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Previous|12|Next Lot #272 Letter from Agustin Medrano, a father of the parish of Itztacalco, to the Archbishop of Mexico, bemoaning the fact that the graveyards are full View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineMexico graveyards are full, 1797Date Published1797 Lot #274 Manuscript list of announcements that were gave by Nicolas de la Cruz, “indio ladino pregonero” (an Indian who gave public announcements in the streets). View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlinePublic announcements in Puebla town square, 1711Date Published1711 Lot #275 Manuscript testament ("testamento y bienes") of Jose Sanchez Isquierdo, who died in 1790 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineColonial Mexican testament, 1791Date Published1790-1791 Lot #276 "Muerte de Indio Borracho" (Death of a drunk Indian) - court document View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineGrandfather dies of drink in 1791 MexicoDate Published1791 Lot #277 Sumario de las gracias, indulgencias e indultos que la Santa Sede Apostólica concedió a la Cofradía de la Milagrosa Imagen de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, con el Título del Despojo, que se venera en su capilla del pueblo de Huamantla... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineBroadside of Mexican indulgences, 1821Date Published1821 Lot #278 Document from the Viceroy of New Spain, regarding the occupation by bandits of cattle lands belonging to a helpless widow View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Mexico)AuthorToledo y Salazar, Antonio de, Viceroy of New SpainHeadlineBandits invade Mexican widow's cattle lands, 1670Date Published1670 Lot #280 Ranch Life in Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory, as Told by a Novice. How a Fortune was Made in Cattle. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorMiller, Benjamin SHeadlineRanch Life in Indian Territory 1896PublisherFless & Ridge Printing CompanyDate Published1896 Lot #282 Memorial of Robert Mills Respecting a New Route to the Pacific Ocean, with a Plan for the Transportation of Despatches to Astoria in Fifteen Days View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorMills, RobertHeadlineEarly map proposing a transcontinental routeDate Published1848 Lot #288 Roughing It In the Bush; or, Life in Canada View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorMoodie, SusannaHeadlineMoodie, Roughing It In the BushPublisherDe Witt & DavenportDate Published[c 1852] Lot #289 Indian Wars of the United States, from the Discovery in the Present Time. With accounts of the orgin, manners, superstitions, &c. of the Aborigines. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorMoore, William V. [Frost, John]HeadlineIndian Wars of the United States, 1858PublisherLeary & GetzDate Published1858 Lot #296 Raised Relief Map of the White Mountains View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(New Hampshire - Relief Map)HeadlineRaised Relief Map of White Mountains NH 1872PublisherPublished by Geo. K. Snow & BradeeDate Published1872 Lot #297 A Journal of the Proceedings of the Honorable House of Representatives for said State, at their Session begun and holden at Exeter, the first Wednesday of December, 1799. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(New Hampshire)HeadlineProceedings of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1799Date Published[1799] Lot #303 Letter from the Oklahoma Oil Wells Co. to a stockholder, with 4-page General Report to Stockholders View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Oklahoma - Oil)HeadlineOil in OklahomaDate Published1917 & 1918 Lot #304 Leasing of Grazing Lands in the Ponca, Otoe, and Missouria Indian Reservations, Okla. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to Resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1899, Copies of Documents, Correspondence, Reports and Papers Relating to the Leasing of Grazing Lands . . . Since the Commencement of the Year 1897. 56th Congress, 1st Session. Document No. 217 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Oklahoma)AuthorHitchcock, E. A.HeadlineLeasing of Grazing Lands in Oklahoma Indian ReservationsDate Published1900 Lot #305 Reward Poster for Red Wine Bros. Hardware, 1905 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Oklahoma)HeadlineReward Poster for Red Wine Bros. 1905PublisherRed Wine Bros.Date Published1905 Lot #307 The Construction of the Panama Canal by the United States View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Panama Canal)AuthorHaberkorn, Christian Henry Jr.HeadlineManuscript Economics thesis for Harvard grad, 1910Date Published1910 Lot #309 Beaver Run Hunting and Fishing Club of Pike County, Pennsylvania View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Pennsylvania)HeadlineBeaver Run Hunting and Fishing Club w/map 1906PublisherPress of the Germantown Independent-GazetteDate Published1906 Lot #314 Memorial Against Mr. Asa Whitney's Railroad Scheme View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorPlumbe, JohnHeadlineAgainst Mr. Asa Whitney's Railroad Scheme 1851PublisherBuell & BlanchardDate Published[1851] Lot #315 WITHDRAWN - Pony Express Broadside View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Pony Express)HeadlineWITHDRAWN - Pony