Lot 1
Ernest "Phineas" Thayer's Casey at the Bat
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 3
Skues' classic work on fishing chalk streams with wet flies
Sold for $768
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 5
An association copy of Mochi's beautifully illustrated work on hoofed mammals
Sold for $128
Estimated at $100 - $150
Lot 6
The Charles Ernest Fay Archive: The Foundations of American Alpinism
Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family
Sold for $8,320
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 7
A collection of 19th-century photographs of the Canadian Rockies and Pacific Northwest
Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family
Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 8
Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $448
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 9
An American Flag Carried to the moon on Apollo 12
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 10
The story of 1948, an important election year, as told by “The Washington Star’s” cartoonists
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Estimated at $250 - $350
Lot 11
A Lizzie Borden scrapbook, filled with newspaper clippings about her trial
Sold for $416
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 13
A Confederate ballot for an uncontested election
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 14
First edition of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case
Sold for $544
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 16
Franklin's edition of Johnson's Elementa philosophica
Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 19
An English traveler's "Petulant view of U.S. life" in the early nineteenth century (Howes)
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 20
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $640
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 23
A Carte-de-visite portrait of Lincoln in a framed display with a Memorial Ribbon
Sold for $320
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 25
Abraham Lincoln's important Cooper Union Address
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $448
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 26
Beardless Lincoln at the gym – a political cartoon about the presidential campaigns of 1860
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $896
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 27
Rare broadside advertising the sale of Abraham Lincoln's birthplace in Kentucky
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $128
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 28
An unusual "wallpaper" example of the 1864 Lincoln and Johnson Ohio Union Presidential Ticket
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 29
The first official printing of the Emancipation Proclamation for the Union Army
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 31
Twelve issues of the earliest American illustrated comic periodical, "Galaxy of Comicalities"
Sold for $640
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 32
The genesis of The Star-Spangled Banner
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 34
A detailed account of the earliest days of the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 35
A comedic look at crime in early nineteenth-century New York City
Sold for $480
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 37
The Tiffany engraved invitation to the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
Estate / Collection: Property from the Founder of a Brooklyn Department Store
Sold for $768
Estimated at $200 - $300
Lot 38
A Civil War Era Album of Cartes de Visite, featuring many of Barnum's Celebrities
Sold for $2,432
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 39
A classic on the fur trade, a bright copy in original cloth
Sold for $448
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 43
The first edition of Weld's account of his travels through the early United States and Canada
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 44
Almon's edition of the trial of John Peter Zenger
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 45
Printed by John Peter Zenger
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $832
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 49
John Thomson's masterpiece of documentary photography of China
Sold for $10,880
Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000
Lot 50
The fine Nova Pacifica facsimile of The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 54
First edition of Mungo Park's expedition into the unexplored interior of Africa
Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 56
A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 57
Volumes in original boards from The World in Miniature
Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 58
An unusual French double-hemisphere world map
Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector
Sold for $384
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 59
A finely colored map of the southern stars from Cellarius' celebrated celestial atlas
Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 60
A fine example of a mid-nineteenth-century French school atlas
Estate / Collection: An Upper East Side Map Collector
Sold for $448
Estimated at $200 - $300
Lot 61
A German map published during the American Revolution
Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of John J. Caliolo
Sold for $320
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 63
A rare and early broadside map of the Battle of Bunker Hill
Sold for $16,640
Estimated at $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 64
John Speed's carte à figures of Scotland, with portraits of King James I and his family
Estate / Collection: Estate of Clarice Borio
Sold for $640
Estimated at $500 - $700
Lot 66
Cary's 21-Inch "New and Improved Celestial Globe"
Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 67
A pair of Regency 15-inch library globes by Cary
Estate / Collection: Property from the Estate of Elaine and James D. Wolfensohn
Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 68
A collection of ten pocket-sized instruments for navigation and timekeeping
Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 69
A rare 17th-century silver pocket sundial by Pierre Sevin
Sold for $2,176
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 71
Cary's up-to-date 3-inch pocket globe, showing the tracks of Captain Cook's voyages
Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 72
A fine late-18th-century pocket globe, based on one by Herman Moll
Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 73
Mogg's paper globe, an early 19th-century toy for teaching children geography and astronomy
Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 74
The source of Aldus Manutius' dolphin and anchor printer's device
Sold for $512
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 75
An attractive set of Blackstone's Commentaries
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 76
Blackstone's work on Magna Carta and related charters
Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 77
A rare and interesting collection of information on natural history
Sold for $2,176
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 78
An early illustrated edition of Robinson Crusoe, with additional proof plates
Sold for $608
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 79
A rare controversial work on the English East-India-Company
Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 81
First edition of Evelyn's memoirs, finely bound and with forty extra-illustrated plates
Sold for $704
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 82
An early edition of Hannah Glasse's great cookbook
Estate / Collection: Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector
Sold for $480
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 83
Graevius's magnificent book on the splendors of Venice
Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 84
Groenewegen's rare and delightful views of Dutch coastal vessels
Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 87
A rare play satirizing Hoyle and contemporary publishing practices
Sold for $448
Estimated at $700 - $1,000
Lot 88
The first English edition of Le Moyne's illustrated work on important women throughout history
Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 91
Locke's letters to William Molyneux, Philipp van Limborch and others
Sold for $576
Estimated at $400 - $600
Lot 92
An interesting group of leaves from early printed books
Sold for $512
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 93
The 1675 English translation of the works of Machiavelli
Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 94
The second English edition of Machiavelli's Discourses
Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $800 - $1,200