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Lot 1
Clutch of five sauropod eggs

Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $1,500 - $3,000

Lot 2
A very large ammonite with fern-like sutures

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

Lot 4
A postincunable treatise on law with striking illustrations

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 5
Dante's works, profusely illustrated

The Tina Hills Collection

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000

Lot 6
A complete set of the first Aldine edition of Livy

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Estimated at $6,000 - $9,000

Lot 7
An Aldine collection of classical geography, handsomely bound

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $768
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 8
The first Aldine edition of Herodian's Roman History with early annotations in Greek and Latin

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $1,088
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 9
A controversial Counter-Reformation commentary

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $480
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 10
An important work on Venetian art, in dialect

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

Lot 11
A Testina edition of Machiavelli's Opere

Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 12
A facsimile of the Codex Resta in Milan's Ambrosiana Library

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $256
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 14
The first edition of Doni's I Marmi, with manuscript binder's waste

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $608
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 15
The first edition of Catullus with Muret's commentary

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $288
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 16
Jerome, printed in Basel, expurgated in Lima

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

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

Lot 17
Paul Manutius's pocket edition of Tibullus

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $288
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 18
Several works by Paolo Giovio, including one in red vellum

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

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

Lot 19
A popular history of Roman emperors in an unusual pastiche binding

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $416
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 20
A Renaissance historian illustrates ancient funerals

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $576
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 21
An important edition of Arrianus on Alexander the Great

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $832
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 22
Caesar's Commentaries, illustrated by Palladio

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $1,152
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 23
A nice copy of Plutarch's lives in French

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $448
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 24
Cicero's letters in a contemporary binding with manuscript waste

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $512
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 25
The editio princeps in Greek of Onosander's Strategikos

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

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

Lot 26
Ancient portraiture, illustrated, in a handsome contemporary binding

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $500 - $750

Lot 28
Three Elzevir publications on Venice

Sold for $320
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 29
The first English book on entomology

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

Lot 30
A scarce Italian edition of Vitruvius

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 31
An important collection of lives of Venetian painters

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

Lot 32
Giovan Battista Nani's History of Venice

Sold for $384
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 36
Bidloo's anatomy in the vernacular

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

Lot 40
A handsome set of Ovid's works with ducal provenance

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $384
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 43
Sanuel Johnson's Rambler

Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 44
The great Diderot Encyclopedia

Property from Historic Hudson Valley

Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000

Lot 45
100 superb color plates after Ledermüller

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

Lot 48
Baskerville's De rerum natura

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $768
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 49
Swinburne's Travels through Spain, an uncut copy

The Tina Hills Collection

Sold for $512
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 50
A popular 18th century mathematics work, with a volvelle

The Property of a New England Family

Sold for $448
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 51
The Whole Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by Charles Clarke

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $704
Estimated at $100 - $150

Lot 52
The first American edition of Josephus

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $832
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 53
John Hassell's Tour of the Isle of Wight

Sold for $160
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 55
A popular guide to Venetian art

Sold for $288
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 56
An interesting late 18th-early 19th century English commonplace book devoted to architecture

Collection of Vanguard Records founder and Beethoven biographer Maynard Solomon

Sold for $544
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 60
The first biography of Beethoven, printed months after his death

Collection of Vanguard Records founder and Beethoven biographer Maynard Solomon

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 62
An antiquarian miscellany, including The History of Ten Years

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 63
Eighteen volumes of plaster casts from the Grand Tour

Sold for $9,600
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 65
Peepshow perspective view of the Crystal Palace

Sold for $640
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 66
Buffon's works with fine hand-colored plates

Sold for $512
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 67
In a fine presentation binding

Sold for $544
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 68
Three 19th century French illustrated works

Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 69
A decorative album of seaweed specimens

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

Lot 70
The works of Antonio Canova, with attractive full-page plates

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $352
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 71
WATERHOUSE, G.R. Catalogue of the Mammalia...

Sold for $352
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 72
Two classic color plate works by Gilbert Abbott Beckett

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $512
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 73
Twelve miscellaneous volumes on Italian history and literature

Property sold to benefit Albertus Magnus High School

Sold for $115
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 74
Peter Newell's classic Hole Book

Sold for $115
Estimated at $50 - $80

Lot 75
An early work on dogs and hunting

Sold for $416
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 76
Blaine on the Anatomy of The Horse

Sold for $1,152
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 77
The rare Lyon edition

Sold for $640
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 80
Small group of early books on the horse

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 81
The first edition of Gibson on the horse

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 83
Grisone's riding manual of 1590

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 84
A scarce veterinarian work on the horse

Sold for $640
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 85
The Ecole de cavalerie of De La Gueriniere

Sold for $512
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 87
An important anatomy of the horse

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

Lot 88
An early Paris edition of Rusio's book on the horse

Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 89
A rare early veterinarian manual for horses

Sold for $960
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 90
The first English book on the anatomy of the horse

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 91
Le Parfait Mareschal

Sold for $544
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 93
George Stubbs on the anatomy of the horse

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

Lot 96
A Book of Hours of Rouen with eight miniatures

The Estate of a Larchmont, New York Collector

Sold for $25,600
Estimated at $30,000 - $45,000