Sale 667: Rare Americana - Travel & Exploration - Hawaii - World History - Cartography (#667) 02/21/2019 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/21/2019 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 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)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-32 of 32. Previous|1|Next Lot #6 Along This Way View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American)AuthorJohnson, James WeldonHeadlineSigned autobiography of Harlem Renaissance writerPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1933 Lot #16 Deed of Manumission of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American)AuthorTurpin, Philip O.Headline1850 Slave emancipation document, KentuckyDate PublishedFeb. 11, 1850 Lot #38 Letter from boxer James J. Corbett View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Boxing)AuthorCorbett, James J.HeadlineLetter from a World Heavyweight ChampionDate Published1929 Lot #39 Reminiscences and Incidents of Early Days of San Francisco (1845-50) View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorBrown, John HenryHeadlineEarly Days of San Francisco Grabhorn 1933PublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published[1933] Lot #58 Alta California - five "Steamer Issues" View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(California - Newspapers)HeadlineAlta California - 5 "Steamer Issues" 1851-53PublisherRobert B. SempleDate Published1851-53 Lot #59 Alta California - Four "Steamer Issues" View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(California - Newspapers)HeadlineAlta California - 4 "Steamer Issues" 1851PublisherRobert B. SempleDate Published1851 Lot #61 Daily Alta California Supplemental for Monday Sept. 30, 1852 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(California - Newspapers)AuthorJones, E.B. and Albert S. Evans, editorsHeadlineDaily Alta California Supplemental for Monday Sept. 30, 1852PublisherRobert B. SempleDate Published1852 Lot #64 Archive of 32 photographs of the Engels Copper Mine in Plumas County View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(California - Plumas County)HeadlinePhoto archive of the Engels Copper Mine in Plumas, California Lot #89 Diaries of a California chiropractor View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(California Chiropractor)AuthorChute, CharlesHeadlineDiaries of a Los Angeles chiropractor, 1921-1952Date Published1921-1952 Lot #90 Celebration of the Seventy-Third Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on Board the Barque "Hannah Sprague," at Sea, July 4th, 1849 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(California Gold Rush)HeadlineFourth of July celebrations on a boat bound for the Gold RushPublisherJennings and Co.Date Published1849 Lot #91 Letter by 49er on famed voyage "round the Horn" View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(California Gold Rush)AuthorHatch, R.S.HeadlineGold Rush Letter by a 49er sailing 'round the Horn'Date PublishedMarch 4, 1849 Lot #112 Letter from Y.D. Patterson to his sister Lydia, presenting a "brief history" of the 15th Illinois Regiment from May 1861 to November 1862, his period of enlistment View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorPatterson, Y.D.HeadlineCivil War letter of Illinois soldier 1862Date PublishedNov. 14, 1862 Lot #124 The Diaries of Peter Decker: Overland to California in 1849 and Life in the Mines, 1850-1851 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDecker, PeterHeadlineThe Diaries of Peter Decker 1/100 1966PublisherTalisman PressDate Published1966 Lot #128 Letter Signed as Commissioner of the US Patent Office, about patent of the first electric motor in America View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Electric "Car" - 1838 Patent)AuthorEllsworth, Henry L.Headline1st pateneted electric motor in america 1838PublisherPatent OfficeDate PublishedJune 16, 1838 Lot #137 Letter from former Georgia governor George Gilmer about his reassessment of the Cherokee Indians and their enforced removal west to Indian Territory View details Estimate$2,500 - $4,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorGilmer, GeorgeHeadlineEx-George governor rethinks Cherokee removalDate PublishedFeb. 27th, [18]59 Lot #167 Shipping papers for the Albatross, bound from Boston to Leghorn (Livorno) & other Mediterranean ports, about five years before she entered the Columbia River View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Maritime - Ship Albatross)HeadlineShip that entered Columbia River in 1810Date Published1805 Lot #169 Eleven 18th century land deeds, nearly all for land in North Yarmouth, now in Maine, but then part of Massachusetts Bay Colony or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Massachusetts/Maine)HeadlineColonial land deeds from Massachusetts/MaineDate Published1761-1784 Lot #174 Manuscript petition by Indians in western New Spain accusing a friar of having a lover living with him, whom he claims is just his cook View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineMexican Indians accuse friar of having lover, 1805Date Published1805 Lot #178 Fifty sheets of 1916-17 miners' payroll View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Miners' payroll sheets)HeadlineMiners' payroll sheets 1916-17PublisherAlpha MineDate Published1916-17 Lot #205 Life and Times of Silas Wright - presented to Gen. Zachary Taylor weeks before his election as President View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorHammond, Jabez D.HeadlineRare 1848 book owned by President Zachary TaylorPublisherHall & Dickson and A.S. BarnesDate Published1848 Lot #206 A Tour of Duty in California; Including a Description of the Gold Region: And an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the Principal Events Attending the Conquest of the Californias... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorRevere, Joseph WarrenHeadlineA Tour of Duty in California, 1849PublisherC.S. Francis & CoDate Published1849 Lot #214 Ramblings in California; containing a Description of the Country, Life at the Mines, State of Society, &c. interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, and Sketches from Life, being the Five Years' Experience of a Gold Digger View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorShaw, PringleHeadlineRamblings in California, c. 1857PublisherJames BainDate Published[c. 1857] Lot #217 Letter from Edwin Wesson regarding gun manufacturing View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Smith & Wesson)AuthorWesson, EdwinHeadlineLetter by Smith & Wesson brother about gun manufacturingDate Published1844 Lot #225 Report of the Secretary of War Communicating Information in relation to the geology and topography of California View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorTyson, Philip T.HeadlineTyson's report on the Geology of CaliforniaDate Published[1850] Lot #228 Legal complaint about property taxes at the Zoar communal colony of German immigrants View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Utopian colony, Zoar, Ohio, 1853)AuthorHance, Judge Joseph C.Headline1853 Zoar, Ohio utopian colony of German "separatists" - LetterDate PublishedMay 1, 1853 Lot #230 Finding the Winning Edge View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorWalsh, Bill with Brian Billick and James A. PetersonHeadlineFinding the Winning Edge signed by Bill WalshPublisherSports Publishing LLCDate Published[1998] Lot #241 Four manuscript folio ledger books recording the daily accounts of Frank Spencer Witherbee and the management of the estate of his father John Gilman Witherbee View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Witherbee Family account ledgers 1875-1906)HeadlineLedgers of Witherbee iron ore family 1875-1906Date Published1875-1906 Lot #244 U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87): Ship's Diary View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(World War II)AuthorWilson, Willard J.HeadlineOriginal handwritten diary kept aboard the U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87) Lot #263 Hawaiian Shipping Articles View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Maritime)HeadlineRecruiting Hawaiians for whaling cruise, 1868Date PublishedMarch 1868 Lot #353 Manuscript Civil War era map, likely of Confederate origin, depicting portions of West Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Mississippi View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War - manuscript map)HeadlineCivil war ms. map of Shiloh regionDate Publishedc.1862 Lot #424 Army soldier in the Black Hills 10 years after Wounded Knee - letter View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Heading(South Dakota - Cavalry Fort, 1901)AuthorReynolds, FultonHeadline1901 Cavalry trooper in Black Hills of South Dakota, 10 years after Wounded KneeDate PublishedAug. 5, 1901 Lot #425 Letter by a US General about the death of a famed American war corespondent during the Russo-Turkish War View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Turkey, Russia - 1877 War)AuthorGeneral Francis V. GreeneHeadlineUS General's letter about the Russo-Turkish War of 1877Date PublishedOct. 10, 1907 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next