Early American: History Auction, 72625, Rancho Santa Fe

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025

Page Size: 143 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
141	Large Long Term Accumulation of Textiles and Coverlets		USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Unknown
142	Large Group Lot of Commemorative Printed Silk Ribbons		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
143	Group Lot of Seven Diverse Song Sheets Vintage Music Some with Engravings and Related Images		USD 250.00 - 350.00	Unknown
145	Large Box Lot Accumulation of Vintage Newspapers		USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
148	Extensive Large Group Lot About Ninety Americana Items		USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
150	c. 1917 World War I "THE FAREWELL" American Textile	1917	USD 175.00 - 250.00	Unknown
157	Valuable Large Group Lot of about 110 Historic Americana Documents, Autographs and Related Collectable Items		USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
158	GOLD RUSH - 1849 Salem Ohio Letter - Going to California "the diggings" leaving from Salem, Ohio	1849	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
159	1849 Rare California Gold Rush United States Government Imprint Requests Congress to provide Military Escorts for Emigrants Travelling Overland from Missouri to California	1849	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
160	Custom Painted Advertisement Train Car Photograph of "BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST AND WORLD CONGRESS"		USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
161	1897 Early Alaska US Senate Treasury Department Document Regarding Revenue from Seal Islands of Alaska	1897	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
162	The Alaska Gold Rush "The Situation in Alaska" Report of the Mail Carrier between Juneau & Circle City on Conditions in the Klondike as Miners are Short of Provisions		USD 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
163	1897 Alaska "Protection of Fur Seals in Bering Sea" by President McKinley, 64 Page Rare US Senate Document	1897	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
164	Group Lot of Seven Diverse Military Related Items		USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
167	1879 South Carolina "CERTIFICATE OF STATE INDEBTEDNESS." Unissued Act of Assembly State Bonds	1879	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
168	Large Group Lot of Primarily Used American Postal Vignette Airmail Covers of the 1930s through WW II Era	1930s	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
169	Group Lot of Eight Diverse United States Stamps		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
170	U.S. Space Program Events Accumulation of Hundreds of Choice Quality Historic Cacheted Postal Covers Box Lot		USD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.