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 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorBaker, E[dward] D.HeadlineOration of E.D. Baker for David BroderickDate Published[1859] Lot #21 Speech of Hon. D.C. Broderick of California, Against the Admission of Kansas Under the Lecompton Constitution View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorBroderick, David C.HeadlineDavid Broderick against the admission of KansasPublisherLemuel TowersDate Published1858 Lot #23 Bruce's Convention Guide: Populist Munipical Convention, 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, 1894 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorBruce, [Donald]HeadlineBruce's Convention Guide 1894 Populist Municipal ConvDate PublishedJuly 31, 1894 Lot #25 Insurance document for $4,000 for a school building in Angels, Calaveras County, California - issued by the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(California - Calaveras County)HeadlineInsurance document for a school building in Calaveras Co., CADate PublishedJuly 12, 1900 Lot #27 By-Laws of the Newcastle Fruit Growers' Association of Newcastle, Placer Co., California Upon date of February 10, 1912 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(California - Placer County)HeadlineNewcastle, Placer Co. Calif Fruit Growers' Assoc. by-lawsDate Published1912 Lot #28 Clover Heights - promotional brochure View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineClover Heights promotional folding brochure scarce!Publisher[Anglo American Land Company]Date Published[c.1915] Lot #33 Architecture of Allen & Young View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(California - Stockton)AuthorAllen, Glenn & Chas. H. Young, ArchitectsHeadlineAllen & Young Stockton, CA architecture booklet, c.1927Date Published[c.1927] Lot #34 Index Registration, City of Vallejo Solano County. General Election, November 6, 1906 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California - Vallejo)AuthorHalliday, G.G., County ClerkHeadlineVoter registration index, city of Vallejo 1906PublisherChronicle PrintDate Published1906 Lot #35 Two investment brochures for land in the Westwood Village, a suburb of Los Angeles View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California - Westwood Hills, Los Angeles)AuthorJanss Investment CorporationHeadlineRare promotional map/brochure for Westwood VillageDate Publishedc.1931 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold 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 Lot #38 Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Conference of California Historical Societies. Monterey, California June 24 - 25, 1955 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(California Historical Societies)AuthorWood, Richard Coke, editorHeadlineProceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting CA HistoricalPublisherCollege of the PacificDate Published1955 Lot #39 Bulletin Announcement of the Fresno Meeting of the California Teachers' Association at Fresno, December 26-29, 1906 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(California Teachers' Association)HeadlineFresno Meeting of CA Teachers' Assoc 1906PublisherPress of Fresno RepublicanDate PublishedNovember, 1906 Lot #40 Address by the Committee of Fifty to the People View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)HeadlineAddress by the Committe of FiftyDate Published[1882?] Lot #41 The California Land Show: An Exposition of the Land of California and its Resources View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)HeadlineThe 1917 California Land ShowDate Published1917 Lot #42 California Resorts Open All Year Round (wrapper title) View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineGuide to the attractions of California 1896PublisherCouthern Pacific Co.Date Published[1896] Lot #43 Cambria Development Company, owners and developers Cambria Pines By-the Sea. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)HeadlineRare promotional flier for Cambria Pines, Cal.PublisherCambria Development CompanyDate Published1930 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 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineFrauds in Lands in California 1876Date Published1876 Lot #45 In semi-tropical California. [Where to go and how to get there...] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)HeadlineScarce Southen Pacific promotional bookletPublisherSouthern Pacific CompanyDate Published1894 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... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)HeadlineFirst sessions of the California Senate and HousePublisherJ. WinchesterDate Published1850 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineProtestant Episcopal Church in San Franicsco 1867-76Date Published1867-1876 Lot #48 Journals of the Proceedings of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California. 1850-1888 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineThe Episcopal Church in CaliforniaDate Published1850-1888 Lot #49 Proceedings of the Union State Convention, Held at Sacramento, on the 17th, 18th and 19th Days of June, 1863 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)HeadlineProceedings of the Union State Convention 1863PublisherFrank EastmanDate Published1863 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 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(Catalina Excursions)HeadlineRare Catalina Excursion broadside from 1920sPublisherWilmington Trans. Co.Date Publishedc.1920s Lot #56 Langley's San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing May, 1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorCorran, W.H.L., compilerHeadline1887 San Francisco directoryPublisherFrancis, Valentine & Co.Date Published1887 Lot #57 The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing March, 1873. Embracing a general directory of residents and a business directory... View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorLangley, Henry G., compilerHeadlineLangley's San Francisco Directory for 1873PublisherHenry G. LangleyDate Published1873 Lot #82 The Open Letter - Volume 1, Number 1 of this Northern California political newspaper View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold AuthorEllis, W.R., editorHeadlineVol. 1, No. 1 of The Open Letter - CA political paperDate PublishedMarch 21, 1927 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 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorField, Stephen J.HeadlineReminiscences of Early Days in CaliforniaPublisher"Printed for a Few Friend, Not Published"Date Published[1893] Lot #88 Original panoramic photograph of the Golden Gate International Exposistion Administration Staff, 1940 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(Golden Gate International Exposition)HeadlineGGIE panoramic photo of the staff 1940Date Published1940 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 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorHughes, John T.HeadlineRare account of Doniphan's ExpeditionPublisherU.P. JamesDate Published[1847, but later] Lot #104 Barbariana: or Scenery, Climate, Soils and Social Condition of Santa Barbara City and County, California View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorJackson, Rev. A.W.HeadlineRare Santa Barbara promotional tractPublisherC.A. Murdock & Co.Date Published1888 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. