Holabird Western Americana Collections: "Fall Frontier Fortunes" Numismatics & Americana Timed Auction - Day 4, 110703, Reno

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 22, 2025 - September 22, 2025
Page Size: 364 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4147

Wooden Duck Decoy, Animal Trap Co. of Mississippi

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 37.50
4148

Landing of the Troops at Vera Cruz a Chromolithograph Print from 1848

1848 USD 100.00 - 160.00 USD 175.00
4152

United States Navy Yard Receipt Signed by Commodore John Sloat (CA Annexation)

New York, New York 1851 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 62.50
4153

Civil War Department of California & Nevada GAR Collection

Hanford, California 1880s-90s USD 100.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
4156

Texas Newspaper Front Page, 1864, Civil War material

Houston, Texas 1864 USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 75.00
4157

Confederate Spy Greenhow Photo

Washington, D.C. USD 1,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
4158

Civil War- Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow Signed Card

USD 700.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
4159

Andersonville-Cut Square Autograph of Major Gen. James Harrison Wilson

USD 560.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
4163

Original Civil War Documents Group

1861-65 USD 70.00 - 100.00 USD 56.25
4164

Union Book on the Civil War, Published 1866

1866 USD 100.00 - 120.00 USD 50.00
4165

"Lee's Lieutenants" Volume 2, 1949

1949 USD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
4166

"Lee's Lieutenants" Volume 3, 1944

1944 USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
4167

Civil War Artist Biography, Limited Edition, 1961

1961 USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
4168

Custer: First Message Account to the Senate of the Custer Massacre July, 1876

1876 USD 800.00 - 3,000.00 USD 281.25
4169

Collier's Spanish-American War Photobook, 1898

1898 USD 60.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
4170

USMC Commander George Barnett Photograph

USD 40.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
4172

Collection Publications on U.S. War Conflicts.

1792-1919 USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
4173

Military Pensions

Ohio 1915 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 18.75
4174

Military Buttons Reference Guides (6)

USD 70.00 - 100.00 USD 43.75
4175

Pancho Villa Wanted Poster 1916

Columbus, New Mexico 1916 USD 210.00 - 600.00 USD 62.50
4176

Lewis Automatic Machine Rifle Instruction Booklet, World War One

1917 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 134.20
4177

Early Motivational War-Time Song Books

1910s USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
4178

The Soldier's French Phrase Book c. 1917 Paperback

c1917 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 25.00
4179

USS Nebraska Battleship Framed Photograph

1912 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
4180

WWI Field Maps Personal Soldier Memorabilia

1916-18 USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 93.75
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    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.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
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    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.