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GARDNER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCH BOOK OF THE WAR.
Gardner, Alexander:
Washington: Philp & Solomons, [1865]. Two volumes. [53]; [53]pp. of text. Lithograph titlepages plus 100.. more
Price: $200,000.00

PRAECLARA FERDINADI CORTESII DE NOVA MARIS OCEANI HYSPANIA NARRATIO.... [bound with:] DE REBUS, ET INSULIS NOVITER REPERTIS....
[Cortés, Hernando, and Peter Martyr]:
[Nuremberg: Fridericus Peypus], 1524. [4],49,[1],12 leaves, including two portraits, plus half of the folding.. more
Price: $57,500.00

ALBUM OF VIRGINIA; OR, ILLUSTRATION OF THE OLD DOMINION.
Beyer, Edward:
Richmond [but actually Dresden & Berlin]: Edward Beyer [but printed by Rau & Son of Dresden and W. Loeillot of Berlin], 1858. Lithograph titlepage (with five vignettes) plus forty tinted lithograph plates... more
Price: $45,000.00

[GROUP OF SIX AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM CENTRAL GOLD RUSH FIGURE AND CALIFORNIA PIONEER, JOHANN (JOHN) AUGUSTUS SUTTER, TO FELLOW CALIFORNIA PIONEER, JEAN JACQUES VIOGET. ACCOMPANIED BY TWENTY-TWO OTHER MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED DOCUMENTS CHRONICLING V
Sutter, Johann Augustus:
New Helvetia, Ca. February 1842 - June 1843 (for the Sutter letters). Accompanying documents dated between 1828 and 1862. Six manuscript letters, totaling sixteen pages, written on quarto-sized or.. more
Price: $142,500.00

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