Sale 518: Fine Americana - African American History - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views (#518) 10/24/2013 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 10/24/2013 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 518 138 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-59 of 59. Previous|1|Next Lot #16 Oration of Colonel E.D. Baker Over the Dead Body of Broderick AuthorBaker, E[dward] D.HeadlineOration of E.D. Baker for David BroderickDate Published[1859] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #21 Speech of Hon. D.C. Broderick of California, Against the Admission of Kansas Under the Lecompton Constitution AuthorBroderick, David C.HeadlineDavid Broderick against the admission of KansasPublisherLemuel TowersDate Published1858 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #23 Bruce's Convention Guide: Populist Munipical Convention, 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, 1894 AuthorBruce, [Donald]HeadlineBruce's Convention Guide 1894 Populist Municipal ConvDate PublishedJuly 31, 1894 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #25 Insurance document for $4,000 for a school building in Angels, Calaveras County, California - issued by the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company Heading(California - Calaveras County)HeadlineInsurance document for a school building in Calaveras Co., CADate PublishedJuly 12, 1900 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #27 By-Laws of the Newcastle Fruit Growers' Association of Newcastle, Placer Co., California Upon date of February 10, 1912 Heading(California - Placer County)HeadlineNewcastle, Placer Co. Calif Fruit Growers' Assoc. by-lawsDate Published1912 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #28 Clover Heights - promotional brochure Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineClover Heights promotional folding brochure scarce!Publisher[Anglo American Land Company]Date Published[c.1915] View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #33 Architecture of Allen & Young Heading(California - Stockton)AuthorAllen, Glenn & Chas. H. Young, ArchitectsHeadlineAllen & Young Stockton, CA architecture booklet, c.1927Date Published[c.1927] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #34 Index Registration, City of Vallejo Solano County. General Election, November 6, 1906 Heading(California - Vallejo)AuthorHalliday, G.G., County ClerkHeadlineVoter registration index, city of Vallejo 1906PublisherChronicle PrintDate Published1906 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #35 Two investment brochures for land in the Westwood Village, a suburb of Los Angeles Heading(California - Westwood Hills, Los Angeles)AuthorJanss Investment CorporationHeadlineRare promotional map/brochure for Westwood VillageDate Publishedc.1931 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #37 Special Provisions Proposal and Contract for Constructing a Portion of State Highway in Monterey County [and] Placer and Nevada Counties - two state highway contracts Heading(California Highways)AuthorState of California, Department of Public Works, Division of HighwaysHeadlineCA State Highway construction 1931 in MontereyPublisherCalifornia State Printing Office, Harry Hammond, State PrinterDate Published1931 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #38 Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Conference of California Historical Societies. Monterey, California June 24 - 25, 1955 Heading(California Historical Societies)AuthorWood, Richard Coke, editorHeadlineProceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting CA HistoricalPublisherCollege of the PacificDate Published1955 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #39 Bulletin Announcement of the Fresno Meeting of the California Teachers' Association at Fresno, December 26-29, 1906 Heading(California Teachers' Association)HeadlineFresno Meeting of CA Teachers' Assoc 1906PublisherPress of Fresno RepublicanDate PublishedNovember, 1906 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #40 Address by the Committee of Fifty to the People Heading(California)HeadlineAddress by the Committe of FiftyDate Published[1882?] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #41 The California Land Show: An Exposition of the Land of California and its Resources Heading(California)HeadlineThe 1917 California Land ShowDate Published1917 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #42 California Resorts Open All Year Round (wrapper title) Heading(California)HeadlineGuide to the attractions of California 1896PublisherCouthern Pacific Co.Date Published[1896] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #43 Cambria Development Company, owners and developers Cambria Pines By-the Sea. Heading(California)HeadlineRare promotional flier for Cambria Pines, Cal.PublisherCambria Development CompanyDate Published1930 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #44 Frauds in Lands in California. Decision of Secretary of Interior. Resolution of Assembly of California Legislature...Senate Bill No. 805, and House Bill No. 3364, identical, proposing to confirm illegal Indemnity School Selections in California. Protest of State Land Commission. Petition of a Thousand Citizens of Los Angeles Valley, California, and Facts Heading(California)HeadlineFrauds in Lands in California 1876Date Published1876 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #45 In semi-tropical California. [Where to go and how to get there...] Heading(California)HeadlineScarce Southen Pacific promotional bookletPublisherSouthern Pacific CompanyDate Published1894 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #46 Journal of the Senate of the State of California; At Their First Session, Begun and Held at Puebla de San Jose [bound with] Journal of the House Assembly of the State of California... Heading(California)HeadlineFirst sessions of the California Senate and HousePublisherJ. WinchesterDate Published1850 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #47 WITHDRAWNJournals of the Proceedings of the 17th [through 26th] Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of California, Assembled in Grace Church, San Francisco Heading(California)HeadlineProtestant Episcopal Church in San Franicsco 1867-76Date Published1867-1876 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #48 Journals of the Proceedings of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California. 