Sale 849: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views (#849) 10/23/2025 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 10/23/2025 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)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-73 of 73. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs AuthorAdams, AnselHeadlineExamples: The Making of 40 Photographs, signedPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published[1983] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #2 Photograph album of an African American family Heading(African American)HeadlineEarly 20th c. African American photograph albumDate PublishedEarly to mid 20th century View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #3 Printed newsletter to plantation owners about the depressed cotton crop during the economic recession of the 1840s Heading(African American, 1843)AuthorWhite, MaunselHeadlineFrom Andrew Jackson’s slave-cotton brokerDate PublishedJuly 14, 1843 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #4 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, HannahHeadlineHiding a fugitive slave hunted by dogsDate Published[August] 22, 1858 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #5 Letter from a 21 year-old Union soldier declaring that some Ohio troops would not fight just to free the slaves Heading(African American, 1862)AuthorStrine, PeterHeadlineA racist anti-war Ohio soldier in the Union ArmyDate Published1862 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$143.75StatusSold Lot #6 Free Negroism: or, Results of Emancipation in the North and West India Islands, with Statistics of the Decay of Commerce–Idleness of the Negro–His Return to Savageism, and the Effect of Emancipation upon the Farming, Mechanical and Laboring Classes Heading(African American, 1863)Author[Van Evrie, John H.]HeadlineRacist northern anti-abolition tractPublisherVan Evrie, Horton & Co.Date Published1863 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #7 Letter from wounded Union officer, a McClellan Democrat Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorHoskinson, Thomas J. [Captain, Pennsylvania Infantry]HeadlineUnion Captain calls Emancipation “military despotism”Date Published1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #8 Letter from a professional woman anti-Slavery lecturer Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorKingsbury, Mrs. Elizabeth A.HeadlineAbolitionist speaker, later first Los Angeles suffragetteDate PublishedJuly 1, 1864 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #9 Civil War letter from a Quaker missionary teacher of formerly enslaved children in Union-occupied Williamsburg, Virginia Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorLewis, JohnHeadlineCivil War Quaker teacher of ex-enslaved children in VADate PublishedDecember 25, 1864 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #10 The Empire. Holland's Vaudeville Entertainers Commencing Saturday Next, July 7th...Last Week! Last Week! of the Popular Favourites Paul Stanhope's Breezy Revue Coy... Heading(African American, 1917)AuthorLarkin, JohnHeadlineAfrican American comedian on tour in AustraliaPublisherH. Pole & Co.Date Published[1917] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #11 Ebony Rhythm: An Anthology Of Contemporary Negro Verse Heading(African American, 1948)AuthorMurphy, Beatrice M., ed.HeadlineForgotten Black poets of Harlem RenaissancePublisherExposition PressDate Published1948 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #12 History of Sigma Pi Phi: First of the Negro-American Greek-Letter Fraternities Heading(African American, 1969)AuthorWesley, Charles H.HeadlineHistory of Sigma Pi Phi 1969 rarePublisherAssociation for the Study of Negro Life and HistoryDate Published[1969] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #15 Letter from a former Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, with a political footnote about his opposition to Masonic influence in government Heading(Anti-Masonic)AuthorHutchinson, TitusHeadlineALS from Anti-Mason turned Underground Railroad conductorDate PublishedJuly 19, 1834 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #22 Five volumes on WWII aviation Heading(Aviation - World War II)Headline5 WWII aviation books, one signed by pilotsDate Published1987-1995 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #31 Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706, editor AuthorBolton, Herbert EugeneHeadlineSpanish Exploration signed by BoltonPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published[1916] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #33 Diary of Thaddeus H. Capron, First Lieutenant Company C, 9th U.S. Infantry in the Sioux Campaign of 1876 Heading(Brininstool, E.A.)AuthorCapron, Thaddeus H.HeadlineDiary of Thaddeus H. Capron from the library of E.A. BrininstoolPublisherE. A. BrininstoolDate Published1926 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #34 Journal of the Washita Campaign of 1868-'69 Detailing the Experiences of David L. Spotts As a Trooper in Company L, Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Heading(Brininstool, E.A.)AuthorSpotts, David L.HeadlineSpotts Washita Diary Typescript, Custer SourceDate Published1926 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #38 Three early documents of Mexican Los Angeles Heading(California - Los Angeles)Headline3 Documents of Mexican Los AngelesDate Published1836-1848 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #41 Celebrate Days of ’49, Sacramento Poster Heading(California - Sacramento County)HeadlineDays of '49 Sacramento Gold Rush PosterDate Published1922 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #64 Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society of New York, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864 Heading(Civil War - Loyal Publication Society)HeadlineNY Loyal Publication Society tracts, 1863-4PublisherLoyal Publication SocietyDate Published1864-1865 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #66 Five state of Arkansas War Bonds Heading(Civil War)Headline5 Civil War Bonds from ArkansasDate Published1861 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #67 Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama Heading(Civil War)AuthorMaxwell, James RobertHeadlineSigned Autobiography of Confederate