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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Letter by future Chief Justice, about to help give birth to the new Republican Party View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(African American - Anti-Slavery)AuthorChase, Salmon P.HeadlineLetter by future Chief Justice who helped found GOPDate PublishedOct. 19, 1853 Lot #2 Letters showing the groundbreaking realignment of the American political system around the slavery issue View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(African American - Anti-Slavery)HeadlinePolitical collaboration of Whigs and Free Soil DemocratsDate Published1847-1849 Lot #3 Letter about feud with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and search for fugitive slave View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1817)AuthorElliott, Jesse DuncanHeadlineUS Naval hero tracks his fugitive slaveDate PublishedAugust 17, 1817 Lot #4 Letter from Canadian American witnessing slave auction View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(African American, 1836)AuthorBaxter, JamesHeadlineCanadian American sees Charleston Slave auctionDate PublishedDec. 14, 1836 Lot #5 Letter from Maine newly-weds who moved to northern Tennessee to open a school, writing home describing their culture shock at life in the slave South View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1838)AuthorWhitman, Angelia Smith and Edwin WhitmanHeadlineNew Englanders experience culture shock in TennesseeDate PublishedOct. 28, 1838 Lot #6 Letter from ship captain about the disastrous fire at his Puerto Rico leather warehouse View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1850)AuthorHatch, DavisHeadlineYankee ship captain doubts Black slave arson in Puerto RicoDate PublishedAug. 20, 1850 Lot #7 Michigan timber merchant’s letter to his brother in New England about Black Walnut logging by ex-slaves in Canada View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1851)AuthorHadley, ClarkHeadlineEscaped slaves, Indians and the ‘real’ Uncle Tom in CanadaDate PublishedJune 8-15, 1851 Lot #9 Letter to a pioneering young Mulatto inventor from a doomed Cuban revolutionary hero View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1866)AuthorGoicouria, General Domingo deHeadlineLetter to antebellum African American inventorDate PublishedMarch 27, 1866 Lot #10 Inventory listing 161 slaves from the Coffee farm Boa Esperanca in the municipality of Paty do Alferes in Rio de Janeiro. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(African American, 1882 - Slavery, Brazil)HeadlineList of slaves at Brazilian coffee farm 1882Date Published1882 Lot #23 Handwritten notebook by J.A. Murray, recording lectures in pathology by physician and dermatologist Isaac Atkinson View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Atkinson, Isaac E.)AuthorMurray, J.A.HeadlineMedical school lecture noted at UMD, 1885Date Published1883 Lot #25 Four books by Mary Austin View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorAustin, MaryHeadlineFour by Mary Austin, 2 signedDate Published1905-1950 Lot #27 Men and Memories of San Francisco in the "Spring of '50" View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBarry, T.A. and B.A. PattenHeadlineThe S.F. Gold Rush recalled by two saloonkeepersPublisherA.L. BancroftDate Published1873 Lot #32 Three Years in California View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBorthwick, John DavidHeadlineBorthwick's 3 Years in California First EditionPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1857 Lot #39 Message of the President of the United States, Communicating information...in relation to California and New Mexico. (caption title) View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(California & New Mexico)Author[Taylor, Zachary]HeadlineZachary Taylor - California and New Mexico 1850Date Published1850 Lot #53 Bill Book of Rosenberg Bros View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineRosenberg Bros. ledger book 1866Publisher[Rosenberg Bros. Company]Date Published1866-1876 Lot #80 Letter from a young New England emigrant to New Orleans View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(California – San Francisco Gold Rush pioneer)AuthorPhelps, AbnerHeadlineSan Francisco pioneer writes about New OrleansDate PublishedJune 30, 1832 Lot #81 Letter to artist William Thompson Russell Smith View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(California Gold Rush)AuthorMcIlvaine, Jr., William H.HeadlineLetter from published artist of the California Gold RushDate PublishedAug. 28, 1848 Lot #87 Letter from Banking House of D.O. Mills to Leland Stanford View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(California)AuthorMiller, HenryHeadlineLetter to Leland Stanford, 1862Date Published1862 Lot #88 The Argus, A Journal of Art Criticism and News, 3 issues View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(California)AuthorSalinger, Jehanne Bietry, ed.Headline3 issues of rare 1920s San Francisco Art magazineDate PublishedAugust 1927-January 1928 Lot #90 Rambling Reminiscences of the Charles Wood Family and their "Woodside Farm" Home (cover title) View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(California)AuthorWood, Charlotte E.HeadlinePioneer life in Contra Costa County, Cal.Date Published1951 Lot #110 Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCrossfield, A. Scott and Clay Blair, Jr.HeadlineInscribed