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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 217
Proof plates for Heber's India

Sold for $1,071
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 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 229
Four books signed by Kurt Vonnegut

Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 233
The first edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species

Sold for $94,500
Estimated at $70,000 - $100,000

Lot 236
Third Aldine edition of the Poemata.

Sold for $441
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 237
A classic color plate book of the Romantic movement

Sold for $1,197
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 239
Illuminated manuscript leaf

Sold for $945
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 240
Finely bound by Bayntun

Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 242
Bound for Princess Augusta

Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Alistair Bradley Martin

Sold for $378
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 243
The works of Dickens

Sold for $693
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

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 249
Magnificent lettered binding by Alfred De Sauty

Sold for $7,560
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 251
Beautifully illustrated by Dulac

Sold for $693
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 252
Works illustrated by Barbier and Marty

Sold for $473
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 253
The Grabhorn Press Mandeville

Sold for $283
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 255
Illustrated Book of Costume, Cosway Binding

Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

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 258
A collection of illustrated literature

Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $500 - $800

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 260
Thomas More's Utopia

Sold for $378
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 262
A fine copy of the elegant Paris edition

Sold for $441
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 263
The Vale Press Parables

Estimated at $700 - $1,000

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 273
The first catalogue raisonee of Degas

Sold for $504
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