SoldierPublisherGreenbergDate Published1926 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #68 The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: The Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers from Kansas to Georgia 1861-1865 [with] Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers 1861-1865, an Appendix to "The Story of a Cavalry Regiment." Heading(Civil War)AuthorScott, William ForseHeadlineScott's Iowa Cavalry Presentation CopyPublisherThe Knickerbocker Press; J. J. Little & Co.Date Published1893-1902 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #69 Sixth Wisconsin Battery broadside Heading(Civil War)HeadlineBroadside for Civil War artillery batteryPublisherCharles Shober, lithographerDate Publishedc.1865 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #70 Thirty-eight speeches by United States Senators and Representatives Heading(Civil War)HeadlineMoments before outbreak of Civil WarDate Published1860-1861 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #71 Two volumes on early Kansas regiments Heading(Civil War)HeadlineKansas military men during Civil WarDate Published1867-1902 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #76 The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion AuthorCorbett, James J.HeadlineSigned Corbett's Roar of the CrowdPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1925 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #77 The Crittenden Memoirs AuthorCrittenden, H.H., compilerHeadlineSigned by author w/ 2 TLSPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1936 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #78 Four documents related to the drowning of a Chinese indentured servant in Cuba Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlinePapers re Drowning of Chinese Laborer w/ IDDate Published1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #79 Manuscript document reporting the deaths of 25 laborers bound from Macau to Port Mariel, Cuba, listing the locations at sea of their deaths Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeaths of Cuba-Bound Chinese Laborers ChartedDate Published1867 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #80 Manuscript investigation into deaths of Chinese laborers en route to Cuba Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineInvestigation re Chinese Laborers Death at SeaDate Published1866 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #81 Manuscript investigation into the drowning of two Chinese settlers on board a Portuguese frigate with signatures of Chinese witnesses Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineReport on Drowning with Chinese SignaturesDate Published1866 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #82 Manuscript letter from an imprisoned Chinese indentured servant seeking freedom Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineLetter from Chinese Laborer Imprisoned in CubaDate Published1866 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #84 Contrata for Chinese worker in Cuba 1861 [with] Cedula Heading(Cuba)HeadlineContract & ID for Chinese Worker in Cuba, 1861Date Published1861-1863 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #85 Contrata for Chinese worker in Cuba 1877 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineContract for Chinese Worker in Cuba, 1877Date Published1877 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #86 Cuban document requesting rehire of Chinese laborers 1870s Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Request to Rehire Chinese Workers 1870sDate Publishedc. 1870 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #87 Cuban identification paper for Chinese laborer 1863 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Filiacion Paper Chinese Worker 1863Date Published1863 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #88 Cuban War of Independence manuscript signed by Antonio Maceo, 1895 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Independence Maceo Signed Promotion 1895Date Published1895 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #90 Manuscript description of criminal case and fight between Cuban Black Slave and Chinese Indentured Servant Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Criminal Case and Fight between SlavesDate Published1870 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #91 Padron adiccional de asiaticos contratados profugos Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRegistry of Chinese Workers in Cuba, 1872Date Published1872 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #93 Tenencia de Gobierno de Sagua La Grande Heading(Cuba)HeadlineContrata for Chinese Worker in Cuba, 1868Date Published1868 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #97 Celebrated Criminal Cases of America AuthorDuke, Thomas S.HeadlineScarce criminal case anthology signedPublisherThe James H. Barry CompanyDate Published1910 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #100 Book of Recipes for Uncle Remus Brand Peanuts Heading(Food & Drink)HeadlineRare 1920s recipe book, 'Uncle Remus' Georgia peanutsPublisherTransit Storage and Distributing Co.Date Publishedc. 1920 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #101 Southern Cooking Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorDull, Mrs. S.R. [Henrietta Stanley]HeadlineInscribed and signed by Henrietta Stanley DullPublisherThe Ruralist PressDate Published1928 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #105 The Edna Lewis Cookbook Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorLewis, Edna and Evangeline PetersonHeadlineFirst Edition in unclipped jacketPublisherThe Bobbs-Merrill CompanyDate Published[1972] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #106 A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorLyford, Carrie AlbertaHeadlineBook of Recipes for the Cooking SchoolPublisherThe Hampton Normal and Agricultural InstituteDate Published[1921] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #141 Minutes of the Kingstown Township School District's Board of Directors regarding the first school in DeKalb County, Illinois Heading(Illinois)HeadlineEarly Illinois School District MinutesDate Published1862-1879 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #146 Golf is My Game AuthorJones, Robert Tyre (Bobby), Jr.HeadlineSigned Bobby Jones Golf is My Game in