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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Letter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companion Heading(African-American, 1817 – Tennessee slaves, Daniel Boone)AuthorPleasant HendersonHeadlineLetter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companionDate PublishedDec. 27, 1817 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #3 Ten vellum antiphonal leaves (i.e. five bifolia) with two inhabited initials and an elaborate title leaf Heading(Antiphonal Leaves)HeadlineLarge vellum antiphonal leavesDate Published1740 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #17 The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants - Volumes IV & V Heading(Botanical color plates)AuthorAndrews, Henry C.HeadlineTwo volumes from the Botanist's Repository 144 platesPublisherFor the author by T. BensleyDate Published1802-03 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #25 Letter from Miguel Costanzo to the Viceroy of New Spain, requesting arms for the cavalry corps of the northern provinces, plus a manuscript payment voucher for Costanzo AuthorCostanzo, MiguelHeadlineLetter from Miguel Costanzo to Viceroy of New SpainDate Published1810 & 1794 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #37 Letter from Albert Einstein expressing regret that he did not have time to contribute to a journal AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineAlbert Einstein letter signed 1927Date Published1 Sept. 1927 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #38 Letter from Albert Einstein to physicist, astronomer, and author Kenneth Heuer regarding distribution of heavy metals on the surface of Earth AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein commentson distribution of heavy metalsDate PublishedOctober 20, 1952 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #39 Small group of original signed letters from Albert Einstein to author Max Fishler, an important correspondence about Immanuel Kant and Relativity AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein letters about Kant and RelativityDate Published1949-1954 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$62,500StatusSold Lot #56 Autograph Letter, signed, and a sheet of manuscript musical notations AuthorHalévy, FromentalHeadlineFromental Halevy Letter and Musical ManuscriptDate PublishedOctober, 1849 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #57 Letter by American woman missionary, Maui, on anti-slavery, "adulterous" natives, and naval threat of French Catholicism Heading(Hawaii, 1840)AuthorMary Kittredge Clark [Mrs. Ephraim Clark]Headline1840 Hawaii letter by American woman missionary - anti-slavery and French Catholic threatDate PublishedJuly 12, 1840 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #58 Letter by anti-missionary British-Hawaiian 49er who acquired Sacramento land from John Sutter and later befriended King Kamehameha Heading(Hawaii, California Gold Rush, 1849)AuthorGeorge S.[eymour] KenwayHeadline1849 Hawaii Letter by an anti-missionary British merchant who visited Gold Rush CaliforniaDate PublishedOct. 11, 1849 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #67 Institutionum Civilium libri quatuor - manuscript copy AuthorJustinianus I, EmperorHeadlineManuscript copy of the Institutiones of Justinian IDate Published(17th Century?) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #72 Statutes of Venice - manuscript on vellum Heading(Law Manuscript - Venice, Italy, 1580)HeadlineRare manuscript statutes of Venice 1580Date Published1580 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 Manuscript notebook with 39 ink and watercolor drawings in illustration of 39 manuscript limericks AuthorLear, Edward, attrib.HeadlineManuscript Limericks & Drawings with Lear attbutionDate Published19th century View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff AuthorLeidesdorff, William AlexanderHeadlineAccounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44Date Published1843-1844 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 Tales of the Fish Patrol AuthorLondon, JackHeadlineInscribed by Jack London to his personal physicianPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1905 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #87 The Subjection of Women AuthorMill, John StuartHeadlineJohn Stuart on The Subjection of Women 1st EditionPublisherLongman, Green, Reader, and DyerDate Published1869 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #88 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineWritings of John Muir Manuscript Edition DeluxePublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #89 Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States AuthorNimmo, JosephHeadlineThe most important of the "Big Four" cattle booksPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1885 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #95 The Natural History of Animals, Containing the Anatomical Description of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Wherein The Construction, Fabrick and Genuine Use of the Parts, are Exactly and Finely Delineated in Copper Plates...To Which is Added an Account of the Measure of a Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth, Published by the Members of the Same Academy... AuthorPerrault, ClaudeHeadlinePerrault's Natural History of Animals 1702PublisherR. SmithDate Published1702 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #97 Archive of 26 manuscript letters signed by King Philip IV of Spain, to Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste, his Viceroy in New Spain, written from February 1651 to February 1653 AuthorPhilip IV, King of SpainHeadlinePhilip IV writes his Viceroy in New Spain 1651-1653Date Published1651-1653 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold Lot #109 Studies of Western Life by Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist. With Descriptions by Granville Stuart AuthorRussell, Charles M.HeadlineStudies of Western Life Charles M. Russell 1890PublisherThe Albertype Co.Date Published1890 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #111 Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described. First and Second Series. AuthorSander, Henry Frederick ConradHeadlineSander's Reichenbachia Imperial EditionPublisherH. Sotheran & Co. & F. Sander & Co.Date Published1888-1894 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #126 Opere di Galileo Galilei nobile fiorentino - signed by Allesandro Volta Heading(Volta, Allesandro)AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineVolta's copy of GalileoPublisherDalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani contrada del CappuccioDate Published1811 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #140 The Behâristân (Abode of Spring) by Jâmi Author[Burton, Richard F., translator]HeadlineThe Behâristân (Abode of Spring)PublisherKama Shastra SocietyDate Published1887 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #152 The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson AuthorDe Waal, Ronald BurtHeadlineDe Waal's Sherlock Holmes BibliographyPublisherNew York Graphic SocietyDate Published1974 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #154 Barnaby Rudge and Sketches by Boz AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadline2 volumes from The Nonesuch DickensPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1937-38 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #155 The Mill on the Floss AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadlineEliot's The Mill on the FlossPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1860 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #211 The Innocents Abroad AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineTwain's Innocents AbroadPublisherAmerican Pub. Co.Date Published1869 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$812.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next