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An archive of 19th century Royal Navy administrative materials, including
£220
est £60 – —
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· Aug 2025
1933 R319 Goudey Partial Set (173/240) Including 22 SGC-Graded Cards
US$7,800
est US$5,250 – —
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£442
est £80 – —
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£450
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£19,050
est £7,000 – —
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£850
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£7,620
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· Nov 2025
A collection of seven Royal Navy surgeon’s documents, including two
£900
est £200 – —
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kestenbaum· Sept 2024
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>(HAGGADAH). </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p>Hagadah LeLeilei Shimurim.<span style="color:#9C0000"><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Illustrated Hebrew manuscript on parchment.</strong></span></p>
<p>Composed by<span style="color: rgb(156, 0, 0);"><strong> Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch.</strong></span><br /></p>
<p><b>Frankfurt am Main, 1833.</b><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p>29 leaves (57 pages, excluding blanks). </p>
<p>Leaf size: 29.2 x 22.8 cm (11.5 x 9 inches). </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Hagadah text (in a square Hebrew hand), commentary (in a rabbinic hand), and Judeo-German translation (in vaybertaytsh). </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Elegantly written and beautifully balanced on the page.</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>With commentary ‘Ma’amar Afikoman’ by Shimon b’r Tzemach Duran (edited by Wolf Heidenheim). Many initial words prepared with bolded letters. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Illustration Register:</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f1: Decorated title page set within architectural frame, vignette of the city of Frankfurt below. </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> ff. 6r, 6v and 7r: The Four Sons (each posed in separate miniatures). </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f. 12v: The Ten Plagues, each titled in gilt. </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f. 23r: The Splitting of the Reed Sea. </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f. 27v: The Temple in Jerusalem (interior). </p>
<p>Many of the illustrations signed in miniature Hebrew letters: “P. [or F.] Feist.”<br /></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Protective paper interleaves. Wine-stain on f. 10r. Turquoise endpapers. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><b>Binding:</b></p>
<p><b><br /></b></p>
<p>Contemporary straight grain red morocco, both covers with gilt doubled borders, central sun-burst, half-moons at all corners; elaborately gilt spine. Extremities scuffed. Red slipcase.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><b>Background:</b></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Master Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-82) referred in his memoirs to Eliezer Sussman Meseritsch as “the best Jewish calligrapher of his time, ” a description most certainly worthy of the present work. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Mezeritsch collaborated with Charlotte von Rothschild to create another exceptional Hagadah manuscript (presently in the Rene Braginsky Collection, Zurich) see: </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><a href="https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/charlotte-von-rothschild-haggadah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/charlotte-von-rothschild-haggadah/</a> </p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0314</a></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Another Hagadah manuscript by Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch was offered by Sotheby’s in their sale: Important Judaica, 15th December, 2010, Lot 102 (now housed in the Rene Braginsky Collection, Zurich) see: </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/important-judaica-n08691/lot.102.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/important-judaica-n08691/lot.102.html</a></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/haggadah-with-a-german-translation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/haggadah-with-a-german-translation/</a></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Comparing these two Hagadah manuscripts by Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch: </p>
<p>In the earlier (1829) manuscript, the Hagadah illustrations are of a pre-modern nature. In the present Hagadah, the illustrated figures are mostly contemporary, formally dressed according to the norms of Frankfurt, 1833.<br /></p>
<p> Moreover the ink in many pages of the earlier Hagadah has faded, here the ink and penmanship is strong throughout. The overall layout of the page appears to be more advanced in the present manuscript.<br /></p>
<p> The four years between the 1829 Hagadah and the present Hagadah manuscript is obvious. <strong>The artistry here is more sophisticated and advanced in quality. </strong>The bold use of gilded lettering directly onto the images is a particularly striking stylistic element.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(156, 0, 0);"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Provenance: </strong>The Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch Collection, Scarsdale, NY.<br /><br /></p>
A collection of Royal Navy documents relating to ship's surgeons
£150
est £100 – —
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
kestenbaum· Mar 2023
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">(GENIZAH OF MANUSCRIPTS).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Collection of various Oriental Manuscripts written in many hands in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian. </span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">HEBREW MATERIALS INCLUDE:</span> (not comprehensive): </p>
<p>* 1- Sefer Brit Menucha, Derech Shminit. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 2- Kabbalistic Ideas from Pentateuch. Written by an Elijah Bachur. With introductory narrative concerning a woman who went to great lengths to circumcise her son. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 3- Kabbalistic Kavanoth, Seguloth and Incantations. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 4- Pocket guides to laws of ritual slaughter, Treifoth. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 5- Collection of Pizmonim for lifecycle events. Some authored by Eviathar Hazak, Zevulun Katan, Aharon Cohen. With two colored illustrations (birds and dedication). </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 6- Sermon to the Haftarah of ‘Dirshu’.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 7- Avoth. Chapters 2-5 complete, 1 and 6 partial. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 8- Protective Lamnatze’ah Psalm. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 9- Commentary to verses in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 10- Various prayers and Piyyutim in Hebrew, Aramiac, Judeo-Arabic. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 11- Various Kame’oth. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 12- Page with stamps of Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem’s Mughrabi (Moroccan) Kollel, R. Yissachar Azaraf (served 1886-92) and R. Moshe Malka (1892-1900). </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 13- Talmudic discussion. