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Previous|12|Next Lot #101 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Origin of Species, 2nd editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #102 A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon AuthorDixon, GeorgeHeadlineRound the world to the Northwest coast, 1789PublisherPublished by Geo. GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #103 Letter from Moritz Schlick to Albert Einstein, addressing topics relating to modern physics Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorSchlick, MoritzHeadlineLetter to Einstein from Moritz Schlick about physicsDate PublishedJune 9, 1920 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #104 Autograph note signed by Albert Einstein, with an envelope addressed by him and a birthday poem written for him AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein note as he turns 75Date Published1954 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 The Waste Land AuthorEliot, T. S.HeadlineFirst edition of Eliot's Waste LandDate Published1922 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #106 A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia AuthorElliott, StephenHeadlineElliott's Sketch of the Botany of SC and GA, 1821-24PublisherJ.R. SchenckDate Published1821, 1824 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #107 Psalterium Davidis - emblem book with copper-engraved scenes from Genesis and the New Testament Heading(Emblem Books)HeadlineEmblem book with engraved Biblical scenesDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #108 Essays AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Essays, 1841 1st edition in original clothPublisherJames Munroe and CompanyDate Published1841 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #109 Sixteen midcentury erotic and bondage photographs of a young Chinese or Chinese-American woman Heading(Erotica)HeadlineMidcentury bondage photos from a US chinatownDate Published[1950's or early 1960's?] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #110 El viagero universal, o noticia del mundo antiguo y nuevo... Tomo XXVI AuthorEstala, PedroHeadlineEarly accounts of California & Nootka incident, 1799PublisherImprenta de VillapandoDate Published1799 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #111 [Elements, i.e.] The English Euclide, being the First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements, by Edmund Scarburgh, M.A. AuthorEuclidHeadlineHandsomely printed Euclid's Elements, 1705PublisherPrinted at the TheaterDate Published1705 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #112 Requiem for a Nun AuthorFaulkner, WilliamHeadlineSigned by William Faulkner, 1/750PublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1951] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #113 Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character...as told to Ralph Leighton AuthorFeynman, Richard PhillipsHeadlineSigned by Nobel Prize winner Richard P. FeynmanPublisherW.W. NortonDate Published[1985] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #114 Mountain Lake, Florida: A private park of thirty-five hundred acres, in the beautiful ridge and lake country, with residential club-house and eighteen-hole golf course Heading(Florida)HeadlinePrivate golf course community in FloridaPublisher[Mountain Lake Corporation]Date Published[c.1929] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #115 Letter from Sigmund Freud to a colleague about a prospective female patient, stating she is not a good candidate for psychoanalysis AuthorFreud, SigmundHeadlineLetter from Sigmund Freud with reference to Carl JungDate PublishedJune 8, 1910 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #116 Sinai and Palestine AuthorFrith, FrancisHeadlineFrith's Sinai & Palestine with 37 mounted photographsPublisherWilliam MackenzieDate Published[1862 or later] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #117 Nine Chains to the Moon AuthorFuller, R. BuckminsterHeadlineInscribed copy of Buckminster Fuller's 1st bookPublisherJ.B. Lippincott CompanyDate Published[1938] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #118 Original ink (or color pencil?) drawing of a geodesic polyhedron, basis for his most famous creation, the geodesic dome - inscribed and signed by Buckminster Fuller AuthorFuller, R. BuckminsterHeadlineDrawing of geodesic grid by R. Buckminster FullerDate PublishedSeptember 7, 1980 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #119 My Disillusionment in Russia AuthorGoldman, EmmaHeadlineSigned by Red Emma to an anarchist comradePublisherDoubleday, Page & CompanyDate Published1923 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #120 Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical AuthorGray, HenryHeadlineGray's Anatomy, 1st American EditionPublisherBlanchard and LeaDate Published1859 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #121 Ejecutoria de Don Ramón Zazo y Ortega - patent of nobility Heading(Heraldry)HeadlineHand-colored patent of nobility from 18th c. SpainDate Published[1777] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #122 Mein Kampf: Eine Abrechnung AuthorHitler, AdolfHeadlineHitler's Mein Kampf, 2 volumes, 1st editionPublisherFranz EherDate Published1925 & 1927 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #123 Fuck the System Author[Hoffman, Abbie]HeadlineAbbie Hoffman's F**k the SystemPublisher[Self-published]Date Published[1967] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #124 Les Miserables AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineLes Miserables with Victor Hugo ALSPublisherGeorge Routledge & SonsDate Published1886 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #125 The Life Work of Dard Hunter: A Progressive Illustrated Assemblage of his Works as Artist, Craftsman, Author, Papermaker, and Printer AuthorHunter, Dard IIHeadlineThe Life Work of