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Auction Name Rare Americana - Including California and the West Total Sales (USD) 263,616.00
Auction Date May 02, 2019 - May 02, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 170,880.00
Sale Number #672 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 272,200.00
Total Lots 455
Sold Lots 317 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 279,170.00
% of Lots Sold 69.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 445,200.00
Unsold Lots 138 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
373 Taber, Isaiah West

The Taber Photographic Album of Principal Business Houses, Residences and Persons (cover title)

 1889 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 120,000.00
334 Reid, John C.

Reid's Tramp; Or, a Journal of the Incidents of Ten Months Travel Through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, and California. Including Topography, Climate, Soil, Minerals, Metals, and Inhabitants; With a Notice of the Great Inter-Oceanic Rail Road

 1858 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 13,200.00
325 Washington, George

America's Lecacy [sic]: Being the Address of G. Washington, on his declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States

 1797 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,100.00
186 Dutton, Clarence E.

Atlas to Accompany the Monograph of the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District

 1882 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
5 Meek, Joseph

Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader to his Virginia partner

 1835 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,000.00
90 California, State Geological Survey

Map of the Region Adjacent to the Bay of San Francisco...

 1873 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,700.00
280 Miller, Benjamin S

Ranch Life in Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory, as Told by a Novice. How a Fortune was Made in Cattle.

 1896 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
175 Davies, J., trans.

The History of Barbados, St. Christophers, Mevis, St. Vincents, Antego, Martinico, Monserrat, and the rest of the Carriby-Islands

 1666 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
43 Benzoni, Girolamo

Novae novi orbis historiae, id est rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hactenus gestarum, & acerbo illorum in eas gentes dominatu. De gallorum expedition in Floridam, & clade ab Hispanis non minus iniuste quam immaniter ipsis illata, Anno 1565, Brevis

 1578 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
117

Sonoma & Marin Rail-Road Map, May 1875 Scale 400 ft. to the inch

 1875 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
196 Hamilton, Alexander, [John] Jay, and [James] Madison

The Federalist, on the New Constitution; Written in 1788...

 1818 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,560.00
202 [Folsom, George]

Mexico in 1842: A Description of the Country, Its Natural and Political Features; with a Sketch of Its History, Brought down to the Present Year. To Which is Added, an Account of Texas and Yucatan; and of the Santa Fe Expedition.

 1842 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,560.00
240 Johnson, Edwin F., Alexander Ramsay, et al.

In the Senate of the United States... Mr. Ramsey submitted the following Memorial, &c. Northern Pacific Railroad. Memorial of the board of direction of the company, communications from Lieutenant General Grant, Brevet Major General Meigs, Q.M.G, and Breve

 1868 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
327

Complete set of Quivira Society Publications

 1929-1958 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,560.00
28

Rigid Airship Manual 1927

 1928 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,440.00
217 Goldman, Emma

Living My Life

 1931 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,440.00
258 Lopez de Gomara, Francisco

Historia delle Nvove Indie Occidentali, con tvtti i discoprimenti, & cose notabili, auuenute dopo l'acquisto di esse

 1560 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,440.00
388 Bache, A.D.

Maps and Charts of the United States Coast Survey

 1854 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,440.00
296

Raised Relief Map of the White Mountains

 1872 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,320.00
321 Grant, Ulysses S.

Letter by U.S. Grant as 1st Lt., 4th Inf. to brevet Brigadier General George Talcott, Chief of Ordinance

 1849 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
341 Schwed, Fred Jr.

Where Are the Customer's Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

 1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,320.00
370 Surtees, Robert L.

Archive of work by Cinematographer Robert L. Surtees

 1926-1966 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,320.00
70

Thomas Bros. Block Book of Hayward

 [c. 1925] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,200.00
10 Northup, Solomon

Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, In Louisiana

 1854 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,140.00
22 DuBois, W.E. Burghardt.

The Philadelphia Negro: Social Study.

 1899 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,140.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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