Sale 472: Rare Books & Manuscripts (Monday after S.F. Book Fair) (#472) 02/06/2012 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2012 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 472 62 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 1-36 of 36. Previous|1|Next Lot #7 Autograph Letter, signed from an ex-Kentucky slave in Liberia View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(African-American)AuthorPriest, Rev. James M.HeadlineALs from an ex-Kentucky slave in LiberiaDate PublishedFeb. 2, 4, and 9, 1847 Lot #10 Autograph Document, signed. - Receipt for an ad in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser offering "black girl for sale" View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(American Revolution)AuthorClaypoole, JohnHeadlineSigned by Betsy Ross' husband John ClaypooleDate PublishedMarch 23, 1795 Lot #11 Draft Letter, signed with initials, predicting the defeat of General How[e] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(American Revolution)AuthorGurney, JosephHeadlineJoseph Gurney draft letter w Revolution contentDate PublishedSeptember 19, 1777 Lot #42 The Quadrupeds of North America View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John James and John BachmanHeadlineAudubon's Quadrupeds with colored lithogaphsPublisherV[ictor] G[ifford] AudubonDate Published1851-1854 Lot #43 Lower California. The Peninsula. Now Open to Colonists: Tierra Perfecta, the perfect land of the mission fathers View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Baja California)Author**HeadlineRare Baja California Land Brochures1887PublisherInternational Company of MexicoDate Published[1887] Lot #49 Single Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Algonquin)Author**HeadlineSingle Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible 1663Publisher[Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson]Date Published1663-61 Lot #57 Northern California, a description of its soil, climate, productions, markets, occupied and unoccupied lands. Homes in a winterless climate, where all the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones grow to perfection View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineRare Northern California promotional booklet 1885PublisherH.S. Crocker & Co.Date Published1885 Lot #67 Von Wunderland zu Wunderland: Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCronau, RudolfHeadlineVon Wunderland zu Wunderland 50 collotype platesPublisherMax Spohr / T.O. WeigelDate Published[1885]-1887 Lot #71 Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold AuthorDu Halde, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineDu Halde’s China, 1st ed., 4 volumes, 1735PublisherP.G. Le MercierDate Published1735 Lot #72 The Butterflies of North America - First Series, plus several parts from second series View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorEdwards, William H.HeadlineThe Butterflies of North America Color PlatesPublisherHoughton, Osgood and CompanyDate Published1879 Lot #85 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1774PublisherPrinted for F. NewberyDate Published1774 Lot #96 Bound for Glory View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorGuthrie, WoodyHeadlineWoody Guthrie Bound for Glory First Edition in DJPublisherE.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1943 Lot #98 An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorHall, Manly P.HeadlineManly P Hall's Encyclopedic Outline 1/200PublisherH.S. Crocker CompanyDate Published1928 Lot #99 Four Autograph Letters, signed, from an early American entrepreneur in Hawaii View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Hawaii)AuthorCalkin, Milo and ElizabethHeadline1843-44 A YANKEE ENTREPRENEUR IN HAWAIIDate PublishedNovember 3, December 22, 1843; & January 28, 1844 Lot #103 Papermaking in Indo-China View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorHunter, DardHeadlineDard Hunter Papermaking in Indo-ChinaPublisher[Mountain House Press]Date Published1947 Lot #105 The Literature of Papermaking, 1390-1800. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorHunter, DardHeadlineDard Hunter The Literature of PapermakingPublisher[Mountain House Press]Date Published[1925] Lot #112 Autograph Letter, signed, presenting a gift of a Jefferson law book to President Andrew Jackson View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Masonic)Author[Goodenow, John M.] Wonedoog M. NhojHeadlineGIFT OF A JEFFERSON LAW BOOK TO PRESIDENT JACKSONDate PublishedA[nno] L[ucis] 5830 [1830] Lot #114 Autograph Letter, signed, to his wife while fleeing from French Troops View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorJuarez, BenitoHeadlineALs From Benito Juarez to his wife while fleeingDate PublishedSept. 22, 1864 Lot #115 Two Typed Letters, signed, regarding anti-Semitic portrayals in motion pictures View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Semitism)AuthorLewis, Leon L.Headline2 TLs regarding anti-semitic portrayals in filmsDate Published1914 & 1915 Lot #121 The Holy Qur'an View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Koran in Arabic & Persian)Author**HeadlineKoran in Arabic & PersianDate PublishedLate18th Century Lot #126 Two unpublished letters about General James Wilkinson, noted soldier, traitor, spy and first Governor of Louisiana View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Louisiana Territory)AuthorWilkinson, James B. (Jr.); Henry Dearborn; George IngersollHeadlineTwo letters re General James WilkinsonDate Published1803-04 Lot #128 Autograph Letter, signed, from the Utopian "Father of American Geology" then residing in Mexico View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorMaclure, WilliamHeadlineALs from the Father of American GeologyDate PublishedOctober 1, 1836 Lot #139 Gone With the Wind View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorMitchell, MargaretHeadlineGone With the Wind inscribed in jacketPublisherMacmillanDate Published1936 Lot #143 The New Dealers - Signed by F.D.R. and approximately 80 other New Dealers View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(New Deal)Author"Unofficial Observer"HeadlineThe New Dealers - Signed by F.D.R. and othersPublisherLiterary GuildDate Published[1934] Lot #144 WITHDRAWN Manuscript Document Signed by William Franklin as Colonial Governor of New Jersey View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(New Jersey)AuthorFranklin, WilliamHeadlineDocument signed by last colonial N. Jersey Gov.Date PublishedJune 20, 1765 Lot #160 The Riley Medal - With pamphlet and book View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley - The Riley MedalDate Published1916 Lot #163 Pair of bookends with a portrait of James Whitcomb Riley View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Riley, James Whitcomb)Author**HeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley BookendsPublisherBradley & Hubbard Co.Date Publishedc.1910 Lot #167 Golden Gate Park - The People's Paradise View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(San Francisco - Golden Gate Park)Author**HeadlineBroadside for Stow Lake Golden Gate ParkDate Publishedc.1895 Lot #172 The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tragical History of Hamlet 1 of 500 copiesPublisherAdam & Charles BlackDate Published1911 Lot #180 Collection of poster art and posters for theatrical productions of John Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(Steinbeck, John)Author**HeadlineThe Moon is Down theater poster artDate Publishedc.1942 Lot #181 Autograph Letter, signed, from the future Supreme Court Justice, the a love-sick young attorney View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorStory, JosephHeadlineALs future Supreme Court Justice Joseph StoryDate PublishedMay 19, 1802 Lot #185 The Golden Fleece, Divided into three Parts, Under which are discovered the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the Wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colehos, out of the Southernmost Part of the Iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Junior, for the generall and perpetuall Good of Great Britaine View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Author[Vaughan, William]HeadlineThe Golden Fleece by William Vaughan 1626PublisherFrancis WilliamsDate Published1626 Lot #189 Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany. Drawn from nature and engraved by William Wade View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorWade, WilliamHeadline1846 Panorama of the Hudson RiverPublisherJ. DisturnellDate Published1846 Lot #191 American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorWilson, Alexander & Charles Lucian BonaparteHeadlineWilson & Bonapartes American OrnithologyPublisherWhittaker, Treacher, & ArnotDate Published1832 Lot #192 Printer's mock-up for the never published Wall Street periodical "The Woman Investor" View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(Women's Rights)Author**HeadlineProspectus for The Woman Investor 1914PublisherThe Woman InvestorDate PublishedFebruary, 1914 Lot #193 Japanese Propaganda Poster Appealing to Filipino Anti-American Nationalism View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(World War II Propaganda Poster)Author**HeadlineWWII Japanese Propaganda PosterDate Publishedc.1942 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next