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Auction Info

Auction Name
Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Auction Date
05/06/2025 - 05/06/2025
Sale Number
#102a
Total Lots
126
Sold Lots
119
Lots Sold
94.44%
Unsold Lots
7
Total Sales (USD)
865,000.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
533,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
812,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
543,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
825,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
104.73%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
73

Shlah Siddur Shaar HaShamayim -- Amsterdam, 1717 -- First Edition -- Complete Copy of All Parts -- Segulah Book

1717 USD 40,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 93,750.00
44

Manuscript, Darchei Moshe HaAroch on Yoreh Deah -- Lublin, 1608 -- Contemporary Glosses

1608 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 45,000.00
52

Manuscript Volume -- Halachic Rulings, Responsa and Ordinances -- Hundreds of Pages Handwritten by the Yaavetz -- Autographs and Signatures of Contemporary Dayanim of Fez and Meknes, Including Rabbi Yehudah ibn Attar, Rabbi Moshe Toledano, the Mashbir, Ra

first half of 18th century USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 40,000.00
49

Manuscript Volume -- Halachic Rulings, Ordinances, Responsa and Letters -- Huge Collection of Autographs and Signatures of Leading Moroccan Rabbis and Kabbalists -- Fez, Meknes, Sale, Sefrou, Marrakesh and More -- Includes: 1582 Halachic Ruling from Fez;

17th-18th centuries USD 25,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 40,000.00
53

Volume of Manuscripts -- Responsa and Novellae of the Yaavetz, His Descendants and Moroccan Rabbis -- Includes Lengthy Responsum Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Yaakov Sasportas -- Sale, 1642

18th and 19th centuries USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 27,500.00
43

Manuscript, Novellae on Tractate Beitzah by Maharikash -- With Autograph Glosses by the Author -- Egypt, 16th Century

ca. 16th century USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 27,500.00
31

Manuscript, Pri Etz Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Vital -- Europe, 18th Century -- Signature of Kabbalist Rabbi Aryeh Leib HaLevi Epstein, Author of Sefer HaPardes and Or HaShanim

ca. 18th century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 25,000.00
67

Passover Haggadah with Woodcut Illustrations -- Augsburg, 1534 -- An Early Illustrated Haggadah -- Especially Rare Edition, Only Two Other Extant Copies

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,250.00
41

Manuscript, Commentary of Ralbag on Kohelet -- Provence, 1469

1469 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
59

Five Manuscript Volumes -- Pnei Shlomo by Rabbi Shlomo Abensour -- Selected Laws and Novellae on Choshen Mishpat and Even HaEzer -- Copied by His Son Rabbi Refael Abensour, With His Additions -- Unpublished Work

ca. second half of 19th century USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
80

Five Books of the Torah -- Amsterdam, 1680 -- First Edition of Siftei Chachamim -- Original Parchment Binding

1680 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 17,500.00
26

Manuscript, Shemen Zayit Zach -- Autograph of Rabbi Shlomo Molcho -- Izmir, 1778-1779 -- Several Unpublished Kabbalistic Novellae -- Insights Revealed to the Author in a Dream

ca. 1778-1779 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
33

Manuscript, Zimrat HaAretz (Kavanot HaAri) and Kesef HaKipurim (Tikun for a Plague), by Rabbi Avigdor Azriel -- Author's Copy, with Title Pages in His Handwriting -- Jerusalem, 18th Century -- Unpublished Variants

between 1777-1797 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,000.00
37

Hybrid Parchment and Paper Manuscript, Rif on Tractate Berachot -- Italy, Early 15th Century

ca. early 15th century USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
6

Manuscript, Piyyut Machzor for Yom Kippur -- Crimea, 14th Century -- Particularly Important Anthology, Including Heretofore Unknown Piyyutim and Piyyutim Known Only from the Cairo Genizah

ca. 14th century USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
14

Manuscript, Midrash Meor HaAfelah -- Illustrated and Decorated -- Yemen, 15th Century

ca. 15th century USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,750.00
5

Parchment Manuscript, Memorbuch -- Austerlitz (Moravia), 17th-19th Centuries -- Rare Texts (Including Early Version of Prayer for Those Who Refrain from Speaking in Synagogue, and More)

17th-19th centuries USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
19

Manuscript, Anthology of Practical Kabbalah, Amulets and Segulot -- Spain or North Africa, Ca. 1490

ca. 1490 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
45

Manuscript, Yad David -- Volume III, On Tractates Sanhedrin-Horayot -- Autograph of Rabbi David Sinzheim, Leading French Rabbi and Head of Napoleon's Sanhedrin

ca. 1790s-1800s USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,500.00
50

Manuscript Volume -- Halachic Rulings, Responsa and Letters -- Autographs and Signatures of Moroccan Rabbis -- 1706-1766

ca. 1706-1766 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,500.00

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