Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Displaying 1 - 12 of 17
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Siddur in silver-decorated binding, produced by silversmith Isaac Beauclair (Baucair). Kassel, Germany, ca. 1705.
Print on paper; wood and leather; silver, cast, cut and repoussé (clasps marked with hallmark of Kassel, the letter K; and the maker's mark, the letters IB in a frame).
Brown leather binding decorated identically on both sides, with four leaf-like corner illustrations and two identical decorations attached to clasps and pins. A large, blank medallion is fixed in the center of both sides, surrounded by a repoussé frame.
The book: Year-round prayers with Yiddish commentary. Amsterdam: Moshe son of Avraham Mendes Coutinho, 1705.
Siddur for women. Includes divisional title pages for Tehillim and techinot. On title page, woodcuts depicting the three mitzvot of challah, niddah and candle-lighting.
[3], 315, [1], 92 leaves, 20.2 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and some wear. Some leaves loose.
Binding: 14.5X21 cm. Fair-good condition. Wear to leather coating and old repairs to leather pieces. Wooden boards somewhat crooked. Back binding partially detached and front binding loose.
Reference: Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, II, nos. 2621, 2630.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
![Five Books of the Torah, and Five Megillot, with commentary of Rashi, Targum Onkelos and haftarot. Amsterdam, [1712].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/123_1.jpg "Five Books of the Torah – Amsterdam, 1712 – Wood and Leather Binding w")
![Five Books of the Torah, and Five Megillot, with commentary of Rashi, Targum Onkelos and haftarot. Amsterdam, [1712].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/123_2.jpg "Five Books of the Torah – Amsterdam, 1712 – Wood and Leather Binding w")
![Five Books of the Torah, and Five Megillot, with commentary of Rashi, Targum Onkelos and haftarot. Amsterdam, [1712].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/123_3.jpg "Five Books of the Torah – Amsterdam, 1712 – Wood and Leather Binding w")
![Five Books of the Torah, and Five Megillot, with commentary of Rashi, Targum Onkelos and haftarot. Amsterdam, [1712].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/123_4.jpg "Five Books of the Torah – Amsterdam, 1712 – Wood and Leather Binding w")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Five Books of the Torah, and Five Megillot, with commentary of Rashi, Targum Onkelos and haftarot. Amsterdam, [1712].
Leather-coated wood binding (apparently from 18th century), with eight silver corner decorations and large silver clasps (silver marked with "R").
Divisional title page for Bamidbar and Devarim, and for haftarot (naming the printer, Shlomo Proops, and dated 1712).
First 12 leaves lacking; replaced by first 11 leaves of another Torah edition: Amsterdam: Immanuel Athias, 1700-1701 ([2], 2-10; including both title pages). At beginning of present book, five additional handwritten leaves with Targum Onkelos to first leaves, evidently because Athias' edition lacks the Targum.
[1] last leaf with advertisement for books of printer Shlomo Proops.
Handwritten inscriptions on first title pages, front endpaper and verso, ownership inscriptions and death inscriptions dated 1733, 1752 and 1808.
[2], 2-10, 13-420, 422-431, 433-502, [2]; 58, [1] leaves. Lacking first 12 leaves (replaced by [2], 2-10 leaves from 1700-1701 edition), and lacking leaves 421 and 432 (with handwritten replacements, two leaves each). Foliation trimmed and lacking on many leaves. 12 cm. Decorated gilt edges. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Close trimming, affecting text in many places.
Leather-coated wooden binding, with color endpaper. Wear and defects to binding.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,800
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
High holiday siddur in elaborate silver binding, produced by the silversmith Johann Conrad Weiss. Nuremberg, Germany, [ca. 1726].
Print on paper; wood and leather; silver, repoussé, pierced and engraved (marked on clasps and binding with Nuremberg hallmark – the letter N – and maker's mark, the initials ICW).
Fine elaborate silver binding, pierced and decorated identically on both sides, with vegetal patterns surrounding a prominent octagonal medallion (blank); a matching medallion also appears in the center of the spine. A pair of matching buckles, decorated with flowers enclosing interlocking spherical clasps at the center.
The silversmith Johann Conrad Weiss (1670-1758) – licensed 1699 – was active in Nuremberg in the first half of the 18th century, fashioning several Judaica objects, including spice-boxes, kiddush cups, a Chanukah lamp, and a Torah shield, finials and pointer. Some of his creations are preserved in the Israel Museum and Jewish Museum of New York collections.
