Sale 822: Rare Books & Manuscripts - A PBA Platinum Auction (#822) 09/19/2024 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/19/2024 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 1-29 of 29. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Frederick Douglass' Paper: Devoted to the Rights of All Mankind, Without Distinction of Color, Class, or Clime View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1855)AuthorDouglass, FrederickHeadlineFrederick Douglass' Newspaper, 1855Date Published1855 Lot #2 Autograph letter signed by Nathanael Greene View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(American Revolution)AuthorGreene, NathanaelHeadlineLetter signed by Nathanael Greene, 1781Date Published1781 Lot #6 The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineComplete 8vo edition of Audubon's Birds in full moroccoPublisherPublished by V.G. AudubonDate Published1856 Lot #13 Autograph letter signed by Buffalo Bill to his sister [with] photograph of Buffalo Bill's family View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold HeadingBuffalo Bill [i.e. William Frederick Cody]HeadlineAutograph letter signed, Buffalo Bill to sisterDate Published1881 Lot #14 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 Lot #15 Auburn, Cal. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(California - Auburn)AuthorCook, C.P., artistHeadlineBird's-eye view of Auburn, Cal.PublisherW.W. ElliottDate Published[c.1879] Lot #16 Swimming Championships of the Pacific Coast: Sutro Baths, Friday, July 4, 1913 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSwim Meet with Duke Kahanamoku in S.F. 1913PublisherThe James H. Barry Co.Date Published1913 Lot #17 Insurance Map of San Francisco, California. Volume One. Published by Dakin Publishing Company, 320 Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1887 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Heading(California – San Francisco)HeadlineRare 40-sheet insurance map of S.F. 1887PublisherDakin Publishing CompanyDate Published1887-[1892] Lot #18 Memoria del Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de la Guerra, presentada a las Camaras en enero de 1825 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(California)AuthorMier y Teran, Manuel de,HeadlineMilitary affairs in California 1825PublisherImprenta del Supremo Gobierno de los Estados-unidos mexicanos, en PalacioDate Published1825 Lot #19 Theoria Lunae, eius Motum per Eccentricum et Epicyclum Demonstrans View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlinePtolemaic model of lunar motion, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 Lot #20 Theoria Solis per Eccentricum sine Epicyclo View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlineChart showing Sun's orbit around the Earth, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 Lot #24 Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada faits par le Sr Champlain Xainctongeois, Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine du Ponant, & toutes les Descouvertes qu'il a faites en ce païs depuis l'an 1603 jusques en l'an 1629. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold AuthorChamplain, Samuel deHeadlineChamplain's voyages in rare first state, 1632PublisherChez Louis SevestreDate Published1632 Lot #26 "Little Sheaves" Gathered while Gleaning after Reapers. Being letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and ending in 1873 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorChurchill, Caroline M.HeadlineProgressive woman's travels in California 1874Date Published1874 Lot #30 Ship Manifest from the Spanish Ministry of War listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana, Cuba View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers embark for Cuba, 1861Date Published1861 Lot #31 A file of proceedings ("expediente diligiencias") regarding a request by African Carabali slaves "of this class," i.e. bozales, who wish to celebrate a traditional holiday with festivities and dancing View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineRitual celebration by slaves in Cuba 1814Date Published1814 Lot #32 Legal file relating to a manumitted slave who is not being supplied proper documents or a promised stipend View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineMorena slave liberated in Cuba, 1880Date Published1880 Lot #33 Manifest listing 133 African slaves ("bozales") embarked on the steamer "Cristobal Colon" apparently bound for Caño, Cuba, or possibly the Philippines View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)Headline"Bozales" African slaves shipped to CubaDate PublishedJuly 10, 1866 Lot #34 Manuscript listing in table format of some 217 escaped or rebellious slaves (“Cimarrónes”) who had been freed under the lottery and were now to be given identification papers. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineList of Cuban slaves freed through lottery, 1886Date Publishedc.1886 Lot #35 Manuscript roster of a Company in the 2nd "Battallon de Orden Publico" in Cuba of black, white and Chinese soldiers at the start of the Little War (Guerra Chiquita) between Cuban rebels and Spain View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRecruits from jail fight Cuban rebels, 1879Date Published1879 Lot #46 Para verte mejor, America Latina [To See You More Clearly, Latin America] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorGasparini, Paolo, photographerHeadlinePhotographic journey through Latin America in turmoil, 1972PublisherSiglo veintiuno EditoresDate Published1972 Lot #49 Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerHeadlineUncle Remus in rare binding variantPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1881 Lot #50 Specimens of Hawaiian Kapa Assembled from Various Institutions and Private Collections View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Heading(Hawaii & Polynesia)AuthorSeverson, Donald R.HeadlineSeverson's Hawaiian Kapa from Arion PressPublisher[Published by the Author]Date Published1978 Lot #55 Printed poster instructing persons of Japanese ancestry in San Francisco to report to the Civil Control Station at 1530 Buchanan Street View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Japanese-American Internment)AuthorDeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.LHeadlineJapanese Exclusion Act broadsidePublisherU.S. ArmyDate PublishedMay 5, 1942 Lot #59 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorLefèvre, EdwinHeadlineEdwin Lefèvre's speculative investment classicPublisherGeorge H. Doran CompanyDate Published1923 Lot #65 Bootleggers' Map of the United States: "Honi soit qui mal y pints!" View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorMcCandlish, Edward, cartographerHeadlineBootleggers pictorial map of U.S. 19267Date Published1926 Lot #66 Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West Passage; and some account of the Trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorMeares, JohnHeadlineMeares on NW Coast of America, 1790PublisherPrinted at the Logographic Press and sold by J. WalterDate Published1790 Lot #72 File of mine registration documents from sixteenth century Peru, for mercury mines in Huancavelica View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Peru - Quicksilver Mines)HeadlineMercury mining in Peru, 1577 ms. archiveDate Published1577 Lot #73 Expediente del Marques de Casa Hermosa 1793 (cover title) View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Peru)AuthorMesa y Ponte Pagés, Francisco José de, 1st Marquis of Casa HermosaHeadlineRebuilding Peru after Tupac uprising 1793Date Published1793 Lot #74 Archive of approximately 75 letters written by Robert F. Long, a Corporal in the 45th U.S. Volunteer Infantry View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Philippine-American War - Letter Archive)AuthorLong, Robert F.HeadlineAmerican soldier's view of Filipino insurrectionDate Published1898 – 1901 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next