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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Official Central Avenue District Directory: A Business and Professional Guide View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(African American)AuthorVinston, Warren C., compilerHeadlineGuide to LA African American district 1940PublisherThe New Age Publishing CompanyDate PublishedNovember 1940 Lot #3 Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineMusaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical platesDate Published1749 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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(California - Railroad Land Grants)HeadlineRailroad land grants in Calif., 1867-1915Date Published1867-1915 Lot #16 Archive of material relating to California pioneer Harmon J. (H.J.) Tilden and his family View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(California - Tilden Family Archive)HeadlineCalifornia archive Judge H.J. Tilden familyDate Published1852-c.1935 Lot #25 Artillery shell from the Battleship Maine, the sinking of which in Havana Harbor triggered the Spanish American War View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Spanish American War)HeadlineShell from the battleship "Maine"PublisherWinchester Repeating Arms Co.Date Publishedc.1898 Lot #26 Álbum de la Revolución Cubana: 1952-1959 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Revolution Album Illustrated with Graphic Non-sports CardsPublisherRevista CinegraficoDate Publishedc.1960 Lot #27 Document signed by Che Guevara as Jefe Depto Inscrucción View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba)AuthorGuervara, Ernesto "Che"HeadlineDocument signed by Che GuevaraDate PublishedJanuary 5, 1960 Lot #28 Historia de Cuba (cover title) View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban history in tobacco cardsPublisherTabacalera Cubana, S.A.Date Published1935 Lot #29 Manuscript conveying the request of a freed black slave in Cuba to form a "brotherhood" of freed black slaves View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban society for freed black slaves, 1852Date Published1852 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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRecruits from jail fight Cuban rebels, 1879Date Published1879 Lot #31 Pierre Curie View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorCurie, MarieHeadlineMarie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed cardPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1923 Lot #32 Le Déplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Heading(Darwin, Charles, his book)AuthorCarret, JulesHeadlineDarwin's copy of Carret on Earth's axisPublisherLibrairie F. SavyDate Published1877 Lot #40 Eine einfache Anwendung des Newtonschen Gravitationsgesetzes auf die kugelförmigen Sternhaufen View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein applies Newton to star clustersPublisherVerlag Julius SpringerDate Published1921 Lot #41 Two French publications of Einstein papers that belonged to his son View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's son's copies of his papersPublisherGauthier-Villars et Cie.Date Published1921 Lot #43 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold 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 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorFillmore, MillardHeadlineWhaling ship papers signed by Millard FillmoreDate PublishedAugust 6, 1850 Lot #60 Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Heading(Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)AuthorSpinoza, BaruchHeadlineGauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st bookPublisherJohannem RiewertsDate Published1663 Lot #61 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorGerard, JohnHeadlineGerard's massive Herbal, 1633PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 Lot #62 A Brief History of Time View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorHawking, Stephen W.HeadlineStephen Hawking's copy of his own bookPublisherBantam BooksDate Published[1990] 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHolliday, George H.HeadlinePost-Civil War soldiering on the PlainsPublisher[G.H. Holliday?]Date Published1883 Lot #67 Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorImbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]HeadlineMedical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834PublisherNa typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-PlancheretDate Published1834 Lot #70 The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies... View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorJefferys, ThomasHeadlineJefferys Atlas of the West Indies, completePublisherRobert Sayer and John BennettDate Published1775 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorLa Condamine, Charles-Marie deHeadlineLa Condamine maps Ecuador, 1751PublisherDe l'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1751 Lot #79 Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Loyal Publication Society of New York)HeadlineNY Loyal Publication Society tracts, 1863-4PublisherLoyal Publication SocietyDate Published1864-1865 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Massachusetts)HeadlineFirst printing of 1726 Massachusetts charterPublisherPrinted by B. Green... for Benjamin EliotDate Published1726-1731 Lot #84 [Aphorisms) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorMesmer, FranzHeadlineMs. of Mesmer's Magnetic HealingDate PublishedLate 18th-early 19th century Lot #87 Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast, Illustrated View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(New Jersey)AuthorRose,T. F., H. C. Woolman, and T. T. PriceHeadlineScarce Atlas of New Jersey Coast 1878PublisherWoolman & RoseDate Published1878 Lot #89 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 Lot #90 A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's System of the World, 1738PublisherPrinted for F. FayramDate Published1728 Lot #94 Archive of documents regarding the pious fund of the Colegio Maximo de San Pablo de Lima, c.1750 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Peru)HeadlineDocuments regarding pious fund in Peru, 1750Date Publishedc.1750-1760 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... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Pirates)Author[Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]HeadlineBuccaneers of America, 1699 editionPublisherPrinted for Tho. Newborough, et al.Date Published1699 & 1698 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Railroad Archive)HeadlinePhotos & ephemera on U.S. RailroadsDate Publishedc.1851-1930s Lot #105 Effect of Streptomycin and Other Antibiotic Substances upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Organisms View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Tuberculosis)AuthorSchatz, Albert & Selman A. WaksmanHeadlineCure for Tuberculosis revealedPublisherSociety for Experimental Biology and MedicineDate Published1944 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)] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Vegetarian cookery – Russia)AuthorZelenkova, Olga KonstantinovnaHeadlineRare Russian vegetarian cookbook, 1906Publisher“Vegetarianka”, Parovaya TipografiaDate Published1906 Lot #108 On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago. By Alfred R. Wallace... communicated by Charles Darwin View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorWallace, Alfred Russel & Charles DarwinHeadlineWallace on zoological geography of Malay PeninsulaPublisherLongman, Green, et al.Date Published1860 Lot #114 Leaves of Grass View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Author[Whitman, Walt]HeadlineWhitman's Leaves of Grass 2nd Ed. 1856ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1856 Lot #115 WWII Marine writes home re: Ernie Pyle, Ie Shima invasion View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(World War II)HeadlineErnie Pyle death account, Ie Shiama, LeyteDate Published1945 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next