PBA Galleries: Americana with Zamorano 80 - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views, 843, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Page Size: 441 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Aesop

The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg

[Newark, NJ] 1928 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
2

Supplement to Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Saturday, October 15, 1796. Number 5467

Philadelphia 1796 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
3 Peters, Absolom

Letter from a Connecticut General and Revolutionary War veteran in favor of racial equality

Lebanon, CT 1838 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,187.50
4

Antebellum Maryland anti-slavery booklet [with] fake wartime pro-slavery letter

1858; 1863 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 593.75
5 Strine, Peter

Letter from a 21 year-old Union soldier declaring that some Ohio troops would not fight just to free the slaves

[Columbia, Kentucky] 1862 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
6 Hoskinson, Thomas J. [Captain, Pennsylvania Infantry]

Letter from wounded Union officer, a McClellan Democrat

Erie, PA 1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
7 Ely, Alfred, and William G. Markham, Company Presidents

Two Sea Island Company stock certificates of a company organized by Northern capitalists to relaunch Southern cotton plantations

New York 1865-1866 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
8 Stevens, Thaddeus, Member of Congress

Note Signed by Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens to General O.O. Howard, Commissioner of the US Freedmen's Bureau

Washington, DC 1866 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
9 Pollard, Hughes

Autograph note by the jazz musician brother of Black sports legend Fritz Pollard (who integrated the National Football League)

New York c.1914 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
10 Larkin, John

The Empire. Holland's Vaudeville Entertainers Commencing Saturday Next, July 7th...Last Week! Last Week! of the Popular Favourites Paul Stanhope's Breezy Revue Coy...

Brisbane [1917] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
11 Klineberg, Otto

Negro Intelligence and Selective Migration

New York 1935 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
12 Gross, Bella

Clarion Call: The History and Development of the Negro People's Convention Movement in the United States from 1817 to 1840

New York 1947 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
13 Weaver, Robert C.

The Negro Ghetto

New York 1948 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
14 King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham City Jail

Philadelphia 1963 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
15 Burroughs, John, John Muir, et al

Alaska. - Volumes 1 & 2 of the Harriman Alaska series

Garden City 1902 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
16 MacDowell, Lloyd W.

Alaska Indian Basketry

Seattle 1905 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 500.00
17 Anderson, R.A.

Fighting the Mill Creeks: Being a Personal Account of Campaigns Against Indians of the Northern Sierras

Chico, CA 1909 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
18 Applegate, Jesse

Recollections of My Boyhood

Roseburg, OR 1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
19 Morgan, Dale, editor

The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia... 1822-1838

Denver 1964 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
20 Szilard, Leo, William Ogburn, Harold Urey, and Louis Wirth

University of Chicago Round Table, Number 601, September 25, 1949

Chicago 1949 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
21

Five volumes on WWII aviation

1987-1995 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
22 Bancroft, Hubert Howe

Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study

San Francisco 1891-1892 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
23 Barnum, P.T.

The Life of P.T. Barnum Written By Himself

New York 1855 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
24 Becker, Robert H.

Designs on the Land: Disenos of California Ranchos and their Makers

San Francisco 1969 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
26 [Miles, Josephine, attributed collector]

Collection of documents regarding academic freedom at the University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California 1949-1950 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
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