Sale 829A: U.S. Presidents from the Jim Hier Collection, with Americana, Travel & Exploration, Cartography (#829A) 01/23/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/23/2025 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 829A 730 PDF Prices Realized View â–¼ 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 1-46 of 46. Previous|1|Next Lot #99 The Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia 1906-1907 AuthorBingham, HiramHeadlineHiram Bingham III in Venezuela and ColombiaPublisherYale Publishing AssociationDate Published1909 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #101 The Englishwoman in America Author[Bird, Isabella]HeadlineIsabella Bird, the Englishwoman in America 1856PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1856 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #145 The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. Heading(Hawaii)AuthorBird, Isabella L.HeadlineCopy of Hawaiian missionary Jas. M. AlexanderProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1875 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #152 A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Town, Provinces, &c. on that extensive Continent... AuthorJuan, George and Antonio de UlloaHeadlineVoyage to South-America 2 vols in English 1758ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherL. Davis and C. ReymersDate Published1758 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #153 Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, during the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807 AuthorLangsdorff, Georg Heinrich vonHeadlineVon Langsdorff's Pacific voyages and travelsPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1813-1814 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #157 A Journey Through South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean AuthorMarcoy, Paul [pseud. of Laurent de Saint-Cricq]HeadlineWith Paul Marcoy in South AmericaPublisherBlackie and SonDate Published1871-73 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #158 A Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions AuthorMarryat, FrederickHeadlineMarryat's Diary in America, 1839PublisherD. Appleton and Co.Date Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #164 Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-56 Heading(Pacific Railroad Reports)HeadlinePacific Railroad Reports set, 12 volumes in 13Date Published1855-1860 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #174 Aboriginal Monuments of the State of New York. AuthorSquier, E.G.HeadlineAboriginal Monuments of New York, 1849ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThe Smithsonian InstituteDate Published1849 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #175 Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua: with a Description of its Aboriginal Monuments, Scenery and People, their Languages, Institutions, Religion, &c. AuthorSquier, E.G.HeadlineSquier's Travels in Central AmericaProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherD. Appleton & Co.Date Published1853 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #182 Bancroft's Tourist's Guide Yosemite: San Francisco and around the Bay, (South) Heading(Yosemite)HeadlineBancroft's Tourists' Guide Yosemite, 1871PublisherA.L. BancroftDate Published1871 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #189 The Islands of the Pacific. From the Old to the New. AuthorAlexander, James M.HeadlineTwo Editions, one inscribed by the authorProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherAmerican Tract SocietyDate Published1895; 1908 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #190 Essai Historique sur le Commerce et la Navigation de la Mer-Noir... AuthorAnthoine de Saint-Joseph, Antoine-IgnaceHeadlineFrench work on the Black Sea, 1805PublisherChez. H. AgasseDate Published1805 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #193 Mandalay to Momien... Heading(China)AuthorAnderson, JohnHeadlineAnderson's narrative of 1868 & 1875 China expeditionsPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1876 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #194 Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century) Heading(China)AuthorBackhouse, E. and J.O.P. BlandHeadlineAnnals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking, 1914ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #195 Five Months on the Yang-Tsze;... with a Narrative of the Present Rebellions in China. Heading(China)AuthorBlakiston, Thomas W.HeadlineFive Months on the Yang-Tsze by Blakiston, 1862ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1862 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #196 A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern: Comprising a Retrospect of the Foreign Intercourse and Trade with China. Heading(China)AuthorGutzlaff, CharlesHeadlineWith large folding map of China by M. D'AnvilleProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1834 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #197 Manchuria: Its People Resources and Recent History Heading(China)AuthorHosie, AlexanderHeadlineWith Hosie in Manchuria, with mapPublisherMethuenDate Published1901 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #198 Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters... Heading(China)AuthorLe Comte, LouisHeadlineLe Comte's account of China, 1698ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for Benjamin TookeDate Published1698 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #200 Chinese Researches Heading(China)AuthorWylie, AlexanderHeadlineChinese Researches, by Alexander Wylie, 1897ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1897 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #204 Souvenirs Pittoresques des Pyrennées AuthorDefer, JulesHeadlineJules Defer's Picturesque views of PyreneesPublisherChez DeferDate Published[1843] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #205 Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824,...Extending Across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire AuthorDenham, Dixon & Capt. Hugh ClappertonHeadlineDenham & Clapperton in Northern & Central AfricaProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1828 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #206 Picturesque Europe. