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Auction Name Elite Americana & Travel with Rare Maps - A PBA Platinum Auction Total Sales (USD) 237,968.75
Auction Date July 03, 2025 - July 03, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 215,900.00
Sale Number #841 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 332,700.00
Total Lots 54
Sold Lots 38 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 303,900.00
% of Lots Sold 70.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 470,700.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 50.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
12 Catlin, George

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

1844 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 37,500.00
6 Audubon, John James

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

1840-1844 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 34,375.00
26 Franklin, Benjamin

Autograph letter signed from Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan

1762 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,125.00
17

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

1774 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 25,000.00
20 Curtis, William et al.

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

1787-1968 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
4

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

c.1784 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
29 Hooker, Joseph Dalton and Walter Hood Fitch

Illustrations of Himalayan Plants chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq.

1855 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,250.00
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
28 Harris, John

Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above Six Hundred of the Most Authentic Writers...Containing Whatever Has Been Observed Worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa & America...To Whi

1744; 1748 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,312.50
33 Gass, Patrick

A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean During th

1807 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,312.50
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

1827 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
52 Wilkes, George

The History of Oregon, Geographical and Political...

1845 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
51 Wilkes, Charles

Western America, Including California and Oregon with Maps of Those Regions, and of "The Sacramento Valley"

1849 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
48 Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

[1939] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
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

1841 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,437.50
23 Elwes, Henry John

A Monograph of the Genus Lilium

[1877]-1880 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,125.00
49 Thwaites, Reuben Gold, editor

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846

1904-1907 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
40 Bob Jingle, Esq. [pseud.]

The Association, &c. of the Delegates of the Colonies, at the Grand Congress, Held at Philadelphia, Sept. 1 1774...

1774 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
3 Welsh, Lizzie

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

1859-1867 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
31 Kane, Paul

Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America, From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again

1859 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
53 Willis, Nathaniel Parker

Memoranda of the Life of Jenny Lind [with] extensive extra-illustration

1851 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,500.00
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

1784 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,000.00
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

1783 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
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,...

1790 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
41 Rogers, Woodes

A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope...

1718 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
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