Auction details
Americana -Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Sep 11th, 2008
offered by
PBA Galleries
San Francisco, CA 94108

Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
22.5% up to 100000
20% above 100001
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 10 |
| 200 | 25 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 250 |
| 5000 | 500 |
| 10000 | 1000 |
| 20000 | 2500 |
| 50000 | 5000 |
| 100000 | 10000 |
| 1000000 | 10001 |
| 10000000 | 10002 |
Auction House Preview
Tuesday, September 9 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Wednesday, September 10 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Thursday, September 11 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Or by appointment
405 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (USD) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 |
|
First Edition of Palou's Life |
1,500 - 2,000 |
4 Bids
|
| 202 |
|
Map of proposed P.P.I.E. site around Lake Merced |
300 - 500 |
2 Bids
|
| 203 |
|
First Edition of James W. Marshall's Biography |
250 - 350 |
1 Bid
|
| 204 |
|
Photograph of Mill Valley California 1930's |
200 - 300 |
|
| 205 |
|
Photograph by T.H. O'Sullivan of Nevada Mines |
1,500 - 2,000 |
|
| 206 |
|
C.E. Watkins photographs c.1867 |
600 - 900 |
|
| 207 |
|
Photos of Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway |
500 - 800 |
|
| 208 |
|
Lettersheet of Mammoth Grove Hotel Yosemite |
300 - 500 |
7 Bids
|
| 209 |
|
Lithograph lettersheet of San Francisco 1852 |
400 - 600 |
3 Bids
|
| 210 |
|
Lettersheet of San Francisco Earthquake 1865 |
1,500 - 2,000 |
25 Bids
|
| 211 |
|
Pictorial Lettersheet with letter from SF 1850 |
1,000 - 1,500 |
33 Bids
|
| 212 |
|
House Document on California Gold Rush with Maps |
400 - 700 |
19 Bids
|
| 213 |
|
Prescott's Conquest of Mexico 1844 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 214 |
|
Elvis Presley's Prayer Book |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 215 |
|
Report of the 1877 Railroad Riots |
200 - 300 |
2 Bids
|
| 216 |
|
Messages and Papers of the Presidents 10 Volumes |
300 - 500 |
|
| 217 |
|
Richardson's Papers of the Confederacy |
200 - 300 |
1 Bid
|
| 218 |
|
1906 San Francisco Business Directory |
200 - 300 |
1 Bid
|
| 219 |
|
San Francisco Telephone Directory from 1906 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 220 |
|
San Francisco News Letter, City Argus Chromolitho |
250 - 350 |
|
| 221 |
|
Lithograph View of San Francisco 1859 |
10,000 - 15,000 |
|
| 222 |
|
Large Format 1906 San Francisco Fire Photograph |
250 - 350 |
1 Bid
|
| 223 |
|
Lithograph of Lone Mountain Cemetery in S.F. |
1,000 - 1,500 |
1 Bid
|
| 224 |
|
1894 San Francisco Real Estate Auction Ad |
1,500 - 2,000 |
|
| 225 |
|
Handbill for San Francisco bookstore |
300 - 500 |
1 Bid
|
| 226 |
|
Cable cars and barn in San Francisco c.1890 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 227 |
|
Photograph album of San Francisco Nurses c.1905 |
250 - 350 |
|
| 228 |
|
San Francisco and Ocean Shore Railroad 1881 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 229 |
|
Massive Sutro Baths Lithograph |
12,000 - 18,000 |
|
| 230 |
|
Sutro Baths Poster for Japanese Troupe |
300 - 500 |
1 Bid
|
| 231 |
|
Pamphlet on University Mound Railroad S.F. 1872 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 232 |
|
Dr. Scott, The Vigilance Committee & the Church |
500 - 800 |
1 Bid
|
| 233 |
|
1930s photo album of East SF Bay Area |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 234 |
|
German Gold Rush Account, One of 50 Copies |
600 - 900 |
1 Bid
|
| 235 |
|
Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States |
1,000 - 1,500 |
4 Bids
|
| 236 |
|
Rueben Shaw Across the Plains in Forty-Nine 1896 |
250 - 350 |
3 Bids
|
| 237 |
|
Bound volume of approx. 30 pieces of sheet music |
400 - 700 |
15 Bids
|
| 238 |
|
Bound volume of approx. 38 pieces of sheet music |
400 - 600 |
6 Bids
|
| 239 |
|
Bound volume of approx. 37 pieces of sheet music |
300 - 500 |
1 Bid
|
| 240 |
|
12 pieces of American sheet music |
300 - 500 |
|
| 241 |
|
Gold Rush letter from W.T. Sherman 1857 |
1,800 - 2,500 |
|
| 242 |
|
Sherman's Memoirs Vol. 2 Extra-Illustrated |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 243 |
|
March through Georgia in Sherman's Own Words |
200 - 300 |
3 Bids
|
| 244 |
|
Sitgreaves Expedition with Lithographic Plates |
250 - 350 |
14 Bids
|
| 245 |
History of Stanislaus County, California 1881 |
5,000 - 8,000 |
||
| 246 |
|
Stansbury's Survey of the Great Salt Lake |
200 - 300 |
8 Bids
|
| 247 |
|
Stenhouse's Mormon History |
200 - 300 |
4 Bids
|
| 248 |
|
One of 300, Death Valley Survivor |
200 - 300 |
2 Bids
|
| 249 |
|
Presentation Copy of Stevenson's Pueblo Catalogue |
200 - 300 |
|
| 250 |
|
Arthur Stone Following Old Trails Montana |
300 - 500 |
4 Bids
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