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Lot 1
Bonne's unadorned, yet practical and detailed, map of South America

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Estimated at $50 - $70

Lot 3
A finely colored example of Blaeu's map of Asia

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

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

Lot 4
Braun and Hogenberg's view of sixteenth-century Istanbul

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 5
Braun and Hogenberg Constantinople

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $1,088
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 6
Braun and Hogenberg's bird's eye view of the medieval Flemish city of Bruges

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $160
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 7
A print of the "Dauphin Royale," a galley dedicated to the prince of France, the future Louis XV

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $115
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 8
An English postal map of Italy

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

Sold for $352
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 9
Two views of Turkey on a single sheet, showing Constantinople and the Dardanelles

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $704
Estimated at $500 - $700

Lot 10
The Ottoman Empire in the late seventeenth century, on the eve of the Great Turkish War

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $416
Estimated at $300 - $400

Lot 11
A group of six finely hand-colored eighteenth-century celestial maps

Estate / Collection: Estate of Mary Ellin Barrett

Sold for $960
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 12
Homann's map of the Bosphorus Strait, with a large bird's eye view of Constantinople

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $416
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 13
Homann's map of Russia, Ukraine, and the area around the Black Sea

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 14
Homann's decorative map and bird's eye view of Amsterdam

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $416
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 15
Homann's map of the Russian empire

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $288
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 16
A double-portrait frontispiece of the celebrated mapmakers Jodocus Hondius and Gerard Mercator

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $416
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 17
Lapie's map of Italy in Antiquity

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $38
Estimated at $20 - $40

Lot 18
Moll's decorative and informative map of the Ottoman Empire

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $960
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 20
A finely colored example of Ortelius' map of Europe

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $576
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 21
Ortelius' map of Celtic Europe

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $384
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 22
A decorative map of England by Ortelius

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $288
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 24
A map of the Holy Land, showing the path of the Israelites during and after their exodus from Egypt

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $300 - $400

Lot 25
Ortelieus' map of Asia

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 26
Ortelius' historical map of antique "Magna Graecia," present-day Southern Italy

Estate / Collection: Property from a Greenwich Residence

Sold for $256
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 27
Ortelius' classical map of Alexander the Great's conquests, from Macedonia to India

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $448
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 28
Three bird's eye views of cities - Constantinople, Amsterdam, and Ragusa

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $90
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 29
A Ptolemaic map of Asia Minor, showing Turkey and part of Cyprus

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $352
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 30
A view of Constantinople Nuremberg Chronicle

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $115
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 31
Seutter's map of the Black Sea, with a inset map of the Bosphorous Strait

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $160
Estimated at $250 - $350

Lot 32
Speed's carte-à-figures of France

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $576
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 33
Speed's map of the Roman Empire

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $832
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 34
Speed's decorative map of Persia

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 35
Speed's decorative map of the Ottoman Empire

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 36
A detailed French map showing the area from the Arabian Peninsula to India

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $38
Estimated at $40 - $60

Lot 38
An English edition of D'Anville's atlas of ancient geography

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $96
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 39
An early 19th-century world atlas by one of Britain's greatest mapmakers, Aaron Arrowsmith

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $256
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 40
A group of mostly nineteenth-century classical and school atlases

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 41
A group of seven 18th and 19th-century atlases and geographies

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $768
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 42
Jansson's decorative map of seventeenth-century Mexico

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $352
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 43
A German map published during the American Revolution

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

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 47
A plan of Fort Fisher

Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 50
An attractive survey map of property belonging to B. H. Folger in the West Village

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $544
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 51
A survey of the early NYC Mayor James Duane's farm, now Gramercy Park

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $480
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 52
An 1820s survey of William Bayard's land in Chelsea, showing the grid as it began to take shape

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $544
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 53
Manuscript survey map of Tribeca, showing the Saint John's Burial Ground

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $384
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 54
A rare separately published map of the Lower East Side

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $448
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 55
An early public works proposal for a boat basin and an extension to NYC's first sewer

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 56
An 1859 survey of an important Bowery theatre, made shortly after it caught fire

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $320
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 57
A Holmes map of Delancey's farm, now part of Chinatown and the Lower East Side

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $576
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 58
A John Bute Holmes map of Chelsea, including the Clement C. Moore estate

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $512
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 59
Two copies of a late 18th-century survey map of land in Soho on Broadway, Mercer, and Greene Streets

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 60
An 1825 survey map showing property between Jane and West 12th Streets in the West Village

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $224
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 61
A rare printed map and three manuscript surveys of Clement C. Moore's estate in NYC's Chelsea

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $544
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 62
Lands owned by Henry Rutgers

Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

Sold for $128
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 63
A shelf of Americana

Sold for $768
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 64
Americana Group of Letters, Notes, Maps, Manuscripts etc.

Estate / Collection: The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 65
King’s Views of New York Stock Exchange

Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Elaine and James D. Wolfensohn

Sold for $352
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 67
Two editions of The Charter of the City of New York.

Estate / Collection: Estate of Leo Hershkowitz

Sold for $416
Estimated at $60 - $80

Lot 72
Henry George's important economic work Progress and Poverty

Sold for $2,432
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 73
An early nineteenth-century guide to Boston, with distances between towns and landmarks

Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Elaine and James D. Wolfensohn

Sold for $192
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 74
Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, 1801

Sold for $640
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 76
Abraham Lincoln at Antietam

Sold for $128
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 77
Seeking peace in the War of 1812

Sold for $26
Estimated at $40 - $60

Lot 78
An attractive, early example of chromolithography, made for returning Civil War Volunteers

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $416
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 79
Davy Crockett's autobiography (or maybe not)!

Sold for $768
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 80
Black Hawk and Scenes in the West

Sold for $38
Estimated at $20 - $30

Lot 81
A group of 18th and 19th century pamphlets relating to the Revolutionary War

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $288
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 82
An uncommon Carlisle imprint

Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 83
A miscellany of American autographs

Sold for $704
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 86
John Adams on War

Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

Lot 87
Letter signed by Calvin Coolidge

Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 90
Appointment signed by Lincoln and Stanton

Sold for $6,080
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000

Lot 93
James Polk appoints an officer to Captain

Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 94
A signed CDV by General George Gordon Meade

Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200