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Previous|12|Next Lot #474 Letter from Samuel Wetmore in Canton, China, to his cousin William Wetmore, regarding trade and commercial matters Heading(China)AuthorWetmore, SamuelHeadlineOpium in the China Trade 1838 letterDate PublishedJanuary 22nd, 1838 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #475 Letter from Samuel Wetmore in Canton, China, to his cousin William Wetmore, regarding trade and commercial matters, with mention of opium smuggling Heading(China)AuthorWetmore, SamuelHeadlineOpium smuggling in the China Trade 1837 letterDate PublishedOct. 27th, 1827 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #477 Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition: to the Island of Madeira - Cap Verde Islands - Brazil... AuthorColvocoresses, Geo. M.HeadlineFour Years in a Government Exploring ExpeditionPublisherCornish, Lamport & Co.Date Published1852 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #478 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingHeadlineCaptain James Cook: A Voyage to the Pacific OceanPublisherG. NicolDate Published1785 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #479 Ten plates published in an edition of Captain James Cook's voyages Heading(Cook, James)HeadlineCaptain James Cook's voyages, 10 platesDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #483 Journal of a Voyage of Discovery, to the Arctic regions, Performed Between the 4th of April and the 18th of November 1818, in His Majesty's Ship Alexander, Wm. Edw. Parry, Esq. Lieut. and Commander Author[Fisher, Alexander]HeadlineVoyage of Discovery to the Arctic RegionsPublisherRichard PhillipsDate Published[1819] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #485 Souvenir de Nancy - 15 mounted photographs Heading(France)HeadlineSouvenir de Nancy 15 mounted photographsDate Published[c1887] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #486 Souvenir viewbook of Versaille, France Heading(France)HeadlineSouvenir viewbook of Versailles FranceDate PublishedLate 19th Century View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #487 Harriman Alaska series. Volumes I-V, VIII-XIV. (12 volumes complete) Heading(Harriman Alaska Expedition, 1899)AuthorVarious authorsHeadlineHarriman Alaska series. Complete set.PublisherDoubleday, Page & Co. (and) Smithsonian InstitutionsDate Published1901, 1910, 1914 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #490 Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak AuthorHerzog, MauriceHeadlineMaurice Herzog Annapurna signedPublisherE.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1953 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #491 The Ascent of Everest Heading(Hillary, Edmund)AuthorHunt, JohnHeadlineAscent of Everest signed by Sir Edmund Hillary & 2 morePublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1953] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #494 Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 AuthorKane, Elisha KentHeadlineKane's Arctic Explorations 2d Grinnell ExpeditionPublisherChilds & PetersonDate Published1856 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #495 An Account of the Pelew Islands Situated In The Western Part Of The Pacific Ocean. Composed From The Journals And Communications Of Captain Henry Wilson And Some Of His Officers, Who, In August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, In The Antelope, A Packet belonging to the Hon. East India Company AuthorKeate, GeorgeHeadlineAn Account of the Pelew Islands 1st American EdnPublisherJoseph CrukshankDate Published1789 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #496 The Expedition to Borneo of H. M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. AuthorKeppel, Captain The Hon. HenryHeadlineThe Expedition to Borneo of H. M. S. Dido, by Keppel, Captain The Hon. HenryPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1846 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #499 A Series of Groups Illustrating the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany AuthorLewis, GeorgeHeadlineLewis's Etching of the people of France and GermanyPublisherFor the authorDate Published1823 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #500 Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lockhart Library and in the General Library of the London Missionary Society Heading(London Missionary Society)AuthorMabbs, GoodeveHeadlineLondon Missionary Society LibraryPublisherLondon Missonary SocietyDate Published1899 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #502 Three Years in the Klondike AuthorLynch, JeremiahHeadlineLynch: Three Years in the KlondikePublisherEdward ArnoldDate Published1904 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #503 A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper in the Year MDCCCXXIV AuthorLyon, Capt. G[eorge] F[rancis]HeadlineAn Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse BayPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1825 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #504 Ship's Captain of California Gold Rush era, 1845-67 archive Heading(Maritime – Archive of a Gold Rush-era Ship Captain, 1845-67)HeadlineMaritime, California, steamships, Vanderbilt, South Africa View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #506 Stray Leaves From an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 AuthorOsborn, SherardHeadlineStray Leaves from an Arctic Journal 1852PublisherGeorge P. PutnamDate Published1852 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #507 The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club AuthorPeary, Robert E.HeadlineRobert Peary The North Pole First EditionPublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published1910 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #509 Photo album of a European tour Heading(Photographs)Headline1920s album from a European TourDate Published1920s View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #512 The Historie of the World. In Five Bookes AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineWalter Raleigh's History of the World 1634Publisher[Printed for G. Latchum, and R. Young]Date Published[1634] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #513 Through the Yukon and Alaska AuthorRickard, T.A.HeadlineRickard: Through the Yukon and AlaskaPublisherMining and Scientific PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #514 Himalaya: A Monograph AuthorRoerich, NicholasHeadlineRoerich views of the HimalayasPublisherBreantano'sDate Published[1926] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #515 Histoire Physique, Morale, Civile et Politique de la Russie Ancienne [Moderne] Heading(Russia)AuthorLe Clerc, [Nicolas-Gabriel]HeadlineLe Clerc's History of Ancient and Modern RussiaPublisherCrez Froulle & Chez BlaizotDate Published1783-85 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #516 Tours in the Soviet Union (wrapper title) Heading(Russia)HeadlineTours of Soviet Union in 1930sPublisher[Zeese Wilkinson Co.]Date Published[c.1930s] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #517 Letters from Broosa, Asia Minor, by Mrs. E.C.A. Schneider, with an essay on the prospects of the heathen and our duties to them, by Rev. B. Schneider, and an introduction by Rev. E. Heiner... Published by Rev. Samuel Gutelius AuthorSchneider, Mrs. E[liza] C[heney] A[bbot]HeadlineMission to Turkey's Armenians 1846PublisherPrinted at the Publication Office of the Ger. Ref. church,Date Published1846 View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #518 Antarctic Days Heading(Shackleton, Ernest)AuthorMurray, James & George MarstonHeadlineAntarctic Days, Shackelton. 1 st. Edition.PublisherAndrew MelroseDate Published1913 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #519 The Danubian Principalities, The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk. By a British Resident of Twenty Years in the East Author[Skene, James Henry]HeadlineThe Frontier Lands of the Christian and the TurkPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1854 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #522 The Life of John Ledyard, The American Traveller, Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence AuthorSparks, JaredHeadlineLife of John LedyardPublisherHilliard and BrownDate Published1828 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #523 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile AuthorSpeke, John HanningHeadlineSpeke's Discovery of the Source of the NilePublisherWilliam Blackwood & SonsDate Published1863 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #524 In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria AuthorStanley, Henry M[orton]HeadlineStanley's In Darkest Africa, British editionPublisherSampson Low, Marston, Searle & RivingtonDate Published1890 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #525 Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America AuthorSullivan, EdwardHeadlineRambles in North and South AmericaPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1853 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #526 Exposé qui ont Accompagné l'Agression des Francais contre l'Ile de Tahiti, et l'Injuste Etablissement de la Domination Francaise dans Cette Ile. Par les Directeurs de la Sociéte des Mission de Londres Heading(Tahiti)Headlinel'Agression des Francais contre l'Ile de TahitiPublisherL.-R. DelayDate Published1843 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #527 Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of It's Natural History, Antiquities and Productions AuthorTennent, Sir James EmersonHeadlineAccount of Ceylon 1859PublisherLongman, Green, et al.Date Published1859 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #528 Two titles about travels on the Pacific Coast and the Sandwich Islands Heading(Travel - Hawaii & Pacific Coast)HeadlineTravels -Pacific Coast/Sandwich Islands. 3 vols.Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #530 Universal Exhibition 1873 in Vienna (Spine title) Heading(Vienna International Exposition)HeadlineVienna International Exhibition 1873PublisherKaiserlich-königliche Hof- und StaatsdruckereiDate Published1873 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #532 A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land AuthorWentworth, W.C.HeadlineWentworth on the Colony of New South WalesPublisherG. and W.B. WhittakerDate Published1819 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #533 The Rhine, Italy and Greece AuthorWright, George NewenhamHeadlineEngravings of heartland of EuropePublisherFisher & SonDate Published1841 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #534 Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands AuthorYonge, Charlotte MaryHeadlineLife of John Coleridge PattesonPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1875 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #541 Map Showing Interurban Lines of Electric and Steam Railways to Los Angeles Resorts, Giving Distances, Routes and Fares from Los Angeles, Cal. Heading(California - Los Angeles)HeadlineInterurban railways of Los AngelesPublisherMunseyDate Publishedc.1920s View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #542 Map of Mountain View Field Kern County, Calif Heading(California - Mountain View Oil Field, Kern County)AuthorBush, R.D., State Oil & Gas SupervisorHeadlineMap of oil & gas drilling in Kern County Mt. View California 1935PublisherDivision of Oil and GasDate PublishedSept, 1935 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #543 Petaluma, Sonoma County, Cal. 1857 Heading(California - Petaluma)AuthorKuchel & DreselHeadlineRare litho view of Petaluma Cal.PublisherKuchel & DreselDate Published1857 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #547 The California Water Atlas Heading(California)AuthorKahrl, William L. et al.HeadlineThe California Water AtlasPublisherState of CaliforniaDate Published[1979] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #559 Paddle-Wheel Gun-Boat [and] Screw Gun Boat Heading(Ships of War)HeadlineShips of War series: Plate 83 and 