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

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Auction Name U.S. Presidents from the Jim Hier Collection, with Americana, Travel & Exploration, Cartography Total Sales (USD) 116,956.25
Auction Date January 23, 2025 - January 23, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 111,200.00
Sale Number #829A High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 173,500.00
Total Lots 245
Sold Lots 169 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 144,600.00
% of Lots Sold 68.98% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 227,100.00
Unsold Lots 76 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 51.50%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
23

Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America, November & December 1936

1937 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,000.00
215 Laet, Joannis de

Novus Orbis, seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis

1633 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,625.00
30 Truman, Harry S.

Address of the President at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty. September 4, 1951

1951 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,312.50
164

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-56

1855-1860 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
11 Taft, William Howard

The United States and Peace

1914 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,437.50
227 Sonnerat, [Pierre]

Voyage aux Indes Orientales et la Chine. Fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Dans lequel on traite des moeurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pegouins & des Madegasses; suivi d'observations sur le cap de

1782 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 3,437.50
153 Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von

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

1813-1814 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
15 Hoover, Herbert; Lou Henry Hoover

De Re Metallica, translation of Georgius Agricola

1912 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,250.00
234 Von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph

Constantinopolis und der Bosporos, ortlich und geschichtlich beschrieben

1822 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,250.00
105 Marshall, James W.

Souvenir card signed by James Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
176

Standard Oil Bulletin 1922-1947

1922-1947 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,750.00
60 Reagan, Ronald

Where's the Rest of Me?: The Ronald Reagan Story

[1965] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
219 Olearius, Adam

Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors...to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia...Whereto are added The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo...into the East-Indies

1662 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,375.00
12 Wilson, Woodrow

Mere Literature and Other Essays

1896 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
24 Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The Democratic Book 1936

[1936] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
28 Horton, David, editor

Freedom and Equality: Addresses by Harry S. Truman

[1960] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
83 Wilkinson, James

Memoirs of my own Times

1816 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
233 Vancouver, George

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of

1798 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,125.00
29 Morris, Edwin Bateman, compiler

Report of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion

[1952] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.50
43 Nixon, Richard

The Real War

[1980] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,062.50
223 Pope, Arthur Upham and Phyllis Ackerman, editors

A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present

1977-1981 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,062.50
246 Jaillot, Herbert/ Nicolas Sanson

Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses Principales Parties

[c.1695] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
17 Hoover, Herbert

A Boyhood in Iowa

1931 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 937.50
22 Hoover, Herbert

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

[1958] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
53 Carter, Jimmy

White House card signed by Jimmy Carter

1977-1981 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 937.50