Sale 828: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Jim Hier Collection of U.S. Presidents - World History - Maps, Prints & Views (#828) 12/19/2024 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 12/19/2024 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 828 712 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 101-125 of 125. Previous|12|Next Lot #216 Eight leaves from a ledger book apparently recording the disembarkation in Cuba of Chinese laborers from the ship "Suomi" and their distribution to their "Patronos" View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCuba end of Coolie pipeline from ChinaDate Published1867 Lot #217 Legal file (expediante) regarding a free Chinese man currently in detention wanting to regularize his legal status View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineFree Chinese in Cuba seeks clarity on legal status 1872Date Published1872 Lot #218 Manifest listing 444 Chinese laborers bound for Havana, 15 of whom died en route, with cause of death listed View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeath causation among Cuba-bound Chinese cooliesDate PublishedMarch 16, 1868 Lot #219 Ship's manifest listing Chinese indentured servants transported to Cuba View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineManifest of Chinese Coolies shipped to Cuba, 1866Date PublishedJanuary 12, 1866 Lot #220 Ship's manifest listing the large quantity of 500 Chinese laborers / indentured servants being embarked for transportation to Cuba View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)Headline500 Chinese laborers bound for Cuban sugar fieldsDate Published30 December 1867 Lot #221 Document recording the transfer of 26 slaves in Cuba from one owner to another View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineCuban slaves being transferred, 1863 documentDate Published1863 Lot #222 Manuscript listing items procured for the care of African 'Bozales" (hog-tied and muzzled) slaves in a separate facility - a little-known Bozales Slave Depository View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineCare for "bozales" slaves in Cuban facility, 1857Date PublishedAugust 2nd, 1857 Lot #225 "Depósito de Cimarrones. Relacion nominal de los asiaticos y morenos existentes el dia 30 de Abril de 1877" (cover title) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRunaways in Cuban "Deposito de Cimarrones" 1877Date Published1877 Lot #228 Letter from Lee de Forest to "Carl" regarding a radio (or television?) script on De Forest's Life View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorDe Forest, LeeHeadlineLee de Forest, "father of radio"Date PublishedOct. 18, no year Lot #260 New Orleans and its Living Past View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorLaughlin, Clarence John and David L. CohnHeadlineLimited edition signed by LaughlinPublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1941 Lot #264 Diary with entries made sporadically from 1816 to 1823 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Maine)HeadlineDiary kept by Maine woman 1816-23Date Published1816-1823 Lot #266 Two letters and diet plan to a patient recommending the Salisbury Diet View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Medical – Salisbury Diet)AuthorSalisbury, J.H.HeadlineThe Doctor who invented Salisbury steakDate Published1880 Lot #271 Several form letters & other items relating to the Exposition of Industries and Fine Arts of Mexico 1896, planned for Mexico City but never held View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineEphemera for cancelled Mexican world's fair, 1896Date Published1895-6 Lot #272 Memoria Cientifica Sobre unas Piezas de Artilleria de Montaña de Nuevo Sistema, Inventadas, Construidas y Presentadas View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)AuthorVillegas, MacarioHeadlineInscribed by Macario VillegasPublisherImprenta del Gobierno en PalacioDate Published1877 Lot #287 Ornate manuscript calligraphic broadside conveying the thanks of the Virginia [City], Nevada, unit of the National Guard to their counterparts in San Francisco, who had hosted the Nevadans on a visit to that city View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Nevada)HeadlineNevada National Guard junket to San FranciscoDate PublishedJuly 16, 1872 Lot #293 Manuscript relating to unsuccessful attempt to establish a new county in New York called Highland View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(New York)HeadlineManuscript on proposed Highland County NYDate Publishedc. 1860s Lot #301 Expediente del Marques de Casa Hermosa 1793 (cover title) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Peru)AuthorMesa y Ponte Pagés, Francisco José de, 1st Marquis of Casa HermosaHeadlineRebuilding Peru after Tupac uprising 1793Date Published1793 Lot #302 Travel and Comment View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPhelan, James D.HeadlineTravels of CA U.S. Senator, signed inscribedPublisherA.M. RobertsonDate Published1923 Lot #305 Manuscript extracts of minutes of several annual meetings of Friends and of letters, primarily related to marriages between second cousins View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Quakers)AuthorElwood, Thomas & othersHeadlineQuakers consider marriage between cousinsDate PublishedEarly 18th century Lot #325 San Francisco: The "Vicar of Bray" in Yerba Buena Cove during the Gold Rush, November, 1849 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorStobard, JohnHeadlineSigned by John StobardDate Published[1975] Lot #342 Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorWaters, FrankHeadlineFrank Waters Masked Gods, signed 1/300PublisherUniversity of New Mexico PressDate Published[1950, but 1964] Lot #353 Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Camp-Fires View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorYoung, Egerton RyersonHeadlineStories by Egerton R. Young, signed inscribed 1897PublisherCharles H. KellyDate Published1897 Lot #471 Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSquier, Ephraim GeorgeHeadlineProcessing plants like yucca & agave, color platesPublisherScribner & Co.Date Published1861 Lot #477 Manuscript diary kept during an ocean voyage from California to Hawaii and the Far East, as far as Ceylon, when the diary portion ends View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Travel Diary)AuthorMacLean, LyellHeadlineDiary of ocean voyage to Far East 1927Date Published1927 Lot #485 The Epics of Everest View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorWibberley, LeonardHeadlineSigned by 3 members of the British 1953 attemptPublisherFaber and FaberDate Published[1955] Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next