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Previous|1|Next Image Lot Item Title Time Left Your Bids 1 Partially engraved military appointment on vellum, completed in manuscript, appointing Albermarle Cady as First Lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry, effective December 31st, 1836 Heading(1829)AuthorJackson, AndrewHeadlineAppointment signed by Andrew JacksonDate Published1836 Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold View details 2 Ship's Papers for the whaling ship "Pacific", signed by John Tyler as President of the United States and Secretary of State Daniel Webster Heading(1841)AuthorTyler, JohnHeadlinePapers for whaling voyage signed by John TylerDate PublishedAugust 14, 1842 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold View details 3 The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland [with] typed letter signed by Grover Cleveland Heading(1885)AuthorCleveland, GroverHeadlineCleveland's Writings signed w/ Provenance StoryProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherCassell Publishing CompanyDate Published1892 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold View details 4 Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley Heading(1897)AuthorMcKinley, WilliamHeadlineMcKinley inscribed to his Postmaster GeneralProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherDoubleday & McClure Co.Date Published1900 Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold View details 6 The Presidency: Its Duties, Its Powers, Its Opportunities, and Its Limitations Heading(1909)AuthorTaft, William HowardHeadlineTaft signed/inscribed "Presidency" 1906ProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1916 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold View details 7 Addresses Delivered During the Visit of Herbert Hoover, President-Elect of the United States to Central and South America, November-December 1928 Heading(1929)AuthorHoover, HerbertHeadlineHoover to Stimson, Sec. of StateProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherPan American UnionDate Published1929 Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold View details 8 Minutes of the Council of Appointment of New York April 4, 1778-May 3, 1779: From Original Manuscript in Possession of Franklin D. Roosevelt Heading(1933)AuthorRoosevelt, Franklin D., editorHeadlineOne of 50 copies signed by FDRProvenanceThe Jim Hier Collection; Hunt H. UngerPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1925 Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold View details 9 Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States: Chautauqua, N.Y., August 14, 1936 Heading(1933)AuthorRoosevelt, Franklin D.Headline1936 FDR Xmas book to EleanorProvenanceEleanor Roosevelt Estate Auction; Adlai Stevenson II; Adlai Stevenson III; The Jim Hier CollectionPublisherUnited States Government Printing OfficeDate Published1936 Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold View details 10 Looking Forward Heading(1933)AuthorRoosevelt, Franklin D.HeadlineLooking Forward, one of 10 uncorrected proofsProvenanceThe Jim Hier Collection; Blum and Rosen Books, Ardsley, NY.PublisherJohn DayDate Published[1933] Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold View details 11 The Inspection Cruise and Fishing Expedition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Board U.S.S Houston 16 July 1938 - 9 August 1938 Heading(1933)Author[Roosevelt, Franklin D.]HeadlineFDR 1938 Cruise Log inscribed to SS Agent Paul HartProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionDate Published1938 Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold View details 13 The Truman Program: Addresses and Messages by President Harry S. Truman Heading(1945)AuthorTruman, Harry S.HeadlineTruman: "Read this and you'll know why I won"ProvenanceRulon-Miller Books, 1994PublisherPublic Affairs PressDate Published1948-1949 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold View details 14 The White House Years Heading(1953)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineAdditionally inscribed and signedProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherDoubleday & CompanyDate Published1963-1965 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold View details 15 Autograph letter signed from John F. Kennedy as President-elect Heading(1961)AuthorKennedy, John F.HeadlineJFK signed letter 1960Date Published[1960] Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$750StatusSold View details 16 Memorandum from John F. Kennedy to John Connally Heading(1961)AuthorKennedy, John F.HeadlineSigned memo from JFK to John ConnallyPublisherThe White HouseDate Published1963 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold View details 17 The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969 Heading(1963)AuthorJohnson, Lyndon B.HeadlineAdditionally signed and inscribed to Frank StantonProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherHolt, Rinehart and WinstonDate Published1971 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold View details 18 The Paintings of Jimmy Carter Heading(1977)AuthorCarter, JimmyHeadlinePaintings of Jimmy Carter, signed, shrinkwrappedProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherThe Carter CenterDate Published2014 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold View details 20 Letter from William Austin writing for three male slaves, who beg to be sold to the Virginia grandee who owned their mother and sister Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorAustin, WilliamHeadlineSlaves plead to be reunited with their motherDate PublishedAugust 9, 1837 Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold View details 21 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art Heading(African American Art)AuthorLocke, Alain, editorHeadlineHarlem Renaissance guru to Black poet-playwrightPublisherAssociates