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 38
The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier

Sold for $28,800
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000

Lot 143
The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner

Sold for $25,600
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000

Lot 218
The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray

Sold for $25,600
Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000

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 133
One of the rarest Manhattan maps

Sold for $20,480
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

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 41
A manuscript collection of homilies and sermons

Sold for $17,920
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 129
The top sheet of the famous Ratzer Map - with additions relating to an 1810 real estate dispute

Sold for $17,920
Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000

Lot 43
Charming small-format Book of Hours dated 1442

Sold for $14,080
Estimated at $6,000 - $9,000

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 57
An extensively extra-illustrated set with original watercolors from the library of Irving Berlin

Estate / Collection: Estate of Mary Ellin Barrett

Sold for $12,160
Estimated at $12,000 - $18,000

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 40
Manuscript book of homiles circa 1400

Sold for $10,240
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 328
A complete set of Verve

Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000

Lot 24
Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum

Sold for $8,320
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000

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 195
The signed limited first edition of The House at Pooh Corner

Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

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 148
A drawing for Rockwell Kent's Moby Dick

Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $300 - $500

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 171
A landmark Faulkner novel, in jacket

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000

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 296
John F. Kennedy White House used coffee table

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

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 107
Brass Planetary Orrery with Fitted Box

Sold for $4,800
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000

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 111
Hunting in the 1860s in the Punjab and Cashmere

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $400 - $600

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 304
A classic signed portrait of Churchill

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

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 160
A fine, signed copy in jacket

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 177
A fine copy of Fitzgerald's last collection of stories

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 182
A collection of Edward Gorey books and ephemera, most signed to Michael Feingold

Estate / Collection: The Estate of Michael Feingold

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 194
Winnie-The-Pooh, signed by Milne and Shepard

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 214
The rare limited edition signed by Edith Wharton

Estate / Collection: The Estate of Michael Feingold

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 219
First editions of four plays by Oscar Wilde

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

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 110
Henderson's India Game Diary 1905-1916.

Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 175
The first edition of Fitzgerald's masterpiece

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 211
The first edition of the first Mary Poppins book

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $500 - $800