Sale 816: Elite Americana & Travel - Jim Hier Collection of U.S. Presidents - World History - Rare Cartography - A PBA Platinum Auction (#816) 06/27/2024 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/27/2024 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 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 1-35 of 35. Previous|1|Next Lot #5 African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist Heading(1901)AuthorRoosevelt, TheodoreHeadlineRoosevelt African Game Trails 1/500 signedProvenanceJim Hier CollectionPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1910 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,750StatusSold Lot #12 Memoirs by Harry S. Truman Heading(1945)AuthorTruman, Harry S.HeadlineCharles Sawyer's copy, signed by Harry TrumanProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1955-1956 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #14 The White House Years Heading(1953)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineAdditionally inscribed and signedProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherDoubleday & CompanyDate Published1963-1965 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #19 The Americans: The Democratic Experience Heading(1989)AuthorBoorstin, Daniel J.HeadlineInscribed by George H.W. Bush to Lee AtwaterProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1973 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #23 Arctic Miscellanies: A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search by the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition Heading(Arctic)AuthorDonnet, John Louis, editorHeadlineTrapped in an Arctic winter in 1850-51PublisherColburn & Co.Date Published1852 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 Ta'rīkh Baghdād [History of Baghdad or the City of Peace from its founding until the year 463 AH] Heading(Baghdad)AuthorKhaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlīHeadlineHistory of Baghdad written in 1070 ADPublisherDār al-Kitāb al-'ArabīDate Published1967 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #25 Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 AuthorBartlett, John RussellHeadlineJ.R. Bartlett Personal Narrative of ExplorationPublisherD. AppletonDate Published1854 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #27 Israel: A Personal History AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidHeadlineBen-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History 1/2000 signedPublisherFunk & Wagnalls / SabraDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$950StatusSold Lot #28 Collection of ephemera related to baseball and football star Larry Bettencourt from St. Mary's College Heading(Bettencourt, Lawrence J.)HeadlineTwo-sort star Lawrence J. BettencourtDate Published20th century View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 Fourteen Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain pertaining to the evolving relationship between Britain and her sometime colonies Heading(British-American Relations)HeadlineBritish Laws to subjugate the American ColoniesPublisherPrinters to the King's Most Excellent MajestyDate Published1696-1795 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #40 The Life of Captain James Cook Heading(Cook, James)AuthorKippis, AndrewHeadlineFirst Irish Ed. Kippis's Life of Captain CookPublisherH. Chamberlaine, et alDate Published1788 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #41 Set of Cook’s Three Voyages including Atlas Heading(Cook, James)HeadlineCook's Three Voyages with AtlasPublisherW. Strahan & T. Cadell, et al.Date Published1773-1788 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #42 A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux's Narrative of the Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships.... Heading(Cook, James, 2nd voyage)AuthorCook, JamesHeadlineCook's Second voyage, complete 2 vols.PublisherW. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1777 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #52 Instructions for Right Spelling, and Plain Directions for Reading and Writing True English Heading(Franklin, Benjamin, printer)AuthorFox, GeorgeHeadlineEarly Ben. Franklin Philadelphia imprint 1737Publisherby B. FranklinDate Published1737 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #59 New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson, 1799-1814 AuthorHenry, Alexander and David ThompsonHeadlineEarly History Greater Northwest Large Paper 1/100PublisherFrancis P. HarperDate Published1897 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #62 An Excursion to California over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada. With a Stroll Through the Diggings and Ranches of that Country AuthorKelly, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Kelly's excursion to California in 1849ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1851 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #63 The Land of the Blue Poppy: Travel of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet AuthorKingdon-Ward, FrancisHeadlineWard, Land of the Blue PoppyPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1913 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #64 An Account of a Voyage to Spitzbergen; Containing a Full Description of the Country, of the Zoology of the North, and of the Shetland Isles; With an Account of the Whale Fishery AuthorLaing, JohnHeadlineJohn Laing, Voyage to Spitzbergen 1815PublisherPrinted for J. Mawman... and David BrownDate Published1815 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #65 Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806... Published from the Official Report, and illustrated by a map of the route, and other maps AuthorLewis, Meriwether & William ClarkHeadlineFirst English ed. of Lewis & Clark 1814 with mapPublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1814 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #67 Voyage a Travers l'Amérique du Sud de l'Océan Pacifique a l'Océan Atlantique AuthorMarcoy, Paul [pseud. of Laurent de Saint-Cricq]HeadlineMarcoy Voyage to South America 1869PublisherHachetteDate Published1869 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #69 Mardi: And A Voyage Thither AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMelville's Mardi, first U.S. editionPublisherHarper & Brothers, PublishersDate Published1849 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 The Midnight Spy, or, A view of the transactions of London and Westminster from the hours of ten in the evening till five in the morning... Heading(Midnight Spy...)HeadlinePrurient look at London night life 1766PublisherPrinted for J. CookeDate Published1766 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #77 The Practical House Carpenter: Or, Youth's Instructor AuthorPain, WilliamHeadlineW. Pain, Practical House Carpenter 2nd U.S 1797PublisherPrinted by Thomas DobsonDate Published1797 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #81 Sixteen printed Price Current lists from around the world, 1757 to 1869 Heading(Prices Current)HeadlinePrices Current tracking international tradeDate Published1757-1869 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #84 Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the Years 1845-51, under the Command of Captain Henry Kelett, R.N., C.B.; being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and three Cruises to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin AuthorSeemann, BertholdHeadlineNaturalist recounts scientific circumnavigation 1853PublisherReeve and Co.Date Published1853 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #87 My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography AuthorTrotsky, LeonHeadlineLeon Trotsky's Autobiography in EnglishPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1930 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #89 Accurata, e Succinta Descrizione Topografica delle Antichità di Roma AuthorVenuti, RidolfinoHeadlineWith 19 Giovanni Piranesi engravingsPublisherPresso Gio: Battista Beruabò e Giuseppe LazzariniDate Published1763 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #90 Architectura oder Bauung der antiquen auss dem Vitruvius AuthorVredeman De Vries, HansHeadlineHans Vredeman De Vries Architecture 1581PublisherGeerhardt de JodeDate Published1581 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #96 Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 AuthorWilkes, CharlesHeadlineWilkes's Exploring Expedition with AtlasPublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1845 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #116 To her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Allied Armies of France and England. This military topographical map of the Krima Peninsula constructed, and founded, on the most recent astronomical observations... Heading(Crimea)AuthorJervis, Thomas BestHeadlineOversize wartime map of Crimea, 1854Date Published1854 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #117 Carte Topographique de l'Égypte et de Plusieurs Parties des Pays Limitrophes Heading(Egypt)AuthorJacotin, PierreHeadlineAtlas from Napoleon's expedition to EgyptPublisherPubliée par Ordre du GouvernementDate Publishedc.1817-1818 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #121 A View at Lucknow Heading(India)AuthorSalt, HenryHeadlineHenry Salt aquatint of Lucknow, IndiaPublisherWilliam MillerDate Published1809 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #122 A View Within the Fort of Monghyr Heading(India)AuthorSalt, HenryHeadlineHenry Salt aquatint of Monghyr, IndiaPublisherWilliam MillerDate Published1809 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #123 Eighteen aerial photographs and views of Persepolis and Iranian archaeology Heading(Iran)AuthorSchmidt, Erich FriedrichHeadlineEarly archeological photos Iran, PersepolisDate Published1935-1937 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #129 Ptolemaisch General Tafel Begreiffend die Halbe Kugel der Weldt Heading(World)AuthorMünster, SebastianHeadlinePtolemaic map of Old World, 16th centuryDate PublishedAfter 1540 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next