Lot 1
California Pictorial Letter Sheets Publications, 2 publications; Baird, J., California's Pictorial Letter Sheets 1849-1869, 1967, hardbound, 171pp, and Sloan The Henry H. Clifford Collection - Part III California Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1994, hardbound, 106pp + 132 plates; some wear/soiling.Estimate $250 - 350.
Realized: $180
Lot 2
Colton, J. & Johnson, A., Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas, 1862, hardbound, contains 97 colored plates of maps and plains + 99pp of descriptive text; some light page toning/spotting, some cover wear and soiling.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $400
Lot 3
Emory, Abert, Cooke & Johnston, New Mexico and California, 1848, 614pp., hardbound, in four parts with numerous plates and two fold-out maps; includes Emory, W. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, From Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers, Abert, J. Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-47, Cooke, P. March from Santa Fe New Mexico to San Diego, Upper California and Johnston, A. Journal of Captain A.R. Johnston, First Dragoons; page tone spotting and light cover wear.Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $300
Lot 4
Fisher, R., Colton's General Atlas, 1860, hardbound, contains 108 steel plate colored maps and plains plates and 168pp of descriptions; some pages with edge wear and some light toning, cover with splitting, edge wear and soiling, needs collation.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $450
Lot 5
Howell, J., California in the Fifties, 1936, hardbound, 50 views with accompanying text of cities and mining towns in California and the West, limited to 850 editions, sign by publisher's son; very minor soiling.Estimate $100 - 150.
Realized: $65
Lot 6
Marryat, F., Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal, 1855, 443pp., hardbound full gold gilted leather, 8 color plates and 18 additional woodcut illustrations, journal from April 1850 from Charges to San Francisco and beyond; some cover edge wear and some spotting on reverse of frontispiece plate.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $350
Lot 7
McKenney, T., History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Vol. I-III, 1868, Rice, Butter & Co., hardbound quarter leather, folio edition, 3 volumes, 1044pp. + 100 multicolored lithographed portraits; some binding wear and chipping at bottom on volume I, pages and plates in very good condition.Estimate $5,000 - 7,500.
Realized: $4,000
Lot 8
Robinson, A., Life in California During a Residence of Several Years in That Territory, 1846, hardbound, 341pp., 9 plates, a fascinating account of early California and it's original inhabitants; some cover chipping and wear.Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $625
Lot 9
Taylor, B., Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire, Vol. I-II, 1850, hardbound, 2 volumes, 499pp., 8 color plates; some page spotting and minor cover soiling.Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $100
Lot 10
Western Americana Literature Balance, 18 publications; .includes Thompson & West History of Nevada 1881 (1959 reprint), Stillman Gold Rush Letters, Darton Guidebook of the Western United States, Part C. The Santa Fe Route, Clemens Sketches by Mark Twain, Nordhoff California: A Book for Travellers and Settlers, Derby Phoenixiana, Parker Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rockey Mountains, Goodman Western Panorama 1849-1875, Fariss & Smith History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties California 1882 (1971 reprint), Newman Early Paper Money of Americana, auction catalogs on western americana literature including Estelle Doheny Collection, Part III and The Streetcar Collection, Vol. 5-7, etc.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $180