"Fred Holabird's Grand Finale": Mining, Americana, & Numismatics Live Auction (2025 October)

Lot of 20 plus. Ephemera from Iowa, Nevada, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado. Checks, billheads, tax assessments, letters, Various conditions. ^ Date:

Lot of 27: 25 billheads/letterheads, plus an Ormsby County, NV license and a McCloud River price list. Billheads cover several states including: Nevad

Lot of 46. Many pictorial. Many states represented (New Jersey, Minnesota, New York, Nebraska, California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana, Indi

Lot of 28 billheads. Wisconsin, Tennessee, Missouri, California, Connecticut, Washington, Ohio, Delaware, Vermont, Illinois, Utah, New Jersey, Colorad

Large group of assorted cards, greetings, note cards, Religious cards, Holiday cards, Poetry booklet from Buffalo NY, Wedding poem booklet, Funeral po

Lot of 16. Includes illustrations, photographs, business cards, and lumber price sheets. Larger photos are 5 x 7" (Colorado; La Grande, Oregon;...

Broadside ad regarding a talk by Prof. Jas, Corkery regarding "Rome the foe of American Independence" Unknown year. March 26. The languag...

Lot of 19. Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang Magazine , suggestive photos, stories, cartoon, etc. Included in the collection. 1924-25 and '32 Winter...

About 85 8x10" Hollywood pinup photos. Mostly unidentified. 2 are Lucille Ball and 1 Virginia Mayo plus many others. ^ Date: Country (if not ...

Dixol Shampoo 1943 Pin-Up Calendar, Atlanta Georgia. Month November. Calendar besides a nice smile, has a picture in the lower left of the product.

Lot of 22. In two separate plastic covers: Pin Ups lithos by Elvgren pin up artist from 1950's. One titled "Pin -Ups" has 12 prints i...

Lot of 8. 1932-36 La Paree Stories Pin Up Magazine. Full nude photos, racy seems an appropriate description for the time period, with the usual stori

Magazines with pin-up girl covers, mostly centered on Marilyn Monroe. Publish dates range from c1930 to c1960, with the majority being LIFE magazines

Lot of 5. PEP Stories pulp pin magazine. Each in protective sleeve, Fine to Very Fine cond. Stories, nude photos, ads. 64 pages each. Volume VI

Lot of 8. Various Pin-up magazines. Some nudity, stories, Hollywood, jokes, cartoons. List:Gala-Sept 1951 66 pgs. GInger-Jan 1936 58 pgs. Detectiv

Lot of 12. Snappy And Spicy Stories Pin-Up Magazines, stories, cartoons, nude photos, jokes. 54 pgs average. 8.5x11". Fine to VF cond. Snap...

Lot of 4. Vintage TNT Adult Magazine, by Tim N. Tut, known as "The Biggest Little Magazine In The World". Small pocket magazine, avg. 96 ...

Nude photography of gorgeous curly-haired women, 5, along with a clothed Marilyn Monroe print 8x10". The nudes vary from in size from approxima...

Lot of 7. !930's pin up girls ,magazines. Broadway Nights, Spicy Screen Stories, Film Fun (2), Tattle Tales , Stolen Sweets (3). Stories, full...

Lot of 4. Tattle Tales Vintage Pulp Up Up Magazine. In protective covers. Fine to VF cond. Average page count 62. '36: March, Sept and Dec.....

Small leather bound with leather closure masonic manual with illustrations. By Robert Macoy 15th edition New York. 4. 3/4" x 3 3/4 x 3/4" ...

These are two newspaper reviews for the stage play: "M'Liss- Child of the Sierras" and "Arrival of the Widow". The Boston H...

A discourse on the occasion of the wreck of the Arctic, a controversial shipwreck where crew and able bodied men overpowered women and children to win

The Henry Clay Almanac-1844, 16 pages. Clay's discussion of State owned public lands and selling the lands to the public in opposition to Presi...

Possible 18th century book safe. Using two books titled "Siecle de Louis XIV" and " Cours De Litterature" put together and cut ...

Che Wah Wah The Modern Montezumas by George G. Street 1883. 115 pages. Engraved front cover, Hardbound and in overall very good condition. Original

"Guide to the Pacific Coast", red covers, gilded title text. Includes delicate & toned fold-out map measuring 20.5x14", with crin...

Copy of 'Over the Range to the Golden Gate' by Stanley Wood, published 1889 by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Publishers. The book is "A Com...

Pair of books on the topic of travel through the American West. Lot includes 'Yesterdays Along the Santa Fe' by Rozier Paul Hughes, publishe...

A set of Guidebooks to the Western United States, including volumes A, B, C, D, E, and F. These guidebooks, which were published by the U.S. Departmen

Copy of 'Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide', published 1880 by the Overland Publishing Company. Advises travelers o...

