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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Official Central Avenue District Directory: A Business and Professional Guide Heading(African American)AuthorVinston, Warren C., compilerHeadlineGuide to LA African American district 1940PublisherThe New Age Publishing CompanyDate PublishedNovember 1940 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #3 Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens... Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineMusaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical platesDate Published1749 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #14 Archive of 24 original land patents verifying and itemizing grants made to the Western Pacific Railroad and its successor Central Pacific Railroad as compensation for construction of a portion of the transcontinental railroad Heading(California - Railroad Land Grants)HeadlineRailroad land grants in Calif., 1867-1915Date Published1867-1915 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #16 Archive of material relating to California pioneer Harmon J. (H.J.) Tilden and his family Heading(California - Tilden Family Archive)HeadlineCalifornia archive Judge H.J. Tilden familyDate Published1852-c.1935 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #25 Artillery shell from the Battleship Maine, the sinking of which in Havana Harbor triggered the Spanish American War Heading(Cuba - Spanish American War)HeadlineShell from the battleship "Maine"PublisherWinchester Repeating Arms Co.Date Publishedc.1898 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #26 Álbum de la Revolución Cubana: 1952-1959 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Revolution Album Illustrated with Graphic Non-sports CardsPublisherRevista CinegraficoDate Publishedc.1960 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #27 Document signed by Che Guevara as Jefe Depto Inscrucción Heading(Cuba)AuthorGuervara, Ernesto "Che"HeadlineDocument signed by Che GuevaraDate PublishedJanuary 5, 1960 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #28 Historia de Cuba (cover title) Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban history in tobacco cardsPublisherTabacalera Cubana, S.A.Date Published1935 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 Manuscript conveying the request of a freed black slave in Cuba to form a "brotherhood" of freed black slaves Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban society for freed black slaves, 1852Date Published1852 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 Manuscript roster of a company in the 2nd "Battallon de Orden Publico" in Cuba at the start of the Little War (Guerra Chiquita) between Cuban rebels and Spain Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRecruits from jail fight Cuban rebels, 1879Date Published1879 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #31 Pierre Curie AuthorCurie, MarieHeadlineMarie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed cardPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1923 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #32 Le Déplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre Heading(Darwin, Charles, his book)AuthorCarret, JulesHeadlineDarwin's copy of Carret on Earth's axisPublisherLibrairie F. SavyDate Published1877 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #40 Eine einfache Anwendung des Newtonschen Gravitationsgesetzes auf die kugelförmigen Sternhaufen AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein applies Newton to star clustersPublisherVerlag Julius SpringerDate Published1921 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #41 Two French publications of Einstein papers that belonged to his son AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's son's copies of his papersPublisherGauthier-Villars et Cie.Date Published1921 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #43 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry Heading(Feynman, Richard P., his copy)Author[Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.HeadlineFeynman's copy of Quantum Mechanics textbookPublisherMcGraw-Hill Book CompanyDate Published1935 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #44 Ship's Papers for the whaling ship "Nassau", signed by Millard Fillmore as President of the United States and Secretary of State Daniel Webster AuthorFillmore, MillardHeadlineWhaling ship papers signed by Millard FillmoreDate PublishedAugust 6, 1850 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #60 Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... Heading(Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)AuthorSpinoza, BaruchHeadlineGauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st bookPublisherJohannem RiewertsDate Published1663 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, JohnHeadlineGerard's massive Herbal, 1633PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #62 A Brief History of Time AuthorHawking, Stephen W.HeadlineStephen Hawking's copy of his own bookPublisherBantam BooksDate Published[1990] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #64 On the Plains in '65... Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Thrilling Adventures, Fine Scenery, and How the Boys Put in the Time in the Far West AuthorHolliday, George H.HeadlinePost-Civil War soldiering on the PlainsPublisher[G.H. Holliday?]Date Published1883 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros AuthorImbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]HeadlineMedical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834PublisherNa typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-PlancheretDate Published1834 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #70 The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies... AuthorJefferys, ThomasHeadlineJefferys Atlas of the West Indies, completePublisherRobert Sayer and John BennettDate Published1775 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #73 Journal du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'Équateur [with] Mesure des Trois Premiers Degres du Méridien dans l'Hemisphere Austral AuthorLa Condamine, Charles-Marie deHeadlineLa Condamine maps Ecuador, 1751PublisherDe l'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1751 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864 Heading(Loyal Publication Society of New York)HeadlineNY Loyal Publication Society tracts, 1863-4PublisherLoyal Publication SocietyDate Published1864-1865 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #81 The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England [with] Acts and Laws, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England Heading(Massachusetts)HeadlineFirst printing of 1726 Massachusetts charterPublisherPrinted by B. Green... for Benjamin EliotDate Published1726-1731 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #84 [Aphorisms) AuthorMesmer, FranzHeadlineMs. of Mesmer's Magnetic HealingDate PublishedLate 18th-early 19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #87 Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast, Illustrated Heading(New Jersey)AuthorRose,T. F., H. C. Woolman, and T. T. PriceHeadlineScarce Atlas of New Jersey Coast 1878PublisherWoolman & RoseDate Published1878 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #89 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #90 A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's System of the World, 1738PublisherPrinted for F. FayramDate Published1728 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #94 Archive of documents regarding the pious fund of the Colegio Maximo de San Pablo de Lima, c.1750 Heading(Peru)HeadlineDocuments regarding pious fund in Peru, 1750Date Publishedc.1750-1760 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #95 The History of the Bucaniers of America; from their First Original down to this Time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume. [bound together with] Lussan, Raveneau de. A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, by the Bucaniers or Freebooters of America in the Year 1684 to 1689... Heading(Pirates)Author[Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]HeadlineBuccaneers of America, 1699 editionPublisherPrinted for Tho. Newborough, et al.Date Published1699 & 1698 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #98 Collection of photographs, broadsides, books, pamphlets, documents, maps, and other items pertaining to railroads in the United States from the mid-19th century the first half of the 20th Heading(Railroad Archive)HeadlinePhotos & ephemera on U.S. RailroadsDate Publishedc.1851-1930s View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 Effect of Streptomycin and Other Antibiotic Substances upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Organisms Heading(Tuberculosis)AuthorSchatz, Albert & Selman A. WaksmanHeadlineCure for Tuberculosis revealedPublisherSociety for Experimental Biology and MedicineDate Published1944 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #107 "Я никого не ѣм!" [Iya Niknovo Nye Iem!"] [Trans.: "I do not eat anyone!" / 365 vegetarian menus and a guide to cooking vegetarian dishes: 1000 recipes (by seasons)] Heading(Vegetarian cookery – Russia)AuthorZelenkova, Olga KonstantinovnaHeadlineRare Russian vegetarian cookbook, 1906Publisher“Vegetarianka”, Parovaya TipografiaDate Published1906 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #108 On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago. By Alfred R. Wallace... communicated by Charles Darwin AuthorWallace, Alfred Russel & Charles DarwinHeadlineWallace on zoological geography of Malay PeninsulaPublisherLongman, Green, et al.Date Published1860 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #114 Leaves of Grass Author[Whitman, Walt]HeadlineWhitman's Leaves of Grass 2nd Ed. 1856ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1856 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #115 WWII Marine writes home re: Ernie Pyle, Ie Shima invasion Heading(World War II)HeadlineErnie Pyle death account, Ie Shiama, LeyteDate Published1945 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next