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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 #3 Les Mosquees de Samarcande, Fascicule I: Gour-Emir (all published) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Asia)AuthorShchusev, Alekseĭ Viktorovich; Pokryshkin, Pëtr PetrovichHeadlineElaborate study of Timur's Tomb in SamarkandPublisherPublié par la Commission Impériale AchéologiqueDate Published1905 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 #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 #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 #28 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$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Cook, James)AuthorHawkesworth, JohnHeadlineCook's first voyage, second edition 1773PublisherW. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1773 Lot #29 Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America. To Which are added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorCoxe, WilliamHeadlineCoxe's account of Russian Discoveries 1780PublisherJ. Nichols for T. CadellDate Published1780 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 #38 Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's journal of Beagle voyagePublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1839 Lot #43 A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorDixon, GeorgeHeadlineDixon's voyage round the world, 1789PublisherPublished by Geo. GouldingDate Published1789 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 #47 The arraignment, trials, conviction and condemnation of Sir Rich. Grahme... and John Ashton, Gent. for high treason against... King William and Queen Mary... [bound with 13 other works relating to the uprising and subsequent rebellious actions] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Great Britain - Jacobite rebellions of 1689 & 1696)HeadlinePlots to restore Jame II to British throne, 1691-96PublisherPrinted for Samuel Heyrick and Thomas CockerilDate Published1691 Lot #48 Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineBasil Hall's Voyage to Korea & Okinawa, 1818PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1818 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 #51 Specimens of Polynesian Tapa assembled from various institutions and private collections View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Heading(Hawaii & Polynesia)AuthorSeverson, Donald R.HeadlineSeverson Polynesian Tapa from Arion PressPublisher[Published by the Author]Date Published1984 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 #56 Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Turris Babel 1679PublisherJanssonio-WaesbergianaDate Published1679 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 #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 #71 Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las Misiones que Fundo en la California Septentrional, y Nuevos Establecimientos de Monterey View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorPaloú, FranciscoHeadlinePalou's Biography of Serra First EditionPublisherFelipe de Zúñiga y OntiverosDate Published1787 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