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Books and Manuscripts (290)

 

Lot 97
A group of volumes signed by Presidents

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 98
Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor

Sold for $352
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 99
Autograph letters from Eleanor Roosevelt

Sold for $512
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 101
A cabinet card signed by General Philip Sheridan

Sold for $608
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 103
Four remarkable World War II logbooks

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $1,500 - $3,000

Lot 105
Signed as both Clemens and Twain

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 106
Printed discharge document signed by Washington

Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000

Lot 107
A quotation from De Lesseps

Sold for $896
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 108
Original signed manuscript for Franck's Nocturne, 1884

Sold for $832
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 109
Document signed by George III

Sold for $352
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 114
Superb illuminated leaf from a vernacular Dutch prayer book

Estate / Collection: The Alan and Marion Oliner Collection

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

Lot 116
Two illustrated leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 117
Two illustrated leaves, including the martyrdom of John The Evangelist, from a printed Book of Hours

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $608
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 118
Portraits of sixty-five French Kings, from Faramond, the first king of the Franks, to Louis XIV

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $128
Estimated at $60 - $80

Lot 121
An English Bible with the owner's name on the clasps

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 124
A well-bound Luneburg Bible dated 1707

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 125
Three early works of antiquarian interest

Sold for $320
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 127
Two volumes bound for Simon St. Antonin, 1780s.

Sold for $384
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 131
Benjamin Godwin on slavery

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 132
A monumental set of Napoleon's correspondence

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 134
The first English edition on Aegidius on tobacco

Sold for $960
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 135
Works on the diseases of hot climates

Sold for $1,088
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 136
Best edition of Boerhaave's Methodus

Sold for $128
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 137
An American medicine group

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 138
Four American works on medicine

Sold for $288
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 139
A group of works on anatomy and medicine

Sold for $832
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 140
Two classic works on neuropathology

Sold for $768
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 141
Six volumes of manuscripts on medicine

Sold for $768
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 143
William Harvey's Anatomical Exercises of 1673

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 144
Hunter's treatise on venereal disease

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 146
A collection of Materia Medica and related works

Sold for $768
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 147
Early 18th century medical manuscript

Sold for $480
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 148
Two works by Morgagni

Sold for $1,088
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 152
Seven works on fevers, scurvy, cholera and cancer

Sold for $544
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 154
Remains of a collection of medical books

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 155
Group on worms and parasites

Sold for $448
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 156
The Rare Birds of China by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, with an original watercolor

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

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

Lot 157
Remains of a Natural History Collection

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 158
Seven offprints and museum publications of exotic zoology

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

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

Lot 159
The Birds of Alaska, Kennicott’s memorial volume

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

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

Lot 160
With attractive heliotype plates capturing the design of turtle shells

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $576
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 161
Baird's North American Birds, with fine color plates

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $2,176
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 162
Baird, S. F. The Water Birds of North America.

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $160
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 163
Baird, S. F. The Water Birds of North America.

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 164
William Blanford's account of Eastern Persia

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 165
Blanford's Eastern Persia, with the Keulemans plates

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 166
Five works on American birds

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $600

Lot 167
The Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

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

Lot 168
Crawshay's The Birds of Tierra del Fuego.

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $352
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 169
Crawshay's The Birds of Tierra del Fuego.

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $320
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 170
The Birds of Devon and Sussex

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 171
The Natural History of New York, including Birds

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 172
Four works on insects

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 173
The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 174
With maps, plates, and a large folding panorama of Santiago

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $77
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 175
With color plates of butterflies

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $160
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 176
Group of Government published works on American Natural History / United States.

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 177
Thirteen parts of The Ibis

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 178
J. G. Keulemans Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $544
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 180
Layard and Sharpe's The Birds of South Africa

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 181
The definitive work on British birds and their eggs, nicely bound

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $224
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 182
Robinson's A Flying Trip to the Tropics

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 183
An account of an ornithologist's trip to Curacao and Columbia, with chromolithographs

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 184
Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 185
Seebohm on Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

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

Lot 186
Shelley's Handbook to the Birds of Egypt

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $768
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 188
Two works on shipwrecks

Sold for $960
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 191
Two color-plate works on travel

Sold for $544
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 192
Heyl's views of Bermuda

Sold for $448
Estimated at $200 - $300