Lot 44
The Rules of St. Augustine about 1350, from an English priory
Sold for $102,100
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 39
The Etymologiae of St. Isidore in early manuscript
Sold for $51,200
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 270
Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue
Estimated at $40,000 - $60,000
Lot 64
The first edition of Audubon's octavo Birds of America
Sold for $41,600
Estimated at $25,000 - $35,000
Lot 37
An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250
Sold for $32,000
Estimated at $20,000 - $30,000
Lot 176
An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket
Estimated at $25,000 - $35,000
Lot 143
The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner
Sold for $25,600
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000
Lot 253
An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield at Gettysburg
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Estimated at $20,000 - $30,000
Lot 210
A calligraphic autograph quotation signed by Tolkien
Sold for $24,320
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 42
An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch
Sold for $23,040
Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000
Lot 36
A fifteenth century collection of mystical religious texts
Sold for $20,480
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 349
A unique sixteen-volume photographic archive of a major NYC architectural firm
Sold for $20,480
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 102
Sharpe's beautifully illustrated monograph of Kingfishers
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $14,080
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 174
Fitzgerald's second book, scarce in the first issue jacket
Sold for $14,080
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 244
The Hogan copy of the first edition, first issue of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $12,800
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 258
Frederick Douglass' honest speech at the unveiling of the Freedman's Monument
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $12,800
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 269
An autograph letter from Washington's first year as President
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $12,160
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 81
Elliot's magnificent monograph of the Hornbills
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $11,520
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 305
Proof copy of Winston Churchill's My Early Life
Sold for $11,520
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 66
The 1860 edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $10,880
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 200
An inscribed first edition of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
Sold for $10,880
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 307
Albert Einstein's About Zionism, signed by the author
Sold for $10,880
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 228
An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 35
A 15th-century Breviarum Minorum from the library of an accused Episcopalian heretic
Sold for $9,600
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 118
The État Major Maps of France - the larger and more detailed successor to Cassini
Sold for $9,600
Estimated at $6,000 - $9,000
Lot 136
Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada
Sold for $9,600
Estimated at $12,000 - $18,000
Lot 92
Keulemans' Parrots are considered his finest work
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 108
A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 220
Spectacular catalogue of American wood engravings used by a Boston publisher
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 248
A slavery narrative, Aunt Sally or the Cross, the Way of Freedom
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 252
The Emancipation Proclamation in a fine set of War Department Orders
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 254
Frederick Hill Meserve Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 242
The first edition of Tocqueville, with an important association
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $8,320
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 78
An attractive set of Dresser's monumental History of the Birds of Europe
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 162
An inscribed copy of Alice in Wonderland, with a letter to Carroll's cousin
Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 239
The remarkable Will of George Washington, 1799
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 230
The scarce and important first edition of this 1766 anti-slavery tract
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 240
Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 280
President Lincoln discharges two Confederate prisoners
Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000
Lot 243
The arguments of Adams and Baldwin in the Amistad case
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 329
Artaud and Baselitz, Le Theatre de Seraphin, one of 20 copies with suite
Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Elaine and James D. Wolfensohn
Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 80
Dresser's beautifully illustrated work on the rollers
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $6,080
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 227
Marshall's Life of George Washington with an important annotation by James McHenry
Sold for $5,760
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 76
The expanded second edition of Buller's fine work on the birds of New Zealand
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $5,440
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 106
Wilson's great ornithology, the first domestically produced color-plate ornithology
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $5,440
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000
Lot 15
John Martin's illustrations for Paradise Lost in proof state
Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 104
George Ernest Shelley on the sun birds, with coloring by Lady Theodora Guest.
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 132
Moses Greenleaf's important and rare wall map of Maine
Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 166
The first edition of Dumas's The Black Tulip
Estate / Collection: Estate of Mary Ellin Barrett
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 263
The Brown v. Board of Education opinion signed by Chief Justice Earl Warren
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 65
The Audubon's definitive study of American four-footed wildlife
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $4,800
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 70
Anderson's Anatomical and Zoological Researches in Western Yunnan
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $4,800
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 79
Dresser's monograph of the Bee-eaters, with fine plates by Keulemans
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $4,800
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 101
With excellent hand-colored plates by Keulemans
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 247
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case, in original wrappers
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 45
Manuscript of William Hunter on the gravid uterus
Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 58
William Mudford's An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands in 1815...
Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 93
Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar et de ses Dépendances
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 234
History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 61
The Journal des dames et des modes, with extraordinary color plates
Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 82
Godman's Monograph of the Petrels, nicely bound
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 95
G. D. Rowley's Ornithological Miscellany, 1876-77
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 202
A scarce and fragile copy Gertrude Stein's second book
Estate / Collection: The Estate of Michael Feingold
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 236
The 1787 Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 259
First edition of Twain's landmark of American literature
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 316
Archive of Apollo-Suyuz, Skylab I-III, and the 1976 Tehran F.A.I. Conference
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 5
Shakespeare's King Lear from the 1632 Second Folio
Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 97
A sumptuous monograph of the birds of Central America
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 103
Philippine birds, with plates by Keulemans
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 168
Inscribed first edition of Ellison's Invisible Man
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 75
The Birds of New Zealand counted Charles Darwin among its subscribers
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 105
Stoliczka's Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission.
Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History
Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 149
Rockwell Kent's masterly illustrations to Melville's Moby Dick
Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 197
Milne's When We Were Very Young, signed by the author and with a Shepard letter
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 238
A 1796 edition of Washington's Farewell Address
Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection
Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000