DJPublisherDoubledayDate Published1960 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #148 Program for Pacem in Terris, Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII Heading(King, Martin Luther, Jr.)HeadlineSigned by Martin Luther King, Jr.PublisherPaulist PressDate Published[1963] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #149 "Unwise and Untimely"?: A Letter from Eight Alabama Clergymen to Martin Luther King, Jr. and his reply to them on order and common sense, the law and justice, nonviolence and love Heading(King, Martin Luther, Jr.)HeadlineNonviolence discourse in 1963PublisherFellowship of ReconciliationDate Published[c.1964] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #150 Koufax AuthorKoufax, Sandy with Ed LinnHeadlineKoufax, signed by Sandy KoufaxPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published[1966] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #158 New England Loan Office Bond, 1739 Heading(Massachusetts)Headline1739 Bond Manuscript in Plymouth MADate Published1739 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #180 My People the Sioux Heading(Native American)AuthorChief Standing BearHeadlineInscribed by Chief Standing BearProvenanceJ. Lowell Groves (bookplate)PublisherHoughton Mifflin companyDate Published1928 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #199 The Ironic Temper [with] Days of Wrath Heading(Oppenheimer, J. Robert)AuthorChevalier, Haakon.HeadlineSigned works by Oppenheimer's Communist friend at BerkeleyDate Published1932-1936 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #200 Men and Decisions [with] The Alsos Mission Heading(Oppenheimer, J. Robert)AuthorStrauss, Lewis and Colonel Boris PashHeadlineSigned antagonists of the “father” of the Atomic bombDate Published1962-1969 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #212 Autograph letter signed by Lincoln's Secretary of State to the German noble who served in the Civil War Heading(Presidents, 1861)AuthorSeward, William H.HeadlineLincoln’s Secretary of State to Fremont’s titled mapmakerPublisherUS State DepartmentDate PublishedFebruary 20, 1862 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #213 Letter from a drama-loving Washington clerk critiquing the new Ford's Theater and its owner Heading(Presidents, 1861)AuthorStrohm, IsaacHeadlineALS about ill-fated Ford's Theater before its completionDate PublishedFebruary 10, 1862 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #216 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Heading(Presidents, 1869)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineNicely bound set of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirsPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #218 De Re Metallica, translation of Georgius Agricola Heading(Presidents, 1929)AuthorHoover, Herbert and Lou Henry HooverHeadlineDe Re Metallica with Herbert Hoover TLSPublisherThe Mining MagazineDate Published1912 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #223 A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford Heading(Presidents, 1974)AuthorFord, Gerald R.Headline1st edition signed by President FordPublisherHarper & RowDate Published[1979] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #224 George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile Heading(Presidents, 1989)AuthorValdez, David, compilerHeadlineA Photographic Profile of Bush Signed LimitedPublisherTexas A&M University PressDate Published[1997] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #232 Life in California Before the Conquest: Hispano-Californians, Leperos, & Indians; Franciscan Misioneros & Misiones; American & English Comerciantes; Puertos, Presidios, Castillos; Sailors & Backwoodsmen; Revolutions & Strife Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorRobinson, AlfredHeadlineSigned by Thomas C. RussellProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1925 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #233 The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorShirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineLarge paper copy, signed by Thomas C. RussellProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1922 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #234 The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorShirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineCA Gold Rush from a Woman's EyeProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1922 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #238 Copy of Bill of Sale of enslaved laborer by Joseph Peralta to his wife Heading(Slavery)HeadlineCopy of Bill of Sale New Orleans SlaveryDate Published1851 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #239 Estate appraisal, with enslaved workers Heading(Slavery)HeadlineEstate Appraisal Including Slaves GeorgiaDate Published1807 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #240 Mortgage on an enslaved woman Heading(Slavery)HeadlineMortgage document for enslaved woman in GADate Published1805 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #241 Notarized manumission manuscript document, freeing a Black woman, in French Heading(Slavery)HeadlineFreedom for enslaved woman in NOLA, 1834Date Published1834 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #242 Notice of sheriff's office seizing property including slaves Heading(Slavery)HeadlineMortgage Foreclosed South Carolina Slavery 1824Date Published1824 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #322 Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction Into India. AuthorMarkham, Clements R.HeadlineInscribed Travels in India and PeruPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1862 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #327 The Ascent of Everest Heading(Mountaineering)AuthorHunt, JohnHeadlineSigned by 4 Everest explorersPublisherHodder and StoughtonDate Published[1953] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #340 A History of Israel AuthorRobinson, Theodore H. and W.O.E. OesterleyHeadlineSweet inscriptions to author's wifePublisherClarendon PressDate Published1932 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #373 Harewood Hospital, Washington D.C. Heading(Civil War)AuthorMagnus, CharlesHeadlineLitho of Civil War hospitalPublisherCharles MagnusDate Published[c.1864] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next