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorKing, T. Butler & J. Vincent BrowneHeadlineButler & Browne on the SF Custom House FireDate Published1852 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorMcWhorter, George CummingHeadlineService of Wm. Maxwell Wood in the War with MexicoPublisherSherwood & Co.'s Steam PressDate Published[c.1872] Lot #121 United States Bureau of Mines - Fifteen Information Circulars, plus one report of investigation in February, 1930 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Mining)AuthorDepartment of Commerce, Bureau of MinesHeadlineUS Bureau of Mines, Information Circulars 19301-37Date Published1930-1937 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Native Sons of the Golden West)HeadlinePhoto-montage of Cal. Native SonsPublisherElite PhotoDate Published1896 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 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(Pacific Electric Railway)Headline1920 broadside for Southern California Balloon TrolleyPublisherPacific Electric RailwayDate Published1920 Lot #152 First Annual Municipal Art Exhibition by Bay Region Artists - original program View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(San Francisco Arts Commission)AuthorKeil, Edward D., PresidentHeadlineProgram for the 1946 First Annual SF Municipal Art ShowDate PublishedOctober 17-20, 1946 Lot #153 San Francisco. A selection of sixty-four engravings of representative views View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(San Francisco)AuthorDe Witt, Frederic M.HeadlineView book of Old San FranciscoPublisherF.M. De WittDate Published[c.1890] Lot #154 Regular New Constitution Party. State and City & County Ticket. City and County of San Francisco. Tenth Senatorial District - rare 1879 political ticket View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(San Francisco)Headline1879 political ticket for the New Constitution PartyDate Published[1879] Lot #155 San Francisco Subway. Double Traffic Paved Vehicular Driveway Below Tidewater Level View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco SubwayPublisherCalifornia State Printing OfficeDate Published1923 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(San Joaquin Valley)HeadlineLand drained by San Joaquin River of CaliforniaPublisherPassenger Department of the Santa FeDate Published1902 Lot #158 Semitropic California [cover title] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Headlinec.1900 Southern Pacific travel guide Southern Calif.Publisher[Southern Pacific?]Date Published[c.1900] 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 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(California)AuthorShaw, William J., et al.HeadlineWilliam J. Shaw before the Supreme Court of CaliforniaPublisherPublished by appellantsDate Published1859 Lot #165 First Annual Report to the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company Chartered by the State of Texas View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(Southern Pacific Railroad)HeadlineFirst Annual Report on the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.PublisherAmerican Railroad Journal OfficeDate Published1856 Lot #168 The Grape Districts of California View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$112.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorStoll, H.F.HeadlineGrape Districts of California 1931PublisherH.F. StollDate Published[1931] 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. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Author[Stuart, James F.]HeadlineMilpitas Grand Land Title CasePublisherBacon & CompanyDate Published[c.1878] Lot #171 Pioneers of the Sacramento: A Group of Letters by & about Johann Augustus Sutter, James W. Marshall, & John Bidwell View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorSutter, Johann Augustus, et al.HeadlinePioneers of Sacramento One of 400 copies Colt PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1953 Lot #174 Commercial Art Company: Original Designs for Office Stationery View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Trade Card Trade Catalogue)HeadlineTrade Card catalog from S.F. printing co.Date Publishedc,1910 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 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorWatson, Douglas S., comp.HeadlineThe Spanish Occupation of CaliforniaPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1934 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 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Wells, Fargo & Co.)HeadlineCollection envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co. 1899Date PublishedJune 19, 1899 Lot #183 Commission envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, filled out in ink, transmitting $5 in coin View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Wells, Fargo & Co.)HeadlineCommission envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co. 1860Date Published10 Dec. 1860 Lot #457 Union Automobile Club Touring Atlas of the United States. Showing the Best Routes to the Wonders of America View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(Atlas)AuthorUnion Automobile ClubHeadlineRoad Atlas of USA by Union Automobile Club 1929PublisherUnion Automobile ClubDate Published1929 Lot #467 Mineral map of Lake County, California View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California - Lake County)HeadlineMineral Map of Lake County CaliforniaDate Published1901 Lot #468 Denny's Pocket Map of Mendocino County, California View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California - Mendocino County)HeadlineFolding map of Mendocino County CaliforniaPublisherEdward Denny & Co.Date Published1921 Lot #470 Aerial Study of Sixth Street Viaduct Looking North from Townsend Street View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSixth St. Viaduct San FranciscoDate Published1945 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California - Tuolumne County)AuthorDart, J.P.HeadlineDart Mining Map of Tuolumne Co. Cal.PublisherA.L. BancroftDate Published1879 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... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Heading(California)AuthorMora, JoHeadlineJo Mora's California CartePublisherA.M. RobertsonDate Published1927 Lot #544 Three California city budgets - two for Petaluma, one for Sonoma View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold Heading(California - Financial)Headline3 California budget publicationsDate Published1951-1957 Lot #553 The Golden Road: The Story of California's Spanish Mission Trail View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold AuthorRiesenberg, FelixHeadlineCalifornia's Spanish Mission TrailPublisherMcGraw-HillDate Published[1962\ Lot #556 A Natural and Civil History of California View details Estimate$10Sold for$12.50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history AuthorVenegas, MiguelHeadlineVenegas, Nat. & Civil History of CA -2 vols.PublisherReadex MicroprintDate Published[1966] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next