Rambles Overland, published 1891, signed by author Almon Gunnison in 1893. Gilded title-text. Inscription reads: "Compliments of the author, / ...

Nolie Mumey's 1st print into the "Old Fort" sequence. Title: Old Forts and Trading Posts of the West. Contents in excellent condition,...

A copy of 'The West From a Car Window' by Richard Harding Davis, originally published 1892. Based on similar copies sold, this appears to be...

This is a lot of two books regarding J. Ross Browne, an Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer, and government agent. J. Ross Browne arrived in

Pacific R.R. Survey 38th And 39th Parallels by LT. E.G. Beckwith, 1853-54, hardbound, 128 pages. War Dept. publisher, Third Artillery. 14 color plat

Lot of 3. 1. Two books on the Northern RR Survey : a. Eye of the Explorer" 1853-54, McDermott, Grimm and Mobley 2010, 210pages with color ph...

Engineer Department, U.S. Army Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Grea

Lot of 2 different. Samuel Bowles (1826-1878) was an influential American journalist and long-time editor of the Springfield Republican newspaper in M

A small library of eight books about pioneer women in the West. Includes: The Pioneer Women of the West, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet, author of "Th...

The Workes of the Mighty Prince James, 1616, 621 pages, Hardbound. Restored and new outer covers by the New York Historical Society 1957. The Societ

Hymnal book of the German Reformed Church, printed in 1763 by Cristoph Saur of Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. Title page of the book describes it as ...

A seminary student's study book containing the Old Testament translated from the original Hebrew and the English translation of the Greek New Te...

La Sacra Bibbia, abridged and illustrated, Ricordi publisher. 203 pages, hardcover , Old Testament, starting w/Genisis. . In new condition w/ origina

Twenty-Seven drawings by William Blake (for Paradise Lost, Comus, and The Bible) in hardcover, Poems by Mr. Gray illustrated by William Blake in softc

James Joyce Collected Poems. 1946, 1st printing 1937. 63 pages. None of the poems in here is as long as Ulysses Sentence. Hardbound and near excel

2 first edition copies of 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' by Ernest Hemingway, an American classic that requires no introduction. Published 1940 b...

2 copies of 'Gone with the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell, both first edition. Published 1936. One is from the first ever printing of the book, ...

Things To Come by H.G. Wells, 1935. 142 pages, The Gresset Press. A film story. Hardbound and in excellent cond. Considered rare. ^ Date: 1935 Cou

A first-edition copy of "Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne with original illustrations by Virginia Frances Sterrett, published 1921...

A copy of 'A Winter Wreath of Summer Flowers' by S.G. Goodrich, an 1855 novel published by D. Appleton & Co. of New York. Illustrated th...

Salome: A Tragedy In One Act by Oscar Wilde, 36 pages, hardback. Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Art Nouveau. 13 illustrations. Very rare. There is s

An uncorrected proof of the novel 'In The Days of Simon Stern' by Arthur A. Cohen, published by Random House of New York in 1973. The book t...

A 1927 copy of 'The Compleat Angler' by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, reprinted from the original 1653 text. Includes 16 excellent wood...

Uses of the Camel, by Joseph Warren Fabens, 1865, 32 pages. Read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society, argued for the use of the c

Group of 3 publications on bricks and building with bricks. Includes "The Story of Brick" 3rd edition, 1922, 55 pages; "The Home of B...

The Smithsonian Book of Books by Michael Olmert, published in 1992 by Smithsonian Institution Press and Viking Studio Books. This volume explores the

Lot of (3) fine Collector's books, circa 1900-1920. Two have choice illustrations, one is inscribed the author, Edgar A, Guest. The "Heap O...

With this intriguing title, a must-have for the collector. Written by O.S. and L.N. Fowler, Practical Phrenologists, published by Samuel R. Wells of N

Missing title page and first six pages of the intro. A Short Account Of The Malignant Fever by Mathew Carey, 1793, 112 pages., this copy goes to page

A 1910 copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' featuring gorgeous illustrations by Harrison Fisher, a reno...

A rare first-edition copy of 'The Life of Columbus in Pictures by Victor A. Searles, Historical Poem by Emily Shaw Forman', published in 189...

Pocket diary with the appearance of being leatherbound. This daily pocket diary belonged to a self-employed business owner involved in dry goods manuf

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, Embracing All Those Which Are Most Important in Dynamics, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Steam Eng

1815 printing of The Ancient History by Charles Rollin. Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Persia, Macedonia etc. "Charles Rollin (30 January 1661 in Pari...

Lot of 4. Better Little Books by Whitman Publishing Co.. 1948, 286 pgs. each, 4x4 1/2". Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Blonde and Tarzan. Books a...

