Great American Treasure Hunt

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Holabird’s Western Americana Collections Presents
The Great American Treasure Hunt
Western Americana & Numismatic Auction

PREVIEW
HWAC Office
3555 Airway Drive
Reno, NV 89511
Friday - September 12 - 10am-6pm
* Preview also available by appointment

Sessions 1 & 2
LIVE AUCTION
Saturday, September 13, 2014 & Sunday, September 14, 2014
Starting Time: 9am PST, both days

Session 3
ABSENTEE AUCTION
Internet or phone bidding only.
Sept 15, 2014
Starting time: 9am monday

LOT PICKUP
Tuesday through Friday after the sale,
normal office hours or by appointment

AUCTION LOCATION
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Reno, NV 89511
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The Illustrated Handbook for Travelers through the United States280 - The Illustrated Handbook for Travelers through the United States
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Pocket edition. By J. Calvin Smith. Map. Beautiful, colored hand drawn borders on map. Nice index for easy reference. Foreign Money Exchange. Steamboa
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 700.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to a****a for (297.50 + 58.01BP) = 355.51
 
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Phelps and Ensign’s Traveler’s Guide through the United States281 - Phelps and Ensign’s Traveler’s Guide through the United States
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Pocket guide. Includes stage, steamboat, canal and rail-road routes with the distance from place to place. Map in back is intact and colorful (borders
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Start Price : 325.00 | Estimate : 650.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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The Traveler’s Guide of Pocket Gazetteer of the United States282 - The Traveler’s Guide of Pocket Gazetteer of the United States
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First edition, second printing. Extracted from the latest edition of Morse's Universal gazetteer. With an appendix. By Jedidiah Morse and Richar...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to h*******2 for (50.00 + 9.75BP) = 59.75
 
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Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist 1875283 - Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist 1875
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Crofutt's Tourist. Volume 7, 1875. Large format, soft covers. "Seventh volume, sixth revise." Clean, lots of illustrations. 160pp plu...
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist 1874284 - Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist 1874
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Crofutt's Tourist. Volume 6, 1874. Large format, soft covers. Entitled "Crofutt's Transcontinental Touries. Sixth volume, fifth revise....
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Horn's Overland Guide to California, 1852285 - Horn's Overland Guide to California, 1852
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This was THE guide to take with you in 1852 travelling across the United States on the newly built transcontinental railroad. First edition as identif
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Estimate : 150.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to p********n for (850.00 + 165.75BP) = 1,015.75
 
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The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881286 - The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881
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Published by Marshall, Texas. United States Biographical Publishing Company. "The Encyclopedia of the New West, containing fully authenticated ...
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Start Price : 200.00 | Estimate : 400.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Miners and Travelers' Guide to the Northwestern Territories, Mullan, 1865287 - Miners and Travelers' Guide to the Northwestern Territories, Mullan, 1865
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Mullan, John; Miners and Travelers’ Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado…; 1865, Wmk. Franklin, New York. Bookplate for H
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 350.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to b*********6 for (425.00 + 82.88BP) = 507.88
 
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Scenery of the Plains, Mountains, and Mines, or a Diary Kept on the Overland Route to California…, L288 - Scenery of the Plains, Mountains, and Mines, or a Diary Kept on the Overland Route to California…, L
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Langworthy, F.; Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines, or a Diary kept on the Overland Route to California...; 1855, Sprague, Ogdensburg. 324pp,
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Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold to 2*****l for (450.00 + 87.75BP) = 537.75
 
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The Great West, Hall, 1864289 - The Great West, Hall, 1864
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Hall, E.H.; The Great West. Emigrants Settlers & Travelers Guide and Handbook to the States of California and Oregon, and the territories of Neb...
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Estimate : 750.00 - 2,500.00
Sold to a****a for (637.50 + 124.31BP) = 761.81
 
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A New Gazetteer of the United States of America290 - A New Gazetteer of the United States of America
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Darby & Dwight; A New Gazetteer of the United States of America...; 1833; Hopkins, Hartford. 630pp with appendix. Red brown leather boards, as o...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 400.00
Sold to e*****r for (50.00 + 9.75BP) = 59.75
 
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The American Gazetteer, 1810, Jedidiah Morse291 - The American Gazetteer, 1810, Jedidiah Morse
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“Exhibiting a Full Account of the Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbors, Indian Tribes, &c. of the American Continent: Also of the West-India and oth...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to e*****r for (50.00 + 9.75BP) = 59.75
 
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The American Gazetteer, 1804, Jedidiah Morse292 - The American Gazetteer, 1804, Jedidiah Morse
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Released just after the Louisiana Purchase making this volume important when researching this large annexation. Full title reads “exhibiting a full a
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Estimate : 200.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to a*******s for (100.00 + 19.50BP) = 119.50
 
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Phelps & Squires map of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana & Ohio, 1836293 - Phelps & Squires map of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana & Ohio, 1836
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Includes "Table of population." "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836 by Humphrey Phelps & Bela S. Squire Jr. in...
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Estimate : 700.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to b***5 for (450.00 + 87.75BP) = 537.75
 
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Ensign & Thayer's Pocket Map of the Western United States, 1854294 - Ensign & Thayer's Pocket Map of the Western United States, 1854
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Title of printed guide reads: “ENSIGN & THAYER’S TRAVELLERS’ GUIDE THROUGH THE STATES OF OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, IOWA, AND ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 800.00
Sold to h*******2 for (200.00 + 39.00BP) = 239.00
 
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1907 Touring Cadillac, Model G, Factory Custom, Fully Restored295 - 1907 Touring Cadillac, Model G, Factory Custom, Fully Restored
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Please note the following description is updated and corrected. This classic car is typical of the touring cars that first visited Nevada mining c
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Start Price : 37,500.00 | Estimate : 75,000.00 - 110,000.00
 
 
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Alaska area mining296 - Alaska area mining
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1) Wonderful 1900 partial letter from Charles to Frank Mitchler. Charles did not fare very well in Alaska. "Well old man here I am homeward bou...
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Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to b*******d for (25.00 + 4.88BP) = 29.88
 
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RARE Bear Valley Station billheads297 - RARE Bear Valley Station billheads
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Lot of 4. Stockman and campers supply station. H. S. Blood proprietor. Bills for Union water Company of Murphys. Two handwritten notes. City:
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to i*****l for (80.00 + 15.60BP) = 95.60
 
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Hardenburg Mine archive298 - Hardenburg Mine archive
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54 pieces from expense accounts to Selby gold bullion deposits; from time sheets to logs and logging reports. Also a series of items purchased on bill
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Start Price : 170.00 | Estimate : 350.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Jackson archive299 - Jackson archive
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95 pieces. Includes 1900 John F Davis letterhead about the Esmeralda Mine, The Amador Ledger billhead, Pinocchio general merchandise billhead, C. O. M
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 400.00 - 800.00
Sold to a****a for (200.00 + 39.00BP) = 239.00
 
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