1850-1888 Heading(California)HeadlineThe Episcopal Church in CaliforniaDate Published1850-1888 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Proceedings of the Union State Convention, Held at Sacramento, on the 17th, 18th and 19th Days of June, 1863 Heading(California)HeadlineProceedings of the Union State Convention 1863PublisherFrank EastmanDate Published1863 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #50 Special Catalina Excursions. The One-Day Trip Covering Round-trip, Los Angeles to Catalina and return...also ride on Glass Bottom Boat and Luncheon at Atwater Cafeteria... $4½ - Broadside Heading(Catalina Excursions)HeadlineRare Catalina Excursion broadside from 1920sPublisherWilmington Trans. Co.Date Publishedc.1920s View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #56 Langley's San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing May, 1887 Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorCorran, W.H.L., compilerHeadline1887 San Francisco directoryPublisherFrancis, Valentine & Co.Date Published1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #57 The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing March, 1873. Embracing a general directory of residents and a business directory... Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorLangley, Henry G., compilerHeadlineLangley's San Francisco Directory for 1873PublisherHenry G. LangleyDate Published1873 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #82 The Open Letter - Volume 1, Number 1 of this Northern California political newspaper AuthorEllis, W.R., editorHeadlineVol. 1, No. 1 of The Open Letter - CA political paperDate PublishedMarch 21, 1927 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #86 Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California...To Which is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State. By Hon. George C. Gorham AuthorField, Stephen J.HeadlineReminiscences of Early Days in CaliforniaPublisher"Printed for a Few Friend, Not Published"Date Published[1893] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #88 Original panoramic photograph of the Golden Gate International Exposistion Administration Staff, 1940 Heading(Golden Gate International Exposition)HeadlineGGIE panoramic photo of the staff 1940Date Published1940 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #98 Doniphan's Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan's Campaign Against the Navajos; His Unparalleled March Upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the Operations of General Price at Santa Fé: with a Sketch of the Life of Col. Doniphan AuthorHughes, John T.HeadlineRare account of Doniphan's ExpeditionPublisherU.P. JamesDate Published[1847, but later] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #104 Barbariana: or Scenery, Climate, Soils and Social Condition of Santa Barbara City and County, California AuthorJackson, Rev. A.W.HeadlineRare Santa Barbara promotional tractPublisherC.A. Murdock & Co.Date Published1888 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #107 Correspondence on the Subject of Appraisements, &c. Between T. Butler King, Collector, and J. Vincent Browne, Appraiser, Custom House, San Francisco, California. With the Opinion Thereon of One of the General Appraisers, and the Secretary of the Treasury. AuthorKing, T. Butler & J. Vincent BrowneHeadlineButler & Browne on the SF Custom House FireDate Published1852 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #119 Incident in the War of the United States with Mexico, Illustrating the Services of Wm. Maxwell Wood, Surgeon, U.S.N. in Effecting the Acquisition of California AuthorMcWhorter, George CummingHeadlineService of Wm. Maxwell Wood in the War with MexicoPublisherSherwood & Co.'s Steam PressDate Published[c.1872] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #121 United States Bureau of Mines - Fifteen Information Circulars, plus one report of investigation in February, 1930 Heading(Mining)AuthorDepartment of Commerce, Bureau of MinesHeadlineUS Bureau of Mines, Information Circulars 19301-37Date Published1930-1937 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #125 Albumen photo-montage with cdv-size portraits of 36 prominent members of the Hall Associetion of the Native Sons of the Golden West, with the president of the Association, James D. Phelan, at the center Heading(Native Sons of the Golden West)HeadlinePhoto-montage of Cal. Native SonsPublisherElite PhotoDate Published1896 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #130 See Southern California by Trolley via the Special-Arranged Trolley Trips through the Sunny Scenic Southland Old Mission-Balloon Route Trolley Trip $1.00 - Broadside Heading(Pacific Electric Railway)Headline1920 broadside for Southern California Balloon TrolleyPublisherPacific Electric RailwayDate Published1920 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #152 First Annual Municipal Art Exhibition by Bay Region Artists - original program Heading(San Francisco Arts Commission)AuthorKeil, Edward D., PresidentHeadlineProgram for the 1946 First Annual SF Municipal Art ShowDate PublishedOctober 17-20, 1946 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #153 San Francisco. A selection of sixty-four engravings of representative views Heading(San Francisco)AuthorDe Witt, Frederic M.HeadlineView book of Old San FranciscoPublisherF.M. De WittDate Published[c.1890] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #154 Regular New Constitution Party. State and City & County Ticket. City and County of San Francisco. Tenth Senatorial District - rare 1879 political ticket Heading(San Francisco)Headline1879 political ticket for the New Constitution PartyDate Published[1879] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #155 San Francisco Subway. Double Traffic Paved Vehicular Driveway Below Tidewater Level Heading(San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco SubwayPublisherCalifornia State Printing OfficeDate Published1923 