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Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps
1:00 PM PT - Nov 6th, 2008

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133 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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372 Items

Lot Description Estimates
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1051 Lot 1051

The Private Life of Benjamin Franklin 1793
Title: The Private Life of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. L...

2,500
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3,500
11 Bids
1052 Lot 1052

Large lithograph portrait of John Charles Fremont
Title: John C. Frémont
Author: **
Des...

1,000
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1,500
1053 Lot 1053

John Charles Frémont Memoir 1st Ed.
Title: Memoirs of My Life...Including in the Narrativ...

300
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500
8 Bids
1054 Lot 1054

Frémont Explorations with Maps
Title: The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont
...

400
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600
8 Bids
1055 Lot 1055

Arnold Genthe Old Chinatown 2nd Edition
Title: Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Ge...

200
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1056 Lot 1056

The Administrations of Washington and Adams
Title: Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington a...

200
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300
5 Bids
1057 Lot 1057

Five Grabhorn Press Volumes about California
Title: Five Volumes on Westward Exploration
Aut...

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400
10 Bids
1058 Lot 1058

Grabhorn Press Rare Americana Series 1933
Title: Three Volumes from the Grabhorn Press's Rare A...

200
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500
4 Bids
1059 Lot 1059

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Title: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Author: <...

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300
3 Bids
1060 Lot 1060

Ulysses S. Grant Photograph Montage 1885
Title: Ulysses S. Grant Photograph Montage
Auth...

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1062 Lot 1062

Allen Press Donner Miscellany
Title: Donner Miscellany: 41 Diaries and Documents

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4 Bids
1063 Lot 1063

Harlan California 1846-88 1st Ed. original cloth
Title: California '46 to '88
Author: Harlan...

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1 Bid
1064 Lot 1064

First Honolulu Hawaii City Directory 1869
Title: Honolulu Directory, and Historical Sketch of t...

3,000
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5,000
1 Bid
1065 Lot 1065

4 Hawaiian Pamphlets Bound Together
Title: 4 pamphlets bound together
Author: *...

1,500
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2,500
1066 Lot 1066

Joseph Heco The Narrative of a Japanese
Title: The Narrative of a Japanese; What Has Seen and...

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1 Bid
1067 Lot 1067

First Edition of Helper's Land of Gold
Title: The Land of Gold: Reality versus Fiction

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300
1 Bid
1068 Lot 1068

Hines' Voyage Around the World 1850
Title: A Voyage Round the World: With a History of th...

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1 Bid
1069 Lot 1069

The History and Topography of the United States
Title: The History and Topography of the United State...

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800
9 Bids
1070 Lot 1070

Hittell's Hand-Book of Pacific Coast Travel
Title: Hittell's Hand-Book of Pacific Coast Travel

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1071 Lot 1071

Hittell's History of California 1st Edition
Title: History of California
Author: Hittel...

800
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1,200
19 Bids
1072 Lot 1072

Maps Sonora Mining Roberta Evelyn Holmes
Title: The Southern Mines of California: Early Develo...

400
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600
9 Bids
1073 Lot 1073

Collection of Signed Herbert Hoover Items
Title: Collection of Signed Books and Letters, Framed...

1,000
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1,500
6 Bids
1074 Lot 1074

Steamboat & Railroad Accidents 1840
Title: Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in ...

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1 Bid
1075 Lot 1075

Two volumes on L.A. Huffman, Photographer
Title: Two volumes on L.A. Huffman, Photographer
<...

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1076 Lot 1076

Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture - WPA Guide
Title: Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture
Autho...

300
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500
12 Bids
1077 Lot 1077

Clipped autograph of Washington Irving
Title: Clipped autograph, with portrait
Author:...

300
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1 Bid
1078 Lot 1078

Chronicles of America 56 Volumes
Title: The Chronicles of America
Author: Jo...

500
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800
1079 Lot 1079

Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Title: History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-Ameri...

400
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1 Bid
1080 Lot 1080

A Stroll Through the Diggings of California
Title: A Stroll Through the Diggings of California

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1081 Lot 1081

Joseph Kendall's Journal
Title: A Landsman's Voyage to California...
Aut...

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1082 Lot 1082

Navajo War Ceremonial by Jeff King
Title: Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navajo W...

1,000
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1,500
1083 Lot 1083

Rare, Suppressed Ghost Riders of the Mogollon
Title: Ghost Riders of the Mogollon
Author:

1,000
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1,500
5 Bids
1084 Lot 1084

Cowan California Bibiliography Leaf Book
Title: An Essay...on A Bibliography of California and...

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1 Bid
1085 Lot 1085

Autograph letter signed by Lafayette 1830
Title: Autograph letter of introduction, signed Lafay...

600
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900
10 Bids
1086 Lot 1086

Six titles from the Lakeside Classics series
Title: Six titles from the Lakeside Classics series

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500
2 Bids
1087 Lot 1087

Langley's SF Map and Street Directory
Title: A Map and Street Directory of San Francisco

1,000
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1,500
1 Bid
1088 Lot 1088

Langley's Memoir on Mechanical Flight 1911
Title: Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight
Auth...

500
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800
1 Bid
1089 Lot 1089

Mrs. Larimer's Capture & Escape Among the Sioux
Title: The Capture and Escape; or, Life Among the Sio...

500
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800
3 Bids
1090 Lot 1090

The Larkin Papers for the History of California
Title: The Larkin Papers: Personal, Business, and Off...

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600
4 Bids
1091 Lot 1091

John Letts California Illustrated 1852
Title: California Illustrated: Including a Descriptio...

400
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600
1 Bid
1092 Lot 1092

Life of Elder Charles Bowles 1852
Title: The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles...

250
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350
1093 Lot 1093

Charles Lindbergh "We" 1 of 1000 signed copies
Title: "We"
Author: Lindbergh, Charles A.

1,000
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1,500
1 Bid
1094 Lot 1094

Family Records & Genealogies 1851 by John Littell
Title: Family Records: Or Genealogies of the First Se...

200
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300
1095 Lot 1095

Bound typescript of poems by Charles Lummis
Title: Bound volume of typed poetry, signed
Aut...

500
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800
21 Bids
1096 Lot 1096

Manly, Death Valley in 1849, 1st Edition
Title: Death Valley in '49: Important Chapter of Cali...

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1097 Lot 1097

Marryat's Diary in America 1839 First Edition
Title: A Diary in America with Remarks on its Institu...

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1098 Lot 1098

Under the Maltese Cross: Antietam to Appomattox
Title: Under the Maltese Cross: Antietam to Appomatto...

300
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500
1 Bid
1099 Lot 1099

Old Bell Marked Mejico, 1810
Title: Old bell, presumably commemorating Mexican ind...

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5 Bids
1100 Lot 1100

Three Volumes of Meyer's Universum
Title: Three Volumes of Meyer's Universum.
Auth...

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800
4 Bids
1101 Lot 1101

Naval Sketches of the War in California
Title: Naval Sketches of the War in California...
...

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