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Lot 97
Five works on mathematics

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 98
A well-bound miscellany

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 99
The second edition of Montaigne in English

Sold for $960
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,000

Lot 101
Three works pertaining to maritime trade etc.

Sold for $448
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 103
Ahoy, Matey! An early and classic account of pirates

Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 106
Elegantly inscribed by the great French chemist

Sold for $640
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 107
The first edition of Pepys' Memoirs

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

Lot 109
Leaves from each of the four folios of Shakespeare

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 110
Boydell's great Shakespeare in nine volumes

Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 111
Richard Short on the perils of drinking water

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 112
The fourth edition of Spenser's Shepheards Calendar

Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 114
A rare large-paper copy in 18th-century morocco

Sold for $576
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 116
Three items signed or initialed by Keynes

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

Lot 117
An interesting collection of John Maynard Keynes

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

Lot 118
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 121
The first work to openly call for prohibition

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 124
Comedian Lenny Bruce's uncommon autobiography

Estate / Collection: The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $115
Estimated at $100 - $150

Lot 125
Signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Sold for $544
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 129
Dickens looks for a school for his sons

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 130
Three cartes des visite of Charles Dickens

Sold for $384
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 132
Charles Dickens records the death of his daughter Dora

Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 137
The signed limited edition of Faulkner's Pylon

Sold for $640
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 139
Inscribed by Graham Greene "after many drinks"?

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

Lot 141
Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts

Sold for $608
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 142
Inscription from Frank Harris within volume II of the banned first edition of My Life and Loves

Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $128
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 143
Four of Hearn's Japanese Fairy Tales

Estate / Collection: Property from the Founder of a Brooklyn Department Store

Sold for $512
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 146
Washington Irving's signed copy

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

Lot 148
An early portion of Finnegan's Wake, signed by Joyce

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

Lot 151
The first edition of The Call of the Wild

Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 155
Shaw inscribes his book with a great title

Sold for $544
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 157
A signed limited edition from John Steinbeck

Sold for $960
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 159
A rare wartime impression of Tolkien's The Hobbit

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

Lot 160
Two signed notes by Mark Twain, framed together

Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 164
First edition of the Audubon Quadrupeds

Sold for $5,760
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 166
A Complete Set of Banks' Florilegium

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

Lot 168
The Birds of New York

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 169
Rare Birds of China by Frederick Lansdowne, with an original watercolor

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

Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $3,000 - $4,000

Lot 172
Group of classic color-plate aquatint books

Sold for $704
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 174
The Ackermann edition of Gerning's Rhine views

Sold for $384
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 175
Well-bound set of Ireland's Life of Napoleon

Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 177
An attractive copy of Papworth's London

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

Lot 178
Pyne's The Costume of Great Britain

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

Lot 179
A unique finely-bound set of Brinkley

Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 180
Winston S. Churchill's The Second World War

Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 181
A striking set of Art Deco bindings

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

Lot 182
An exceptionally deluxe set of Dickens

Sold for $23,040
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 183
Two finely bound sets in limited editions

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 189
With an original manuscript leaf from Thoreau's Journals

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000

Lot 190
Bound for Marie Feodorovna, the Czarina

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 191
Bound for Czarina Marie Feodorovna of Russia

Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 192
Bound for the Czarina

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $800 - $1,200