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Auction Name Americana - Yosemite - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography Total Sales (USD) 202,710.00
Auction Date October 24, 2019 - October 24, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 177,380.00
Sale Number #686 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 275,800.00
Total Lots 381
Sold Lots 281 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 247,790.00
% of Lots Sold 73.75% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 386,400.00
Unsold Lots 100 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 52.46%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
206

Sun Pictures of the Yo Semite Valley, Cal.

1874 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 66,000.00
155 King, Clarence

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

1872 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,200.00
207 Whitney, Josiah Dwight

The Yosemite Book; a Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California

1868 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,400.00
255 Morden, Robert

Geography rectified: or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bays, capes, ports... Illustrated with seventy six maps...

1688 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,800.00
240 Arrowsmith, John

The London Atlas of Universal Geography, Exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World, Constructed from Original Materials

1838 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,200.00
67 Hennepin, Louis

Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres Grand Pays Situe dans Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et La Mer Glaciele

1697 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,900.00
60 Franklin, Benjamin

Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces; Arranged under the following heads, and distinguished by initial letters in each leaf: [G.P.] General politics; [A.B.T.] American politics before the troubles; [A.D.T.] American politics during the troub

1779 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,300.00
179 Taber, I.W., et al

Photograph album with many Yosemite views by C.E. Watkins and others, with imprints of Isaiah W. Taber and others

[c.1880s?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
193

The Sierra Club Bulletin

1893-1912 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,300.00
243 Faden, William

Geographical Exercises calculated to facilitate the study of Geography and by an expeditious method to imprint a knowledge of the science on the minds of youth with a concise introduction, explaining the principles of Geography

1777-[1783] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
172 Muir, John

The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition

1916-24 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,680.00
222 Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

1871 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,560.00
316

Approximately 150 issues of Newsmap - with maps, photographs and text in large broadside format

1942-1945 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
120 Adams, Ansel

Special Edition of Fine Prints: Photographs of Yosemite - Yosemite Falls

[n.d.] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,440.00
181

Yosemite Photo album circa 1886

[c.1886] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,440.00
2 Taylor, William

Virginia slave-trader's business letter on the eve of Civil War

Aug. 21, 1860 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,320.00
98 Roosevelt, Theodore

The Winning of the West

1900 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
275 Herrmann, Chas.

Map of the Taaffe Partition in the Rancho Purissima Concepcion. Compiled for Christmas & Gray and W.C. Rome, August 1904...

1904 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,320.00
289

[Touring map of the High Sierra: California and Nevada]

[1939] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,320.00
259 Ravenstein, August

Embossed Atlas for Elementary Instruction in Physical Geography. Containing Maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australasia and Polynesia, together with an Ideal Picture of the Physical Geography of the World; Executed in Relief, a

c.1880 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
188 Milton and Yosemite Stage Co.

A Tour Of Yosemite Valley Via Positively 72 Miles The Shortest Route, Via a Railroad That Saves 30 Miles Staging, Milton and Yosemite Stage Co's Six-horse Coach Line: A Few Hints as to Time, Expense, Etc., Etc.

[c.1887] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,140.00
143

Carte-de-visite photograph portrait of J.M. Hutchings, pioneer promoter of the Yosemite

c,1875 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,080.00
74 Lindbergh, Charles A.

The Spirit of St. Louis - inscribed by the great aviator

1954 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
169 Muir, John, editor

Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico

[1887-1888] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,020.00
176

Album with fifteen silver gelatin prints of Yosemite

[c.1903] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,020.00
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    Auction 151
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    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.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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  • 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.
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    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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