Early American: History Auction, 112225, Rancho Santa Fe

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 22, 2025 - November 22, 2025
Page Size: 199 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101

March 20, 1864-Dated Civil War Period, Manuscript Handwritten Letter by U.S. Navy Lt. Commander LeRoy Fitch to the Fleet Captain of the Mississippi Squadron Regarding the Safety of Storing Gunpowder on the U.S. Receiving Ship Grampus

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 455.00
102

June 21, 1862-Dated, Rare Partially-Printed, Washington to VIRGINIA, Civil War Union Pass, Issued by the Provost Marshal's Office, Signed by Lt. J.S. Copley.

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 520.00
103

July 7, 1862-Dated Civil War General Orders No. 74, A Resolution to Encourage Enlistments in the Regular Army and Volunteer Force

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 234.00
104

September 9, 1863-Dated,Civil War Printed Circular from the Navy Department regarding transferring of accounts, Signed in the printed text by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Choice Mint.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 104.00
105

1864 Imprint titled, Frauds in Naval Contracts, by US Senator John P. Hale, his Speech... His Daughter Lucy Hale, was Secretly Betrothed in 1865 to John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's Assassin

USD 350.00 - 450.00 USD 364.00
106

April 5, 1864-Dated Civil War Period, Head Quarters Signal Corps, Department of the Gulf, General Banks' Field Orders No. 2 Ordering a Lt. to Admiral Porter for Signal Duty, 6-7/8" x 9-7/8", 1 page, Extremely Fine

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 910.00
107

December 22, 1864-Dated General Order No. 35 from John L. Hodson

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 312.00
108

October 13, 1864-Dated Maine Recruiting Circular No. 30, Augustus Davis, Captain and Provost Marshal.

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 390.00
109

1864 Civil War Bucks County, Pennsylvania, $300 Enlistment Bounty Fund 6% Bond

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 390.00
110

May 3, 1864-Dated Civil War Period, Union Navy Department General Order No. 33, the Court Martial of CHARLES WILKES, Crisp Mint

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 104.00
111

July 16, 1864-Dated Civil War Period, Navy Department General Order No. 39, Guilty Verdict in the Charge of Desertion, Choice Mint

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 130.00
112

June 27, 1864-Dated, Civil War Period, Union Navy Department General Order No. 38, Signed in print by Gideon Welles, Choice Mint

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 117.00
113

June 29, 1865-Dated Civil War Period, Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles Orders Navy Department General Order No. 62, Awarding Bars to be Attached to Medals of Honor Previously Awarded to Two Sailors For Subsequent Acts of Gallantry

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 195.00
114

February 18, 1865-Dated Civil War Printed General Order No. 3, issued by John L. Hodson, Adjutant General of the State of Maine, regarding a $100 Cash Bounty for entering the Military or Naval service of the United States, Extremely Fine.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 208.00
115

c. 1860 CIVIL WAR Print, BRIGADIER GEN. A.E. BURNSIDE, by G.P. Putnam

USD 100.00 - 120.00 USD 91.00
116

c. 1865, Salmon P. Chase, Engraved Custom Card with his Portrait, with text below; "SALMON P. CHASE / SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY / 1861-1864", Choice Crisp Mint.

USD 100.00 - 120.00 USD 91.00
117

1876-Dated, Rare First Edition Printing titled, Suggestions On Torpedo Outfits Of The Vessels Of The Navy and Report on the Torpedo Fittings of the U.S.S. Intrepid, by Lt. R. B. Bradford, Complete, Very Fine.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 455.00
118

1860s Union General William T. Sherman, Civil War Period, Carte de Visite Albumen Photograph within a American Heraldic Eagle Decorative Patriotic Embossed Frame, Very Fine.

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 234.00
119

c. 1862 Civil War Major General George B. McClellan, Carte de Visite Photograph by Silsbee, Case + Co., Boston, Very Fine.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 143.00
120

c. 1862 Civil War Confederate Civil War General P.G.T. Beauregard, Rare Carte de Visite by D. Appleton & Co., New York maker's backmark, Fine.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 247.00
121

c. 1862 Civil War, Carte de Visite Huge Composite with 100 Military Images, with a Rare Printed Key Listing the 100 Union Notable Union Army and Navy Officers, Very Fine.

USD 350.00 - 450.00 USD 260.00
122

c. 1864 Civil War, General Ulysses S Grant Carte-de-Visite Photograph with Decorative Embossed Eagle Frame, Choice Extremely Fine.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 260.00
123

c. 1864 Civil War, Union General Joseph Warren Revere Carte de Visite, being the Grandson of famous American Revolutionary War Patriot Paul Revere, Jr. Silversmith, Engraver and Patriot, Warren is hand-written under the image, Very Fine.

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 390.00
124

1865-Dated Civil War Confederate States President Jefferson Davis Depicted "Dressed as a Woman When Captured" Carte de Visite, Very Fine.

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 455.00
125

Union General Benjamin Butler Civil War Period Carte de Visite by Sheldon & Swymmer, Canal St, New Orleans, La., with "Butler" written in brown ink under the maker's imprint, Fine.

USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 156.00
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