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Auction Name Americana - World History - Maps & Views Total Sales (USD) 144,912.50
Auction Date May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 129,000.00
Sale Number #863 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 201,000.00
Total Lots 352
Sold Lots 203.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 211,900.00
% of Lots Sold 57.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 330,400.00
Unsold Lots 149 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 43.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
339 Clarke, C.

[View of Yosemite Valley, California]

 [1873] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 8,750.00
367 Trutch, J.W. and G.W. Hyde

Preston's Sectional and County Map of Oregon and Washington West of the Cascade Mountains. Compiled from United States Surveys and other authentic sources

 1856 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,875.00
181 Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Crusade in Europe

 1948 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,687.50
308

The American Alpine Journal - Complete Run

 1929-2025 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00
296 Norgay, Tenzing and James R. Ullman

Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing

 1956 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
112

Autograph letter signed by Abigail Fillmore

 1841 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,125.00
300 Filippi, Filippo de

Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909: An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abbruzzi

 1912 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,125.00
330

Lithograph of Pasadena

 1893 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
301 Filippi, Filippo de

Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909: An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abbruzzi

 1912 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
306 Meyer, Hans

Across East African Glaciers. An Account of The First Ascent of Kilimanjaro.

 1891 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,812.50
138

Royal decree abolishing forced indigenous labor in Spanish America

 1720 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,500.00
294 Hunt, John

The Ascent of Everest

 1953 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
295 Hunt, John

The Ascent of Everest

 1953 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,375.00
334 Cox, H.F.

Post office, San Francisco, California, a faithful representation of the crowds daily applying at that office for letters and newspapers

 c.1850 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,375.00
91

Scrapbook of 1860s California ephemera

 c.1860s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,250.00
166 Griswold, Rufus and Benson Lossing

Life of Washington: A Biography

 1856-1860 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
172 Grant, Ulysses S.

Autograph letter signed by Ulysses S. Grant to A.R. Corbin

 1873 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,750.00
13 Warren, Mercy

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations.

 1805 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
327 Brown, Eliphalet M. Jr. and Wilhelm Heine

Passing the Rubicon: a lithograph from Illustrations of the Japan Expedition

 1855 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,625.00
87 James, George Wharton

The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California): Its Rivers, and its Mountains, its Canyons and its Springs, its Life and its History, Pictured and Described

 1906 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,500.00
249 Hayek, F[riedrich] A. Von

Law, Legislation and Liberty

 [1973-1979] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
277 Wild, Frank

Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A.H. Macklin

 1923 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
302 Harrer, Heinrich

The White Spider: An Account of the First Ascent of the Eiger

 1996 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
318 Whymper, Edward

Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-1869

 1871 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
346 Colton, J.H.

Colton's Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies, Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

 1855 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00