Book: High holiday siddur according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Naftali Hertz son of Alexander Ziskind Levi of Emden, [1726].
220 leaves (second part only). 17.5 cm. Good condition. Printed on high-quality paper, with wide margins and gilt edges. Original wooden binding, coated with red leather.
Binding: 14X18 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 15 December, 2010, Lot 18.
References: Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, III, no. 4279; Nuremberger Goldschmiedekunst, pp. 438-439.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,250
Including buyer's premium
Orden de las oraciones cotidianas, por estilo seguido y corriente, con las de Hanucah y Purim y A yuno del Solo [Year-round Siddur]. Amsterdam: Yshac de Cordova, 1722.
Siddur for weekdays, Sabbaths, and festivals, bound with a calendar for the years 1722-1728 (1722-1728).
Bound with: Cinco libros de la Ley Divina. Amsterdam: Yshac de Cordova, 1724. (Separate title page for Haftarot).
The siddur, calendar, and Pentateuch were printed entirely in Spanish and intended for Marranos and members of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities of Amsterdam.
Bound in a luxurious binding with silver ornaments and matching silver clasps.
[4], 9-492 pages; [4] leaves (calendar); [1], 474 pages. 14.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Minor damage to binding (some losses). Binding partially detached. First 96 leaves detached. Some stains and marginal wear.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
Lot 126 Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – Amsterdam, 18th Century
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_1.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_2.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_3.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_4.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_6.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_7.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_8.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
![Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and eng](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/126_9.jpg "Machzor for High Holidays in Elegant Binding with Silver Ornaments – A")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Machzor for the High Holidays in an elegant binding. Amsterdam, [first half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and engraved (marked with maker’s marks, apparently IC or IG); leather and wood; print on paper.
Machzor in original wooden binding, covered in black-dyed leather and embossed with geometric and vegetal patterns. Large silver ornaments affixed with rivets to both side of the cover, featuring a vegetal design, and four corner ornaments in the form of angels. Original, matching silver clasp with engraved initials on its interior.
The book: Sephardic-rite machzor for the High Holidays, with Selichot for the nights of Ashmorot. Amsterdam: Raphael Hezekiah Athias, [1728]. Includes engraved frontispiece depicting the Israelites observing the priests performing the Temple service on Yom Kippur.
[1], 288 leaves. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.
Binding: height: 18 cm. Width: 11.5 cm, spine width: 6 cm. Good condition. Minor wear and tears to spine. Three of the corner ornaments slightly loose.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
![Chumash with Haftarot in a decorated silver binding. Amsterdam, [ca. mid-18th century].
Silver, pierced, repouss&eacut](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/127_1.jpg "Chumash with Haftarot in Decorated Silver Binding – Amsterdam, 1734")
![Chumash with Haftarot in a decorated silver binding. Amsterdam, [ca. mid-18th century].
Silver, pierced, repouss&eacut](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/127_2.jpg "Chumash with Haftarot in Decorated Silver Binding – Amsterdam, 1734")
![Chumash with Haftarot in a decorated silver binding. Amsterdam, [ca. mid-18th century].
Silver, pierced, repouss&eacut](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/127_3.jpg "Chumash with Haftarot in Decorated Silver Binding – Amsterdam, 1734")
![Chumash with Haftarot in a decorated silver binding. Amsterdam, [ca. mid-18th century].
Silver, pierced, repouss&eacut](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/127_4.jpg "Chumash with Haftarot in Decorated Silver Binding – Amsterdam, 1734")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Chumash with Haftarot in a decorated silver binding. Amsterdam, [ca. mid-18th century].
Silver, pierced, repoussé, engraved, and soldered (unmarked); wood and leather; print on paper.
Bound in original wooden binding, covered in contemporary leather, and encased in a luxurious silver binding. Both sides of the silver cover and spine are pierced and decorated with matching, symmetrical floral patterns and rich vegetal designs. Pair of matching silver clasps.
The book: Five Books of the Torah and the Five Scrolls with Targum Onkelos (only for the Pentateuch), Rashi commentary, and the Haftarah portions. Amsterdam: Shlomo ben Yosef Proops, [1734].
