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 816 693 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 1-56 of 56. Previous|1|Next Lot #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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(1829)AuthorJackson, AndrewHeadlineAppointment signed by Andrew JacksonDate Published1836 Lot #5 African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,750StatusSold Heading(1901)AuthorRoosevelt, TheodoreHeadlineRoosevelt African Game Trails 1/500 signedProvenanceJim Hier CollectionPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1910 Lot #12 Memoirs by Harry S. Truman View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Heading(1945)AuthorTruman, Harry S.HeadlineCharles Sawyer's copy, signed by Harry TrumanProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1955-1956 Lot #19 The Americans: The Democratic Experience View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(1989)AuthorBoorstin, Daniel J.HeadlineInscribed by George H.W. Bush to Lee AtwaterProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1973 Lot #23 Arctic Miscellanies: A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search by the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Arctic)AuthorDonnet, John Louis, editorHeadlineTrapped in an Arctic winter in 1850-51PublisherColburn & Co.Date Published1852 Lot #26 Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorBeaumont, WilliamHeadlineWillard Parker's copy of BeaumontPublisherF.P. AllenDate Published1833 Lot #28 Collection of ephemera related to baseball and football star Larry Bettencourt from St. Mary's College View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Bettencourt, Lawrence J.)HeadlineTwo-sort star Lawrence J. BettencourtDate Published20th century Lot #29 Fourteen Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain pertaining to the evolving relationship between Britain and her sometime colonies View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(British-American Relations)HeadlineBritish Laws to subjugate the American ColoniesPublisherPrinters to the King's Most Excellent MajestyDate Published1696-1795 Lot #30 Manuscript census of six northern California missions plus the Presidio of Monterey and the Pueblo of San Jose View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Heading(California - Missions)HeadlineMs. census of California missions 1798Date Published1798 Lot #37 El Malcriado View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Chavez, Cesar)HeadlineFirst issues of Cesar Chavez's newspaperDate Published1964-1965 Lot #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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorDoolittle, Elkanah, et al.HeadlineImportant archive of Civil War lettersDate Published19th century Lot #39 Portrait of Henry Clay View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Clay, Henry)AuthorGould, Walter G., attrib.HeadlineLarge oil painting of Henry Clay c.1845Date Publishedc,1845-49 Lot #43 Historia del Base Ball Profesional de Cuba... Campeonatos Celebrados desde 1878, hasta 1949 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Baseball)AuthorDiez Muro, RaúlHeadlineHistory of Cuban Baseball, 1878-1949Publisher[Liga de Base Ball Profesional Cubana]Date Published1949 Lot #44 Contract of a Chinese slave/indentured servant in Cuba, in Spanish and Chinese View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborer in Cuba gains freedomDate Published1854 Lot #45 Expediente documenting and describing a voyage transporting Chinese indentured servants from Macao to Cuba, sewn together with a Manifest listing the passengers on the voyage View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDocumenting transport of Chinese to Cuba 1864Date Published1864 Lot #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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCuba-bound Chinese overdose on opiumDate Published1866 Lot #47 Manifest listing over 100 Chinese laborers bound for Cuba who died on the voyage View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeadly voyage from Macau to Cuba 1861Date PublishedJulio 17 de 1861 Lot #48 List of some 90 or more slaves to be sent to Havana by "fast steamship" View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSlaves transported to Cuba by "Fast Steamship"Date PublishedAgosto 19 del [18]69 Lot #49 Work contract for an emancipated slave from Africa View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineWork contract for emancipated slave in Cuba, 1864Date Published1864 Lot #50 Álbum de la Revolución Cubana: 1952-1959 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Revolution Album Illustrated with Graphic Non-sports CardsPublisherRevista CinegraficoDate Publishedc.1960 Lot #52 Instructions for Right Spelling, and Plain Directions for Reading and Writing True English View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Franklin, Benjamin, printer)AuthorFox, GeorgeHeadlineEarly Ben. Franklin Philadelphia imprint 1737Publisherby B. FranklinDate Published1737 Lot #54 Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerHeadlineUncle Remus in rare binding variantPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1881 Lot #57 Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Hawaii)AuthorSinclair, IsabellaHeadline44 chromolith plates of Hawaiian Flowers 1885PublisherSampson Low, Marston, Searle, and RivingtonDate Published1885 Lot #58 Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorHeap, Gwinn HarrisHeadlineHeap's Central Route to Paciific with rare map 1854PublisherLippincott, Grambo, and Company / Trübner and Co.Date Published1854 Lot #59 New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson, 1799-1814 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHenry, Alexander and David ThompsonHeadlineEarly History Greater Northwest Large Paper 1/100PublisherFrancis P. HarperDate Published1897 Lot #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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorJones, John PaulHeadlineJohn Paul Jones raids Scottish countessDate PublishedEarly 19th century? 