and signed by A. Scott CrossfieldPublisherThe World Publishing CompanyDate Published[1960] Lot #112 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers bound for Cuba in 1867Date PublishedFebruary 15, 1867 Lot #114 Manuscript register of deaths of Chinese laborers being transported to Cuba aboard the Spanish ship "Cervantes" View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers bound for Cuba die in 1867Date PublishedAugust 20, 1867 Lot #115 Report on the importation of Chinese indentured labor, or slaves, and its effects View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineSpanish report on Chinese labor in Cuba, 1855Date Published1855 Lot #117 Two registration forms for Chinese immigrant indentured laborers in Cuba View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineRegistration forms for Chinese labor in CubaDate Publishedc.1860 Lot #119 Manuscript set of memoranda on the topic of free workers imported to work in Cuba, regarding labor policies, licenses, etc. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineLaws for "free" laborers in 19th cent. CubaDate Published1857-1859 Lot #123 Letter from Jefferson Davis to S.D. Hewes, expressing his devotion to Mississippi and his abhorrence of the "vampyres who have sucked her life blood..." View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorDavis, JeffersonHeadlineLetter from Jefferson Davis + wife's memoirDate Published9rh Dec. 1875 Lot #139 California, In-Doors and Out; or, How we Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorFarnham, Eliza W.HeadlineCalifornia from early feminine perspective 1856PublisherDix, Edwards & Co.Date Published1856 Lot #153 The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of North America; From Their Discovery to the Present Day. Accompanied by a Geographical View of Those Countries, and a Number of Documents as Proofs and Illustrations... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorGreenhow, RobertHeadlineInscribed to Henry Wheaton by Robert GreenhowPublisherPrinted for the Author, by Freeman and BollesDate Published1847 Lot #159 Labor Contract -- Olelo Aelike View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Hawaii)HeadlineJapanese laborer at Hawaiian sugar plantationDate PublishedDec. 6, 1897 Lot #183 El Ferassah. Hand-Reading A Practical and Popular Treatise in Modern Cheirosophy. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorKaldah [Massad, A.F.]HeadlineInscribed and signed by the authorPublisherThe Khaldah Publishing CompanyDate Published[1898] Lot #203 Escrituras de la casa No 137 de la Calle de San Jeronimo View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Mexico)AuthorMaya, RamónHeadlineAbstract of title for a Mexico City propertyDate Published1705-1908 Lot #210 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineWritings of John Muir Manuscript Edition DeluxePublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1916-24 Lot #224 Letter advocating a Mexican railway route from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the Panama Canal View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Panama Canal)AuthorCorthell, Elmer LawrenceHeadlineMexican railway project competes with the Panama CanalPublisherTehuantepec Ship RailwayDate PublishedJanuary 4, 1884 Lot #239 A Tour of Duty in California; including a Description of the Gold Region: and an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorRevere, Joseph WarrenHeadlineJoseph Revere A Tour of Duty in California 1849PublisherC. S. Francis & Co.Date Published1849 Lot #242 Eleven studies for Eleven Players: 1959-1960 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorRorem, NedHeadlineMusic score inscribed by Ned RoremPublisherBoosey and HawkesDate Published1962 Lot #243 California: A History of Upper & Lower California from their First Discovery to the Present Time, comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A Full View of the Missionary Establishments and Condition of the Free and Domesticated Indians. With an Appendix relating to Steam Navigation in the Pacific View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorForbes, AlexanderHeadlineForbes' History of CA signed by Thomas RussellPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1919 Lot #244 California: A History of Upper & Lower California from their First Discovery to the Present Time, comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A Full View of the Missionary Establishments and Condition of the Free and Domesticated Indians. With an Appendix relating to Steam Navigation in the Pacific View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorForbes, AlexanderHeadlineRussell's edition of Forbes finely bound, 1919PublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1919 Lot #245 Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorLangsdorff, Georg Heinrich vonHeadlineLangsdorff's Narrative with prospectusPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1927 Lot #246 Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorLangsdorff, Georg Heinrich vonHeadlineLangsdorff's Narrative w/ jacket & prospectusPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1927 Lot #247 Narrative of Edward McGowan, Including a Full Account of the Author's Adventures and Perils While Persecuted by the San Francisco Vigilante Committee of 1856. Together with a Report of His Trial, which Resulted in His Acquittal View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorMcGowan, EdwardHeadlineMcGowan's narrative signed by Thomas RussellPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1917 Lot #248 The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806. The Report of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov of His Voyage to that Provincia of Nueva España from New Archangel View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorRezanov, Nikolai PetrovichHeadlineRezanov's Journey signed by Thomas RussellPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1926 Lot #249 Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42...