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Auction Date
July 03, 2025 - July 03, 2025
Page Size: 54 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Wheeler, Jacob D.

A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery. Being a Compilation of All the Decisions Made on that Subject in the Several Courts of the United States and State Court; with Copious Notes and References to the Statutes and Other Authorities

New York and New Orleans 1837 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
2 Lewis, Hannah

Letter from a Pennsylvania Quaker woman travelling near the Virginia and Maryland borders, who stays with an Underground Railroad conductor

Dunnings Creek, Pennsylvania [August] 22, 1858 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
3 Welsh, Lizzie

Civil War archive of 8 letters sent to friends and family from missionary teacher of emancipated children in Union-occupied Mississippi

Iberia and Oberlin, Ohio; Natchez, Mississippi 1859-1867 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
4

Recueil d'estampes representant les differents evenemens de la Guerre qui a procure l'Independance aux Etats unis de l'Amerique

Paris c.1784 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
5 Arrowsmith, Aaron

Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, Exhibiting all the New Discoveries to the present Time with the Tracks of the most distinguished Navigators since the Year 1700 carefully collected from the Best Charts, Maps, Voyages, &c. Extent, and regulated

London 1790-[but c.1800] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
6 Audubon, John James

The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories

New York; Washington D.C. 1840-1844 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 34,375.00
7 Belknap, Jeremy

The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull the Clothier. In a Series of Letters to a Friend

Boston 1792 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 531.25
8 Wolstenholme, Gordon, editor

Man and His Future: A Ciba Foundation Volume

Boston 1963 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
9 [Cadwalader, John]

A Reply to General Joseph Reed's Remarks, on a Late Publication in the Independent Gazetteer, With some Observations on his Address to the People of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia 1783 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
10

Archive of items relating to the Mandarin Theater

[San Francisco] 1930-1947 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
11

Coleccion de los principales trabajos en que se ha ocupado la junta nombrada para meditar y proponer al Supremo Gobierno los medios mas necesarios para promover el progreso de la cultura y civilizacion de los territorios de la Alta de la Baja California

[Mexico City] 1827 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
12 Catlin, George

Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America

London 1844 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 37,500.00
13 Catlin, George

Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians... Written during Eight Years' Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39

London 1841 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,437.50
14 [Child, David Lee]

An Enquiry into the Conduct of General Putnam, In Relation to the Battle of Bunker, or Breed's Hill: And Remarks upon Mr. S. Swett's Sketch of that Battle

Boston 1819 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
15 Bolt, R.A., photographer

Views of Red Cross Work in China During Revolution of 1911-1912

c.1912 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,937.50
16 Neave, Dorina Lady

Romance of the Bosphorus

London 1949 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
17

Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774

Philadelphia 1774 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 25,000.00
18 Cook, James and James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Pa

London 1784 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,000.00
19 Anderson, George William

A Collection of Voyages Round the World: Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages,...

London 1790 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
20 Curtis, William et al.

The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed [with] Curtis's Botanical Magazine - complete run

London 1787-1968 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
21 [Dunlop, William]

Andre: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

New York 1798 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,250.00
22 Einstein, Albert and Sigmund Freud

Why War? / Warum Krieg?

Paris 1933 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
23 Elwes, Henry John

A Monograph of the Genus Lilium

[London] [1877]-1880 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,125.00
24 [Fleming, G.A.]

California: Its Past History; Its Present Position; Its Future Prospects: Containing a History of the Country from Its Colonization to the Present Time...and a Minute and Authentic Narrative of the Discovery of the Gold Region...

London 1850 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
25 Cannon, Clarence

Cannon's Procedure in the House of Representatives - 80th Congress, 2nd Session, House Document No. 731

Washington D.C. 1948 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00
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