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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Letter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companion View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold 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 Lot #3 Ten vellum antiphonal leaves (i.e. five bifolia) with two inhabited initials and an elaborate title leaf View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Antiphonal Leaves)HeadlineLarge vellum antiphonal leavesDate Published1740 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 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorCostanzo, MiguelHeadlineLetter from Miguel Costanzo to Viceroy of New SpainDate Published1810 & 1794 Lot #30 An Account of the Countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America: Containing a description of their Lakes and Rivers, the nature of the Soil and Climates, and their Methods of Commerce, &c. Shewing the Benefit to be made by settling Colonies, and opening a Trade in these Parts... View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorDobbs, ArthurHeadlineDobbs' Hudson's Bay with map 1744PublisherPrinted for J. RobinsonDate Published1744 Lot #37 Letter from Albert Einstein expressing regret that he did not have time to contribute to a journal View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineAlbert Einstein letter signed 1927Date Published1 Sept. 1927 Lot #38 Letter from Albert Einstein to physicist, astronomer, and author Kenneth Heuer regarding distribution of heavy metals on the surface of Earth View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein commentson distribution of heavy metalsDate PublishedOctober 20, 1952 Lot #39 Small group of original signed letters from Albert Einstein to author Max Fishler, an important correspondence about Immanuel Kant and Relativity View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$62,500StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein letters about Kant and RelativityDate Published1949-1954 Lot #56 Autograph Letter, signed, and a sheet of manuscript musical notations View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorHalévy, FromentalHeadlineFromental Halevy Letter and Musical ManuscriptDate PublishedOctober, 1849 Lot #57 Letter by American woman missionary, Maui, on anti-slavery, "adulterous" natives, and naval threat of French Catholicism View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold 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 Lot #58 Letter by anti-missionary British-Hawaiian 49er who acquired Sacramento land from John Sutter and later befriended King Kamehameha View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$875StatusSold 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 Lot #62 Manuscript comments by Albert Sands Southworth on depositions and evidence presented in the "Howland Will Trial" View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Howland Will Trial)AuthorSouthworth, Albert SandsHeadlineEarly legal photography Howland Will TrialDate PublishedSeptember, 1867 Lot #63 Ejercicios espirituales de nuestro padre San Ignacio, por el padre Sebastian Izquierdo segun se practican en la Casa de Ejercicios de San Felipe Neri de México View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorIzquierdo, SebastianHeadlineIllustrated Mexican edition of Spiritual ExercisesPublisherImpr. de Luis Abadiano y ValdesDate Published1846 Lot #64 Album of Albertypes from photographs by William Henry Jackson taken on the 1871 Hayden Geological Survey, during which the Yellowstone region was explored and photographed View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold AuthorJackson, William HenryHeadlineW.H. Jackson's 1st photographs of YellowstonePublisherE. Bierstadt's AlbertypesDate Published[1874] Lot #67 Institutionum Civilium libri quatuor - manuscript copy View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorJustinianus I, EmperorHeadlineManuscript copy of the Institutiones of Justinian IDate Published(17th Century?) Lot #72 Statutes of Venice - manuscript on vellum View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Law Manuscript - Venice, Italy, 1580)HeadlineRare manuscript statutes of Venice 1580Date Published1580 Lot #76 Manuscript notebook with 39 ink and watercolor drawings in illustration of 39 manuscript limericks View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorLear, Edward, attrib.HeadlineManuscript Limericks & Drawings with Lear attbutionDate Published19th century Lot #77 Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeidesdorff, William AlexanderHeadlineAccounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44Date Published1843-1844 Lot #86 Collection of eight directories and calendars of the religious rites of the Franciscan, Augustin and other Orders in Mexico in the 18th century View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineRare 18th century Mexican religious calendarsDate Published1784-1789 Lot #88 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineWritings of John Muir Manuscript Edition DeluxePublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 Lot #89 Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorNimmo, JosephHeadlineThe most important of the "Big Four" cattle booksPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1885 Lot #91 La Victoria de Junin: Canto a Bolivar View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorOlmedo, José Joaquín deHeadlineTribute in verse to Bolivar 1826PublisherReimpreso en Londres [Imprenta Española de M. Calero]Date Published1826 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 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold AuthorPhilip IV, King of SpainHeadlinePhilip IV writes his Viceroy in New Spain 1651-1653Date Published1651-1653 Lot #126 Opere di Galileo Galilei nobile fiorentino - signed by Allesandro Volta View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Volta, Allesandro)AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineVolta's copy of GalileoPublisherDalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani contrada del CappuccioDate Published1811 Lot #128 1771 Poor Will's Almanack View details Estimate$100 - $200Sold for$175StatusSold Headline1771 Poor Will's AlmanackPublisherJoseph CrukshankDate Published1770 Lot #133 Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorBillings, John S.HeadlineDescription of Johns Hopkins Hospital 1890PublisherJohns Hopkins HospitalDate Published1890 Lot #139 The History of Illinois, From Its Discovery and Settlement, To The Present Time View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorBrown, HenryHeadlineThe History of Illinois - Discovery to 1844PublisherJ. Winchester, New World PressDate Published1844 Lot #146 Resor I Norra Amerikas Klippberg till NY-Mexikos Hogslatt, Fortagna af Colorado-Expediionen, Enligt Uppdrag af Forenta Staternas Regering... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Colorado River Expedition)AuthorMollhausen, Heinrich BalduinHeadlineSwedish Edition of Colorado Expedition 1857-58PublisherTryckt Hos. P. G. BergDate Published1867 Lot #169 Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, largely from Original Sources of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin from the Discovery of Mobile Bay in 1519 until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHamilton, Peter J.HeadlineEarly History of Mobile, ALPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and CompanyDate Published1898 Lot #186 Pomponii Melæ Libri Tres De Situ Orbis Cum Observationibus Isaaci View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorMela, PomponiusHeadlineEarly Geographical References to AmericaPublisherLeonardum StrickiumDate Published1700 Lot #199 Langley's San Francisco Directory May 1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(San Francisco)Headline1887 San Francisco DirectoryPublisherFrancis, Valentine & Co.Date PublishedMay 1887 Lot #201 History of the Republican Party View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSeilhamer, GeorgeHeadlineHistory of the Republican PartyPublisherJudge Publishing Co.Date Publishedc.1900 Lot #204 Smith's Atlas View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorSmith, [Roswell Chamberlain]HeadlineSmith's Atlas 1839PublisherJohn PaineDate Published1839 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next