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Auction Details

Auction Date
December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Page Size: 467 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102 Peck, John Mason

A Gazetteer of Illinois in Three Parts: Containing a General View of the State, a General View of Each County; and a Particular Description of Each Town, Settlement, Stream, Prairie, Bottom, Bluff, etc. Alphabetically Arranged

Jacksonville, IL 1834 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
103 Jackson, William Henry

The Old Carreta, Laguna N.M.

Denver c.1875 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
104 Kennedy, Robert F.

The Enemy Within

New York [1960] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
105 Norris, Charles G.

Seed: A Novel of Birth Control

Garden City, NY 1930 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
106 Bolton, Herbert Eugene, editor

Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta: A Contemporary Account of the Beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona, by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Pioneer Missionary, Explorer, Cartographer, and Ranchman, 1683-1711. Published for the first tim

Cleveland 1919 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
107 Bolton, Herbert Eugene

Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer

New York 1936 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
108 Eastlack, Francis F. and Vespasian Ellis

Parody ballad of the Know Nothing secret society, and a short-lived newspaper published after it went public as the American Party

Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 1854-1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
109 Krakel, Dean F.

The Saga of Tom Horn: The Story of a Cattlemen's War. With Personal Narratives, Newspaper Accounts and Official Documents and Testimonies

[Laramie, WY] [1954] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
110 Lanchester, F.W.

Aircraft In Warfare; The Dawn of the Fourth Arm

London 1916 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
111 Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark

History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean performed during the Years 1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the

New York 1893 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
112

Two 1793 lottery tickets, one signed by Founding Father Daniel Carroll

[1793-1798] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
113 Livingston, Edward

System Of Penal Law for The State of Louisiana, Consisting of a Code of Crimes and Punishments, A Code of Procedures, A Code of Evidence, A Code of Reform and Prison Discipline; A Book of Definitions... To Which are Prefixed a Preliminary Report on the Pl

Philadelphia [1833] USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
114 Ludlow, William

Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and Return, Made in the Summer of 1875

Washington 1876 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
115 Lyell, Charles

A Second Visit to the United States of North America

New York 1849 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
116 Marcou, Jules

Geology of North America; with Two Reports on the Prairies of Arkansas and Texas, The Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada of California.

Zurich 1858 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
117 Marquez, Don Pietro

Esercitazione architettoniche sopra gli spettacoli degli antichi con appendice sul bello in generale

Rome 1808 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
118

Two post-Civil War proposals to trigger rainfall by detonating explosives in the sky

1880; 1892 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
119 Neucheze, Capitan de

Tratado teorico y practico de fortification pasajera y del ataque y defensa de los puestos de campana con un resumen de la pequenas operaciones de la guerra para uso de los oficiales y sargentos...

Mexico 1854 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
120 Mullan, John

Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains

New York 1865 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
121 Raymond, Rossiter W.

Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains

Washington 1870 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
122

Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver per Ounce Troy, at Different Degrees of Fineness. Also, Tables Showing the Net Returns from Gold and Silver of Different Fineness, When Made in Coin or Fine Metal...

San Francisco 1867 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
123

Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Presented at the Forty-Third Annual Meeting, Held in Troy, New York, Sept. 7-10, 1852

Boston 1852 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
124 [Leeson, Michael A., ed.]

History of Montana, 1739-1885. A History of Its Discovery and Settlement, Social and Commercial Progress, Mines and Miners, Agriculture and Stock-Growing, Churches, Schools and Societies, Indians and Indian Wars, Vigilantes, Courts of Justice, Newspaper P

Chicago 1885 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
125

The Montana Magazine of History

[Helena] 1951-2005 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
126 Bertrand, Louis A.

Memoires d'un Mormon

Paris c.1862 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
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