD) Robert Sheringham. Joma: Codex Talmudicus, In quo agitur De Sacrificiis, — $200 - $300
• Lot 120: (VILNA) Shmuel Yosef Fünn. Kirya Ne’emanah [a history of the Jews of Vilna] First Edition. Hebrew text, — $120 - $180
• Lot 125: (ZIONISM) Le Libanon - HaLevanon, Michtav Iti BiSfat Ever. And: Kevod HaLevanon [Hebrew periodical]. — $60 - $90
• Lot 133: (HOLOCAUST) Anti-Semitic poster from the “Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition” held in German-occupied Belgrade. — $600 - $900
• Lot 164: CONTINENTAL BRASS "JUDENSTERN" SABBATH HANGING LAMP. Six-pointed oil channels, baluster shaft, trefoil top; — $300 - $500
• Lot 175: BRASS JEWISH WEDDING RING Of architectural form in the medieval style. 20th-century — $60 - $90
• Lot 27: (CEREMONIES) Judah Aryeh Leib Oppenheim. Mateh Yehudah. FIRST EDITION. — $300 - $500
• Lot 29: (CEREMONIES) Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected prayers and festive rites]. — $500 - $700
• Lot 33: (CEREMONIES) Shimon Levi Ginzberg. Minhagim. Text in Yiddish in wayber-taytsch. ff. 50, — $100 - $150
• Lot 60: EISENSTADTER, MEIR Sepher Shailoth U’Teshuvoth Imrei Eish [responsa] Volume I. Title within typographic border, — $120 - $180
• Lot 77: (HOLOCAUST) The Trial of German Major War Criminals. — $200 - $300
• Lot 118: (SONCINO GESELLSCHAFT) Heinrich Loewe. Geschichten von jü — $100 - $150
• Lot 153: POLISH SILVER SPICE TOWER Cube shaped filigree body hung with bells at four corners, door inscribed “Presented by A. — $500 - $700
• Lot 157: GERMAN SILVER TORAH SHIELD Stamped “L. Victor. — $600 - $900
• Lot 5: (AMERICAN / FRENCH - JUDAICA) A Resume of the Activities of the Alliance Israelite Universelle during the year 1908. — $70 - $100
• Lot 40: (COOK-BOOK) Multiple contributors. One Thousand Favorite Recipes, — $100 - $150
• Lot 45: (COOK-BOOK) Suzanne Roukhamovsky. Gastronomie Juive, Cuisine et Patisserie, Kasher, de Russie, d’Alsace, de Roumanie, — $100 - $150
• Lot 46: (COOK-BOOK) Tempting Kosher Dishes. Prepared from World Famous Manischewitz’s Matzo Products. — $100 - $150
• Lot 111: MOSES BEN SHEM-TOV IBN HABIB. Marpe Lashon / Darchei Noam [grammatical treatises] Together, two works in one volume. — $400 - $600
• Lot 114: (PURIM) Simchah Aryeh ben Ephraim Fischel HaLevi of Hrubieszow. Divrei Purim. Second edition. — $120 - $180
• Lot 132: (HOLOCAUST) Anti-Semitic poster from the “Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition” held in German-occupied Belgrade. — $600 - $900
• Lot 138: POLISH SILVER CHANUKAH LAMP Shaped triangular backplate with eight oil receptacles at front each with a small lip; — $500 - $700
• Lot 140: SILVER-PLATED CHANUKAH LAMP Rococo backplate embossed with two lions flanking a menorah on textured ground. — $300 - $500
• Lot 171: GROUP OF FOUR RITUAL SHECHITAH KNIVES. Collection of four Shechitah knives (Chalif) of various sizes. — $200 - $300
• Lot 177: GROUP OF THREE CHANUKAH DREIDELS CHANUKAH DREIDELS — $100 - $150
• Lot 3: AGNON Shmuel Yosef (Shay). Die Erzahlung von Toraschreiber. One of 400 numbered copies. — $120 - $180
• Lot 7: (AMERICAN-JUDAICA) James C. Burns, H.F. Burder, J.S. Stamp. Lectures on the Conversion of the Jews. — $150 - $250
• Lot 41: (COOK-BOOK) The Flower City Cook Book. Compiled by Mr. Henry Leiter and Miss Sara van Bergh. — $100 - $150
• Lot 47: (COOK-BOOK) Dr. Erna Meyer. How to Cook in Palestine? / Wie Kochtman in Erez-Israel? / Eich Levashel Be’Eretz Yisrael? — $100 - $150
• Lot 54: (COOK-BOOK) The Esther Cook Book. First Edition. Illustrated advertisements. pp. 99, (5). Lightly stained. — $60 - $90
• Lot 69: (HAGADAH) Hagadah shel Pesach. Eight illustrations relating to the Spring and the Exodus narrative. — $100 - $150
• Lot 86: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) Laurance Oliphant. Haifa, or Life in Modern Palestine. First Edition. pp. vi, 369 + ads. Bookplate. — $60 - $90
• Lot 113: (PRAGUE) K 75 narozeninam Dr Gustava Sichera vrchniho rabina v Praze a v zemich ceskych, 21.VIII. — $100 - $150
• Lot 161: SILVERPLATE SABBATH CHALLAH TRAY Oval with crimped rim, center with two prominent Sabbath Challah loaves, — $200 - $300
• Lot 162: DECORATIVE SABBATH METAL TRAY. — $200 - $300
• Lot 166: LUDWIG WOLPERT MEZUZAH-CASE Hebrew lettering pierced on front: “You shall be blessed when you come, — $60 - $90
• Lot 167: PAIR OF MEZUZAHS Housed in glass tubes. Contained in older inscribed box. — $50 - $70
• Lot 4: AGNON Shmuel Yosef (Shay). Das Schass meines Grossvaters. One of 550 copies. Title-page in red. pp. (22). — $100 - $150
• Lot 23: BEGIN, MENACHEM HaMered: Zichronotav shel Mefaked HaIrgun HaTzva’i HaLeumi BeEretz-Yisrael [“The Revolt”]. — $100 - $150
• Lot 50: (COOK-BOOK) Plenters Hay Het Pinat Oyl, Kasher LePesach Gezunt a Gantz Yahr [“Planter’s Hi Hat Peanut Oil, — $100 - $150
• Lot 74: (HOLOCAUST) Persecution of the Jews. Conditions in Occupied Territories, — $200 - $300
• Lot 93: (ISRAEL, LAND OF) St. H. Stephan & Boulos ‘Afif. Palestine by Road and Rail. — $60 - $90
• Lot 146: GERMAN PEWTER PURIM PLATE Engraved (later?) with a scene of Haman leading Mordechai on a horse, — $300 - $500
• Lot 147: GERMAN PEWTER PASSOVER PLATE The rim and shallow base engraved in Hebrew with the Order of the Passover Seder — $300 - $500
• Lot 151: CONTINENTAL SILVER SPICE TOWER Octagonal leaf-chased foot, with applied decoration to the front of the steeple, — $300 - $500
• Lot 152: POLISH SILVER SPICE TOWER Spherical central body set on openwork, wire support. — $300 - $500
• Lot 34: (CHABAD) Shmuel Gorr. Something Happened at Lubavitch. Limited Edition, numbered 36/100. 3 woodcut illustrations. — $100 - $150
• Lot 88: (ISRAEL, LAND OF). Jerusalem 1918-1920. — $100 - $150
• Lot 2: (ADEN) Ketzet Chanah VeShivath Baneha [The Tale of Hannah and her Seven Sons]. Text in Judeo-Arabic. — $100 - $150
• Lot 11: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Isaac Mayer Wise. Group of eleven works: * History of the Israelitish Nation, Vol. I. Albany, — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 12: (AMERICAN JUDAICA) Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin of Louisiana on the The Right of Secession. — $200 - $300
• Lot 42: (COOK-BOOK) H. Braun. Das Familien Kuchbuch Be’arbaytet nach Amerikanishe, Frantzoyzishe, Italienishe, — $100 - $150
• Lot 64: FREUD, SIGMUND Selbstdarstellung. Containing eight photographs and illustrations from Freud’s life. — $60 - $90
• Lot 70: (HAGADAH) The Passover Seder. Small illustrations on front and back paste-down endpapers. pp. 16. — $40 - $60