Sale 552 - Americana - African American History - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#552) 01/29/2015 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/29/2015 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 552 352 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 1-35 of 35. Previous|1|Next Lot #24 Six Months in the Gold Mines: from a Journal of Three Year's Residence in Upper and Lower California, 1847-8-9 AuthorBuffum, E. GouldHeadlineBuffum's Six Months in the Gold MinesPublisherLea and BlanchardDate Published1850 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #25 Manuscript Quitclaim Deed signed by Franklin N. Billings, for some 53 lots of land in Butte City, in what is now Glenn County, California, on the upper Sacramento River Heading(California - Butte City)HeadlineLand deed for Butte City, Cal., 1850Date PublishedApril 11, 1850 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #28 Circular advertising the services of Benjamin Reynolds in San Francisco as a commission merchant and forwarder of mail Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineCommisssion merchant in San FranciscoDate Published1849 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #30 Invitation to San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, Jr. to dedicate the opening of the Techau Tavern Company made of Sterling Silver Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSterling silver invitation to Techau Tavern openingPublisherShreve & Co.Date Published1919 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #31 Panoramic photograph of San Francisco in 1906, before the April 18th earthquake Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco in 1906, before the quakePublisherR.J. Waters & Co.Date Published1906 [print circa 1934] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #33 Sterling silver Honorary union membership card presented to San Francisco Mayor James Rolph Jr. Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineJames Rolph, Jr.'s Sterling Silver Union Membership card 1915Date PublishedAugust 19, 1915 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #34 Two documents from the Mercantile Library Association and Custom House, both in San Francisco Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco; documents from Custom House and Mercantile Library AssociationDate Published1864;1873 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #35 The Ulatis, 1936 - Yearbook of the Vacaville Union High School Heading(California - Solano County)Headline1936 Vacaville Union High School YearbookDate Published1936 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #36 Color lithographed invitation to the Dedication Ball given at the Long Island House in Todd's Valley, May 3, 1855 Heading(California - Todd's Valley, Placer County)HeadlineBall at Todd's Valley, 1855Date Published1855 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #37 Stock Certificate in the Tuolumne Country Water Company, made out to D.O. Mills Heading(California - Toulumne County Water Company)HeadlineTuolumne County Water Company StockDate Published1852-[1855] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #38 Auction flier with map for the South Subdivision of the Broughton Map, adjoining the town of Vacaville in Solano County, California Heading(California - Vacaville)HeadlineVacaville CA land at auction with map 1887PublisherEaston, Elridge & Co.Date Published1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #39 Two liquor licenses for counties in the California Gold Country Heading(California Ephemera - Liquor Licenses)HeadlineGold Country Liquor Licenses 1853-4Date Published1853 & 1854 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$80StatusSold Lot #40 Eight ephemeral items relating to Northern California Heading(California Ephemera)HeadlineCalifornia Ephemera 1850-78Date Published1850-1878 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #42 Shipboard letter from 18 year-old 49er while sailing around Cape Horn Heading(California Gold Rush, 1849 – adventurous teenager writes while “rounding the Cape”)Date Published1849 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #43 Spanish Missions California: A Portfolio of Etchings Heading(California Missions)AuthorScammon, L[aurence] N.HeadlineSpanish Missions California etchings by ScammonPublisherJean Chambers MooreDate Published1926 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #44 California Midwinter International Exposition Heading(California)HeadlineCalifornia Midwinter International Exposition, pamphlet 1894.PublisherA. Schilling & Co.Date Published1894 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #46 Eight volumes of Americana, including California Heading(California)HeadlineAmericana, including California, 8 volumes.Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #48 Letter inviting the recipient to the Grand Opening Ball at the Summit Springs House in Woodside, California, on printed, embossed form Heading(California)AuthorSanders, James A.HeadlineInvitation to Ball in Woodside, Cal. c.1865Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Past, the Present and the Future of the Pacific AuthorCrane, James M.HeadlineCalifornia versus the Federal Government, 1856PublisherPrinted by Sterett & Co.Date Published1856 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #117 The Yosemite AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineJohn Muir's guidebook to The YosemitePublisherCenturyDate Published1912 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #135 Printed invitation for a tour of the San Francisco Bay aboard the Steamer Antelope along with a receipt for a shipment sent on the Antelope Heading(Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company)HeadlineAboard the Steamer Antelope in S.F. Bay 1861Date Published1861 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #143 The Grizzley and His Captors Heading(Pictorial Letter Sheet - Partial)HeadlineLetter Sheet engraving of captured bearPublisherWide West OfficeDate Publishedc.1855 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #146 Letter from W.C. Ralston to F.D. Atherton, inviting him to dinner Heading(Ralston, William C. & Faxon Dean Atherton)AuthorRalston, William C.HeadlineLetter from W.C. Ralston to F.D. AthertonDate PublishedThursday Morning [August 1874] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #148 Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers AuthorRice, Bertha M. and RolandHeadlineCalifornia Wild FlowersPublisherUpton Bros. & DelzelleDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #153 The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 AuthorShirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineThomas Russell printing of the Shirley LettersPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1922 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #154 The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52. Being a Series of Twenty-three Letters from Dame Shirley to her Sister in Massachusetts AuthorShirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineThe Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52. Printed in 1922PublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1922 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #157 1901 letter by brother of novelist Dane Coolidge as poor Stanford student Heading(Stanford, 1901 - western novelist’s brother on academic freedom controversy)HeadlineStanford, academic freedom View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #173 Prison Laws of California, 1909 AuthorWythe, Frederick S.HeadlinePrison Laws of California, 1909, by Frederick S. WythePublisherW. W. Shannon - Supt. of State PrintingDate Published1909 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #176 1840 political letter by Georgia slave owner, a relative of Stanford of California Heading(1840 Stanford cousin as Georgia slave-owner)Headlineslavery, Stanford, Georgia, California View details Estimate$250 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #357 Official Highway Map of California and Western Nevada... (wrapper title) Heading(California & Nevada)AuthorPrendergast, J.M.HeadlineRare highway map of California 1917PublisherCalifornia State Automobile AssociationDate Published1917 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #390 Expedition on the Sacramento and San Joaquin and San Joaquin Rivers in 1817: Diary of Fray Narciso Duran AuthorChapman, Charles, Edward, editorHeadlineCalifornia's Central Valley in 1817PublisherUniversity of CaliforniaDate Published1911 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #399 Elizabethan California: A brief, and sometimes critical, review of opinions on the location of Francis Drake's five weeks' visit with the Indians of Ships Land in 1579... AuthorHeizer, Robert F.HeadlineFrancis Drake in CaliforniaPublisherBallena PressDate Published1974 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #402 Yerba Buena - 1846 [Sketched through a Loophole] AuthorKemble, Edward ClevelandHeadlineSan Francisco in 1846PublisherJohnck & SeegerDate Published1935 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #405 The Clouds and Fogs of San Francisco AuthorMcCadie, AlexanderHeadlineClouds & fogs of San FranciscoPublisherA.M. RobertsonDate Published1912 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #416 The First One Hundred Years of Yankee California: Address at the Opening of the Library of Congress California Centennial Exhibit, November 12, 1949 AuthorWheat, Carl I.Headline100 Years of Yankee CaliforniaPublisherThe Library of CongressDate Published[1949] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next