Dard Hunter, 1/150PublisherMountain House PressDate Published1981;1983 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #126 Facsimiles of Choice Examples Selected from Illumination Manuscripts, Unpublished Drawings and Illustrated Books of Early Date Heading(Illumination)HeadlineQuaritch's facsimiles of illumination finely boundPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1889-1892 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #127 Archive of 37 incunabula leaves from different 15th century books Heading(Incunabula)HeadlineArchive of 37 incunable leaves, 1470-1500Date Published1470-1500 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #128 Isocratis Orationes omnes, quae quidem ad Nostram Aetatem Pervenervunt, Vna Et Viginti Nvmero, Vna Cvm Novem eiusdem Epistolis, e Graeco in Latinum conuersae, per Hieronymvm VVolfivm Oetingsem... AuthorIsocratesHeadlineWolf's translation of Isocrates, 1548PublisherPer Ioannem Oporinum.Date Published1548 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #129 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Author[Johnson, Samuel]HeadlineJohnson's Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1775 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #130 The Sundering Flood Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineKelmscott Sundering Flood with hand-illuminationsPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1897 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #131 The Poems of William Shakespeare Printed after the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover's Complaint Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineKelmscott printing of Shakespeare's PoemsPublisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1893] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #132 A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California by the "University Excursion Party" AuthorLeConte, JosephHeadlineLe Conte's Ramblings with original photographsPublisherFrancis & ValentineDate Published1875 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #133 Suite of 24 hand-colored mezzotints designed and engraved by John Martin for the 1827 two-volume edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost AuthorMartin, JohnHeadlineJohn Martin's mezzotints for Paradise Lost in large formatPublisherSeptimus ProwettDate Published1825-1827 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #134 Architectural rendering of the floor and lot plan of a Christian Science church in Atlantic City, New Jersey AuthorMüller, Bernhardt E., architectHeadlineDesign by Bernhardt Muller for Christian Science churchDate Publishedc.1920-30 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #135 Bound volume of eight Novenas printed in Mexico, 1774 to 1886 Heading(Mexico)HeadlineNovenas printed in Mexico, 1774 to 1886Date Published1774-1886 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #136 Letter written from Bisbee, Arizona, describing the Battle of Naco during the Mexican Revolution Heading(Mexico)Author"Dave"HeadlineAccount of battle in Mexican RevolutionDate PublishedApril 14, 1913 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #137 Relacion Historica de la Fundacion de este Convento Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Compañía de María llamada vulgarmente la Enseñanza en esta ciudad de México, y compendio de la vida y virtudes de n.m.r.m. Maria Ignacia Azlor y Echeverz, su fundadora y patrona... Heading(Mexico)HeadlineLife of founder of Mexican convent, 1793PublisherPor Don Felipe de Zúñiga y OntiverosDate Published1793 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #138 The Mountains of California AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineDawson's copy inscribed by MuirPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1894 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #139 Manuscript book of musical lines, notes, and lyrics from various short songs and tunes Heading(Music - 18th century manuscript American tune book)AuthorGifford, IsaacHeadlineAmerican manuscript music book 1797Date Published1797 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #140 Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake: Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd & Samson Agonistes Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineNonesuch MIlton with Blake illustrations, 1/90PublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1926 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #141 Scrapbook of original photographs, halftones, color views, newspaper & magazine clippings, typed commentary, and more, on the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco Heading(Panama Pacific International Exposition)HeadlineMarvelous P.P.I.E. scrapbookDate Publishedc.1915 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #142 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #143 An Essay on Man. Address'd to a Friend. Part I [with] An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend Author[Pope, Alexander]HeadlineAlexander Pope's An Essay on Man, 1733-34PublisherJ. WilfordDate Published[1733-34] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #144 Absconditorum a constitutione mundi clavis, qua mens humana tam in divinis quam in humanis pertinget ad interiora velminis aeternae veritatis AuthorPostel, GuillaumeHeadlinePostel's Absconditorum, 1547 first editionPublisher[apud Joann. Oporinum]Date Published[1547] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$2,437.50StatusSold Lot #145 The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore AuthorPyne, William HenryHeadlinePyne's Royal Residences on large paperPublisherPrinted for A. DryDate Published1819 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #146 Twelve Funny Little Travelers Heading(Quilts)HeadlineTwelve Funny Little Travelers quiltDate Published19th Century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #147 