"Wild West Wonders" Premier Live Auction (2025 August)

Lot of 11. 1) North of the Arctic Circle, White Pass & Yukon Route, booklet, c.1920s. 2-4) Three postcards, two RPPC. Includes: Town along White...

Mounted 10 X 8.5" photo of the Princess May passenger steamship aground . On 5 August 1910, Princess May, having departed from Skagway under th...

B/W 8 x10" photo of Caribou crossing a river in Alaska. Caribou don't seem affected by spectators on the river banks observing the crossing...

Lot of 5. Original (one reprint) B/W , 5 x8 to 7.5 x9.5 photos of various Alaskan street views: Main St Sitka, Main St Nome, Ketchikan, boat shooting

C. 1880's roulette wheel from Jim Letson's Turf Club in Bisbee, AZ. Wheel is about 21" diameter with a wood outer race. Wheel is housed...

Fantastic and rare photograph showing a large crowd posed in front of The Prospector/Tombstone Epitaph newspaper office. 6.25 x 8" Numerous peo...

Rare and out of print "Central Arizona Ghost Towns" written and signed by Paher and Spude 1978. Great condition hardcover in a nice slip c...

This very rare hard cover with slip case deluxe edition of "Colorado Ghost Towns" by Paher 1976 is limited to 200 copies with special buc...

"Arizona Highway" magazine, 151 issues. This magazine is known for its gorgeous cowboy-inspired and Native American art themed covers. Iss...

Desert Magazine, an iconic magazine covering travel, mining, visual arts, wildlife, and lifestyle/human interest stories. Collection of 129 issues, da

Lot of 4. 1 and 2) Two different cabinet cards of the Grand Canyon by Erwin Baer, Photographer in Prescott. c.late 1880s-1890s. These are not your typ

Lot of 24. These are receipts on preprinted stationery from JS Cain, banker and mine owner in Bodie, showing transactions with the Bullion & Exc...

Characture map of Bridgeport Calif and surrounding area incl. Mono Lake, 27 x 17". In excellent cond. This is very rare. C.1954, Hayden Map Co...

This hard cover slip cased book "Death Valley Ghost Towns" by Paher 1973 is one of a limited edition of 200 copies with special buckram bi...

Framed display of 8 different candidates running for political office in the Nov. 8, 1898 election. Candidates include Wm. Reynolds for Constable, CC

Framed (37 x 13 inches) panoramic black and white photograph of the lumber mill and railroad years of Hobart Mills. Brass label reads: "Hobart...

Signed First Edition autobiography of Sennett Studios and Keystone Cops producer Mack Sennett. Sennett's discoveries included Mabel Normand, Ros...

Original movie painting from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", 1988. This a painting of Jessica Rabbit that was used in the making of the movie...

Born in 1917, Edward "Ed' Dobrotka was a lesser-known founding member of the American comics industry. After graduating from the Cleveland ...

Lot of 2. 1. Amazing Spider Man #39, 8/66. CGC Universal grade 4.0 white pages. Norman Osborn reveled as the Green Goblin. In CGC plastic holder.

Sheet for science fiction chiller "The Man Who Turned to Stone" starring Victor Jory and directed by Laszlo Kordas and filmed in 1957. T...

A sheet for the Italian made swashbuckler film "Guns of the Black Witch" with the catch line "The Unconquerable Barbarians of the Se...

Laurel and Hardy movie poster "Pearls of the Shift". Slovakian. 27 x 19.5 " ^ Date: 1920's Country (if not USA): Slovenia State...

Very rare. Famous route in the Eastern Sierra. Also lists Gull Lake and Silver Lake. Southern California Automobile Club. Black on white. 20 x 36&qu...

100+ mostly photos and RPC's in an album, c. 1930. Nice Lake Tahoe photos-Fallen Leaf Lake, Mt. Tallac, Crystal Range, Susie Lake, Heather Lake,...

Very rare early printed color postcard for the stage road at Eagle Nest Rock, with stage in view. Published by Emporium Basketry in Carson. Not mailed

Interesting mounted photograph of various townspeople in Laytonville, California, located in Mendocino County 23 miles north of Willits. The identific

Tour books and pamphlets of the "City of Angels" Los Angeles, California. These publications cover the area from the early 20th century, u...

Lot of 26. Some in protective sleeves. One post card of Elysian Park . Examples" L.A. City Hall, Universal Studios, L.A. Pigeon Farm, scenic...

Lot of 22. Artist renditions of various farms, residences and businesses in and around Los Angeles County circa late 1800's. Color. matted and...

Canvas backed rollup map by Fred H Tibbetts, engineer, San Francisco, Grass Valley District office. Nevada Irrigation District. 1929. 1" to 5 m...

Old black suitcase full of Cuvellier family papers and ephemera. Mention goes back to Charles Cuvellier in New Orleans, who owned several of the rare

Gorgeously framed (21 x 20 inches) poster advertising the first Masquerade Ball of the California Lodge No. 2 of the order of the Hermann's Sons...