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Most Eminent Artists Heading(Europe)HeadlinePicturesque Europe, many engravings mid 19th c.PublisherCassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co.Date Publishedc.1876-1881 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #207 Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan AuthorFerrier, Joseph PierreHeadlineJ.P. Ferrier, Caravan Journeys Persia 1856ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1856 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #208 Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski, with Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River and Cape Bathurst AuthorHooper, W.H.HeadlineNarrative of the HMS Plover Franklin Search, 1853ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1853 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #209 Briefe welche eine im Jahr 1772 nach Island angestellte Reise betreffen. Heading(Iceland)AuthorTroil, Uno vonHeadlineGerman edition of Troil's travels in IcelandPublisherMagnus SwederusDate Published1779 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #211 Journal of a Tour in Upper India; Performed during the Years 1838-39 Heading(India)AuthorFrench, C.J.HeadlineC.J. French, Tour in Upper India, Simla 1872ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for the Author, by J. ElstonDate Published1872 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #212 [Mr. Hastings Review of the State of Bengal] Heading(India)Author[Hastings, Warren]HeadlineWalsingham's copy of Hastings review of BengalDate Published[1786] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #213 Excursions in India; Including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains, to the Sources of the Jumna and the Ganges Heading(India)AuthorSkinner, ThomasHeadlineA Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains in 1832PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1832 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #214 Ten Weeks in Japan Heading(Japan)AuthorSmith, GeorgeHeadlineTen Weeks in Japan, 1861, nicely boundProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherLongman, Green, Longman, and RobertsDate Published1861 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #215 Novus Orbis, seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis AuthorLaet, Joannis deHeadlineDa Laet's Novus Orbis, with 13 double-page mapsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherElzevirDate Published1633 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #216 Morocco and the Moors: Being an Account of Travels, with a General Description of the Country and Its People AuthorLeared, ArthurHeadlineWith Leared in MoroccoPublisherSampson Low, et alDate Published1876 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #217 The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, and Gennesareth.. AuthorMacGregor, J.HeadlineMacGregor's Rob Roy on the Jordan - 2 editionsPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1870; 1875 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #219 Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors...to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia...Whereto are added The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo...into the East-Indies AuthorOlearius, AdamHeadlineVoyages to Muscovy and Persia, 1662ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThomas Dring and John StarkeyDate Published1662 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #220 Eight volumes of travel by Julia Pardoe AuthorPardoe, JuliaHeadlinePardoe's travels in Turkey, France and HungaryProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherHenry Colburn; George VirtueDate Published1838-1840 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #221 New Lands Within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship "Tegetthoff" in the Years 1872-1874 AuthorPayer, JuliusHeadlineNew Lands Within the Arctic Circle 1876ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1876 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #222 The Book of Ser Marco Polo, The Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East AuthorPolo, MarcoHeadlineYule's translation of Marco Polo, 1871ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #224 Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners of the Turks Author[Porter, James, Sir]HeadlineSir James Porter on Turkey, 1768ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for J. NourseDate Published1768 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #225 Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 AuthorRichardson, JamesHeadlineWith Richardson in the Sahara, 1848PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #226 Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships Under Command of Sir John Franklin. With an Appendix of the Physical Geography of North America AuthorRichardson, Sir JohnHeadlineArctic Searching Expedition 1851PublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1851 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #227 Voyage aux Indes Orientales et la Chine. Fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Dans lequel on traite des moeurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays AuthorSonnerat, [Pierre]HeadlineSonnerat's Voyage to India & China, 1782ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherChez l'Auteur, Froule, Nyon, BarroisDate Published1782 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #228 Manual de Madrid. Descripcion de la Corte y de la Villa Heading(Spain)AuthorMesonero Romanos, Ramon deHeadlineMesonero Romanos' Guide to Madrid in 1833PublisherD.M. de BurgosDate Published1833 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #231 Provisional Report on Investigations of Laws and Customs in the Island of Formosa Heading(Taiwan)AuthorOkamatsu, Santarò„HeadlineLaws and Customs of Taiwan, 1900ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherKobe Hera;dDate Published1902 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #232 Central Asia And Tibet Towards The Holy City Of Lassa Heading(Tibet)AuthorHedin, SvenHeadlineWith Hedin toward the Holy City of LhasaProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherHurst and BlackettDate Published1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #233 A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication Between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the Command of Captain George Van AuthorVancouver, GeorgeHeadlineVancouver's Voyage, 1st editionPublisherG.G. & J. Robinson, & J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #234 Constantinopolis und der Bosporos, ôrtlich und geschichtlich beschrieben AuthorVon Hammer-Purgstall, JosephHeadlineWith Hammer in Constantinople, 1822PublisherHartleben's VerlagDate Published1822 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next