PBA Galleries: U.S. Presidents from the Jim Hier Collection, with Americana, Travel & Exploration, Cartography, 829A, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 23, 2025 - January 23, 2025
Page Size: 245 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
106 Bowie, Aug. J., Jr.

Hydraulic Mining in California

[San Francisco] 1878 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
107 Price, J.R. & M.A. Nurse

Two plans for protecting the city of Petaluma from overflow water and for improving navigation of Petaluma Creek

Sacramento 1896 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
108

Archive of photographs, letters and ephemera relating to famed San Francisco madame Sally Stanford

Various places c.1930s-1970s USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
109

The Call-Chronicle-Examiner

San Francisco [but Oakland] 1906 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
110 Burnham, Daniel H.

Report on a Plan for San Francisco...For the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco

San Francisco 1905 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
111

Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta: Official Souvenir Program

San Francisco 1937 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
112

San Francisco Water

San Francisco 1922-30 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
113 Wheeler, Alfred

Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same: With a Synopsis of all Grants and Sales of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City

San Francisco 1852 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
114

Central California: The Glamorous San Joaquin Valley

[San Joaquin] c.1950 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
115 Winn, S.E. and Robert R. Bulmore

Views of New Almaden

1879-1887 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
116 Bowman, Amos

Report on the Properties and Domain of the California Water Company Situated on Georgetown Divide: Embracing the Mining, Water and Landed Resources of the Country, Between the South and Middle Forks of the American River, in El Dorado County, California

San Francisco 1874 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
117 Fussell, J. H.

Letter to a Theosophy disciple

[Point Loma, San Diego, California] 1906 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
118 Heckrotte, Warren and Julie Sweetkind, editors; Glen Mclaughlin and Nancy H. Mayo

California 49 [with] The Mapping of California as an Island

San Francisco 1999; [1995] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
119 Miller, Joaquin

Life Amongst The Modocs: Unwritten History

London 1873 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
120

Second Annual Report of the Chief Executive Viticultural Officer to the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, for the years 1882-3 and 1883-4

Sacramento 1884 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
121 Sprague, Rev. Ezra and P.P. (Phebe) Sprague

Letter from a Vermont Congregational Minister about the political turmoil in Canada

St. Albans, Vermont 1838 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
122 Chittenden, Hiram Martin

History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge, Pioneer Navigator and Indian Trader for Fifty Years Identified with the Commerce of the Missouri Valley

New York 1903 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
123

Three Civil War memoirs by White officers of Black troops

1885-1924 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
124 Smith, Samuel

Letter from influential British banker opposing Secession

(New York?) c.1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
125 Goss, Warren Lee

The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons

Boston 1867 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
126 Mosby, John Singleton

Mosby's War Reminiscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns

Boston 1887 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
127 O'Dea, Thomas

Facsimile reprint, ca. 1920, of 1885 original print, Andersonville Prison/Camp Sumter, Ga. as it appeared August 1, 1864 when it contained 35,000 Prisoners of War,

ca. 1920 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
128 Woodson, R.E.

Letter written by an Illinois attorney predicting a gloomy future

Bloomington, Illinois 1861 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
129 Clayton, H.J.

Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book: Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes

San Francisco 1883 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
130 Cremony, John C.

Life Among the Apaches

San Francisco 1868 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50