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Auction Name Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views Total Sales (USD) 297,556.25
Auction Date December 19, 2024 - December 19, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 204,950.00
Sale Number #828 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 281,910.00
Total Lots 558
Sold Lots 339.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 322,250.00
% of Lots Sold 60.75% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 464,210.00
Unsold Lots 219 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Custer, George Armstrong

My Life on the Plains: or, Personal Experiences with Indians

1874 USD 10,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 93,750.00
17 Schortemeier, Frederick E.

Rededicating America: Life and Recent Speeches of Warren G. Harding

[1920] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,625.00
65 Carter, Jimmy

Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter, President of the United States

1977 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,375.00
14 Cleveland, Grover

A Defense of Fishermen

1902 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,500.00
509 Parsons, Charles R., artist

The City of San Francisco. Birds Eye View from the Bay Looking South-West

1878 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
13 Arthur, Chester A.

Message of the President of the United States, Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the First Session of the Forty-Eighth Congress

1883 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,875.00
388 Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)

The History of the Bucaniers of America; from the first original down to this time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume

1704 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,000.00
48 Nixon, Richard

The Inaugural Address of Richard M. Nixon, Thirty-Seventh President of the United States

1969 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,687.50
25 Hoover, Herbert

Four State of Union speeches inscribed by Hoover

1929-1932 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,062.50
381

Set of 8 volumes comprising the first edition of James Marra's Journal of the second voyage, and octavo editions of the official accounts of the first and third voyages

1775-1785 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,750.00
532 Keeler, William J.

National Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made by the authority of the Hon. O.H. Browning Secretary of the Interior. In the Office of the Indian Bureau Chiefly for Government Purposes under the dir

1867 USD 3,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,437.50
18 Coolidge, Calvin

Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses

1926 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,812.50
32 Schnapper, M.B., editor

The Truman Program: Addresses and Messages by President Harry S. Truman

[1948] USD 1,500.00 - 900.00 USD 2,812.50
317

14K Gold N.S.G.W. California Admission Day Gold Medal

1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
119 Toliver, Raymond F. and Trevor J. Constable

Fighter Aces of the U.S.A.

[1979] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,500.00
315

14K Gold Ceremonial Plaque presented to Mayor James Rolph Jr.

1916 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
37 Kennedy, John F.

Autograph letter signed by John F. Kennedy as Senator

1955 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,000.00
38 Kennedy, John F.

Autograph letter signed by John F. Kennedy with signed envelope

1947 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
67 Carter, Jimmy

Presidential Campaign of Jimmy Carter 1976

1980 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,000.00
495 Kuchel & Dresel

Auburn, Placer County, Cal. 1857

1857 - [1858] USD 2,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,000.00
43 Johnson, Lyndon Baines

The President Speaks "A More Beautiful America..." Excerpts from speeches by Lyndon B. Johnson.

1965 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
75 Reagan, Ronald

Where's the Rest of Me: The Ronald Reagan Story

[1965] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
118 Toliver, Colonel Raymond F. and Trevor J. Constable

Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe

[1977] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,375.00
488 Yule, Henry

A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855

1858 USD 1,500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,375.00
24 Hoover, Herbert

Five pamphlets by Herbert Hoover

1936-1948 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
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