Lot 738
An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler's unpublished drafts of fantasy stories

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Estimated at $60,000 - $80,000

Lot 649
The first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus

Sold for $70,350
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 793
A manuscript leaf from the first draft of "Atlas Shrugged"

Sold for $32,000
Estimated at $30,000 - $50,000

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 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 764
Ernest Hemingway's first book with interesting provenance

Estimated at $20,000 - $30,000

Lot 765
Hemingway's second book, one of 170 copies

Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000

Lot 754
T.S. Eliot inscribes The Waste Land to a young Harvard man

Sold for $15,360
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

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 675
The true first edition of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, an inscribed copy

Sold for $14,080
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

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 679
John Maynard Keynes on The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Sold for $10,880
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 525
A manuscript overland narrative

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

Lot 693
The original typed manuscript for Chandler's only opera

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

Lot 794
An remarkable inscribed copy of Atlas Shrugged

Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 737
Raymond Chandler's Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $9,600
Estimated at $10,000 - $20,000

Lot 588
A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization

Estimated at $7,000 - $10,000

Lot 591
The fourth edition of Audubon's Birds

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

Lot 644
A leaf from Richard II from each of the first four folios

Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 646
Ferrari's Hesperides, with superb plates of fruit

Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 611
Beardsley's Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japan vellum

Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 797
A rare early edition of Frankenstein

Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 616
George Braque's illustrations for Apollinaire

Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 677
A finely bound set of the works of Charles Darwin

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 757
A landmark Faulkner novel, in jacket

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 773
Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $10,000 - $20,000

Lot 614
An immaculate set signed by Kipling and with original watercolors

Estate / Collection: The Collection of an International Multi-generational Family

Sold for $5,440
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 748
A first edition set in cloth of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Sold for $5,440
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 532
A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House reconstruction

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

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 571
A very scarce 1596 issue of Raleigh's discovery of Guiana

Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 582
The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

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

Lot 619
Two drawings by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects

Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 626
A manuscript children's book by Nanno Freerk de Groot

Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 657
The Great Mirror of Folly, with superb plates

Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 700
A large group of books inscribed between Cissy and Raymond Chandler

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

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

Lot 714
A charming group of items relating to the dog Grunion and the cat Carmichael

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 796
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

Estate / Collection: The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 659
Defoe on Stockjobbing

Sold for $4,800
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 687
Raymond Chandler's copy of the first English edition of Farewell, My Lovely

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

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

Lot 694
A fine association between Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

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

Lot 706
An exceptional letter from John Steinbeck to Raymond Chandler acknowledging his talent as a writer

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $4,800
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

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 690
Chandler mentions Humphrey Bogart and The Big Sleep

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 736
Chandler's final novel, inscribed to the dedicatee's son

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 751
Charles Dickens sends a signed CDV-eventually!

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $400 - $600

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

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

Lot 515
The rare first and only lifetime edition of Franklin's writings

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

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 606
A superb copy of Claude Lorrain's Liber Veritatis, from Longleat House

Estate / Collection: The Collection of Eldo Netto

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 680
John Maynard Keynes on The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 708
John Steinbeck responds to Cannery Row being banned in a school

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

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

Lot 800
Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, one of 99 signed copies

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

Lot 809
An inscribed copy of Wolfe's first book

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 533
Eisenhower to Mamie during the War: "How glad I'll be when this is over."

Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

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 577
A complete set of Phlllips's modern and contemporary voyages and travels

Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 650
Carew on the improvement of English manufacturing, 1674

Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 721
An unknown copy of a recently discovered Chandler story

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 761
Ten inscribed or signed Frost works

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

Lot 629
A drawing for Rockwell Kent's Moby Dick

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 631
Milne's When We Were Very Young, signed by the author and with a Shepard letter

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 670
MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 685
A signed score card from chess legend Bobby Fisher

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 755
Two books inscribed by T.S. Eliot

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 807
Inscribed by Vonnegut with a self-portrait drawing

Sold for $3,520
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 627
The deluxe edition of the Beardsley Morte Darthur

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 628
The great Rockwell Kent Moby Dick

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

Lot 671
The first American edition of Johnson's Dictionary, scarce in original boards

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 692
A group of items relating to Raymond Chandler’s youth and family

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 698
Chandler's cocktail muddlers and Bartender's Guide with notes on the Gimlet

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 524
The best reference on the subject

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

Lot 636
Inscribed by J.K. Rowling

Estate / Collection: From a Private New York Collector

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

Lot 699
Eighteen volumes from Raymond Chandler's library

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 742
Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange in an exemplary dust jacket

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $600 - $900

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

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

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 572
The first edition of Raleigh's apology for his last Guiana voyage

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

Lot 576
Groenewegen's rare and delightful views of Dutch coastal vessels

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 583
Contemporary newspaper accounts relating to the sinking of Titanic

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 668
Smith's Wealth of Nations in original boards

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 673
A group of works by Stanley Jevons

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

Lot 752
Arthur Conan Doyle on Oscar Wilde, Spiritualism, fairies and hell

Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 760
The first edition of Fitzgerald's masterpiece

Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 766
Hemingway's first novel, in jacket

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 769
The first edition of Hemingway's bullfighting classic

Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 783
Call of the Wild in dust jacket

Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 799
John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, in the original wrappers

Sold for $2,560
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

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 683
A large archive of performance notes and letters from Marlene Dietrich to her choreographer

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

Lot 705
The Edgar Allan Poe Award presented to Raymond Chandler in 1946

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

Sold for $2,432
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

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 557
Ortelius' important map of the Americas

Estate / Collection: Estate of Clarice Borio

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

Lot 586
A fine panorama of Hong Kong

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

Lot 676
Henry George's important economic work Progress and Poverty

Sold for $2,304
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500