A really nice group of 10 original large photographs in excellent condition in this scrap book with cover labeled History/Land & Marks/of Placer...

Two framed membership certificates for Otto Heilbron in the Sacramento Turn-Verein club, 1884 and 1885. Heilbron was the son of August Heilbron, a ca

Son of wealthy cattleman August Heilborn, Otto Heilbron graduated from the Sacramento Business College, December 19, 1889 and here is his framed diplo

Souvenir from the The Bee newspaper , Sacramento County and It's Resources 1894. Past, Present and future at that time. 197 pgs. Fold out map o...

Ledger for Truck Company No. 1, beginning January 1915. Lists date, time, location, cause of alarm, hours worked, miles run, ft. ladder used, names of

Arguably one of the best designed California billheads! HS Crocker & Co. Printers, Importing Stationers. Sacramento, 1889. Multi-color with vign...

Lot of approx. 140 Sacramento billheads. 1880s-1910s, with majority 1880s and 1890s. Many pictorial with vignettes of buildings. Some trimmed. Duplica

Very attractive pictorial advertising broadside for the International Hotel in Sacramento at 320 to 326 K St. The "Leading Family and Business ...

Lot of 11. Artist drawings of Sacramento c1800's. Color, matted and framed. Artists renditions. Businesses, residences. All in excellent con...

A Souvenir of The Bee. Second Edition, 1895. (Originally published in 1894, likely for the California Midwinter International Exposition). HS Crocker

Brass curved printing stamper with S. F. F. G. related to a San Francisco manufacturing process with an unknown significance. 4.25x11". ^ Date:...

Duotone lithograph showing anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney in jail with Chinese people tormenting him through the bars. Text "You Sabe Him!...

A 1936 Chinese telephone directory for San Francisco and Oakland Calif. by Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. 32 pgs. Excellent cond. In checking with

107 pp. softbound. Fascinating look at Chinese history in San Francisco in 1950. All of the addresses are in English and also Chinese characters. Brok

Lot of 2. 1) Fantastic sterling silver souvenir spoon with engraved bowl of Cliff House. Miner handle. 4" long. 2) Booklet of SF albertypes pub...

An original sign from the rail line to the Sutro Baths, a historic bathing complex in San Francisco gifted to the city by engineer, philanthropist, an

A nice 5"x 7" photo of a crowd of San Franciscans looking out at the Presidio military buildings. The photo is dated February 22, 1888 and...

There are over 80 cabinet card photos in this group and all from San Francisco photography studios. All photos are portraits taken between 1880 and 18

This a a gorgeous hand-colored lithograph titled Vue de San Francisco from Louis Le Breton. Undated, but c.1854. The actual publication date is unclea

This is a pair of photographs of 1862 San Francisco lithographs done by CB Gifford. There were five views total that formed a larger panorama. The two

Lot of 17. Includes 7 stereoviews, one postcard, four 3.75 x 4.75" photos, and five 8 x 10" photo enlargements. Duplication. The 1906 San ...

Lot of 24. 1) Twenty postcards, incl. 8 RPPC (Cliff House sightseeing trip, Pan. Pacific Exposition 1915). 2) Two 1868 deeds for property on Humboldt

A collection of photographs and ephemera from San Francisco, California, dating from c.1870-1890. There are 18 photographs in the collection, and they

Very rare. Three pages attached together. Top is Post Entry form for cargo on board the ship Bremen Barque Metta, John Mencke master, from Hamburg to

Very rare. Three documents attached to each other. The shipping manifest for Brit. Brig. "Maid of Zulpha" arriving to San Francisco from S...

Very rare. Large, handwritten shipping manifest for the ship Bremen Barque Metta, J. Mencke master, entering San Francisco from Valparaiso (Chile), No

History of California and San Francisco by Soule, Gihon, & Nisbet, published in 1855 by D. Appleton & Co., New York. 813 pp. 150 illustratio...

Lot of 4. 1-3) Three are documents related to the estate of Henry Dreschfeld, who is listed in the 1865 SF directory as a notary public, money and re

E.D. Farnsworth & Son of No. 219 Sansome Street, San Francisco published this 1881 advertising calendar for the German Fire Insurance Company. A...

This lot holds three books belonging to navigator John Thomas employed by the Union Oil Company. Dobie's Modern Navigation is a spiral bound boo...

A collection of periodicals from "The Summer of Love" and beyond. Some of these items were on loan to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco,...

Lot of 15. Covers time period roughly from the Gold Rush to Civil War-era. 1) 9 Declaratory Statements for Cases where the Land is not subject to Priv

Lot of 26. Three covers " Commercial Hotel, The Potter, The Arlington Hotels. 23 stereopticon slides of " Mission and it's gardens...