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 14- Ketubah, Tbilisi, 1939. Two more, torn. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 15- Moreh Chataim (Tehinoth) of R. Eliezer of Worms. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 16- Biblical homilies. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 17- Plea for assistance regarding the ransoming of captives. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 18- Rambam, Laws of Sanctification of the New Moon, Chapters 2-16- (2:9-11, 3-11 complete, 12:1-12, 13:4-11, 14-15 complete, 16:1-5). with Arabic notes on first leaf. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 19- Two Autograph manuscripts signed, by Ezra Benjamin, Shadar of Jerusalem’s Beth HaYethomim Orphanage. Tehran, 1935. One letter to R. Solomon ben Israel Cohen of Tehran, the other a rabbinical certificate to Cohen, permitting only meat overseen by butchers approved by him. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 20- Seder Sefer Nitzchit shel Torateinu HaKedosha. Mulla Abraham ben Rahim Shirazi, Dayan. With approbations and signatures of Ya’akov Yosef Ya’akov and Eliyahu Yehoshua Ovadiah, Baghdad 1851. Anti-Christian Polemic arguing for the Jewish interpretation of the Bible using Biblical verses as proof-texts. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">JUDEO-ARABIC AND JUDEO-PERSIAN MATERIALS INCLUDE</span> (not comprehensive): </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 1- Notebook with various papers relating to marital documents and ceremonies, including one responsum. Most notable is a list of sites with appropriate phraseology for wedding certificates, mostly Iran, also Eretz Israel and Iraq (Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Samarkand, Buchara, Shiraz etc). </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 2- Text entitled Yosipon. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 3- Petach Eliyahu. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 4- Kabbalistic names. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 5- Licensing certificates for Ritual Slaughterers (3). </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 6- Various business contracts and agreements. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>* 7- Lengthy book in Judeo-Persian, with numerous illustrations accompanying text. Content undetermined.</p>
<p></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Variously worn and torn. c. 250 pages. Sold not subject to return.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Baghdad, Tehran, etc., 19th century.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p></p>
![<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>(HAGGADAH). </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p>Hagadah LeLeilei Shimurim.<span style="color:#9C0000"><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Illustrated Hebrew manuscript on parchment.</strong></span></p>
<p>Composed by<span style="color: rgb(156, 0, 0);"><strong> Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch.</strong></span><br /></p>
<p><b>Frankfurt am Main, 1833.</b><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p>29 leaves (57 pages, excluding blanks). </p>
<p>Leaf size: 29.2 x 22.8 cm (11.5 x 9 inches). </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Hagadah text (in a square Hebrew hand), commentary (in a rabbinic hand), and Judeo-German translation (in vaybertaytsh). </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Elegantly written and beautifully balanced on the page.</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>With commentary ‘Ma’amar Afikoman’ by Shimon b’r Tzemach Duran (edited by Wolf Heidenheim). Many initial words prepared with bolded letters. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>Illustration Register:</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f1: Decorated title page set within architectural frame, vignette of the city of Frankfurt below. </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> ff. 6r, 6v and 7r: The Four Sons (each posed in separate miniatures). </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f. 12v: The Ten Plagues, each titled in gilt. </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f. 23r: The Splitting of the Reed Sea. </p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>*</strong></span> f. 27v: The Temple in Jerusalem (interior). </p>
<p>Many of the illustrations signed in miniature Hebrew letters: “P. [or F.] Feist.”<br /></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Protective paper interleaves. Wine-stain on f. 10r. Turquoise endpapers. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><b>Binding:</b></p>
<p><b><br /></b></p>
<p>Contemporary straight grain red morocco, both covers with gilt doubled borders, central sun-burst, half-moons at all corners; elaborately gilt spine. Extremities scuffed. Red slipcase.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><b>Background:</b></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Master Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-82) referred in his memoirs to Eliezer Sussman Meseritsch as “the best Jewish calligrapher of his time, ” a description most certainly worthy of the present work. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Mezeritsch collaborated with Charlotte von Rothschild to create another exceptional Hagadah manuscript (presently in the Rene Braginsky Collection, Zurich) see: </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><a href="https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/charlotte-von-rothschild-haggadah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/charlotte-von-rothschild-haggadah/</a> </p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0314</a></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Another Hagadah manuscript by Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch was offered by Sotheby’s in their sale: Important Judaica, 15th December, 2010, Lot 102 (now housed in the Rene Braginsky Collection, Zurich) see: </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/important-judaica-n08691/lot.102.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/important-judaica-n08691/lot.102.html</a></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/haggadah-with-a-german-translation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://braginskycollection.com/portfolio/haggadah-with-a-german-translation/</a></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p> Comparing these two Hagadah manuscripts by Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch: </p>
<p>In the earlier (1829) manuscript, the Hagadah illustrations are of a pre-modern nature. In the present Hagadah, the illustrated figures are mostly contemporary, formally dressed according to the norms of Frankfurt, 1833.<br /></p>
<p> Moreover the ink in many pages of the earlier Hagadah has faded, here the ink and penmanship is strong throughout. The overall layout of the page appears to be more advanced in the present manuscript.<br /></p>
<p> The four years between the 1829 Hagadah and the present Hagadah manuscript is obvious. <strong>The artistry here is more sophisticated and advanced in quality. </strong>The bold use of gilded lettering directly onto the images is a particularly striking stylistic element.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(156, 0, 0);"><strong><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Provenance: </strong>The Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch Collection, Scarsdale, NY.<br /><br /></p>](/img/aHR0cHM6Ly9iaWRzcGlyaXQtaW1hZ2VzLmdsb2JhbC5zc2wuZmFzdGx5Lm5ldC9rZXN0ZW5iYXVtL2Nsb25lZC1pbWFnZXMvMTIxMjIyLzAwMS8wMDEuanBn.sSkLsaM7rScdISIiR2l5YQ)
