Sale 796: PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#796) 09/07/2023 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/07/2023 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 796 660 PDF Prices RealizedPDF Catalog 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 1-30 of 30. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Two works relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - from the Warren Heckrotte Collection View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Atomic Bomb)HeadlineClassified Oppenheimer hearing transcript 1954PublisherU.S. Government Printing OfficeDate Published1954 & 1963 Lot #4 Archive of 13 original photographs taken by Yosuke Yamahata of Nagasaki, Japan, the day after the city was devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by the United States View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorYamahata, YosukeHeadlinePhotographs of Nagasaki after atom bomb fellDate Published1945-46 Lot #15 Family photograph album of Sir George Scott when he was Administrator at Taunngyi in the Shan States in Burma View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Burma - Myanmar)AuthorScott, James GeorgeHeadlinePhotograph album of colonial BurmaDate Publishedc.1908-11 Lot #17 An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour. Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.; by John Hawkesworth LL.D. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cook, James)AuthorHawkesworth, JohnHeadlineCook's First Voyage, second edition, 1773PublisherW. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1773 Lot #18 Atlas volume to Cook's Third Voyage View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorCook, JamesHeadlineAtlas to Cook's Third VoyagePublisherW. & A. StrahanDate Published1784 Lot #19 Cuban pennant from the 1953 XIV World Amateur Baseball Championship, signed by many players on the team View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Baseball)HeadlineCuban amateur baseball champs signed pennantDate Published1953 Lot #20 Set of 1951 Cuban Mejoral baseball cards, one featuring Hoyt Wilhelm during his brief tenure with the Havana Lions (Habana Leones) View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Baseball)HeadlineHoyt Wilhelm pre-rookie baseball cardDate Published1951 Lot #21 File of legal documents (Expediante) regarding the formal processes that Chinese workers had to go through to obtain a second work contract View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineObtaining work permit as Chinese laborer in CubaDate Published1872 Lot #22 Legal file (expediante) for the restructuring and renaming of the "Society of the Casino Asiatico de Macubiges" in Matanzas, Cuba View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese Casino in Cuba renamed & reorganizedDate Published1888-1925 Lot #23 Legal file (expediante) of documents relating to the capture of runaway Chinese laborers in Cuba, and their imprisonment in the “Depository for Rebel Slaves” View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese rebel slaves in Cuba captured 1874Date Published1874 Lot #24 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineOver 600 Chinese coolies bound for China 1868Date PublishedJan 24, 1868 Lot #25 Manuscript legal depositions from an investigation into shipboard deaths of Chinese laborers bound for Cuba View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineShipboard deaths of Chinese coolies investigatedDate Publishedc.1860s Lot #26 Manuscript record of the interrogation of passengers from the French frigate “Emmanuelle” about deaths which occurred during its voyage from Macao to Havana, Cuba View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCoolies on bloody passage from Macao to CubaDate Published1865 Lot #27 Reglamento de "Kuo Min Tang": (Partido Nacionista de China), Centro Principal Habana View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese Nationalists in Cuba, 1923PublisherImprenta Barcelona 3Date Published1923 Lot #28 File of original documents relating to the sighting and pursuit by a British frigate of a Cuban steamship carrying African slaves - with an encrypted message from the British government View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSpanish slave ship sighted by British frigate 1864Date Published1864 Lot #29 Manuscript listing the complaints of slaves and workers about their masters and employers, and the solutions and agreements made to address them View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban slaves complain about their masters 1852Date Published1852 Lot #32 The Gentleman's Magazine: For January [to] December, 1776. With the U.S. Declaration of Independence View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Declaration of Independence)AuthorUrban, Sylvanus [pseud. of Edward Cave]HeadlineEnglish printing of Declaration of IndependencePublisherPrinted for D. HenryDate Published1776 Lot #40 Album with approx. 145 large format photographs of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, most albumen View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Egypt & the Middle East)HeadlineLarge photo album of Egypt & Middle EastDate Published1894 Lot #42 Bound volume of twenty-five publications on "The Popish Plot" 1678-1681 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Popish Plot)Headline25 publications on The Popish Plot 1678-81Date Published1678-1681 Lot #48 Letter from Isabella Graham, founder of the American Sunday School movement, to her parents in England, recounting her meeting with a Seneca Indian chief and his “Squa” and daughter, and other matters View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorGraham, Isabella MarshallHeadline“Founding Mother” of American Charity writes from colonial NYDate PublishedFeb. 3, 1771 Lot #54 The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: With a Chronologie to the Whole Historie: And the Topographie of Rome in Old Time View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst edition of Livy in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1600 Lot #55 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 Lot #57 Das Erst General/inhaltend die beschzeibung und den Circkeldes gantzen Erdtrichs und Moze View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Maps)AuthorMünster, SebastianHeadlineMunster map of World 1550Date Published1550-[1578] Lot #58 Die neüwen Inseln/ so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indie ligen View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Maps)AuthorMünster, SebastianHeadlineMunster map of Americas 1574Date Published1540-[1572] Lot #59 Le Nouveau Mexique, et la Floride: Tirées de Diverses Cartes, et Relations View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Heading(Maps)AuthorSanson, NicolasHeadlineSanson New Mex. & Florida w/insular CaliforniaPublisherChez Pierre MarietteDate Published1656 Lot #68 Mexican picture-chronicle of Cempoallan and other States of the Empire of Aculhuacan: Written on 16 leaves (31pp.) of paper manufactured from the maguey-fibre; about 1530 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineColor facsimile of Aztec pictographsPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1890 Lot #71 Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMullan, JohnHeadlineMullan's Miners Guide with map 1865PublisherW.M. FranklinDate Published1865 Lot #72 Collection of ten original photographs from James Mooney’s pioneering investigations of the Ghost Dance and other Native American circle dances View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Heading(Native American)AuthorMooney, JamesHeadlineRare photos of the Ghost Dance by MooneyDate Publishedc.1892-93 Lot #86 Antiquities of Westminster: The Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (Now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing 246 Engravings of Topographical Objects, of Which 122 No Longer Remain [with] Sixty-Two Additional Plates to Smith's Antiquities View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorSmith, John ThomasHeadlineAntiquities of Westminster, illustratedPublisherPrinted By T. Bensley, for J.T. SmithDate Published1807-1809 Lot #89 The Aldine Thucydides, with scholia and History of the Emperors by Herodian View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineAldine Thucydides 1502, first printed Greek textPublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1502-1503 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next