Chumash: 2-392, [2] leaves (title page lacking); 53 leaves of Haftarot (last three leaves lacking). 12.2 cm. Separate title page for the Haftarot. Fair condition. Tears and wear to first and last leaves. Losses to final leaves.
Binding: height: 13.5 cm. Width: 8 cm, spine width: 5.5 cm. Overall good condition. Minor blemishes, cracks, and bends. One clasp detached and its hook broken. Some losses to silver ornaments along the spine.
For a similar item, see: Kedem, Auction 97 (the Schloss Collection), 8 May 2024, Lot 8.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
![Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/128_1.jpg "Siddur in Fine Binding with Silver Ornaments – The Netherlands or Germ")
![Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/128_2.jpg "Siddur in Fine Binding with Silver Ornaments – The Netherlands or Germ")
![Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/128_3.jpg "Siddur in Fine Binding with Silver Ornaments – The Netherlands or Germ")
![Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/128_4.jpg "Siddur in Fine Binding with Silver Ornaments – The Netherlands or Germ")
![Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/128_5.jpg "Siddur in Fine Binding with Silver Ornaments – The Netherlands or Germ")
![Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/128_6.jpg "Siddur in Fine Binding with Silver Ornaments – The Netherlands or Germ")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $2,250
Including buyer's premium
Siddur, Tehillim, and in a fine binding. The Netherlands or Germany, [second half of the 18th century].
Silver, cast and pierced (unmarked); cardboard and green velvet; print on paper.
Cardboard binding covered in green velvet, adorned with cast silver ornaments featuring vegetal motifs and corner ornaments with angel figures. Medallion at center of front cover, with relief scene of a scribe seated at his desk; medallion at center of back cover with relief of a woman carrying a jug. Matching silver clasp with astrological sign of Libra.
The book: Year-round siddur following Ashkenazi rite, with Torah portions, Shir HaYichud, Yotzerot and Selichot, Tehillim, Hoshanot, Ma'aravot and Techinot, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Amsterdam: Herz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman, [1752].
[2], 243; 88; 128; 16 leaves. With separate title pages for Tehillim and Techinot. 17.5 cm. Condition varies, fair-good. Wear and tears to first leaves, including some open tears. Front cover and first two leaves detached. Handwritten inscription opposite title page.
Binding: height: 18.5 cm. Width: 12 cm, spine width: 6.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Tears to spine, some repaired with cloth tape. Several silver ornaments slightly loose.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Year-round siddur. Metz: Hadamar, 1816.
Print on paper; cardboard and leather; silver, embossed and engraved (unmarked).
Miniature machzor according to the Eastern Ashkenazic rite. Elaborate silver binding, with a family coat of arms engraved on its front – a gate with a pediment with a palm of the hand in the center; on the verso, the initials "DP" are engraved. Original clasp.
326 leaves (pp. 213b-292a: Torah readings, pp. 292-321a: Shabbat songs, Counting of the Omer), 8 cm. Overall good condition. Some wear. Wear and defects to margins of last leaves. Last leaf detached. Inscription in Italian script to front endpaper, on passing of Simchah daughter of Hillel HaKohen and Yocheved Segre on March 4, 1861. Original leather-coated cardboard binding. Back binding worn and torn.
Silver binding: 7X8.5 cm, in good condition.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
![Miniature siddur in a decorated silver binding. [Germany and France, 19th century].
Silver, cast, stamped and pierced](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/130_1.jpg "Miniature Siddur in Decorated Silver Binding – Germany-France, 19th Ce")
![Miniature siddur in a decorated silver binding. [Germany and France, 19th century].
Silver, cast, stamped and pierced](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/130_2.jpg "Miniature Siddur in Decorated Silver Binding – Germany-France, 19th Ce")
![Miniature siddur in a decorated silver binding. [Germany and France, 19th century].
Silver, cast, stamped and pierced](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/130_3.jpg "Miniature Siddur in Decorated Silver Binding – Germany-France, 19th Ce")
![Miniature siddur in a decorated silver binding. [Germany and France, 19th century].
Silver, cast, stamped and pierced](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/130_4.jpg "Miniature Siddur in Decorated Silver Binding – Germany-France, 19th Ce")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Miniature siddur in a decorated silver binding. [Germany and France, 19th century].
