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Lot 1
Ernest "Phineas" Thayer's Casey at the Bat

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

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

Lot 2
Chess Eccentricities

Sold for $640
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 4
Two works on British fisheries

Sold for $512
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 6
The Charles Ernest Fay Archive: The Foundations of American Alpinism

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

The Property of a New England Family

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 8
Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary

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

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 12
The Photographic History of the Civil War

Sold for $544
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 13
A Confederate ballot for an uncontested election

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 15
Three economics pamphlets of American interest

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $600 - $900

Lot 16
Franklin's edition of Johnson's Elementa philosophica

Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 17
Alexander Hamilton defends Freedom of the Press.

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 20
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $640
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 22
The influential Lincoln/Douglas Debates

Sold for $448
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 24
Copy number 1 finely bound by Zaehnsdorf

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

Lot 25
Abraham Lincoln's important Cooper Union Address

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

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

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

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

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 32
The genesis of The Star-Spangled Banner

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 37
The Tiffany engraved invitation to the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge

Property from the Founder of a Brooklyn Department Store

Sold for $768
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 41
Three works on Texas

Sold for $768
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 44
Almon's edition of the trial of John Peter Zenger

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 45
Printed by John Peter Zenger

Selections from a Chevy Chase, MD Collector

Sold for $832
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 46
Two signed limited editions by Richard Byrd

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

Lot 47
Album of pith paintings of occupations

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 48
A beautiful work on Peking street pedlars

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

Lot 51
Light's voyage to Egypt and the Holy Land

Sold for $384
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 52
Two major works on early African travels

Sold for $608
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 53
Hunting adventures in Scandinavia

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

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

Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

Sold for $384
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 60
A fine example of a mid-nineteenth-century French school atlas

An Upper East Side Map Collector

Sold for $448
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 61
A German map published during the American Revolution

Property from the Collection of John J. Caliolo

Sold for $320
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 65
Turgot's monumental bird's eye view map of Paris

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $6,000 - $9,000

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

Property from the Estate of Elaine and James D. Wolfensohn

Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 69
A rare 17th-century silver pocket sundial by Pierre Sevin

Sold for $2,176
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 70
A rare 3 1/2 inch pocket globe by Smith

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000

Lot 75
An attractive set of Blackstone's Commentaries

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 80
Two works on the South Sea Bubble

Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 82
An early edition of Hannah Glasse's great cookbook

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 86
The rules of Whist, signed by Hoyle

Sold for $288
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 90
John Locke refutes the Bishop of Worcester

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

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

Lot 95
Indian manuscript with superb miniatures

Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 96
John Martin's illustrations for Paradise Lost

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