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorKelly, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Kelly's excursion to California in 1849ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1851 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 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorLewis, Meriwether & William ClarkHeadlineFirst English ed. of Lewis & Clark 1814 with mapPublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1814 Lot #66 The Common School Journal for the Year 1842 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorMann, Horace, editorHeadlineInscribed by Mann to Charles SumnerPublisherWilliam B. Fowle and N. CapenDate Published1842 Lot #69 Mardi: And A Voyage Thither View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMelville's Mardi, first U.S. editionPublisherHarper & Brothers, PublishersDate Published1849 Lot #70 Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amerique Septentrionale View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorMichaux, François AndréHeadlineMichaux N. Am. Sylva/Histoire des Arbres 1st edPublisherL. Haussmann et d'HautelDate Published1810-1813 Lot #74 Thirty-three volumes of publications from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, most from the 1920s View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Native American)AuthorHodge, Frederick Webb, et al., editors.HeadlineMonographs from Museum of American IndianPublisherMuseum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationDate Published1919-1973 Lot #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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Heading(Philippine American War)AuthorSwartzlander, Louis C., et al.HeadlineFuture Stanford Med student fights Filipino “insurgents”Date PublishedMay 17, 1899 - Oct. 5,1901 Lot #80 Assassination of James King of Wm. by James P. Casey. San Francisco, May 14th, 1856 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Pictorial Letter Sheets)HeadlineAssassination of James King of Wm. Letter SheetPublisherBritton & ReyDate Published[before June 4,1856] Lot #81 Sixteen printed Price Current lists from around the world, 1757 to 1869 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Prices Current)HeadlinePrices Current tracking international tradeDate Published1757-1869 Lot #82 The Edinburgh Advertiser View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Revolutionary War)HeadlineEarly reporting on American revolutionPublisherPrinted by and for James DonaldsonDate Published1775-1776 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorSeemann, BertholdHeadlineNaturalist recounts scientific circumnavigation 1853PublisherReeve and Co.Date Published1853 Lot #85 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorStowe, Harriet BeecherHeadlineExceptional copy of Uncle Tom's CabinPublisherJohn P. Jewett & CompanyDate Published1852 Lot #86 History and Directory of Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, comprising a brief history of Laramie City from its first settlement to the present time, together with sketches of the characteristics and resources of the surrounding country; including a minute description of a portion of the mining region of the Black Hills. Also a general and business directory of Laramie City View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorTriggs, J.H.HeadlineTriggs' History of Laramie Wyoming, 1875PublisherDaily Sentinel Print.Date Published1875 Lot #88 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorTwain, Mark [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]HeadlineFirst Edition with early ownership inscriptionPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 Lot #91 Original reward poster issued by Southern Pacific Co. and Wells, Fargo & Co. offering a total reward of $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the parties connected with the robbery of Southern Pacific Train No. 1 near Humboldt, Nevada View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Wanted Poster - "Wild Bunch")HeadlineReward poster for Sundance Kid & Kid Curry Train RobberyDate Published1898 Lot #92 Arizona Gazette View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Wild West - Earp Brothers, et al.)HeadlineEarps & OK Corral in 1881 Arizona newspaperPublisherChas. A. McNeil & Co., PublishersDate Published1881 Lot #94 The Phoenix Herald View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Wild West - Earp Brothers, et al.)HeadlineOK Corral 1st report in Phoenix AZ newspaper 1881Date Published1881 Lot #95 The Tombstone Epitaph View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Wild West - Earp Brothers, et al.)HeadlineEarps in Tombstone just before OK CorralDate Published1881 Lot #97 Elaborate die-cut embossed advertising piece for California Wine from F. Korbel & Bros. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Wine)HeadlineRare die-cut display ad for Korbel wineDate Publishedc.1880 Lot #99 Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(America)AuthorGastaldi, Jacobo/ Giovanni Battista RamusioHeadlineRamusio/Gastaldi map of Western Hemisphere 1556-1565Date Published1556-[1565] Lot #100 Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(America)AuthorOrtelius, AbrahamHeadlineOrtelius' landmark map of AmericasDate Published1579 Lot #101 Bemaculated Duck, Anas Glocittans, Young Male in December View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineAudubon's "Bemaculated" DuckPublisherRobert HavellDate Published1827-1838 [1836]. Lot #102 Blue Winged Teal, Anas Discors L - Plate CCCXIII View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineAudubon's Blue-Winged TealPublisherRobert HavellDate Published1827-1838 [1836]. Lot #103 The American National Game of Baseball View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Baseball)AuthorVarin, RaoulHeadlineAquatint after Currier & Ives Baseball classicPublisherA. Ackerman and SonDate Published1929 Lot #115 Nine original watercolors of scenes in Colorado View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Colorado)AuthorPenrose, Francis CranmerHeadlineWatercolors of Colorado in 1878Date Published1878 Lot #119 Four original unmounted stereoview albumen photographs by Alfred A. Hart of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, each with double image View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHart, Alfred A.HeadlineUnmounted Hart stereos of CPRR constructionDate Publishedc.1866-69 Lot #120 Waikioekoe. Hamakua - Hawaii View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Hawaii)AuthorLyons, Curtis J.HeadlineMs. map land redistribution in Hawaii 1853Date Published1853 Lot #124 Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties, ou sont distingués les uns des autres les Estates suivant quils appartiennent presentemet aux François, Castillans, Anglois, Swedois, Danois, Hollandois Tiree des Relations de toutes ces Nations. Part le Sr. Sanson, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorJaillot, Herbert/ Nicolas SansonHeadlineJaillot's North America California an island 1692PublisherChez H. JaillotDate Publishedc.1692 Lot #125 A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire with the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island divided into counties and townships, the w[h]ole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations. After the original by M. Le Rouge. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(New England)AuthorLe Rouge, Georges-Louis, publisherHeadlineFrench printing of large Jefferys map of New England 1777PublisherChez Le RougeDate Published1777 Lot #127 Carte Generale des Etats-Unis et du Mexique Comprenant L'Amerique Centrale et les Antilles View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(United States)AuthorAndriveau-Goujon, EugeneHeadlineLarge French folding map of United StatesDate Published1861 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next