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #156 The San Joaquin Valley of the State of California: A brief description of the topography, climatic conditions, industrial development and resources of the region; illustrated by photographs of typical scenes and containing maps Heading(San Joaquin Valley)HeadlineLand drained by San Joaquin River of CaliforniaPublisherPassenger Department of the Santa FeDate Published1902 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #158 Semitropic California [cover title] Headlinec.1900 Southern Pacific travel guide Southern Calif.Publisher[Southern Pacific?]Date Published[c.1900] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #159 Report of argument made by William J. Shaw, before the Supreme Court of the state of California, Stephen J. Field, chief justice, Jos. G. Baldwin, W.W. Cope, associate justices, in the case of Hart (Jesse D. Carr) vs. Burnett et al., (involving the validity of Peter Smith titles, and the question of titles in the old missions and villages of California.) Delivered at Sacramento, on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 12th of December, 1859. Reported by Charles A. Sumner Heading(California)AuthorShaw, William J., et al.HeadlineWilliam J. Shaw before the Supreme Court of CaliforniaPublisherPublished by appellantsDate Published1859 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #165 First Annual Report to the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company Chartered by the State of Texas Heading(Southern Pacific Railroad)HeadlineFirst Annual Report on the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.PublisherAmerican Railroad Journal OfficeDate Published1856 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #168 The Grape Districts of California AuthorStoll, H.F.HeadlineGrape Districts of California 1931PublisherH.F. StollDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$112.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #169 Open Letter to the President of the United States, The Secretary of the interior, The Members of Congress, and the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. Author[Stuart, James F.]HeadlineMilpitas Grand Land Title CasePublisherBacon & CompanyDate Published[c.1878] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #171 Pioneers of the Sacramento: A Group of Letters by & about Johann Augustus Sutter, James W. Marshall, & John Bidwell AuthorSutter, Johann Augustus, et al.HeadlinePioneers of Sacramento One of 400 copies Colt PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1953 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #174 Commercial Art Company: Original Designs for Office Stationery Heading(Trade Card Trade Catalogue)HeadlineTrade Card catalog from S.F. printing co.Date Publishedc,1910 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #181 The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions Made to California AuthorWatson, Douglas S., comp.HeadlineThe Spanish Occupation of CaliforniaPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1934 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #182 Collection envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co's Express, filled out in ink, transmitting $25 from S.J. Harris in Mariposa, drawn on the Commercial Bank of Madera Heading(Wells, Fargo & Co.)HeadlineCollection envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co. 1899Date PublishedJune 19, 1899 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #183 Commission envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, filled out in ink, transmitting $5 in coin Heading(Wells, Fargo & Co.)HeadlineCommission envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co. 1860Date Published10 Dec. 1860 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #457 Union Automobile Club Touring Atlas of the United States. Showing the Best Routes to the Wonders of America Heading(Atlas)AuthorUnion Automobile ClubHeadlineRoad Atlas of USA by Union Automobile Club 1929PublisherUnion Automobile ClubDate Published1929 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #467 Mineral map of Lake County, California Heading(California - Lake County)HeadlineMineral Map of Lake County CaliforniaDate Published1901 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #468 Denny's Pocket Map of Mendocino County, California Heading(California - Mendocino County)HeadlineFolding map of Mendocino County CaliforniaPublisherEdward Denny & Co.Date Published1921 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #470 Aerial Study of Sixth Street Viaduct Looking North from Townsend Street Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSixth St. Viaduct San FranciscoDate Published1945 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #471 Map of the Principal Quartz and Gravel Mines in Tuolumne County, California. Taken from Government Surveys and Mining Records. By J.P. Dart, Mining Engineer. Scale - One Mile to One Inch. Sonora, August, 1879 Heading(California - Tuolumne County)AuthorDart, J.P.HeadlineDart Mining Map of Tuolumne Co. Cal.PublisherA.L. BancroftDate Published1879 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #472 California. This whimsical Carte of Topographic and Historic intention, depicting that fabled Isle of Montalvo's dream-the El Dorado of '49-the glorious California we know and love... Heading(California)AuthorMora, JoHeadlineJo Mora's California CartePublisherA.M. RobertsonDate Published1927 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #544 Three California city budgets - two for Petaluma, one for Sonoma Heading(California - Financial)Headline3 California budget publicationsDate Published1951-1957 View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold Lot #553 The Golden Road: The Story of California's Spanish Mission Trail AuthorRiesenberg, FelixHeadlineCalifornia's Spanish Mission TrailPublisherMcGraw-HillDate Published[1962\ View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #556 A Natural and Civil History of California AuthorVenegas, MiguelHeadlineVenegas, Nat. & Civil History of CA -2 vols.PublisherReadex MicroprintDate Published[1966] View details Estimate$10Sold for$12.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next