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Auction Name: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views
Auction Date: 03/19/2026 - 03/19/2026
Sale Number: #859
Total Lots: 433
Sold Lots: 248.0
Lots Sold: 57.27%
Unsold Lots: 185

Total Sales (USD): 125,781.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 123,050.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 192,800.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 222,650.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 348,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 36.09%

Top twenty five by sale price

Top twenty five lots by sale price
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
142	Franklin, Benjamin	Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Coppe	1774	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,625.00
323	Fellows, Charles	Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, of the 25 July, 1827	1827	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,687.50
408		U.S. Indian Service Maps of Flathead Reservation	[c.1922]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,062.50
128	Galbraith, John Kenneth	The Great Crash 1929	1955	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 4,062.50
261		Spanish colonial manuscripts relating to Revolutionary-Era American public debt	c. 1779-1784	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,437.50
246	Kennedy, John F.	Profiles in Courage	[1956]	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 3,125.00
245	Kennedy, John F.	Autograph letter signed by John F. Kennedy as Senator	1955	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,812.50
150	Heap, Gwinn Harris	Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853	1854	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
224	Marshall, John	The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington... To	1804-1807	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
186	Muir, John	A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf	1916	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00
231	Garfield, James A.	Signature of James A. Garfield [with] portrait plate	1881	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,750.00
32		Pocket Guide of Los Angeles, California...	August 1886	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,750.00
184	Muir, John	Steep Trails	1918	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,750.00
1		Happy Phebe	[c.1850]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,750.00
240	Coolidge, Calvin	Autograph letter signed by Calvin Coolidge as President	1923	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,625.00
131	Keynes, John Maynard	The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money	[1936]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,625.00
343	Schleiermacher, Friedrich and Friedrich Nietzsche	Predigt Am Zweiten Tage Des Reformations-Jubelfestes in Der Dreifaltigkeits-Kirche [bound with] Also sprach Zarathustra	1818; 1884	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 1,625.00
136		United States Revenue Cutter Service flag	c.1890-1900	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,500.00
281	Killie, Charles A.	50 Views of the Siege of Peking	c. 1900	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,500.00
179	Muir, John	The Cruise of the Corwin	1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00

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