Rare Books, Americana, Travel Auction (PBA Galleries)

636 Lots. Including:

Archive of antebellum letters by James Garfield friend horrified by Mississippi slavery. $7,000-10,000; 

Handwritten manuscript by Harold Agnew, American physicist who flew as an observer on the Hiroshima bombing mission, relating the mission and events leading up to it. $1,000-1,500; 

Panoramic silver photograph comprised of five individual images of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin when docked at Lakehurst, New Jersey. $1,500-2000;

Base-Ball. How to Become a Player, with the Origin, History, and Explanation of the Game. $2,500-3,500; 

Manuscript abstract of title workbook for San Francisco Bay Area locales. $2,000-3,000; 

Album with 34 original silver photographs of the area in and around Monterey, California, including Chinese fishermen $600-900; 

Archive of thirty-six letters and notes written by brothers John and Thomas Emery from California during the Gold Rush, to their family in New Brunswick, Canada. $20,000-30,000;

A Briefe Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England: and of Sundry Accidents Therein Occurring, From the Yeere of our Lord M.D.CVII. $3,000-5,000; 

The Nevada Directory for 1868-9: Containing a Full List of the Residents, Mining and Business Men of Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City, Carson, Washoe, Dayton, Empire City, Reno and Genoa; With a Historical Sketch of the Principal Places;… $4,000-6,000; 

Commonplace book of Amelia Bigelow. $300-500; Description Geographique de la Guiane. $2,000-3,000;  Lawrence, T.E. Crusader Castles. $800-1200; Manuscript cookbook in Spanish, from Mexico. $500-800; 

Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and describing its Productions…with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. $2,000-3,000; 

Original photograph of ten members of the Metlakahtla, Alaska, baseball team at Dr. William Duncan’s mission $500-800