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 1-10 of 56. Previous|123456|Next Lot #1 A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery. Being a Compilation of All the Decisions Made on that Subject in the Several Courts of the United States and State Court; with Copious Notes and References to the Statutes and Other Authorities Heading(African American, 1837)AuthorWheeler, Jacob D.HeadlineDetailed atrocity of American laws of slavery 1837PublisherAllan Pollock, Jr. and Benjamin LevyDate Published1837 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #2 Letter from a Pennsylvania Quaker woman travelling near the Virginia and Maryland borders, who stays with an Underground Railroad conductor Heading(African American, 1858)AuthorLewis, HannahHeadlineMeeting a fugitive slave on the Underground RailroadDate Published[August] 22, 1858 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #3 Civil War archive of 8 letters sent to friends and family from missionary teacher of emancipated children in Union-occupied Mississippi Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorWelsh, LizzieHeadlineMissionary teacher of freed slave children in 'Secesh' NatchezDate Published1859-1867 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #4 Recueil d'estampes representant les differents evenemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'Indépendance aux Etats unis de l'Amérique Heading(American Revolution)HeadlineWith Washington and Lafayette manuscriptsProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)PublisherNicholas Ponce and Francois GodefroyDate Publishedc.1784 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #5 Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, Exhibiting all the New Discoveries to the present Time with the Tracks of the most distinguished Navigators since the Year 1700 carefully collected from the Best Charts, Maps, Voyages, &c. Extent, and regulated from the accurate Astronomical Observations made in three Voyages Performed under the Command of Captn. James Cook in the Years 1768, 69, 70, 71,__72, 73, 74, 75,__76, 77, 78, 79, & 1780 AuthorArrowsmith, AaronHeadlineArrowsmith's World, Mercator's Projection c.1800ProvenanceThe Warren Heckrotte and Margaret Gee CollectionPublisherA. ArrowsmithDate Published1790-[but c.1800] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold 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 #7 The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull the Clothier. In a Series of Letters to a Friend AuthorBelknap, JeremyHeadlineFinely bound satirical American history 1792ProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)PublisherI. Thomas and E.T. AndrewsDate Published1792 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #8 Man and His Future: A Ciba Foundation Volume Heading(Biology - Human Cloning)AuthorWolstenholme, Gordon, editorHeadlineScientists first talk of human cloningPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published1963 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 A Reply to General Joseph Reed's Remarks, on a Late Publication in the Independent Gazetteer, With some Observations on his Address to the People of Pennsylvania Author[Cadwalader, John]HeadlineCadwalader's reply to General Joseph Reed, 1783ProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)PublisherT. BradfordDate Published1783 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #10 Archive of items relating to the Mandarin Theater Heading(California - Chinese)HeadlineArchive of 1940s Chinese theater in SFDate Published1930-1947 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123456|Next Previous 123456 Next Previous 123456 Next