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Americana -Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Sep 11th, 2008

offered by
PBA Galleries

133 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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405 Items

Lot Description Estimates
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101 Lot 101

Utah Pioneer History
Title: Pioneering the West 1846-1878: Major Howard Eg...

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300
8 Bids
102 Lot 102

Argonaut Press Northwest History
Title: A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver and the North-We...

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5 Bids
103 Lot 103

Farnham's Travels, "Ploughkeepsie" issue 1843
Title: Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Ana...

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6 Bids
104 Lot 104

Ferguson's Mining Reminiscences
Title: The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty...

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105 Lot 105

States of the Great West; Jacob Ferris 1846 Maps
Title: The States and Territories of The Great West; ...

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106 Lot 106

David Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography
Title: Hawaiian National Bibliography
Author: <...

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350
15 Bids
107 Lot 107

Ben Franklin Printing of the Pennsylvania Charter
Title: The Charters of the Province of Pensilvania an...

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108 Lot 108

Works of Benjamin Franklin Federal Edition
Title: The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: <...

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5 Bids
109 Lot 109

Beautifully Illustrated Fremont Autobiography
Title: Memoirs of My Life...Including in the Narrativ...

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10 Bids
110 Lot 110

Frémont Explorations with Maps
Title: The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont
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7 Bids
111 Lot 111

1888 Presidential Election Board Game
Title: The Game of Politics or, The Race for the Pres...

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112 Lot 112

Limited Edition Biography of 1849 Gold Discoverer
Title: James Marshall. The Discoverer of California G...

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113 Lot 113

Battle of Buena Vista by J.W. Gibson 1847
Title: Letter Descriptive of the Battle of Buena Vist...

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114 Lot 114

Archive of Gillette Razor Founder King Gillette
Title: Archive of correspondence relating to the Gill...

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115 Lot 115

Central Gold Region William Gilpin 1860 Maps
Title: The Central Gold Region
Author: Gilp...

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116 Lot 116

Idyls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion 1864
Title: Idyls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion
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117 Lot 117

George Goddard watercolor of Nevada mining town
Title: Looking Up Main Street, Mineral Hill, Eureka C...

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118 Lot 118

Gold Mining Company Prospectus 1899
Title: Prospectus: The Industrial Gold Placer Mining ...

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119 Lot 119

Letter about Mining in California 1857
Title: Autograph Letter signed from Atkinson to his f...

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1 Bid
120 Lot 120

Gold Rush letters from Downieville, Cal., 1853
Title: Two Autograph Letters Signed by Jonathan Basse...

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121 Lot 121

Letter from California Gold Mines 1849
Title: Autograph Letter Signed from S. Cuthbert to Ja...

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122 Lot 122

Shipment of 54 lbs. of Gold from California 1859
Title: Bill of lading for shipment of 54 lbs. of gold...

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123 Lot 123

Mortgage for Long Bar Water Co. CA 1852
Title: Manuscript mortgage deed for one fifth of the ...

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124 Lot 124

Gold Rush Sheet Music 1849
Title: California Polka Composed for and Respectfully...

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125 Lot 125

Six Volumes of Grabhorn Press Californiana
Title: Six volumes on California published by the Gra...

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2 Bids
126 Lot 126

Six Volumes of Grabhorn Press Californiana
Title: Six volumes on California published by the Gra...

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2 Bids
127 Lot 127

Huge De Luxe Album from Haiti's 1949 World's Fair
Title: Exposition Internationale 1949-1950
Auth...

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128 Lot 128

Historical Contributions Presented to Bolton
Title: New Spain and the Anglo-American West. Histori...

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129 Lot 129

Harlow's Cartography of San Francisco Bay
Title: Maps of San Francisco Bay From the Spanish Dis...

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5 Bids
130 Lot 130

Haskins' Argonauts of California With Index
Title: The Argonauts of California: Being the Reminis...

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10 Bids
131 Lot 131

Hawaiian Almanac 1835
Title: Alemanaka Hawaii, no ka makihiki o ko kakou Ha...

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7 Bids
132 Lot 132

Hawaiian lettersheet with map of islands
Title: Pictorial lettersheet with map of the Hawaiian...

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8 Bids
133 Lot 133

F. Jay Haynes photos of Yellowstone
Title: The Yellowstone National Park
Author:

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134 Lot 134

Helper's Land of Gold
Title: The Land of Gold Reality Versus Fiction
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135 Lot 135

Rare English-Chinese Dictionary 1854
Title: A Guide to Conversation in the English and Chi...

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136 Lot 136

Oregon Trail Classic
Title: Across the Plains and Over the Divide. A Mule ...

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137 Lot 137

Chromo of San Francisco Streetcars c.1864
Title: Strasse in St. Francisco mit einem Dampf-Omnib...

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138 Lot 138

Pacific Coast Guide Book With 3 Folding Maps
Title: Bancroft's Pacific Coast Guide Book
Auth...

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13 Bids
139 Lot 139

Hittell's History of San Francisco
Title: A History of the City of San Francisco...
<...

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140 Lot 140

Hittell's Guide to Mining
Title: Mining in the Pacific States of North America<...

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141 Lot 141

Original watercolors by architect Lewis P. Hobart
Title: Scrapbook compiled by Lewis P. Hobart, contain...

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142 Lot 142

Watercolor for a Siskiyou County History
Title: Watercolor for a Siskiyou County History

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143 Lot 143

Letter from Wells, Fargo Agent James B. Hume
Title: Autograph Letter signed by Wells, Fargo agent ...

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144 Lot 144

H.V. Huntley California Its Gold & Its Inhabitant
Title: California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants

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145 Lot 145

Illinois in the Eighteenth Century
Title: Illinois in the Eighteenth Century
Autho...

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146 Lot 146

Washington Irving's Astoria, 3 vols., 1836
Title: Astoria; Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mount...

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7 Bids
147 Lot 147

Facsimile of Jefferson's Rare 1849 Map
Title: Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, Mo...

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148 Lot 148

Jefferson's Memoirs and Correspondence 1830
Title: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From...

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149 Lot 149

Johnson's Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance
Title: Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance
Auth...

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150 Lot 150

First Edition of Early Gold Rush Account
Title: Sights in the Gold Regions and Scenes by the W...

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