[with] Printer Thomas C. Russell comments on Nash, DeVinne, Cowan et al. in a Letter to M.J. Ferguson. State Librarian View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorSimpson, George; Thomas C. RussellHeadlineMilton J. Ferguson's copy with ALS from RussellPublisherThomas C. Russell; Tamalpais PressDate Published1930; 1970 Lot #250 Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42. Together with Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk; To Which are Added Sketches of Journeys across America, Asia, & Europe: From the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorSimpson, GeorgeHeadlineSimpson's Narrative signed by Thomas RussellPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1930 Lot #252 Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorRyan, William RedmondHeadlineWheat's copy of Ryan's Adventures in CaliforniaPublisherWilliam ShoberlDate Published1850 Lot #254 Men and Horses View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorSantee, RossHeadlineInscribed, signed, sketches by Santee, Men & HorsesPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published[1926] Lot #258 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$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorShaw, PringleHeadlineRamblings in California, c. 1857PublisherJames BainDate Published[c. 1857] Lot #265 Manuscript document relating to the shipment of items from Barcelona, Spain, to Montevideo, which was apparently rerouted to Lima because of unrest in region View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(South America - Uruguay)HeadlineShip bound for Montevideo in troubled timesDate Published1813? Lot #267 Printed decree signed by King Charles IV of Spain & other dignitaries & officials, regarding a slave revolt in the New Kingdom of Granada View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Spanish Colonies - Slave Revolt)AuthorCharles IV, King of SpainHeadlineSlave revolt decree signed by Charles IV of Spain 1801Date PublishedFebruary 17, 1801 Lot #268 Adobe Days Along the Channel View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSpaulding, Edward Selden, comp.HeadlineAdobe Days Along the Channel Ed Borein & othersPublisher[Schauer Printing Studio, Inc.]Date Published1957 Lot #275 Oregon and California: The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California...to which is added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with recent notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorThornton, J. QuinnHeadlineQuinn Thornton in the Gold Rush 1849PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1849 Lot #281 Collection of early materials about Grand Coulee Dam View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Washington - Grand Coulee Dam)HeadlineSandblasting at the Grand Coulee DamDate Publishedc.1945 Lot #283 Legends: A Collection of Western Photographs, Signatures & Memories - autographed by many within including President Jimmy Carter, Mickey Rooney, James Arness and Eddy Arnold View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Author(Western Legends)HeadlineAutographs of western legends, presentation copyPublisherJack Bacon & CompanyDate Published2006 Lot #285 A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, illustrated with Anecdotes and Stories taken from real life View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(White, William F.)AuthorGrey, William, pseud.HeadlineInscribed and signed by William F. WhitePublisherW. M. Hinton & Co.Date Published1881 Lot #291 Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorWoods, Daniel B.HeadlineSixteen Months at the Gold DiggingsPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1851 Lot #308 Letter of introduction by an eminent Scottish botanist View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Botany, Horticulture)AuthorLoudon, John ClaudiusHeadlineLetter of introduction from Scottish botanist J. C. LoudonDate PublishedFeb. 14, 1832 Lot #346 Photograph of Benito Mussolini, signed by him View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorMussolini, BenitoHeadlineSigned photograph of Benito MussoliniDate Published[1942?] Lot #355 Die Durch Theorie Erfundene practic... [with] Anthropometria, Sive Statura Hominis à Nativitate ad consummatum aetatis... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPreissler, Johann Daniel and Johann Georg Bergmüller, et al.Headline83 fine 18th c. plates on drawing instructionPublisherPreissler; LotterDate Published1723; 1728-1734 Lot #394 Map of the South San Francisco Homestead and R.R. Association prepared for final division and distribution among the shareholders... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorHoadley, William H. & James H. BryanHeadlineMS. real estate map of southeast S.F. 1867Date Published12 February 1867 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next