Express! broadside, 1861PublisherSlote & JanesDate Published1861 Lot #316 Payment note signed by Admiral David Dixon Porter View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorPorter, David DixonHeadlinePayment note signed by Admiral David Dixon PorterDate Published1821 Lot #318 Letter from N.H. Swayne View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents - Abraham Lincoln)AuthorSwayne, N.H.HeadlineLetter from N.H. Swayne, 1st Republican Supreme Court JusticeDate Published1845 Lot #320 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineMemoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885-86PublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-6 Lot #322 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineMemoirs of Ulysses S. GrantPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 Lot #323 WITHDRAWN - The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson - signed by Herbert Hoover View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents)AuthorHoover, Herbert ClarkHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Herbert Hoover Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson Signed 1/500PublisherMcGraw-Hill Book Co.Date Published[1958] Lot #325 America's Lecacy [sic]: Being the Address of G. Washington, on his declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorWashington, GeorgeHeadline"America's Lecacy" - Washington's Farewell AddressPublisherA. StoddardDate Published1797 Lot #326 Farewell Address - in Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont Almanack 1797 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents)Author[Washington, George]Headline1797 Almanack with early printing of Washington's Farewell AddressPublisherIsaiah ThomasDate Published1797 Lot #327 Complete set of Quivira Society Publications View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Quivira Society Publications)HeadlineQuivira Society Publications on Spanish SouthwestPublisherQuivira SocietyDate Published1929-1958 Lot #328 The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Quivira Society Publications)AuthorWagner, Henry R.HeadlineThe Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794PublisherQuivira SocietyDate Published1937 Lot #329 Supplement to the Report to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, on the Railways of the United States View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Railroads)AuthorGalton, DouglasHeadlineRailways of the United States, 1858PublisherPrinted by George Edward Eyre and William SpottiswoodeDate Published1858 Lot #330 "Great Rock Island Route": C.R.I. & P. Ry. through rates of fare from Chicago... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Railroads)HeadlineRates on the Rock Island Railway 1886 with mapPublisherJ.M.W. Jones Stationery & Printing Co.Date Published1886 Lot #331 Holbrook's United States Railroad Guide and Steamboat Journal. 1850. August. No. 7 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Railroads)HeadlineU.S. railroad guide 1850PublisherGeo R. Holbrook & CompanyDate Published1850 Lot #335 [1777-1780 German-Language Religious Manuscript owned by the Wheaton Family of New York City, mainly during the Revolutionary War Years]. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Revolutionary War - New York City - Religious Manuscript)HeadlineRevolutionary War Era German-Language manuscript from New YorkDate Published[1777-1780; some later 19th century entries] Lot #336 Signed loan document, Pennslvania 1785 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Revolutionary War)HeadlineSigned loan document, Pennsylvania 1785Date Published1785 Lot #337 The History of America View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorRobertson, WilliamHeadlineThe History of America, 1778PublisherW. Strahan, et al.Date Published1778 Lot #338 The Overland Stage to California: Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorRoot, Frank A. and William Elsey ConnelleyHeadlineRoot, Overland Stage to California, 1901PublisherPublished by the AuthorsDate Published1901 Lot #339 Across America: or, The Great West and The Pacific Coast View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorRusling, James F.HeadlineAcross America, 1st Ed. with folding mapPublisherSheldon & CompanyDate Published1874 Lot #342 The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSemmes, RHeadlineThe Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, 1864PublisherCarletonDate Published1864 Lot #343 The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People called Quakers View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorSewel, WilliamHeadlineThe History of...the Christian People called Quakers, 1725PublisherJ. SowleDate Published1725 Lot #344 Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General United States Army View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorSheridan, P.H.HeadlinePersonal Memoirs of P.H. SheridanPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1888 Lot #349 Collection of Sierra Club bulletins, 1907-1958 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Sierra Club)HeadlineCollection of Sierra Club bulletins, 1907-1958PublisherThe Sierra ClubDate Published1907-1959 Lot #352 Report from the Secretary of War, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Report and Map of the Route