Silver, cast, stamped and pierced (unmarked, except for a French import mark – a swan – in use from 1893 onward); wood and velvet; print on paper.
Miniature siddur bound in original wooden boards covered in velvet, encased in a silver binding decorated with vegetal motifs. Front cover engraved with the initials “C de R”; back cover engraved with the year 5600 [1840]. Matching silver clasp.
The book: Seder Rinah U'Tefillah. Roedelheim: I. Lehrberger, 1837.
240 leaves. 8 cm. Good condition. Front endpaper, spine, and front cover detached. Gilt edges.
Binding: height: 8.5 cm. Width: 6 cm, spine width: 2.5 cm. Good condition.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
Imrei Lev siddur, Prières d'un Cœur israélite, livre d'offices et recueil de prières et de meditations pour toutes les circonstances de la vie. Paris: published by K. Kaufmann, printed by G. Silbermann (Strasbourg), [ca. 1860]. French; titles of prayers and a few words in Hebrew.
Velvet binding; with eight silver corner decorations and silver clasp. Decorated silver plate adorning front binding, with monogram (apparently of an earlier owner).
XVI, 710, [1], VI, 14 pages. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves, affecting text, repaired with tape. Wear and defects to velvet binding.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
![Women’s siddur in decorated silver binding. [Probably Germany, 19th century].
Silver, pierced and repoussé (unm](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/132_1.jpg "Siddur for Women with Decorated Silver Binding – Probably Germany, 19t")
![Women’s siddur in decorated silver binding. [Probably Germany, 19th century].
Silver, pierced and repoussé (unm](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/132_2.jpg "Siddur for Women with Decorated Silver Binding – Probably Germany, 19t")
![Women’s siddur in decorated silver binding. [Probably Germany, 19th century].
Silver, pierced and repoussé (unm](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/132_3.jpg "Siddur for Women with Decorated Silver Binding – Probably Germany, 19t")
![Women’s siddur in decorated silver binding. [Probably Germany, 19th century].
Silver, pierced and repoussé (unm](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale103/132_4.jpg "Siddur for Women with Decorated Silver Binding – Probably Germany, 19t")
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $4,000
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
Women’s siddur in decorated silver binding. [Probably Germany, 19th century].
Silver, pierced and repoussé (unmarked); wood; printed on paper.
Both sides of the binding identically decorated with vegetal patterns, at their center appear a pair of rampant lions supporting a medallion topped with a crown. Long carrying chain. A pair of cast clasps, one decorated with the figure of Aaron, the other with the figure of Moses holding the Tablets of the Law.
The book: Order of Prayers for the Entire Year with Yiddish commentary. Amsterdam: Moshe ben Abraham Mendes Coutinho, 1705. With separate title pages for Tehillim and Order of Supplications. Title page illustrated with woodcuts depicting the three mitzvot for Women: Challah, Niddah and Lighting the Sabbath lamp.
[1] (i.e. [3]), 319, [1], 92 leaves. 19 cm. Overall good condition. Minor stains and a few loose leaves. Title page mounted on paper (for reinforcement). Gilt, gauffered page edges. Original binding boards lacking.
Binding: 19.5X13 cm. Overall good condition. Old soldering repairs.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Machzor in silver-decorated binding. Venice, ca. 1750.
Print on paper; cardboard and leather; silver, cast, pierced and engraved (unmarked); gilt.
Brown leather binding decorated identically on both sides, with a large, impressive guilloche comprising leaf and flower decorations. At top of front binding, another decoration shaped as a pair of palms spread out for the priestly blessing. Around the edges is a thin belt designed as a chain of flowers (on back binding, these decorations only appear near the four corners). Large clasp, decorated with an identical pattern. All decorations pierced and gilt, and nailed onto the binding.
The book: Year-round machzor according to the Italian rite (Part I only). Venice: Bragadin, 1750.
At beginning of book, half-title by Francesco Griselini (1717-1787), with his print signature, depicting the Passover meal and bearing the Hebrew caption "Festivals".
224 leaves; 16 leaves (Tefillat Yesharim, with divisional title page), 18.5 cm. Overall good condition. Some stains. Ownership inscription on title page: "Michael Modena".
Binding: 13.5X19 cm. Overall good condition. Some defects and wear, mainly to spine. One flower decoration on back endpaper loose.
Category
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Catalogue Value