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Auction Name California & the West. With Americana - Travel - Maps Total Sales (USD) 193,320.00
Auction Date April 29, 2021 - April 29, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 155,250.00
Sale Number #728 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 240,850.00
Total Lots 372
Sold Lots 254 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 218,900.00
% of Lots Sold 68.28% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 340,100.00
Unsold Lots 118 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 56.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
56 Mote, Marcus

Santa Barbara Cal. from the foot hills Looking South. Islands 60 miles in the distance

1877 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,400.00
367 Caughey, R.

Eldredge's Brewery Portsmouth, N.H. Ale, Porter & Lager

c.1880 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 10,800.00
139 Hough, Romeyn

The American Woods, Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text

1894-1928 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 6,600.00
230 Jefferson, Thomas

Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

1829 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,600.00
310

Transactions of the Geological Society, 1811-1842

1811-1842 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,400.00
280 Wheeler, George M.

Six appendices & two atlas volumes to the Annual Reports of the Wheeler survey of the American West

1876-1889 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,100.00
332 Wallace, Alfred Russel

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

1869 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,800.00
327 Sirén, Osvald

The Walls and Gates of Peking: Researches and Impressions by Osvald Sirén. Illustrated with 109 Photogravures after Photographs by the Author and Fifty Architectural Drawings Made by Chinese Artists

[1924] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
210 Nordenskiold, Gustav

The Cliff-Dwellers of the Mesa Verde Southern Colorado, Their Pottery and Implements

[1893] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,300.00
163 La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Franc?ois-Alexandre-Fre?de?ric, duc de

Travels Through the United States of America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an Authentic Account of Lower Canada.

1799 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,000.00
5 Priest, Rev. James M.

Autograph Letter Signed by emancipated slave as missionary in Liberia

Aug. 8, 1853 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,700.00
215

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for A Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-54...

1855-1860 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,700.00
219

Coeur d'Alene City, Idaho & Surrounding Vicinity

c.1890's USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,700.00
358 Eddy, William Marston

Map of the City of San Francisco, full and complete to the present date. Compiled by Wm. M. Eddy, City Surveyor. January 15th, 1851

1851 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,700.00
213

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-56. Vol. XI - Maps

1861 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,400.00
222 Jackson, William Henry

Provo Falls, Utah

c.1880 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,400.00
231 Jefferson, Thomas

Notes on the State of Virginia

1801 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,400.00
364 Colton, Joseph Hutchins

Colton's Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies, Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

1854 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
31

Hand Book of Calistoga Springs, or, Little Geysers, in Mineral Waters, Climate, Amusement, Baths, Drives, Scenery, the Celebrated Great Geysers and Petrified Forest, and the Clear Lake Country, with map and illustrations

1871 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,280.00
296 Bull, Henrik J.

The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions

1896 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,280.00
16

What the Salt River Valley Offer’s Immigrants, Capitalists, and Invalids…

1887 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,040.00
302 Sun Tzu and Captain E. F. Calthrop, translator

The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East

1908 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,040.00
356

Map of Ocean Beach: Being a subdivision of Pueblo lots 195, 202 & 203 in the City of San Diego, California. Surveyed by O.N. Sanford, City Engineer

1887 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,040.00
120 Gardiner, John & David Hepburn

The American Gardener, Containing Ample Directions for Working a Kitchen Garden, Every Month in the Year; and Copious Instructions for the Cultivation of Flower Gardens, Vineyards, Nurseries, Hop-Yards, Green Houses, and Hot Houses.

1804 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
121 George, Henry

The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party: The position taken by the executive of the state has brought the question of railroad subsidies directly before the people of California...

1871 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,800.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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