December Dreams Premier Auction: Western Americana, Mining, & Numismatics (December 2021)

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884-5. R. L. Polk and A. C. Danser. 891pp with full busine

Very Rare Bradstreets for the Western and Southern States, published by Bradstreet, new York, January 1871 (thus 1870 data). An incredible research to

California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. From large cities (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles) to small towns (Ross, Glenn...

Bradstreet's Commercial ratings... Portion of the United States... Western States, 1908. This volume has all the western states, unlike the 1871...

Bradstreet's Book of Commercial Ratings of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, etc. in the United States and the Dominion of Canada Volume 256 - ...

Bradstreet's Book of Commercial Ratings of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, etc. in the United States and the Dominion of Canada Volume 263 - ...

Index of advertisements. Wells Fargo direct lines to Mexico, how to ship, Postage within country and our of country, ports and places in Asia, etc. Li

Lot of two. Lists town, counties, states with railroad and express information, Also mentions water routes. One book in good condition and one fair. A

May 1908. Find places like Bodie (JS Cain), Silver City (Idaho, Hasting Saloon), Jennings (general merchandise, Montana), Rawhide (Baker Saloon, Nevad

Lists attorneys in various cities in the states. The most interesting part of this is a cypher code: Cabin-Not paid or Bannister-gone into liquidation

An absolutely outstanding book in excellent condition by The Arizona Good Roads Association but lacking the title page. Circa 1910, this book has a th

Lot of 4 different. 1) Best is an 1850 (first?) edition of "Three Years in California" by Rev. Walter Colton, U.S.N. with illustrations. 4...

Lot of 9. Includes all 8 volumes, plus Supplemental Volume. "Original Narratives of Overland Travel and Adventure Selected From the Wager-Camp ...

Lot of 3 different. 1) History of Nevada 1881 with Illustrations, Thompson & West. 1958 reprint of this classic Nevada history reference. With i...

"American Pioneers and Patriots. Christopher Carson. Familiarly Know as Kit Carson." By John SC Abbott. With illustrations by Eleanor Grea...

Softcover, 26 pages, self published, Hollywood, CA, 1933. Covers have some tattering of edges, minor soiling of rear cover and last page of book, mino

"Including a Reconnaissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains." First edition, rebound. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 485pp...

Lot of 5 different. 1) The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis & Clark. By Eva Emery Dye. 1902 hardcover. 443pp. 2) The Far West and the Rockies H...

"Including a Summer Residence with the Pawnee Tribe of Indians, in the Remote Prairies of the Missouri, And a Visit to Cuba and the Azore Islan...

Oxford University Press, undated. Striking green bindings, Herron Centennial Edition. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenan

A complete set of Harvard Classics published by Collier in 1909-1910, excellent condition, no bookplates or x library. 50 volume set, about three cub

Lot of 4. Children's books. All hardbound. Includes (A) Honey Bunch: Just A Little Girl, by Helen Louise Thorndyke, 1923, Grosset & Dunlap...

Lot of 2. Small hardbound Peter Rabbit books for children. Rare. Both 4 1/8" x 5 3/8". (A) All About Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter,...

Lot of 3 hardbound & 1 spiral bound US cookbooks. Most unique is The White House Cookbook, published 1925 during the Calvin Coolidge Presidenc...

Lot of 1. Hardbound book titled Mastering the Art of French Cooking. By Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle and Julia Child. Drawings by Sidonie Coryn

Hardbound antiquarian book titled Life and Work of James A. Garfield. By John Clark Ridpath, LL.D. Published by Jones Brothers and Company, Cincinna

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Scribner's Lumber & log Book, Geo. W. Fisher, Rochester, NY, 1888. 3.25 x 4.75", 158pp plus one page of ads in the back. The book is d...

Lot of all 20 volumes of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Eleventh Edition, 2012. All books hardbound, cover sizes 8 3/...

This first printing of the book "America's Battle for Cuba's Freedom" was written by Gonzalo de Quesada and Henry Davenport Northr...

All color. 1) One and one half tons of gold from Alaska. Stacked as high as a man. 2) Weighing gold bricks, Homestake Mine, Led, South Dakota. 3) Top

One in a series of Arizona scenic stereo views from Charles Farciot of San Francisco. This one shows an adobe at the first mine in the Tombstone area

A beautiful clear stereo view taken by Charles O. Farciot for Edouart & Cobb of San Francisco. This photo is labeled Ed Schieffelin. Schieffelin...

One in a series of Arizona scenic stereo views from Charles Farciot of San Francisco. This one shows the office for the Tombstone Mill in the Arizona

LM Jacobs & Co. check issued to WT Rickard and signed by financial investor W. F. (Frank) Witherell on Nov. 21st, 1878. Black print on creme pap...

This lot of two dies identifies the Apache Gold Mine in Arizona. Please see photo for details. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City:

Mines located at American Bar, Middle Fork of the American River, Placer County, CA around Oct. 20th 1857. Breakout of charges for refining ore at 10

1) 1886, Letter from H. Whirlow to Joe. "I would like to send the gold to you. have you take it to the mint and send back by W. F. & Co.&qu...

Lot of 19. Rare group. Includes 4 RPPC. Rare card showing an underground view in the Lightner Mine. Other cards have views of: Gold Cliff Mill, Stickl

Birchville is a historic mining and agricultural community in Nevada County, California. Birchville is located about 10 miles northwest of Nevada City

By Joseph Wasson, San Francisco. Spaulding, Barto & Co. Steam Book and Job Printers, San Francisco, 1878. 60 pp. With 2 folding maps of mining c...

Photo by R. E. Wood, who was a traveling a landscape stereo photographer from Santa Cruz active from 1875-1905. Each photo measures 3"x 4"...

Views show mining at the very rich Columbia area - now a state park near Sonoma on the south end of the Mother Lode. Notice the lifting wheel in each

Possibly unique. James Mills and brother Edgar arrived in California first. Darius Ogden Mills followed. In 1850 the company was listed as Auction and

Payroll log of Miners name, time pay rates and monthly pay. August 1912 to August 1913. Interestingly the pay rates varied from $2.50 to $4.00 per day

1) A draft of the Forest Hill Slope Company's stock options: for tunnel mining, $28,000, 10 years, 56 shares, seven trustees named. Unique and O...

This is quite possibly the same gravel cliff seen near the Gold Run exit on I-80. Reilly #345. J. J. Reilly Stereoview, Views of American Scenery Ser

Hand drawn longitudinal section map - very rare. Shows the ore bodies of the famous Kennedy Mine. Discovered in 1856 and producing up until 1942 reach

This is an important mine with a rare fabulous photograph!!! The Great Western Quicksilver Mine was a mercury mine in California, near Middletown in L

1) The Story of Early Mono County by Ella Cain. 166 pages. Photos. Excellent condition. 2) California Journal of Mines and Geology. April 1940. Articl

New York Flat is southeast of Oroville. Contrast is superb. Lindgren was a famous mining engineer. Photograph is 4 x 5". Mount is 7 x 9". ...

1) Watkins Stereoview – Pacific Coast #1819 Malakoff Diggings – North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co. Located 26 miles NE of Nevada Cit

1-2) Two 1884 papers relating to the San Andreas Copper Mining Company. The company was certified in California and a brief mention was made of it in

Recollections of California Mining Life, Henry DeGroot, 1884. Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery of Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers, T

"A Prospecting Party", illustrated gold rush letter sheet lithograph by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Four illustrations in horizontal...

Britton & Rey lithograph Bar Room in the Mines and Long Tom. Two choice miners' life scenes. The top illustration includes gambling and salo...

"A Prospecting Party", illustrated gold rush letter sheet lithograph by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Four illustrations in horizontal...

California gold rush lettersheet in the form of a 4pp, blue wove paper introductory first page, testimonials and list of prices on the second page, fo

Miners Life Illustrated California Gold Rush Letter Sheet, Baird 164, Britton & Rey. This untitled lettersheet has four illustrations in the hor...

Famous vigilante illustrated letter sheet showing the assassination of James King of William and the vigilante execution of Casey & Cora. Ullman...

Extremely rare, and possibly unique, fully issued James king of William Second of Exchange, June 15, 1853 payable to K.P. Smith via J. W. Clark, Bost

Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Established in 1874 at Damon's Landing, on the San Leandro Creek, at an outlay of about one hundred thousand dollars. The broadside advertises t...

This is a stock collector's dream. All this information on one page!!! An early publication of the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board just a...

In 40 years, we have never seen this before! This four page annual report dated December 31, 1877 (San Francisco) shows the gold and silver produced i

1) 1876 letterhead from Kruse & Euler in San Francisco. 209 & 211 Front Street. To Frank Litsch of Shasta. "The package of gold dust st...

Four mining related postcards of Shasta County mining. One shows the Keswick Smelter. A second shows the Great Western Smelter near Redding. Third car

The water flume would have been to provide water for elevated gravels. Smartsville is near Timbuctoo and just south of the Yuba River. During the Cali

1871. Yuba County. This stereoview shows the Blue Lead (lowest, richest of the 7 gravel units as defined by Whitney. It was taken after a major robber

1) Lawrence & Houseworth. Established 1855. Lawrence & Houseworth & Co. #798 California series - Timbuctoo Diggings, Yuba County –...

California Gold Rush Nugget from the wreck of the SS Central America. Authenticated and encapsulated in NGC Holder #2104565-332. The SS Central Americ

California Gold Rush Nugget from the wreck of the SS Central America. Authenticated and encapsulated in NGC Holder #2102101-081. The SS Central Americ

Lot of 7 different; six are real photo postcards. 1) RPPC. Mining at Gold Run, California showing hydraulic operation with miners posing. Mailed 1909.

Rocky Bar Mining Company, California; Circular, Articles of Association, resolutions, etc., 1850.Big Bar, along the middle fork of the American River

The long tom is a small sluice that uses less water than a regular sluice. It consists of a sloping trough 12 feet long, 15 to 20 inches wide at the u

Choice! 1) Lawrence & Houseworth. Yellow. c1864. Shows a multi-hundred feet long tom in a deep channel which was cut into gravel. There is a bri...

This view shows hydraulic mining c1864. Three monitors, one hidden, are washing the banks to loosed the gravel. Shows a hand riveted pipe in the foreg

1) Small hydraulic cut. Two miners observe the monitor. Looks like foothill belt. Gravel & Schist of slate. Photograph is 4 x5". 2) Large b...

By Grove Karl Gilbert. Fold out maps, photographs, and diagrams throughout. This book has pencil notes in margins throughout from previous wonder. No

Wonderful caricature map of the Mother Lode region by the Creative Lithograph Co. of Oakland, 1946-1993. This company was best known for the printing

Boston & Colorado Smelting Company. Dateline Alma, Colo., Oct. 3rd, 1874. This receipt is for four ore samples ranging in weight from 2 to 8 to...

Nice view of hydraulic mining at Alma, Colorado. Backstamped by Miller and Nutt, Portrait and Landscape Photographers, Alma, Colorado. Period pen pinp

Lot of 2. 1) Taylor & Brunton Sampling Works Company assay memorandum. Dateline Aspen, Colorado, Nov. 7, 1894. This piece has two important thin...

Lot of 4 assay memorandums, 3 different styles, for the Boulder Agency of the Boston & Colorado & Smelting Co. Reports for mines are in Suns...

"Report of the Blue Bird Group of Mines and Mill, Boulder County, Colo." 1903. By A. J. Mitchell. Rebound. Original front cover is torn. 8...

Stereoview by Underwood and Underwood. C. Bierstadt, Publisher. Sharp and contrast and clear photographs. Titled "Brownsville Mining Camp on th...

Photograph by WH Jackson. Written in ink on reverse "Property of Miss Mary Mussina, PO Box, 67, Mt Gretua, Penna." and "9/5/1885.&quo...

Dateline Central City, C.T., Dec. 20th, 1871. Number 292. Specimens of ore from the Blue Ridge Lode in the Downieville District. Gold value $586.42 an

Colorado Assay Office. Dateline Central City, C.T., May 20, 1870. For the Dives Lode in the Griffith Mining District. Coin value $96.98 in silver. Sig

Lot of 3. Reddy's assay office was established in 1875. 1) Dated September 10th, 1891 for a sample taken from the Estelle lode for the McF &...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Reed & McKenney. Incredibly sharp overview of town. 3.25 x 7" 2) WG Chamberlain (label and description on back). Rea...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Underwood and Underwood. #10629. "Nightingale Mine, Bull Hill, Earth's richest gold field, Cripple Creek." Reve...

Lot of 7 1) Brodie Gold Reduction Company. For Wilson & Fryer. 1896. Gross value $293.16. 2) EC Woodward, assayer and chemist. Sold assay soluti...

Lot of three. 1) 1897 results for the Colorado Springs M&L Co., Roy Gold Crater Mining Company. SP Duff was treasurer of the Pride of the Rockie...

Rare. Four samples taken by this company on Oct. 1, 1902. Three on the Eagles and one on the Lincoln. Signed by HW Lamb, assayer. 6.25 x 7.5" ...

Lot of 4. EE Burlingame's office was located at 219 Sixteenth Street opposite the Inter Ocean hotel in Denver, CO. Burlingame was involved as on...

Lot of three. 1) Von Schulz & Low, Chemists and Assayers billhead. Analysis of Cyanide lot. 1910. To Goldfield Cons. Mines Co. 2) Very rare corn...

Lot of 11. 1) A particularly excellent business card for R. R. Waitz, fire assays, electro-lixiviation, chemical analysis, etc. 2) Omaha Grant and Sme

Lot of 2 different. 1) United States Mint (Branch crossed out) form. Dateline Denver, Colorado, May 19, 1873. No. 131. For White Rock Lode, Gold Hill,

Lot of 5. 1-2) 1887 assays. One for Hodges with five samples. Best had 0.20% gold and 0.24% silver. Company stamp. Second to Gregory Bowre. Five sampl