Lot of 4. 1) Before the White Man Came by Charles S. Graves, 1934 hardcover signed by the author. 99 pp. Rare. Inscribed to Charles Pendleton. 2) Rhym

26 x 17" cloth broadside advertising the 1897 sale of the estate of John Grunewald near Pleasant Grove on the Sacramento Road, Sutter County, C...

Fantastic! This was before the railroad was completed from Truckee to Tahoe City, so transportation was via wagon on the Lake Tahoe Stage Line. Truck

Lot of 7, all different. Truckee, like nearby Tahoe, is tough to get material from. Includes: Truckee Lumber Co. (3 different, 1886-1891); Pacific Lum

This "Fremont's First and Second Expeditions 1844-3-4" by Fremont and printed in 1845 includes a very rare foldout panorama map, new H...

First edition. No map. 693 pp. This report guided thousands of overland immigrants to the Oregon and California regions (pre Gold Rush). It was more t

Pile of issued of the Boston Museum newspaper from 1849 and 1850 with thrilling news of the California Gold Rush that changed the world. Post it note

Hardbound, 212 page volume published in 1965 by Howell-North Books of Berkeley. Like new condition! "The California Star," Yerba Buena an...

An exceptional rarity, and one of only a handful or two of original California works published with twenty four (24) original albumen prints inside th

Lot of 9. Includes: 5 postcards (Main Street, Watsonville; Big Trees, Santa Cruz; Carmel Mission, Monterey; Santa Clara Street, San Jose; and San Carl

Lot of over 50 items. Includes: Mt. Lowe (10 postcards); San Diego (7 postcards); Catalina (1890s photo and 2 postcards); Los Angeles area postcards (

This book: "California's Best: Art and Antiques" by Brad and Brian Whithrell covers a number of collectibles from the state of Califor...

January 10 to November 11, 1928 diary on a desktop calendar. Playing in and losing an unspecific sporting game, notes on track and field competition,

CAL 316387. 4.5 x 13" Missing registration tag. Unknown date. The California DMV used 6 numbers starting in 1941 thru 1955, when they added a l...

Excellent early oil field panoramic photo with horse-drawn wagon, oil derricks, and oil tanks in view. Reverse has pen notation that this is Ventura,

Collection of 24 stereoviews. Very little duplication of views. Photographers include William G. Chamberlain, Keystone, CR Savage, Underwood & U...

A copy of the Program of Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress of 1901, held in Cripple Creek, Colorado. The Commercial Congress was a series of meeti

Lot of 2 different. 1) 1898, 4th Annual, Official Program. Full of color illustrations of various float exhibits. Covers a little loose. 6 x 8"...

This photo album contains about 40 B&W photos as well as some tintype photos of prominent African-Americans from the Denver, Colorado area in th...

Lot of 13, most different. Earliest is a Reed & McKenney view of a Candy Manufactory (c.1875). Other views include: school house, Cherrelyn grav...

Lot of 13: 12 stereoviews and one cabinet card. There doesn't appear to be duplication. Stereoviews include: WG Chamberlain, four from Kilburn, ...

Lot of 14 stereoview of scenery at Glen Eyrie, Colorado, along with views of General Palmer's residence there. Photographers/publishers include ...

Collection of 33 stereoviews. Most appear to be different. Birds-eye views of the town, views of the various soda springs (Iron Spring, Navajoe Spring

Lot of 17. Duplication of views. Includes: US signal station at the summit, loaded burro, scenic views, and train car with passengers. Photographers/p

Undated, but appears to be c.1915 from the automobiles in some of the hand-colored photographs. Approx. 30 pages, with a page of descriptive text and

Rare and in very good condition. Copyright 1888 by Chas. Lee for the Colorado Midland Railroad. Published by Ward Bros., Columbus. Illustrations of si

Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer for 1871 published by S.S. Wallihan and Company. Inscription on the title page reads, "With the...

The Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer for 1871 published by S.S. Wallihan & Company. Comprising a brief history of Colorado, and a...

Lot of 18. Duplication. Views include: On the trail to Helen Hunt's Grave, Cheyenne Canyon; Seven Falls, Cheyenne Canyon; rock formations at Mon...

Stereoview photos taken in Colorado. Stereoview mounts generally measure just under 7x3.5" (20), with three larger single-view photos (about 5x...

Lot of 4 different. 1) Cabinet card, Garden of the Gods, Hook Photo. 2) Narrows, Williams Canyon, Colorado. 8 x 4" No photographer listed. 3) C...

Collection of 23 stereoviews. Photographers/publishers include: JJ Purcell, International View Co., FA Nim, Gurnsey, Keystone, Underwood & Under...

Lot of 4, three different. All with Colorado scenes on the handles. Includes: duplicate Pike's Peak spoons, 4"; cutout flowers, 4"; an...

We have never seen one of these before. 1871 Rogers, Smith & Co. unsurpassed silver plated goods bound catalog. Nicely illustrated. 194pp with i...