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