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Lot 505
An American autograph miscellany

Estate / Collection: The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $512
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 508
Two rare early Los Angeles city directories

Sold for $544
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 509
A Civil War-era CDV album with Lincoln and Grant

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 510
A large group of Civil War-era and related maps

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 514
Franklin's edition of Johnson's Elementa philosophica

Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 516
John Hancock appoints a Justice of the Peace in Revolutionary Boston

Estate / Collection: The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 518
A dollhouse owned by the Kennedy Family

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 520
A signed photograph of Andrew W. Mellon

Sold for $256
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 521
The colonial laws of New York

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 524
The best reference on the subject

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 525
A manuscript overland narrative

Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 529
Presentation copy to John Quincy Adams

Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 531
A large hand-colored engraving of Zachary Taylor

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 534
A war-date letter from General Eisenhower to Mamie

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

Lot 537
A rare petition in defense of a Shay's Rebellion leader sentenced to death

Estate / Collection: The Sharon Blaisedell Casdin Collection

Sold for $2,304
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 539
Important maps and plates of Texas in 1850

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 542
Berlinghieri's early map of Asia

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000

Lot 543
An important early map of the Arabian Peninsula from the 1486 Ulm Ptolemy

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $28,800
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000

Lot 544
Blaeu's carte à figures of Africa, among the most decorative and popular maps of the continent

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

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

Lot 545
Ortelius' maps of Egypt, Carthage, and Asia Minor

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 546
Halley's chart of the English Channel, the first map to feature the directions and times of tides

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $384
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 547
Braun and Hogenberg's classic sixteenth-century bird's eye view of London

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 548
A rare four-sheet map of France, with an allegorical cartouche showing the French King

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $896
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 549
De L’isle's elegant map of Europe dated 1700

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $256
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 550
Blaeu's decorative carte a figures of Europe

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

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

Lot 551
Mercator's stunning map of China, including Korea, Japan, and part of Alaska

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 552
Braun and Hogenberg's 16th-century view of Moscow

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

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

Lot 553
Braun and Hogenberg's view of the 1574 siege of the Spanish forces at Tunis by the Ottoman Empire

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $320
Estimated at $60 - $80

Lot 554
A fine 17th century view of Mexico City

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $160
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 555
A color-printed panorama of mid-nineteenth-century Constantinople

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $480
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 556
Munster's early map of North and South America - the first to show both continents

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

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

Lot 557
Ortelius' important map of the Americas

Estate / Collection: Estate of Clarice Borio

Sold for $2,304
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000

Lot 558
An early 18th-century map of the Americas, with California as an island

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

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

Lot 559
Tanner's scarce grand-scale map of North America

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 560
An important French map of North America, with Quebec and Louisiana shown in detail

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 561
A map of North America from a notable American atlas

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 562
Two nineteenth-century American folding maps

Sold for $896
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 563
A large woodcut Japanese world map

Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 564
A finely colored example of Visscher's double hemisphere world map, with a figured border

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $14,080
Estimated at $12,000 - $18,000

Lot 565
"The first of many world maps with richly decorated borders" (Shirley)

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $11,520
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 566
Senex's 1721 world map, with California as an island

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 567
An unusual French double-hemisphere world map

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 568
A fine English double-hemispheric map of the world on two sheets

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $320
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 569
A finely colored example of De Wit's classic world map

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $2,432
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 570
Homann's decorative map of the world, with illustrations of natural phenomena

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 573
The 1677 Life of Sir Walter Raleigh

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 574
The source of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

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

Lot 575
The first edition, first issue of Anson's voyage

Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 578
A Rajah travels to the Far East

Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 579
Two documents signed by Napoleon

Estate / Collection: The Estate of Margot Gibis

Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 581
A letter from the exiled Empress Eugenie, written in England soon after the Franco-Prussian War

Estate / Collection: The Estate of a European Collector

Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 582
The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 584
A Complete Set of Banks' Florilegium

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

Estimated at $20,000 - $30,000

Lot 585
The Rare Birds of China by Frederick Lansdowne, with an original drawing

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

Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 586
A fine panorama of Hong Kong

Sold for $2,304
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 590
Watts The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry 1779

Sold for $288
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 591
The fourth edition of Audubon's Birds

Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

Lot 592
Thirteen parts of The Ibis

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $384
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 593
Group of Government published works on American Natural History

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $448
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 594
Four works on insects

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $320
Estimated at $300 - $400

Lot 595
The Natural History of New York, including Birds

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $480
Estimated at $400 - $500

Lot 596
Baker's Indian Ducks and their Allies

Estate / Collection: The Ken Harte Collection of Natural History

Sold for $384
Estimated at $600 - $900