Holabird Western Americana Collections: Pioneers & Patriots Auction: Americana, Militaria, Mining, & More, 105887, Reno

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 01, 2025 - March 01, 2025

Page Size: 323 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1000	Early Alaska RPCs (7)	Alaska		USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
1002	Daily Tombstone, 1886, Anti-Chinese Content	Tombstone, Arizona	1886	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
1004	Arizona Library (5) 1915-67	Arizona	1915-67	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
1005	Alpine County Letterheads, 6	Alpine County, California		USD 180.00 - 280.00	Not Sold
1006	Ralston Fry Wedding Ephemera 1858	Berkeley, California	1858	USD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
1007	Bodie Check Collection, 5	Bodie, California		USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 112.50
1008	Bodie RPC Postcards, 4	Bodie, California	1930's-1940's	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
1009	Corlis Andrews Lumber Receipt Letterhead, 1855, Coloma, CA	Coloma, California	1855	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
1010	Columbia Wagon Road Stock (1891) and WF Express Shipping Document (1856)	Columbia, California		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
1011	Hollywood: Signed Mack Sennett Autobiography	Hollywood, California	1954	USD 600.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
1012	Lobby Cards -The Secret of Convict Lake (2) 1951	Hollywood, California	1951	USD 120.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
1013	Los Angeles Tour Books (7)	Los Angeles, California		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
1016	Fascinating Lowe Observatory Letter from Edgar L. Larkin to Virginia City Mine Supt.	Mount Lowe, California	1904	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 150.00
1017	Nevada Irrigation District Map, 1926	Nevada County, California	1926	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
1018	Placer County Historical Photos Scrap Book -Choice!	Placer County, California		USD 1,400.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
1020	Sacramento Grabhorn Press Books (2)	Sacramento, California		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
1021	The California Star edited by Sam Brannan	San Francisco, California	Published by Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA, 1965	USD 120.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
1022	San Francisco Directory 1863	San Francisco, California	1863	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
1023	Palace Hotel Interior and Exterior Stereoviews	San Francisco, California		USD 320.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
1024	Castle Bros. Correspondences Group 1879-93	San Francisco, California	1879-93	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
1025	Daily Bulletins One With James King of William Editor (6) 1850s	San Francisco, California	1850s	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
1026	Drexel, Sather & Church Exchange Notes (2)	San Francisco, California		USD 1,200.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
1027	Adams & Co. Express and Banking 1854 Receipts	San Francisco, California	1854	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
1028	San Francisco Post Cards, Portola Festival & Pan-Pacific	San Francisco, California		USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 93.75
1029	Parade/Festival San Francisco Postcards w/RPPCs 1909-14 (23)	San Francisco, California	1909-14	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 75.00

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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