86PublisherDay & SonDate PublishedJanuary 1st, 1864 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #576 English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies Heading(Arctic - 1890 US Navy studies Alaskan & Siberian Eskimo)AuthorWells, Jr., Ensign Roger; and Interpreter John W. KellyHeadline1890 Alaska, US Navy studies EskimoPublisherUS Bureau of EducationDate Published1890 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #579 The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: California Inter Pocula - Volume XXXV AuthorBancroft, Hubert HoweHeadlineBancroft: California Inter Pocula - Volume XXXVPublisherThe History CompanyDate Published1888 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #580 California Mines and Minerals AuthorBenjamin, Edward H.HeadlineBenjamin: California Mines and MineralsPublisherCalifornia Miners' AssociationDate Published1899 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #582 What I Saw in California: Being the Journal of a Tour by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, Across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and Through California, in the Years 1846, 1847 AuthorBryant, EdwinHeadlineBryant: What I Saw in CaliforniaPublisherFine Arts PressDate Published1936 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #586 1874 Petitioning Congress for a port on the Oakland waterfront Heading(California - Oakland port for “Asiatic” trade 1874)HeadlineCalifornia - Oakland port for “Asiatic” trade 1874Date Published1874 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #587 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 #594 Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific AuthorDaggett, StuartHeadline1922 History of the Southern PacificPublisherThe Ronald Press Co.Date Published1922 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #601 The Narrative of a Japanese; What Has Seen and the People He has Met in the Course of the Last Forty Years AuthorHeco, JosephHeadlineThe Narrative of a JapanesePublisherAmerican-Japanese Publishing AssociationDate Published[c. 1950] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #604 Ramona AuthorJackson, Helen HuntHeadlineH.H. Jackson's Ramona Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1959 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #607 A Journal Ramblings Through the High Sierra of California by the University Excursion Party AuthorLe Conte, JosephHeadlineLeConte in High SierraPublisherThe Sierra ClubDate Published[1960] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #610 John Marsh, Pioneer: The Life Story of a Trail-blazer on Six Frontiers AuthorLyman, George D.HeadlineLyman, John Marsh PioneerPublisherScribner'sDate Published1930 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #611 Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal AuthorMarryat, FrankHeadlineMarryat's Mountains & MolehillsPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1949 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #617 Travel and Comment AuthorPhelan, James D.HeadlineTravels of U.S. Senator from CaliforniaPublisherA.M. RobertsonDate Published1923 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #624 Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers AuthorRice, Bertha M. and RolandHeadlineCalifornia Wild FlowersPublisherUpton Bros. & DelzelleDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$10StatusSold Lot #626 1878 San Francisco weekly business circular Heading(San Francisco 1878 – China and Hawaii trade)HeadlineSan Francisco 1878 – China and Hawaii tradeDate Published1878 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #637 The California Overland Express: The Longest Stage Ride in the World AuthorTallack, William.HeadlineStage ride from Califorina to St. Louis 1865Date Published1865 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #639 A Pictorial and Narrative History of Monterey Adobe Capital of California 1770-1847 AuthorVan Nostrand, JeannePublisherCalifornia Historical SocietyDate Published1968 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #642 Fifteen volumes about California History with an emphasis on biographies Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 15 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #643 Fifteen volumes of California History with Trade and Mining Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 15 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #644 Fourteen volumes of California History and Exploration Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 14 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #645 Fourteen volumes on California History Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 14 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #646 Nineteen volumes of books about California History - gold rush Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 19 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$130StatusSold Lot #647 Sixteen volumes of California History, mining, and medicine Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 16 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #648 - WITHDRAWN - Thirteen volumes about California's history, specifically diaries and gold rush-related Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 13 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #649 Thirteen volumes of books about California History and mining Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 13 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #650 Thirteen volumes of California History and Native Americans Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 13 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #651 Twelve volumes of California History--specifically related to cowboys and Native Americans Heading(California)HeadlineShelf lot, 12 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #652 Sixteen books about California History - gold, Yellowstone, and memoir Heading(California, etc.)HeadlineShelf lot, 16 volumes, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next