Auction
Category
Lot 193
Peel's Somaliland, a presentation from the author
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $535
Estimated at $200 - $300
Lot 194
The first book to be devoted to elephants, 1715
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 195
Photographic album of early Zanzibar interest
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $8,820
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 196
Charming 1802 manuscript of ship's signals, with watercolors of pennants etc.
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $2,835
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 197
The first edition of Nicolas Sanson's early African atlas
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $2,394
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 198
An uncut copy of Livio Sanuto's 1588 atlas of Africa
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $25,200
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 199
Sclater and Thomas The Book of Antelopes, the Alfred Pease copy
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $2,268
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 200
Sjöstedt's expedition to Kilimanjaro and Meru
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $252
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 201
Album of sketches made in Aden in the 1870s
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $7,560
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 202
Smyth's Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, in the original cloth
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $189
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 203
Speke and Grant's third expedition, the scarce first edition
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $347
Estimated at $200 - $300
Lot 204
The rare colored issue of The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $5,985
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 205
John Speke writes to Sir Francis Galton about planning an expedition and African weather
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $5,985
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 206
Stanley's In Darkest Africa, one of 250 copies signed by him
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $3,150
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 207
H. M. Stanley writes a letter on fiction writing
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $1,071
Estimated at $600 - $900
Lot 208
The American Testimonial Banquet to Henry M. Stanley signed by Stanley and others
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $2,142
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 209
Inscribed first edition of Thomson's Through Masai Land
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $1,638
Estimated at $100 - $200
Lot 210
Vandermaelen's magnificent atlas of Africa
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $2,142
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 211
The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $819
Estimated at $600 - $900
Lot 212
A well-bound copy of Young's The Search after Livingstone
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $378
Estimated at $250 - $350
Lot 213
Album of social life in Zanzibar in 1911
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $11,970
Estimated at $600 - $900
Lot 214
Group of Zanzibar Documents
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $10,080
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 215
Group of drawings of the Coasts of Zanzibar and Madagascar, likely 1870s
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $6,930
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 216
To "The Mountains of the Moon" with the Zoological Society
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Sold for $693
Estimated at $600 - $900
Lot 218
One of the earliest travel guides in English
Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family
Sold for $409
Estimated at $600 - $900
Lot 221
Turner's An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet
Sold for $535
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 223
A fine association copy of Flappers and Philosophers in the rare dust jacket
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 224
First edition, first printing of Fitzegerald's classic book, The Great Gatsby
Sold for $1,764
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 225
Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet Major, in the original cloth
Sold for $4,095
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 226
Robert Browning's copy of Keats’ Endymion, 1818
Sold for $37,800
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000
Lot 227
House at Pooh Corner in a fine example of the dust jacket
Sold for $819
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 228
An inscribed copy of Budd Schulberg's influential Hollywood novel
Sold for $252
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 231
Whitman's Two Rivulets, with the signed photograph and additional inscription
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 232
Leaves of Grass, inscribed by Whitman to the engraver of a well-known portrait
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 233
The first edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species
Sold for $94,500
Estimated at $70,000 - $100,000
Lot 234
Stern's folio Luther bible in a contemporary binding.
Sold for $504
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 235
A handsome doctoral diploma on vellum, Padua: 19 July 1641
Sold for $5,355
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 237
A classic color plate book of the Romantic movement
Sold for $1,197
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 238
Manuscript on the motion of the sun and stars, from the Bibliotheca Phillippica
Sold for $31,500
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 241
François-Louis Schmied's Daphne in a major Art Deco binding by Pierre Legrain
Sold for $32,760
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 242
Bound for Princess Augusta
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Alistair Bradley Martin
Sold for $378
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 244
The Roycroft Press Garcia and Thirteen other poems in a three-quarter Roycroft binding
Sold for $819
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 245
Marvell's Garden in an inlaid morocco binding by Jean Gunner
Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 246
Rubaiyat designed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. One of 500 copies. Gilt vellum binding.
Sold for $1,764
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 247
A well-bound set of Pepys
Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Sara Roosevelt Wilford
Sold for $189
Estimated at $150 - $250
Lot 248
Charming binding by Huser on Henri de Regnier's Scenes Mythologiques
Sold for $1,134
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 250
A finely bound set of Ruskin's works, with a letter by the author
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 254
English language set of Victor Hugo's Works, in the original wrappers
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 256
The Limited Editions Club Borges with plates by LeWitt
Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
Sold for $378
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 257
The Arthur Szyk edition of Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine
Sold for $315
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 259
The Pennyroyal Press Huckleberry Finn
Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
Sold for $945
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 261
The magnificent Bruce Rogers edition of the Frick Catalogue
Sold for $5,040
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 264
One of 25 copies of Arp's Dreams and Derisions with the suite on Japon
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $1,512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 265
Arp and Hugnet La Sphère de sable.
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $189
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 266
Aspen Magazine with five records and a film
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $441
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 267
Brassai's classic illustrations of nighttime Paris
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 268
Classic COBRA works with signed original graphics
Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
Sold for $504
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 269
Two books by Jean Cocteau
Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
Sold for $441
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 270
A complete run of the avant-garde periodical S.M.S.
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 271
A special copy of Corneille's Garden Errant, one of ten
Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
Sold for $1,512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 272
Tzara's Le coeur a barbe, a Dada masterpiece
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $882
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 274
The catalogue of "Degenerate Art"
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $473
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 275
Jim Dine's The Temple of Flora, printed at the Arion Press
Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 277
Jim Dine's illustrations for Padgett's translation of The Poet Assassinated
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 278
Loreau's and Dubuffut's livre d'artiste, featuring the artist's Art Brut illustrations
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $409
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 279
Artist's proof copy of Duchamp's White Box
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $7,560
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 280
Duchamp and Hugnet's "Seventh face of the Die"
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $5,355
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 281
The 1991 Ronny van der Velde catalogue with Duchamp's Mental Chessboard
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $630
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 282
Max Ernst's Histoire Naturelle
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $252
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 283
Two facsimiles of artist notebooks
Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Sara Roosevelt Wilford
Sold for $252
Estimated at $200 - $300
Lot 284
An elegant George Grosz note signed in watercolor
Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Blanche Cirker
Sold for $378
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 285
With an original photomontage by Georges Hugnet
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $1,197
Estimated at $250 - $350
Lot 286
Creeley and Indiana's Numbers, with a Robert Indiana postcard laid-in
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 287
Jasper Johns color it yourself target
Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
Sold for $252
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 288
Inscribed copy of Allan Kaprow's Assemblage, environments & happenings
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
Sold for $315
Estimated at $300 - $500