Sale 672: Rare Americana, including California & the West (#672) 05/02/2019 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/02/2019 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 101-178 of 178. Previous|12|Next Lot #274 Manuscript list of announcements that were gave by Nicolas de la Cruz, “indio ladino pregonero” (an Indian who gave public announcements in the streets). Heading(Mexico)HeadlinePublic announcements in Puebla town square, 1711Date Published1711 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #275 Manuscript testament ("testamento y bienes") of Jose Sanchez Isquierdo, who died in 1790 Heading(Mexico)HeadlineColonial Mexican testament, 1791Date Published1790-1791 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #276 "Muerte de Indio Borracho" (Death of a drunk Indian) - court document Heading(Mexico)HeadlineGrandfather dies of drink in 1791 MexicoDate Published1791 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #277 Sumario de las gracias, indulgencias e indultos que la Santa Sede Apostólica concedió a la Cofradía de la Milagrosa Imagen de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, con el Título del Despojo, que se venera en su capilla del pueblo de Huamantla... Heading(Mexico)HeadlineBroadside of Mexican indulgences, 1821Date Published1821 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #278 Document from the Viceroy of New Spain, regarding the occupation by bandits of cattle lands belonging to a helpless widow Heading(Mexico)AuthorToledo y Salazar, Antonio de, Viceroy of New SpainHeadlineBandits invade Mexican widow's cattle lands, 1670Date Published1670 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #280 Ranch Life in Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory, as Told by a Novice. How a Fortune was Made in Cattle. AuthorMiller, Benjamin SHeadlineRanch Life in Indian Territory 1896PublisherFless & Ridge Printing CompanyDate Published1896 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #282 Memorial of Robert Mills Respecting a New Route to the Pacific Ocean, with a Plan for the Transportation of Despatches to Astoria in Fifteen Days AuthorMills, RobertHeadlineEarly map proposing a transcontinental routeDate Published1848 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #288 Roughing It In the Bush; or, Life in Canada AuthorMoodie, SusannaHeadlineMoodie, Roughing It In the BushPublisherDe Witt & DavenportDate Published[c 1852] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #289 Indian Wars of the United States, from the Discovery in the Present Time. With accounts of the orgin, manners, superstitions, &c. of the Aborigines. AuthorMoore, William V. [Frost, John]HeadlineIndian Wars of the United States, 1858PublisherLeary & GetzDate Published1858 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #296 Raised Relief Map of the White Mountains Heading(New Hampshire - Relief Map)HeadlineRaised Relief Map of White Mountains NH 1872PublisherPublished by Geo. K. Snow & BradeeDate Published1872 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #297 A Journal of the Proceedings of the Honorable House of Representatives for said State, at their Session begun and holden at Exeter, the first Wednesday of December, 1799. Heading(New Hampshire)HeadlineProceedings of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1799Date Published[1799] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #303 Letter from the Oklahoma Oil Wells Co. to a stockholder, with 4-page General Report to Stockholders Heading(Oklahoma - Oil)HeadlineOil in OklahomaDate Published1917 & 1918 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #304 Leasing of Grazing Lands in the Ponca, Otoe, and Missouria Indian Reservations, Okla. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to Resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1899, Copies of Documents, Correspondence, Reports and Papers Relating to the Leasing of Grazing Lands . . . Since the Commencement of the Year 1897. 56th Congress, 1st Session. Document No. 217 Heading(Oklahoma)AuthorHitchcock, E. A.HeadlineLeasing of Grazing Lands in Oklahoma Indian ReservationsDate Published1900 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #305 Reward Poster for Red Wine Bros. Hardware, 1905 Heading(Oklahoma)HeadlineReward Poster for Red Wine Bros. 1905PublisherRed Wine Bros.Date Published1905 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #307 The Construction of the Panama Canal by the United States Heading(Panama Canal)AuthorHaberkorn, Christian Henry Jr.HeadlineManuscript Economics thesis for Harvard grad, 1910Date Published1910 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #309 Beaver Run Hunting and Fishing Club of Pike County, Pennsylvania Heading(Pennsylvania)HeadlineBeaver Run Hunting and Fishing Club w/map 1906PublisherPress of the Germantown Independent-GazetteDate Published1906 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #314 Memorial Against Mr. Asa Whitney's Railroad Scheme AuthorPlumbe, JohnHeadlineAgainst Mr. Asa Whitney's Railroad Scheme 1851PublisherBuell & BlanchardDate Published[1851] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #315 WITHDRAWN - Pony Express Broadside Heading(Pony Express)HeadlineWITHDRAWN - Pony Express! broadside, 1861PublisherSlote & JanesDate Published1861 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #316 