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Auction Name Americana and the National Parks Total Sales (USD) 146,212.00
Auction Date October 20, 2016 - October 20, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 166,330.00
Sale Number #599 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 261,700.00
Total Lots 511
Sold Lots 313 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 481,990.00
% of Lots Sold 61.25% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 738,100.00
Unsold Lots 198 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 19.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
195

Archive of over 160 letters to California and Oregon newspaperman James O'Meara, from journalists, politicians, businessmen and others from across the West, and the nation

c.1870-1886 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,400.00
70 Grosh, John W., et al.

Archive of approximately 90 handwritten letters from John W. Grosh, a soldier in the Union Army, and from and between other family members during the Civil War, with many envelopes and some related items

c.1858-1868 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,000.00
190

Cased pair of daguerreotype images of Niagara Falls

[c.1840s-50s] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,600.00
198 Gordon, Witold

III Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, USA, February 4-13, 1932 - poster depicting ski jumper

1932 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,200.00
150 Machetanz, Fred

Heading for Camp - original oil on board

1990 USD 0.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,700.00
283 Venegas, Miguel

A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing an Accurate Description of that Country, Its Soils, Mountains, Harbours, Lakes, Rivers and Seas; Its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals and Famous Fishery for Pearls. The Customs of Inhabitants, Their Relig

1759 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,700.00
333

Yo Semite Valley and the Big trees. Via the Big Oak Flat Direct Route. Which is the Shortest, Cheapest, and Best Route to the Big Trees and the Yo Semite Valley?

1881 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
179 Muir, John

Our National Parks

1901 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,280.00
369 Mitchell, S. Augustus

A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World with a Special Map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c...

1847 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,040.00
6

Collection of legal documents about a squashed N.Carolina slave arson plot

1832 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
241

Sierra Club Annual Outing Announcements, Consecutive Run 1901-1929

1901-1929 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,920.00
209

Original manuscript ledger book recording land purchases and related legal proceedings of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway, aka St. Louis Southwestern Railway

c.1897-1901 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,560.00
215 Rockefeller, John D.

Certificate for eighteen shares in the Standard Oil Trust, made out to Mrs. Sara J. Right, signed by J.D. Rockefeller as President, Jno. D. Archbold as asst. Secretary, and by the Treasurer (Freeman?)

1887 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
144 A[braham] Jonas

Rare early Masonic document signed by Abraham Lincoln's oldest and closest Jewish friend

1830 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,440.00
178 Muir, John

The Cruise of the Corwin - Large-paper Edition

1917 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,440.00
199

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.

1861 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,440.00
53 Plecker, D.A.

A Correct View of the Mammoth Tree Grove

1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,200.00
56

View of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill

Before Sept. 26, 1850 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,200.00
251

Large collection of skiing post cards

Various dates USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
265

Rare memorial brochure for Walter A. Starr, Jr.

[1933?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
301 Anonymous

Original oil painting of Yosemite Valley

Latter 19th century? USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
114

Annual Report of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, 1853-1921

1853-1921 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,020.00
13 Parr, Fred

Three handwritten diaries kept by Fred Parr, co-founder of the Parr-McCormick Steamship Line, during a trip to Alaska in 1911

1911 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
33

Original sepia-tone photograph of some forty men seated or standing behind a large view of the Pabst Brewery, and two oversize bottles of Pabst beer, and in front of a brick wall on which are hung Pabst banners

c.1890-1900 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
46 Butler, Benjamin F.

Archive of 29 letters from Benjamin F. Butler, nearly all to O.D. Barrett, concerning legal matters, land sales, etc.

c.1885-1890 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
  • 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
    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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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