An upstate auction of antique furniture and rugs that belonged to disgraced Upper East Side gallery giant Lawrence Salander raised $472,067 Sunday to help repay creditors.

It also revealed a little-known side of him.

“He had a compulsion to collect,” said Rebecca Hoffmann, an auctioneer at Stair Galleries in Hudson, which hosted the sale. “It’s very interesting and sad.”

The nearly 250-lot auction was the first sale of Salander property since the art dealer pleaded guilty in March to grand larceny and fraud.

Salander, 60, was ordered to pay restitution of $120 million and faces up to 18 years in prison.

Both he and his Salander-O’Reilly Galleries declared bankruptcy in November 2007.

Yesterday’s auction was of the contents of Salander’s Upper East Side townhouse, including 60 rugs and carpets — a fraction of what Salander owned — plus 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American and European bookcases, credenzas, chairs, sofas, chandeliers and decorative arts.

Richard Eagan, a Hudson antiques dealer, said dealers turned out en masse for the three-hour sale because Salander was known as a big spender with a sharp eye.

“Everyone knows that Salander paid enormous sums of money, so you’re buying for considerably less than he spent,” he said.