Payment note signed by Admiral David Dixon Porter AuthorPorter, David DixonHeadlinePayment note signed by Admiral David Dixon PorterDate Published1821 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #318 Letter from N.H. Swayne Heading(Presidents - Abraham Lincoln)AuthorSwayne, N.H.HeadlineLetter from N.H. Swayne, 1st Republican Supreme Court JusticeDate Published1845 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #320 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Heading(Presidents)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineMemoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885-86PublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-6 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #322 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Heading(Presidents)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineMemoirs of Ulysses S. GrantPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #323 WITHDRAWN - The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson - signed by Herbert Hoover Heading(Presidents)AuthorHoover, Herbert ClarkHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Herbert Hoover Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson Signed 1/500PublisherMcGraw-Hill Book Co.Date Published[1958] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #325 America's Lecacy [sic]: Being the Address of G. Washington, on his declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States Heading(Presidents)AuthorWashington, GeorgeHeadline"America's Lecacy" - Washington's Farewell AddressPublisherA. StoddardDate Published1797 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #326 Farewell Address - in Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont Almanack 1797 Heading(Presidents)Author[Washington, George]Headline1797 Almanack with early printing of Washington's Farewell AddressPublisherIsaiah ThomasDate Published1797 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #327 Complete set of Quivira Society Publications Heading(Quivira Society Publications)HeadlineQuivira Society Publications on Spanish SouthwestPublisherQuivira SocietyDate Published1929-1958 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #328 The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794 Heading(Quivira Society Publications)AuthorWagner, Henry R.HeadlineThe Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794PublisherQuivira SocietyDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #329 Supplement to the Report to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, on the Railways of the United States Heading(Railroads)AuthorGalton, DouglasHeadlineRailways of the United States, 1858PublisherPrinted by George Edward Eyre and William SpottiswoodeDate Published1858 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #330 "Great Rock Island Route": C.R.I. & P. Ry. through rates of fare from Chicago... Heading(Railroads)HeadlineRates on the Rock Island Railway 1886 with mapPublisherJ.M.W. Jones Stationery & Printing Co.Date Published1886 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #331 Holbrook's United States Railroad Guide and Steamboat Journal. 1850. August. No. 7 Heading(Railroads)HeadlineU.S. railroad guide 1850PublisherGeo R. Holbrook & CompanyDate Published1850 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #335 [1777-1780 German-Language Religious Manuscript owned by the Wheaton Family of New York City, mainly during the Revolutionary War Years]. Heading(Revolutionary War - New York City - Religious Manuscript)HeadlineRevolutionary War Era German-Language manuscript from New YorkDate Published[1777-1780; some later 19th century entries] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #336 Signed loan document, Pennslvania 1785 Heading(Revolutionary War)HeadlineSigned loan document, Pennsylvania 1785Date Published1785 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #337 The History of America AuthorRobertson, WilliamHeadlineThe History of America, 1778PublisherW. Strahan, et al.Date Published1778 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #338 The Overland Stage to California: Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean AuthorRoot, Frank A. and William Elsey ConnelleyHeadlineRoot, Overland Stage to California, 1901PublisherPublished by the AuthorsDate Published1901 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #339 Across America: or, The Great West and The Pacific Coast AuthorRusling, James F.HeadlineAcross America, 1st Ed. with folding mapPublisherSheldon & CompanyDate Published1874 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #342 The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter AuthorSemmes, RHeadlineThe Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, 1864PublisherCarletonDate Published1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #344 Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General United States Army AuthorSheridan, P.H.HeadlinePersonal Memoirs of P.H. SheridanPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1888 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #349 Collection of Sierra Club bulletins, 1907-1958 Heading(Sierra Club)HeadlineCollection of Sierra Club bulletins, 1907-1958PublisherThe Sierra ClubDate Published1907-1959 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #352 Report from the Secretary of War, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Report and Map of the Route from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Made by Lieutenant Simpson AuthorSimpson, James H.HeadlineRoute from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico 1850PublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #353 Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers AuthorSitgreaves, LorenzoHeadlineExpedition Down the Zuni & Colorado, 1854PublisherBeverly Tucker, Senate PrinterDate Published1854 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #363 Historical Nuggets: Bibliotheca Americana or a Descriptive Copy of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America AuthorStevens, HenryHeadlineBibliotheca Americana 1862PublisherWhittingham and WilkinsDate Published1862 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #365 The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart. AuthorStone, William L.HeadlineThe Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart., 1865PublisherJ. MunsellDate Published1865 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #368 The Resources and Attractions of Idaho Territory. Facts Regarding Climate, Soil, Minerals, Agricultural and Grazing Lands, Forests, Scenery, Game and Fish.. AuthorStrahorn, Robert E.HeadlineResources of Idaho w/folding map 1881Publisher[Omaha Republican Print]Date Published1881 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #369 Studer's Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America: Drawn and Colored from Life by Theodore Jasper, M.D AuthorStuder, Jacob H.HeadlineStuder's Birds with chromolithograph plates 1881PublisherJacob H. Studer & Co.Date Published1881 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #378 Three volumes on mapping Texas and the Southwest Heading(Texas and the Southwest)HeadlineThree volumes on mapping Texas and the SouthwestDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #381 The Evolution of a State Or Recollections of Old Texas Days Heading(Texas)AuthorSmithwick, NoahHeadlineRecollections of Old Texas Days by SmithwickPublisherGammel Book CompanyDate Published[1900] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #385 Counter display and trade catalog for M. Born & Company, Tailors, 1938-39 Autumn & Winter Seasons Heading(Trade Catalogs)AuthorBorn, MosesHeadlineCounter display for fine woolen tailor's samplesPublisherM. BornDate Published1938-39 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #389 Naval Aviation Training Schools, Pensacola, Fla: Ground School Course, Volume I Heading(U.S. Navy)AuthorUnited States Navy DepartmentHeadlineNaval Aviation Training Schools Ground School Course 1925PublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1925 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #390 Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twelfth Congress Heading(United States)HeadlineActs Passed at the First Session of the Twelfth CongressDate Published1811 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #391 The Letter of Amerigo Vespucci, Describing His Four Voyages to the New World, 1497-1504 AuthorVespucci, AmerigoHeadlineLetter of Amerigo Vespucci, 1926PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1926 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #392 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee Trading Cards Heading(Victorian Trading Cards)HeadlineArbuckle's Ariosa Coffee Trading Cards, c.1890PublisherArbuckle Bros.Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #394 Emergency Edition of the National Intelligencer, September 9, 1814 Heading(War of 1812)HeadlineEmergency Edition of the National Intelligencer, 1814Date Published1814 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #395 The Vision of Liberty: Recited Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University. August 26, 1824 AuthorWare, Henry, Jr.HeadlinePoem on the Vision of LibertyPublisherOliver EverettDate Published1824 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #396 Fidalgo Island, Washington Territory, 1872 Heading(Washington - Fidalgo Island)HeadlineRare blueprint map of Fidalgo Island Washington 1872Date Published1872 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #397 Chronological List of Engagements Between the Regular Army of the United States and Various Tribes of Hostile Indians Which Occurred During the Years 1790-1898, Inclusive AuthorWebb, George W.HeadlineIndian wars chronology with laid in letterPublisherWing Printing & Pub. Co.Date Published1939 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #398 Three Years' Wanderings of a Connecticut Yankee, in South America, Africa, Australia, and California, with Descriptions of the Several Countries, Manners, Customs and Conditions of the People, Including Miners, Natives, Etc. Also, a Detailed Account of a Voyage Around the World... AuthorWelles, C. M.HeadlineThree Years' Wanderings of a Connecticut Yankee, 1st Ed.PublisherAmerican Subscription Publishing HouseDate Published1859 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #399 Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank of San Francisco Code Book. No. 272 Heading(Wells, Fargo)HeadlineRare Wells Fargo code bookDate Published[c.1900-1910] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #403 Memorial of A. Whitney, Praying a grant of public