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Auction Name Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography Total Sales (USD) 156,510.00
Auction Date January 25, 2018 - January 25, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 128,740.00
Sale Number #634 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 205,750.00
Total Lots 500
Sold Lots 369 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 179,560.00
% of Lots Sold 73.80% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 282,750.00
Unsold Lots 131 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 55.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
269

Wells, Fargo & Co. Reward Poster for "Alkali Jim"

July 19, 1875 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,200.00
417 Thornton, John

A Large Chart Describeing ye Streights of Malacca and Sincapore

[1711] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,600.00
339

Collection of approx. 92 glass lantern slides gathered by a missionary in Armenia and Turkey, with related family photographs, postcards and a diary

c.1910-1940 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,000.00
204 Muir, John

The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition

1916-24 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,100.00
59 Kellogg & Comstock, publisher

The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California: I Neither Borrow nor Lend

c.1849-50 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,900.00
366 Firks, Henry

San-Francisco 1849. Drawn on the spot by Henry Firks, for W.H. Jones, esq. of San-Francisco, U.C.

[before 1868] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,900.00
397 Keeler, William J.

National Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made by the authority of the Hon. O.H. Browning Secretary of the Interior. In the Office of the Indian Bureau Chiefly for Government Purposes under the dir

1867 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
188 McGowan, Edward

Narrative of Edward McGowan, Including a Full Account of the Author's Adventures and Perils, While Persecuted by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856

1857 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,600.00
390

Map of Pearl City Island of Oahu. Laid out by the Oahu Railway and Land Co... C.H. Kluegel, Chief Engineer - B.F. Dillingham, General Manager

c.1889 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,700.00
398 Keulen, Gerard van

Insulae Iavae Pars Occidentalis Edente Hadriano Relando... [and] Insulae Iavae Pars Orientalis Edente Hadriano Relando ...

c.1728 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,700.00
404 Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California, with the Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities

1846 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,700.00
177 Kennedy, Robert F.

To Seek a Newer World

1967 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,280.00
192 Michaux, Francois Andre

The North American Sylva, or a Description of Forest Trees, of The United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia

1819 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
311 Forshaw, Joseph M.

Kingfishers and Related Birds

[1983] and [1985] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
147 Grey, Zane

Tales of Fresh-Water Fishing

1928 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
386 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria

Mare del Sud, detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico

[c.1691] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
241 Stackpole, Peter

Construction of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, from a ferry on the bay

1935 (later print) USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,560.00
253 Carter, W.A.

History of Fannin County, Texas. History, Statistics, and Biographies. Business Cards, etc.

1885 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,560.00
355 California, State Geological Survey

State Geological Survey of California, J.D. Whitney, State Geologist. Topographical Map of Central California Together With a Part of Nevada

1873 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,440.00
388 Faden, William

A New General Chart of the World, Exhibiting the Whole of the Discoveries made by the late Captain James Cook, F.R.S. with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command: Also those of Capn. Phipps (now Lord Mulgrave) in his Expedition to the North Pole

1787 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,440.00
230 Ross, Alexander

Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted Out by John Jacob Astor, to Establish the "Pacific Fur Territory;" with an Account of Some Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific

1849 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,320.00
58 Cox, H.F.

Post office, San Francisco, California, a faithful representation of the crowds daily applying at that office for letters and newspapers

c.1850 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,200.00
283 Walton, Wilton

World's Columbian Exposition, MDCCCXCIII: Art and Architecture

[1893] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
421

Map of the United States Drawn from the Most Approved Surveys

1825 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,200.00
246 Stephens, John L.

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

1843 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,140.00
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    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.
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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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  • 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.
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    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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