Financial records of several doctors from the years 1824-1832 written in cursive script, hardcover. Values appear to track balances owed and paid on g

1931 , Dialogues With Rodin by Helene Von Nostitz Hindenburg. Signed by Rodin on cover and under photo at title page. Hardbound, 84 pages. In very goo

The 'Retail Druggist Diary and Want Book, 1885', published by Frederick Stearns & Co. of Detroit, Michigan. Includes dated pages for dru...

Two copies of Fashion Academy, The Fashionist by Emil Hartman, 1938. 47 pgs. Erté front[plate. Art Deco. Books are in tact, but do show we...

This is a first edition leather bound book in excellent condition titled " Locks and Hardware" by Henry Towne gifted to Henry Ford and dat...

Bound volume "Forge ou Art du Fer. Contenant cinquante-deux Planches, dont deux doubles." Forges or the Art of Making Iron: Complete se...

Great Industries of the United States Being an historical summary of the origin, growth and perfection of the chief industrial arts of this Country: B

A copy of 'A Guide to the Collector of Historical Documents, Literary Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters, etc.', by Dr. Scott Davey and Samu...

Large chemistry book with color diagrams. Page count appears to be complete. Detached spine, though binding appears to remain sturdy. Light foxing thr

Life of Col. Fremont, 1856, 32 pages, paperback, missing front cover. Covering his life with his mother, college years, first buffalo hunt, Professor

Lives Of American Merchants 1857 Vol. I By Freeman Hunt, A. M. Editor of the Merchants' Magazine. Published New York: Derby & Jackson. Cinc...

Lives Of American Merchants 1857 Vol. II By Freeman Hunt, A. M. Editor of the Merchants' Magazine. Published New York: Derby & Jackson. Cin...

Lot of 2. National Portrait Gallery Vol/ I & II, leather bound, both volumes have one outside cover that has separated. The pages inside are ve...

Nights At Sea as told by and Old Sailor, starts on page 269 to 569 and then lots of empty pages, Seven illustrations. Hardbound, cover in very good c

Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, 1987 New Directions publisher , hardcover, 201 pages. He's considered one of the best spiritual authors...

A copy of 'The Artist's Assistant, In the Study and Practice of Mechanical Sciences. (Calculated for the Improvement of Genius.)', an ar...

Sunshine For Little Children. A. T. Zeising publisher. 1883, 80 pages,10x14" lots of illustrations and stories. Colorful , well Illustrated co...

The Frontier-A Frontier Town Three Months Old by Ward Platt, 1908, 1st ed. Hardcover w/photo of town on cover., 292 pages, full color map fold out map

Extra rare! 1863. 432pp. with color plates and fold-out maps. Commander Bedford Pim's The Gate of the Pacific is a detailed argument for buildin...

The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian: Contains Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seen Books of the Jewish War, and the Li

First Edition. "Being an Historical Summary of the Origin, Growth, and Perfection of the Chief Industrial Arts of the Country." 1872. With...

The Ring Of The Niblung Book by Richard Wagner , 342 pgs.8X10". published by Doubleday 1910. Hardcover. Illustrated by Arthur Rackam. Overall...

Tribune Almanac 1838-1868, The politicians and The Whig Almanac. , Vol I, 1868. Horace Greeley editor, hardcover, First published in 1858. nIt was a

A copy of "Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd, Being Discourses on such Particulars of Natural History" Volume II, a natural...

The Leaf-Collector's Handbook', printed in 1902 by G.P. Putnam's Sons and the Knickerbocker Press. This extremely unique book provides a...

Archives of Curiosities From Nature And Science, 1833 First volume, first edition.96 pages. 57 plates. Printed by Braunschweig. Very scarce. In v

A signed copy of 'Reveries and Recollections of a Naturalist' by Oliver Davie, a book of personal reflections by the author on his life as a...

The Natural History of Man Volume II. 1855. 45 Plates. Comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the diffe

Olney's School Atlas , 1841. Eighteen maps of the world, US, Asia, South America and more. Hand colored, Heavy paper covers. Book is separated f...

A copy of 'Olney's School Atlas', published 1844 by Pratt, Woodward & Co. of New York. Contains maps of locations around the world, ...

39 fold out maps, color , Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey.21st Annual Report covering Oregon, Calif. , Washington. Idaho, Montana. Wyoming, S

Very rare, very large hardcover reference book. Measuring nearly 14"x11.5"x1.5", this 382 page volume contains all railroad maps of t...

Mitchell's Reference Of The United States 1845, S. Augustus Mitchell.210 pages. Good cond. hardcover. This is to accompany the Mitchell Maps. ...

Collector's lock group, set of 5 different padlocks. Only 1 key. Please inspect for completeness. Diameters from 2" to 2.75". See pho...