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