land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific ocean AuthorWhitney, AsaHeadlineAsa Whitney's proposal for a railroad to the PacificDate Published1846 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #405 Appletons' New and Complete United States Guide Book for Travellers. AuthorWilliams, W.HeadlineUnited States Guide Book for Travellers, 1854PublisherD. Appleton & Co.Date Published1854 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #409 The Construction, Operation and Repair of the "Type R" Kite Balloon Heading(World War I)AuthorAeronautical Department of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyHeadlineWWI "Type R" Kite Balloon manualDate Published1918 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #410 Handbook of Aircraft Armament Heading(World War i)AuthorBureau of Aircraft Production Air Service, U.S. ArmyHeadlineWWI Handbook of Aircraft Armament w/foldout plansPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1918 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #411 Second Army Air Service Book Heading(World War I)AuthorLaw Hugo B., editorHeadlineSecond Army Air Service Book 1919Date Published1919 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #412 Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41 Notice to Persons of Japanese Ancestry About San Francisco Evacuation Heading(World War II - Japanese Exclusion Order)HeadlineInstructions for internment of Japanese Americans during WWIIDate Published1942 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #414 U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87): Ship's Diary Heading(World War II)AuthorWilson, Willard J.HeadlineOriginal handwritten diary kept aboard the U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87) View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #417 Constitution Of The Proposed State Of Wyoming: Adopted In Convention At Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 30, 1889 Heading(Wyoming)HeadlineConstitution of the proposed State of WyomingPublisherCheyenne Leader Printing CompanyDate Published1889 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #421 Heaven the Residence of the Saints. A Sermon Occasioned by the Sudden and Much Lamented Death of the Reverend George Whitefield, A.M. Heading(American Imprints)AuthorPemberton, EbenezerHeadlineDr. Pemberton's Discourse 1770PublisherD. Kneeland for Joseph EdwardsDate Published1770 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #430 Broadside advertising Auction of Homestead in Nelson, New Hampshire Heading(Civil War)HeadlineHomestead auction benefitting Civil War Casualty's HeirsDate Published1863 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #431 The Opinions of the Judge and the Colonel as to the Vast REsources of Colorado Heading(Colorado)HeadlineThe Judge and the Colonel discuss ColoradoPublisherPassenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R.Date Published1895 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #434 Supplies for Mine and Mill, Machine Shop Saw & Planing Mill AuthorHarron, Rickard & McConeHeadlineSupplies for Mine and Mill 1904PublisherHarron, Rickard & McConeDate Published1904 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #439 Original stationery from Rockwell Kent's failed congressional campaign Heading(Kent, Rockwell)Headline1948 stationery of Rockwell Kent' s only political campaignDate Published1948 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #440 The Lone Fish-Ball in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1855 AuthorLane, George MartinHeadlineGeorge Martin Lane Lone Fish-Ball 1855PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1855 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #441 The Daily American Heading(Newspaper)HeadlineApril 6, 1882 Daily AmericanDate PublishedApril 6, 1882 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #443 Ode. Adams and Liberty. Written for and Sung at the 4th Anniversary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society 1798 AuthorPayne, Robert TreatHeadlinePatriotic Ode Resurrected for the Civil WarPublisherRoss & TouseyDate Published[ca. 1860] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #444 WITHDRAWN - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Heading(Presidents)AuthorNixon, Richard M.HeadlineWITHDRAWN - Richard Nixon Memoirs signedPublisherGrosset & DunlapDate Published[1978] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #445 WITHDRAWN - Noticias de la Antigua California: Sacadas del Vol. XXI de los Mss. Archivo General AuthorRamírez, José FernandoHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Scarce study of California IndiansPublisherVargas ReaDate Published1950 [but 1953?] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #447 Freedom in Kansas. Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States March 3, 1858 AuthorSeward, William H.HeadlineSigned William Seward speech about Freedom in KansasPublisherBuell & Blanchard PrintersDate Published1858 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #454 WWI "Enlist Today" broadside Heading(World War I)HeadlineWWI enlistment broadsidePublisherEllis PrintDate Published[c.1918] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #455 Fifteen volumes on ornithology Heading(Ornithology)HeadlineFifteen volumes on ornithologyDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next