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
131 Crockett, David

An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East...

Philadelphia 1835 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
132 Labra (y Cadrana), Rafael M.de

La Abolicion de la Esclavitud en el Orden Economico [The Abolition of Slavery in the Economic Order]

Madrid 1873 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
133

Chinese nationality certificate for a Chinese citizen living in Cuba, with Chinese red dragon seal

Havana 1880 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
134

Contract for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in

Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba 1870 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
135

Contract for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba 1866 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
136

Manifest listing a shipload of Chinese laborers bound for Havana, headed "Emigracion China para la Isla de Cuba"

Macao December 19, 1864 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
137

Manuscript chart showing the status of rented slaves in Cuba

Cuba 1870s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
138 Foster, John W.

Letter by the former U.S. Secretary of State and Ambassador predicting war with Spain

Washington, DC 1898 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
139

Manuscript list of patients at St. Isabel charity hospital in Matanzas, Cuba, during August 1862, divided according to race and color

Matanzas, Cuba August 31, 1862 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
140 Davidson, George

Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington

Washington 1889 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
141 Farlow, William Gilson

Icones Farlowianae: Illustrations of the Larger Fungi of Eastern North America

Cambridge, MA 1929 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 437.50
142 Franklin, Benjamin

The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; With Notes and a Life of the Author, by Jared Sparks

Boston 1840 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
143 Goldman, Emma

My Disillusionment in Russia

Garden City, NY 1923 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
144 Alexander, W.D.

History of the Later Years of the Hawaiian Monarchy and Revolution of 1893

[Honolulu] 1896 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
145 Bird, Isabella L.

The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

London 1875 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
146 Hitchcock, H.R.

An English-Hawaiian Dictionary; With Various Useful Tables: Prepared for the use of Hawaiian-English Schools.

San Francisco 1887 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
147 Thurston, Lorrin A.

A Hand-Book on the Annexation of Hawaii

[St. Joseph, Michigan] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
148 Herndon, William Lewis & Lardner Gibbon

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made Under Direction of the Navy Department

Washington 1854 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
149 Howe, Henry

The Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History-...

New York; Cincinnati [1851] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
150 Knee, Ernest

[Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit of the second FX-11 prototype]

No place No date USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
151 [Moore, Clement C.]

Observations upon certain passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, which appear to have a tendency to subvert religion, and establish a false philosophy

New York 1804 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
152 Juan, George and Antonio de Ulloa

A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Town, Provinces, &c. on that extensive Continent...

London 1758 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 437.50
153 Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von

Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, during the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807

London 1813-1814 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
154 Moulton, Gary E., editor

The Journals [with] Atlas of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Lincoln [1986-2001] USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 812.50
155 Lumholtz, Carl

Symbolism of the Huichol Indians

[New York] 1900 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold