Sale 841: Elite Americana, Travel & Exploration, Natural History, and Cartography - A PBA Platinum Auction (#841) 07/03/2025 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 07/03/2025 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 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 1-24 of 24. Previous|1|Next Lot #6 The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineComplete Audubon royal octavo birds setProvenanceJames G. Blaine, U.S. statesman (1830-1893)PublisherJ.J. Audubon, E.G. Dorsey for J.J. Audubon, and J.B. ChevalierDate Published1840-1844 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold Lot #11 Coleccion de los principales trabajos en que se ha ocupado la junta nombrada para meditar y proponer al Supremo Gobierno los medios mas necesarios para promover el progreso de la cultura y civilizacion de los territorios de la Alta de la Baja California Heading(California - Junta de Fomento de Californias)HeadlineProposals of the Junta de Fomento de Californias, 1827PublisherMariano ArevaloDate Published1827 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #12 Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America AuthorCatlin, GeorgeHeadlineCatlin's N. American Indian Portfolio FolioPublisherGeo. CatlinDate Published1844 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold Lot #13 Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians... Written during Eight Years' Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 AuthorCatlin, GeorgeHeadlineRobert Hoe's copy of Catlin's American IndiansProvenanceRobert and Arthur Hoe's bookplatesPublisherPublished by the Author, at the Egyptian HallDate Published1841 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #16 Romance of the Bosphorus Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorNeave, Dorina LadyHeadlineDedicated and inscribed to Winston ChurchillProvenanceWinston S. ChurchillPublisherHutchinson and CompanyDate Published1949 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #18 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerk, and Gore, in his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingHeadlineCook's Third Voyage 1784PublisherPrinted by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol...and T. CadellDate Published1784 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #19 A Collection of Voyages Round the World: Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages,... Heading(Cook, James)AuthorAnderson, George WilliamHeadlineCooks Voyages, with 159 plates, charts, mapsPublisherA. Millar, W. Law, and R. CarterDate Published1790 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #23 A Monograph of the Genus Lilium AuthorElwes, Henry JohnHeadlineWith 48 plates of liliesProvenanceDr. Paul J. BowmanPublisher[Taylor and Francis]Date Published[1877]-1880 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #28 Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above Six Hundred of the Most Authentic Writers...Containing Whatever Has Been Observed Worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa & America...To Which is Prefixed a Copious Introduction, Comprehending the Rise & Progress of the Art of Navigation...Now Carefully Revised...Including Particular Accounts of the Manufactures and Commerce of Each Country AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarris, Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, 2nd ed.ProvenanceThe Warren Heckrotte and Margaret Gee CollectionPublisherPrinted for T. Woodward et alDate Published1744; 1748 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #29 Illustrations of Himalayan Plants chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq. AuthorHooker, Joseph Dalton and Walter Hood FitchHeadlineJ.D. Hooker and W.H. Fitch, Himalayan Plants 1855ProvenanceDr. Paul J. BowmanPublisherLovell ReeveDate Published1855 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #30 The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an Account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the Mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from Drawings and Descriptions made on the spot, during a Government Botanical Mission to that Country AuthorHooker, Joseph DaltonHeadlineColor plates of Himalayan RhododendronsProvenanceDr. Paul J. BowmanPublisherReeve, Benham, and ReeveDate Published1849-1851 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #31 Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America, From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again AuthorKane, PaulHeadlineKane's Wanderings with 8 lithos of Native AmericansPublisherLongman, Brown, et al.Date Published1859 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #32 Atlas Pour L'Abrégé des Voyages AuthorLa Harpe, Jean-François deHeadlineLa Harpe's Atlas Pour L'Abrégé des Voyages, [1780]ProvenanceThe Warren Heckrotte and Margaret Gee CollectionPublisherChez MoutardierDate Published[1780] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #33 A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean During the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806.] Heading(Lewis & Clark)AuthorGass, PatrickHeadlineFirst Edition of First account of Lewis & ClarkPublisherPrinted by Zadock Cramer for David M'KeehanDate Published1807 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #34 Voyages From Montreal on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade in that Country AuthorMackenzie, AlexanderHeadlineMackenzie's Voyages from Montreal 1801PublisherT. Cadell and W. Davies, et al.Date Published1801 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #39 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 AuthorPortlock, NathanielHeadlinePortlock's Voyage Round the World 1789PublisherPrinted for John Stockdale and George GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope... AuthorRogers, WoodesHeadlineSource for Robinson CrusoePublisherAndrew BellDate Published1718 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #44 Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta AuthorSchenk, PieterHeadlineSpectacular and rare engravings of 17th c. citiesProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)Publisher[P. Schenk]Date Published1702 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #46 A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, Perform'd in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 Guns and 100 Men, (under His Majesty's Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late War with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. AuthorShelvocke, GeorgeHeadlineShelvocke's Voyage Round the World 1726PublisherPrinted for J. Senex; W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. LongmanDate Published1736 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #47 Eight offprints from The Geographical Journal AuthorStein, AurelHeadline4 presentation offprints from Sir Aurel SteinDate Published1916-42 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 AuthorThwaites, Reuben Gold, editorHeadlineEarly Western Travels, 1748-1846 1 of 750 setsPublisherAthur H. ClarkDate Published1904-1907 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #51 Western America, Including California and Oregon with Maps of Those Regions, and of "The Sacramento Valley" AuthorWilkes, CharlesHeadlineWilkes' Western America with maps 1849PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1849 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #52 The History of Oregon, Geographical and Political... AuthorWilkes, GeorgeHeadlineWilkes' History of Oregon 1845 with mapPublisherWilliam H. ColyerDate Published1845 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #54 Three articles by János Xántus on travels in the Americas AuthorXántus, JánosHeadline3 articles by Janos Xantus on American travelsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1887-1888 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next