in Negro Folk EducationDate Published1940 Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 27 Israel: A Personal History AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidHeadlineBen-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History 1/2000 signedPublisherFunk & Wagnalls / SabraDate Published[1971] Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold View details 30 Manuscript census of six northern California missions plus the Presidio of Monterey and the Pueblo of San Jose Heading(California - Missions)HeadlineMs. census of California missions 1798Date Published1798 Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold View details 33 Autograph letter from Robert Atherton to Edward von Pfister Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorAtherton, RobertHeadlineLetter to California Pioneer Von PfisterDate Published1849 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 34 The San Francisco City Stock, 1851 - signed by James King of William, P.A. Morse, D.J. Tallent, William Hooper, and John W. Geary, with each certificate signed by Geary Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineStock in S.F. signed by Mayor GearyPublisherE.F. ButlerDate Published1851 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold View details 36 Indenture signed by Charles B. Gillespie, selling land to Frederick Billings and DeWitt Thompson Heading(California Gold Rush)AuthorGillespie, Charles B.HeadlineIndenture w/ early Gold Rush charactersDate Published1849 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold View details 38 Archive of approximately 300 handwritten letters from or to members of the extended Doolittle Family of Onarga, Illinois, some 80 of which are from Elkanah Doolittle during his military service from July 1862 to January 1864 Heading(Civil War)AuthorDoolittle, Elkanah, et al.HeadlineImportant archive of Civil War lettersDate Published19th century Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold View details 39 Portrait of Henry Clay Heading(Clay, Henry)AuthorGould, Walter G., attrib.HeadlineLarge oil painting of Henry Clay c.1845Date Publishedc,1845-49 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold View details 46 File of documents relating to the investigation into an abnormal number of deaths of Chinese on a transport ship to Cuba, with many of the fatalities due to opium overdoses Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCuba-bound Chinese overdose on opiumDate Published1866 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 47 Manifest listing over 100 Chinese laborers bound for Cuba who died on the voyage Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeadly voyage from Macau to Cuba 1861Date PublishedJulio 17 de 1861 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold View details 48 List of some 90 or more slaves to be sent to Havana by "fast steamship" Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSlaves transported to Cuba by "Fast Steamship"Date PublishedAgosto 19 del [18]69 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold View details 49 Work contract for an emancipated slave from Africa Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineWork contract for emancipated slave in Cuba, 1864Date Published1864 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold View details 60 Discharge document for sailor from the U.S. Sloop of War Preble Heading(Japan)HeadlineDischarge of sailor on U.S.S. PrebleDate Published1850 Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold View details 61 Manuscript copy of a letter from John Paul Jones apologizing to the Countess of Selkirk for raiding the Selkirk Manor, seeking to kidnap and hold for ransom her husband, Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, who was absent AuthorJones, John PaulHeadlineJohn Paul Jones raids Scottish countessDate PublishedEarly 19th century? Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold View details 66 The Common School Journal for the Year 1842 AuthorMann, Horace, editorHeadlineInscribed by Mann to Charles SumnerPublisherWilliam B. Fowle and N. CapenDate Published1842 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold View details 68 Love Lion, Lioness AuthorMcClure, MichaelHeadlineLove Lion, Lioness by Michael McClureProvenanceRobert LaVigne's copyPublisherTelegraph Printers for the AuthorDate Published[1964] Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold View details 75 My Mother Would be a Falconress Heading(Oyez Press)AuthorDuncan, RobertHeadlineSigned by Robert DuncanPublisherOyez PressDate Published1968 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 76 Oyez. Poems in Broadside: First Series Heading(Oyez Press)AuthorMcClure, Michael, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, et al.HeadlineOyez Press, 10 signed broadsidesPublisherAuerhahn Press for OyezDate Published[1964] Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold View details 79 Archive of over 100 letters and miscellaneous papers, written to and from Louis C. Schwartzlander, a private in the 4th U.S. Cavalry in the Philippines during the Aguinaldo insurrection, and later a medical student at Stanford University Heading(Philippine American War)AuthorSwartzlander, Louis C., et al.HeadlineFuture Stanford Med student fights Filipino “insurgents”Date PublishedMay 17, 1899 - Oct. 5,1901 Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold View details 81 Sixteen printed Price Current lists from around the world, 1757 to 1869 Heading(Prices Current)HeadlinePrices Current tracking international tradeDate Published1757-1869 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 87 My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography AuthorTrotsky, LeonHeadlineLeon Trotsky's Autobiography in EnglishPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1930 Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next