Auction Reports
Auction Info
- Sale Name
- Californiana & Western Americana, Early Ephemera ,Photography & Newspapers
- Auction Date
- 10/03/2003 - 10/03/2003
- Year of Sale
- 2003
- Sale Number
- #7
- Total Lots
- 174
- Sold Lots
- 125
- Lots Sold
- 71.8%
- Unsold Lots
- 49
- Price Unknown
- 0
- Total Sales (USD)
- 37,812.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 29,620.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 46,700.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 50,795.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 78,350.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 48.26%
- Currency
- USD
- Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
- 42,084.60
Top twenty five by sale price
View All Auction Lots.| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 068 | Morris, Howard L. & Thomas Wright, compilers | Los Angeles city directory for 1879-80. | 1879. |
USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 126 | DIXON, Maynard | Watercolor sketch of a cowboy & invoice of Jake Zeitlin | 1929 ; 1930 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 2,587.50 |
| 007 | [SAN FRANCISCO] | Holograph petition of W.S. Clark, | 1847 |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 019 | SUTTER, J[ohann] A[ugustus]. | Autograph letter signed to “Hon. Judge O.C. Pratt from Oregon”. | [1855]. |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 101 | DAVIS, William Heath, Jr. | The Terrible Cholera Epidemic in California in 1850 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | 977.50 | |
| 006 | [ROBINSON, Alfred] and BOSCANA, Geronimo. | Life in California: during a Residence of Several Years in that Territory, | 1846 |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | 920.00 |
| 022 | San Francisco Daily Herald | 1856 |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | 862.50 | |
| 016 | San Francisco Daily Herald--Over 1000 issues! | 1853-1856 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 862.50 | |
| 077 | JACKSON, Helen Hunt. | Ramona. A Story | 1884. |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | 805.00 |
| 066 | [SAN FRANCISCO] | The Case of A.A. Cohen vs. H.B. Tichenor. | 1877 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 690.00 |
| 100 | KEITH, William | Untitled oil painting | 1900 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 690.00 |
| 119 | COOLBRITH, Ina | Tinted photographic postcard of the author... | 1920, 21, & 25 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 632.50 |
| 105 | Merrill, Orin S. | Mysterious Scott, the Monte Cristo of Death Valley, and Tracks of a Tenderfoot. | [1906] |
USD 400.00 - 700.00 | 632.50 |
| 099 | KEITH, William | Oil painting | 1900 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | 632.50 |
| 177 | ROBINSON, W. W. | Maps of Los Angeles, from Ord’s Survey of 1849 to the end of the Book of the Eighties | 1966 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 632.50 |
| 093 | LUMMIS, Chas. F., ed. | The Land of Sunshine. A Southern California Magazine | 1895-1901 |
USD 400.00 - 700.00 | 517.50 |
| 157 | Kane, Thomas Leiper | A Friend of the Mormons | 1937 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | 488.75 |
| 090 | [LOS ANGELES PIONEERS-PORTRAITS] | Approx. 45 images of influential pioneers | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 460.00 | |
| 032 | [CALIFORNIA] | The State Register and Year Book of Facts: for the year 1859. | 1859 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 431.25 |
| 051 | [CALIFORNIA EPHEMERA] | Seven Items. Land Documents, | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 402.50 | |
| 058 | KING, Clarence | Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada | 1874 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 402.50 |
| 052 | KING, Clarence | Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada | 1872 |
USD 350.00 - 450.00 | 373.75 |
| 149 | MILNER, Joe E. & Earle R. Forrest | California Joe: Noted Scout and Indian Fighter With An Authentic Account of Custer’s Last Fight | 1935 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 373.75 |
| 076 | HOPKINS, Sarah Winnemucca | Life Among the Piutes: Their wrongs and claims. | 1883 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 373.75 |
| 176 | Lillie, Gordon W. | “Pawnee Bill.” | [1957-70] |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 373.75 |