Southern Pacific Company Division Maps (cover title) Heading(Railroad Maps)HeadlineScarce atlas of Southern Pacific Railroad mapsPublisherSouthern Pacific Co.Date PublishedMarch, 1938 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #148 Egypt and Nubia from Drawings Made on the Spot... AuthorRoberts, DavidHeadlineFolio edition of Roberts' Egypt & NubiaPublisherF.G. MoonDate Published1846-49 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #149 The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia AuthorRoberts, DavidHeadlineFolio edition of Roberts' The Holy LandPublisherF.G. MoonDate Published1842-49 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #150 Sketchbook of Lewis Carleton Ryan AuthorRyan, Lewis CarletonHeadline1942 sketchbook of original drawings by Lewis C. RyanDate Published1942 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #151 History of San Bernardino County, California, with Illustrations, Descriptive of Its Scenery, Farms, Residences, Public Buildings, Factories, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, etc., from Original Drawings, including Biographical Sketches [and] Historical Reminiscences of San Diego County, California Heading(San Bernardino County)AuthorElliott, Wallace W., publisherHeadlineRare illustrated history of San Bernardino County 1883PublisherWallace W. Elliott & Co.Date Published1883 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #152 Kupfer-Bibel: in welcher Die Physica Sacra, Oder Beheiligte Naturwissenschafft Derer in Heil. Schrifft Vorkommenden Natürlichen Sachen, Deutlich Erklärt und Bewährt AuthorScheuchzer, Johann JakobHeadlineScheuchzer's Kupfer-Bibel/Physica Sacra, 1731-35PublisherGedruckt bey C.U. WagnerDate Published1731-5 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #153 Letter from Heinrich Schliemann regarding his Mycenian artifacts and excavations in Thermopylae AuthorSchliemann, HeinrichHeadlineLetter from Troy discoverer Heinrich SchliemannDate Published26 January 1883 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #154 The Comedie of Errors AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Comedie of Errors 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #155 Measure for Measure AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Measure for Measure 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #156 The Sportsman's Dude Ranch Map Heading(Sportsman's...)AuthorBlakeman, T.G.HeadlinePictorial map of Dude Ranches of the WestPublisherThe Sportsman Publishing Co.Date Published1934 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #157 The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman AuthorSterne, LaurenceHeadlineTrustam Shandy with Laurence Stern's signatures, 1760-1767PublisherR. & J. Dodsley/ T. Becket & P.A. DehontDate Published1760-1767 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #158 Taber: Pacific Coast Views [cover title] - a custom-made view book of San Francisco businesses, people, schools, hotels, and places of interest along the Pacific Coast AuthorTaber, Isaiah WestHeadlineIsaiah West Taber commercial photo albumPublisherI.W. TaberDate Published[c. 1890] View details Estimate$80,000 - $120,000Sold for$50,000StatusSold Lot #159 Letter from Nikola Tesla to William T. Schley about a photograph to be taken of an "apparatus" AuthorTesla, NikolaHeadlineLetter from Nikola TeslaDate PublishedMay 20, 1896 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #160 Appointment of Daniel Brinsmade as a first lieutenant in the Continental Army, signed by Jonathan Trumbull as Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America AuthorTrumbull, JonathanHeadlineContinental Army appointment signed by Jonathan Trumble 1776Date PublishedJune 10, 1776 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #161 Autograph manuscript fragment, single leaf written in ink on one side, the entry for the word "Admonish" with a lengthy etymological analysis AuthorWebster, NoahHeadlineNoah Webster ms. leaf from his dictionaryDate Publishedbefore 1828 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #162 Letter from Walt Whitman, inviting the unnamed correspondent to visit him AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineAutograph letter signed by Walt WhitmanDate PublishedSept. 22 [no year] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #163 The Yosemite Book; a Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California AuthorWhitney, Josiah DwightHeadlineYosemite Book with C.E. Watkins photographsPublisherPublished by Authority of the LegislatureDate Published1868 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #164 Posters from Whittington, 1996 - 2013 Heading(Whittington Press)AuthorRandle, John and Patrick, editorsHeadlinePosters from Whittington, 1996 - 2013PublisherWhittington PressDate Published2013 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #165 A Book of Posters printed at Whittington Heading(Whittington Press)AuthorRandle, John, editorHeadlinePosters Printed at Whittington, 1/50PublisherWhittington PressDate Published[1996] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #166 Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism Author[Wilson, William (Bill W.)]HeadlineWilson, Alcoholics Anonymous 1st Ed. 10th Ptg. djPublisherWorks Publishing Inc.Date Published1946 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #167 Envelope hand-addressed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, to Moritz Schlick AuthorWittgenstein, LudwigHeadlineWittgenstein writes to Moritz Schlick in BerkeleyDate Published1931 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #168 Ranch House for Mr. & Mrs. Randall Fawcett. Taliesin West WH57101. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect AuthorWright, Frank LloydHeadlineFrank Lloyd Wright designs ranch house in Los Banos, Cal.Date Publishedc.1955 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next