from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Made by Lieutenant Simpson View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSimpson, James H.HeadlineRoute from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico 1850PublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1850 Lot #353 Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSitgreaves, LorenzoHeadlineExpedition Down the Zuni & Colorado, 1854PublisherBeverly Tucker, Senate PrinterDate Published1854 Lot #363 Historical Nuggets: Bibliotheca Americana or a Descriptive Copy of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorStevens, HenryHeadlineBibliotheca Americana 1862PublisherWhittingham and WilkinsDate Published1862 Lot #365 The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorStone, William L.HeadlineThe Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart., 1865PublisherJ. MunsellDate Published1865 Lot #368 The Resources and Attractions of Idaho Territory. Facts Regarding Climate, Soil, Minerals, Agricultural and Grazing Lands, Forests, Scenery, Game and Fish.. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorStrahorn, Robert E.HeadlineResources of Idaho w/folding map 1881Publisher[Omaha Republican Print]Date Published1881 Lot #369 Studer's Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America: Drawn and Colored from Life by Theodore Jasper, M.D View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorStuder, Jacob H.HeadlineStuder's Birds with chromolithograph plates 1881PublisherJacob H. Studer & Co.Date Published1881 Lot #378 Three volumes on mapping Texas and the Southwest View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Texas and the Southwest)HeadlineThree volumes on mapping Texas and the SouthwestDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #381 The Evolution of a State Or Recollections of Old Texas Days View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Texas)AuthorSmithwick, NoahHeadlineRecollections of Old Texas Days by SmithwickPublisherGammel Book CompanyDate Published[1900] Lot #385 Counter display and trade catalog for M. Born & Company, Tailors, 1938-39 Autumn & Winter Seasons View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Trade Catalogs)AuthorBorn, MosesHeadlineCounter display for fine woolen tailor's samplesPublisherM. BornDate Published1938-39 Lot #389 Naval Aviation Training Schools, Pensacola, Fla: Ground School Course, Volume I View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(U.S. Navy)AuthorUnited States Navy DepartmentHeadlineNaval Aviation Training Schools Ground School Course 1925PublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1925 Lot #390 Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twelfth Congress View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(United States)HeadlineActs Passed at the First Session of the Twelfth CongressDate Published1811 Lot #391 The Letter of Amerigo Vespucci, Describing His Four Voyages to the New World, 1497-1504 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorVespucci, AmerigoHeadlineLetter of Amerigo Vespucci, 1926PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1926 Lot #392 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee Trading Cards View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Victorian Trading Cards)HeadlineArbuckle's Ariosa Coffee Trading Cards, c.1890PublisherArbuckle Bros.Date PublishedNo date Lot #394 Emergency Edition of the National Intelligencer, September 9, 1814 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(War of 1812)HeadlineEmergency Edition of the National Intelligencer, 1814Date Published1814 Lot #395 The Vision of Liberty: Recited Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University. August 26, 1824 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWare, Henry, Jr.HeadlinePoem on the Vision of LibertyPublisherOliver EverettDate Published1824 Lot #396 Fidalgo Island, Washington Territory, 1872 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Washington - Fidalgo Island)HeadlineRare blueprint map of Fidalgo Island Washington 1872Date Published1872 Lot #397 Chronological List of Engagements Between the Regular Army of the United States and Various Tribes of Hostile Indians Which Occurred During the Years 1790-1898, Inclusive View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorWebb, George W.HeadlineIndian wars chronology with laid in letterPublisherWing Printing & Pub. Co.Date Published1939 Lot #398 Three Years' Wanderings of a Connecticut Yankee, in South America, Africa, Australia, and California, with Descriptions of the Several Countries, Manners, Customs and Conditions of the People, Including Miners, Natives, Etc. Also, a Detailed Account of a Voyage Around the World... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWelles, C. M.HeadlineThree Years' Wanderings of a Connecticut Yankee, 1st Ed.PublisherAmerican Subscription Publishing HouseDate Published1859 Lot #399 Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank of San Francisco Code Book. No. 272 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Wells, Fargo)HeadlineRare Wells Fargo code bookDate Published[c.1900-1910] Lot #403 Memorial of A. Whitney, Praying a grant of public land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific ocean View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWhitney, AsaHeadlineAsa Whitney's proposal for a railroad to the PacificDate Published1846 Lot #405 Appletons' New and Complete United States Guide Book for Travellers. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorWilliams, W.HeadlineUnited States Guide Book for Travellers, 1854PublisherD. Appleton & Co.Date Published1854 Lot #409 The Construction, Operation and Repair of the "Type R" Kite Balloon View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(World War I)AuthorAeronautical Department of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyHeadlineWWI "Type R" Kite Balloon manualDate Published1918 Lot #410 Handbook of Aircraft Armament View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(World War i)AuthorBureau of Aircraft Production Air Service, U.S. ArmyHeadlineWWI Handbook of Aircraft Armament w/foldout plansPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1918 Lot #411 Second Army Air Service Book View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(World War I)AuthorLaw Hugo B., editorHeadlineSecond Army Air Service Book 1919Date Published1919 Lot #412 Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41 Notice to Persons of Japanese Ancestry About San Francisco Evacuation View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(World War II - Japanese Exclusion Order)HeadlineInstructions for internment of Japanese Americans during WWIIDate Published1942 Lot #414 U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87): Ship's Diary View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(World War II)AuthorWilson, Willard J.HeadlineOriginal handwritten diary kept aboard the U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87) Lot #417 Constitution Of The Proposed State Of Wyoming: Adopted In Convention At Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 30, 1889 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Wyoming)HeadlineConstitution of the proposed State of WyomingPublisherCheyenne Leader Printing CompanyDate Published1889 Lot #421 Heaven the Residence of the Saints. A Sermon Occasioned by the Sudden and Much Lamented Death of the Reverend George Whitefield, A.M. View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(American Imprints)AuthorPemberton, EbenezerHeadlineDr. Pemberton's Discourse 1770PublisherD. Kneeland for Joseph EdwardsDate Published1770 Lot #430 Broadside advertising Auction of Homestead in Nelson, New Hampshire View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Heading(Civil War)HeadlineHomestead auction benefitting Civil War Casualty's HeirsDate Published1863 Lot #431 The Opinions of the Judge and the Colonel as to the Vast REsources of Colorado View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Heading(Colorado)HeadlineThe Judge and the Colonel discuss ColoradoPublisherPassenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R.Date Published1895 Lot #434 Supplies for Mine and Mill, Machine Shop Saw & Planing Mill View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorHarron, Rickard & McConeHeadlineSupplies for Mine and Mill 1904PublisherHarron, Rickard & McConeDate Published1904 Lot #439 Original stationery from Rockwell Kent's failed congressional campaign View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Kent, Rockwell)Headline1948 stationery of Rockwell Kent' s only political campaignDate Published1948 Lot #440 The Lone Fish-Ball in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1855 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold AuthorLane, George MartinHeadlineGeorge Martin Lane Lone Fish-Ball 1855PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1855 Lot #441 The Daily American View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Heading(Newspaper)HeadlineApril 6, 1882 Daily AmericanDate PublishedApril 6, 1882 Lot #443 Ode. Adams and Liberty. Written for and Sung at the 4th Anniversary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society 1798 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold AuthorPayne, Robert TreatHeadlinePatriotic Ode Resurrected for the Civil WarPublisherRoss & TouseyDate Published[ca. 1860] Lot #444 WITHDRAWN - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents)AuthorNixon, Richard M.HeadlineWITHDRAWN - Richard Nixon Memoirs signedPublisherGrosset & DunlapDate Published[1978] Lot #445 WITHDRAWN - Noticias de la Antigua California: Sacadas del Vol. XXI de los Mss. Archivo General View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold AuthorRamírez, José FernandoHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Scarce study of California IndiansPublisherVargas ReaDate Published1950 [but 1953?] Lot #447 Freedom in Kansas. Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States March 3, 1858 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorSeward, William H.HeadlineSigned William Seward speech about Freedom in KansasPublisherBuell & Blanchard PrintersDate Published1858 Lot #454 WWI "Enlist Today" broadside View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Heading(World War I)HeadlineWWI enlistment broadsidePublisherEllis PrintDate Published[c.1918] Lot #455 Fifteen volumes on ornithology View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Heading(Ornithology)HeadlineFifteen volumes on ornithologyDate PublishedVarious dates Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next