Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 35

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Books & Photographs

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 482		Barbanson, Constantino de. Verae Theologiae Mysticae Compendium Sive Amoris Divini Occultae Semitae. 1698 edition in Latin of the Compendium of Mystical Theology: The Occult Path of Divine Love, 5¾x3¼", 494pp. Original leather on board covers with ribbed spine with gold-stamped decorative embellishments and title. Small repair at top of spine and on title page. Tightly bound. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 483		Currier and Ives. Railroad - Indian and Pioneer Prints. Compiled by Fred J. Peters, being a pictorial check list and collation. Fully illustrated. New York: Antique Bulletin Publishing Company, 1930. First edition; the Library Edition. Small folio, red cloth illustrated and lettered in gilt; spine in gilt. Sunning at top edge. Estimated Value $100 - 125. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 484		Harte, Bret. The Heathen Chinee. Boston: Osgood, 1871, [24] unnumbered pp, 8 full-page illustrations by Sol. Eytinge, Jr. 12 mo, original orange wrappers. First Authorized Separate Edition, BAL Printing B. Covers lightly marked, else fine.Alain de Suzannet bookplate. Preserved in a red cloth folding case. With nine lithographed cards illustrated by Joseph Hull, Chicago: The Western News Co., 1870, in original lithographed envelope. Another edition, Chicago: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 1873), 16] unnumbered pp with wood-engraved illustrations, folding plate inserted. 32 mo, original tan printed wrappers. BAL Printing A, with the Chinese advertisement on p. [13]. Light cover wear, else fine. Unauthorized reprint issued as an advertisement for the Rock Island Route which in 1873 extended from Chicago to San Francisco. The cover depicts Ah Sin on his way to Hong Kong by rail. BAL 7248N. Barrett Library, p. 17. All of the above items are housed in a custom-made green slip case with Alain de Suzannet bookplate. Also, an 11x9" chromo lithograph, "The Heathen Chinee," and a copy of the December 1916 Overland Monthly, Bret Harte Edition (Vol LXVIII, No. 6); tattered covers. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 485		*19th Century Scenic Photographs.* Eight 8½x5¼"photos (giant cabinet cards) of the Grand Canyon (2), Mount Hood, Colorado (2), San Francisco, "Cathedral Spires," and a monument on Mt. Shasta. Very good. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 486		Watkins, Carleton E. Five Scenic Prints From The George Davidson Collection. Four photographs of 12,660 foot Mt. Conness (named after one of the first senators from California) taken during the summer 1890 expedition, 11x14" with mount; and "Coast Sculpturing," 4¾x7¾". Each piece is matted to 16x20". Fine condition. Watkins (1829-1916) was one of California's early commercial photographers. He published many views of the Yosemite Valley and in 1865 became the official photographer for the California State Geological Survey. These photographs were taken for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, under the leadership of George Davidson (1825-1911). Watkins gave the photos to Davidson in 1901 and 1902. Estimated Value $800 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $978
Lot 487		Watkins, Carleton E. Seven Photographs From the George Davidson Collection. Photographs taken by Watkins during survey expeditions: "Yolo Baseline 1881," 9½x13½" (names are penciled along edges); "Portrait of George Davidson," 11x14"; "Lawson's Camp / San Luis Obispo," 5½x8½"; three different shots of "Los Angeles Plains - Coast Survey Camp 1889," 7¼x9¼"; "Coast Survey party in the field summer 1890," 11x14". Each photograph is matted to 16x20". Watkins (1829-1916) was one of California's early commercial photographers. He was hired in 1879 to work for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, headed by Davidson. Measurements of the Yolo and Los Angeles Base Lines were those upon which all distances in the extensive triangulation of the State of California depended. Watkins gathered most of his photograph in his Market St. studio for an exhibition and sale; the studio and his works were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. These photos were given to Davidson in 1901 and 1902. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $719