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Lot 97
A scarce late colonial era survey attributed to Francis Maerschalk

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 98
Two 1820 copies of mid-18th century surveys by Maerschalk

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $126
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 99
The finest and largest map of Long Island from the period

Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of John J. Caliolo

Sold for $378
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 100
An attractive plan of the blocks laid-out in the area of the Collect Pond

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $756
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 101
A plan of Newgate Prison in New York in 1821

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $441
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 102
A manuscript survey map of the East River shoreline

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $157
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 103
Viele's map of the underground waterways of New York City

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 107
A charming miniature world atlas

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 110
With a signature of U.S. Grant

Estate / Collection: Provenance: Collection of Susan Otto Israel.

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 111
An uncommon piece of Twainiana

Estate / Collection: Provenance: Collection of Susan Otto Israel

Sold for $441
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 112
Letter by Theodore Dreiser, the author of An American Tragedy

Estate / Collection: Provenance: Collection of Susan Otto Israel

Sold for $76
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 113
"And the world is gonna know your name. What's your name, man?" Alexander Hamilton...

Estate / Collection: Provenance: Collection of Susan Otto Israel

Sold for $3,150
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 114
An early example of John Hancock's John Hancock

Estate / Collection: Provenance: Collection of Susan Otto Israel

Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 115
A letter from Justice Robert Jackson

Sold for $126
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 116
Signed by Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Sold for $4,725
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 118
A Kennedy typed letter signed as Senator

Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 119
The Marquis de Lafayette seeks a favor for a friend

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 120
A war-date letter from General Washington

Sold for $15,120
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

Lot 121
Author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers

Estate / Collection: Provenance: Collection of Susan Otto Israel

Sold for $252
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 122
Signed by Anna Freud

Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 125
A letter signed by Peter the Great

Estate / Collection: Property of a New Jersey Collector

Sold for $8,820
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 126
Signed pencil portraits of Edward and Wallis

Sold for $504
Estimated at $800 - $1,000

Lot 127
Signed by both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip

Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 129
The final edition of Afonso D'Albuquerque's works

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $882
Estimated at $1,000 - $2,000

Lot 130
Two photographic albums of angling in Africa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,197
Estimated at $1,000 - $2,000

Lot 131
Babault's Voyage dans l'Afrique Orientale Anglaise

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,394
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 132
A presentation copy of Baden-Powell's illustrated memoirs about South and East Africa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $945
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 133
Bandinel on slavery in England and Europe

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $473
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 134
The Great and Small Game of Africa with color plates by Smits

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,071
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 135
Richard Burton's memorial volume, with letters from Mrs. Burton

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $378
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 136
The first edition of Burton's translation of the 1001 Nights

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $819
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 137
Richard Burton's First Footsteps in East Africa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $945
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 138
Richard Burton's The Lake Regions of Central Africa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,071
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 139
Richard Burton writes about Livingstone

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,465
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 140
Richard Burton's edition of Camoens in six volumes

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $126
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 141
Mickles's translation of Camoens’ Lusiad

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $126
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 142
Winston Churchill My African Journey. 1908

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,134
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 143
Clarkson's account of the slave trade in original boards uncut

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $4,095
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 144
An unpublished work on Kenyan trout fishing

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $882
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 145
The best edition of De Barros's history of the Portuguese in Asia

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $1,000 - $2,000

Lot 146
De Sousa's 1790 Documentos Arabicos para a historia Portugueza in a period Portuguese binding

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,268
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 147
De Sousa's Documentos Arabicos in early paper wrappers, possibly publisher's

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,638
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 148
A cruise in the "Gorgon" to suppress the slave trade

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $945
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 149
The genesis of the infamous “Hottentot Venus” affair

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,465
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 150
Faria y Sousa's account of Portuguese Asia

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,638
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 151
Edouard Foa's explorations of Africa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $189
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 152
Forbes on The natural history of Sokotra and Abdel-Kuri

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $4,095
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 153
Photographic album of W.J. Frazer of H.M.S. "St George" of the Anglo-Zanzibar War and other conflicts

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $8,190
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 154
The life of Freire de Andrade

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $50
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 155
The diary of an officer on board H.M.S. Andromache, Bellerophon and others, 1823-1836

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 156
General Gordon tries to build a railway in the Sudan

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 157
General Gordon discovers the Garden of Eden

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $693
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 158
General Gordon on the administration of the Empire and King Utesa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,142
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 159
An exceptional letter by General Gordon to Sir Samuel Baker

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,512
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 160
Two fine letters from General Gordon, one about elephants, the other on suppressing the slave trade

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 161
General Gordon to Sir Henry Rawlinson on the exploration of Lake Albert and the Nile

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,764
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 162
General Gordon and the Wadi Halfa railway

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,394
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000

Lot 163
Attractively bound copy of Grandpré's A Voyage to the Indian Ocean

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 164
Guillain's scarce voyage to Zanzibar and East Africa, illustrated after daguerreotypes

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 165
Grant's A Walk Across Africa, presentation copy to his mother of the first edition

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $800 - $1,000

Lot 166
Perthes Spezial-Karte von Afrika

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $347
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 167
Hamilton's A New Account of the East Indies, 1744.

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $535
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 168
Hartmann's Commentariao de Geographia Africae Edrisiana, 1791

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 169
Thomas Herbert's account of the Persian Empire, with observations on the Welsh in America

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,142
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 170
First edition of Hollis on the Masai

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $63
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 171
The "Blind Traveler" recounts his world tour

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Estimated at $1,500 - $2,000

Lot 172
Isaacs Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa., 1826, handsomely bound

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 173
Guest Book of "Bwavu" 1927-1936, a reflection of social life in Kenya

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $113
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 174
Watercolors of German East Africa in 1915

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,638
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 175
Leakey's classic The Stone Age Races of Kenya

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $157
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 176
The first edition of Livingstone's Zambesi

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $283
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 177
David Livingstone presents his Missionary Travels and Researches to Lord Shaftesbury

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $8,820
Estimated at $6,000 - $9,000

Lot 178
A presentation map prepared by David Livingstone in Cape Town

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $9,450
Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000

Lot 179
David Livingstone sets off for parts unknown

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,835
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 180
One of David Livingstone's final letters, addressed to Sir Henry Rawlinson

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $4,095
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 181
A presentation copy of David Livingston's Missionary Travels, 1857

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,465
Estimated at $4,000 - $5,000

Lot 182
Important David Livingstone four-page letter signed describing his last expedition

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,465
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000

Lot 183
David Livingstone writes from Zambezi about the discovery of Lake Nyasa

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $5,355
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000

Lot 184
Diary of a trip to Kenya, 1933

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $1,134
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 185
Luschan's pioneering work on the Benin bronzes

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $882
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 186
The rare deluxe issue of Meyer's Across East African Glaciers, on the first ascent of Kilimanjaro

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $6,300
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 187
Hans Meyer's classic Zum Schneedom des Kilimandscharo

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $945
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 188
The first Latin edition of the earliest collection of voyages, including Columbus and Vespucci

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $239,400
Estimated at $200,000 - $250,000

Lot 189
Diary of the 1885 Soudan Expedition by a senior British officer

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $2,268
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 190
Robert Henry Nelson's autograph diary written daily during Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $5,355
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 191
Captain Nelson's contract for the Emin Pasha Expedition

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $630
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 192
Sir Thomas Phillipps's copy of Ouseley's works

Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

Sold for $3,465
Estimated at $200 - $300