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January 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, January 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 1/30/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #38: First Edition of ''Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara -- Pulitzer Prize Winning Historical Novel Recounting the Four Days of the Gettysburg Battle

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Meriwether Lewis Autograph Letter Signed, Two Months Before the Lewis & Clark Expedition -- In What Would Be Lewis' Lifelong Battle With Reimbursed Debt, He Defends Against Money He Purportedly Owes

  

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #150: Drs. Arnold Sommerfeld and Paul Epstein Write a Jovial Postcard to Fellow Dr. Peter Paul Koch

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #158: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $18,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #159: John Adams 4-Language Ship's Papers Signed as President During the French-American Naval Quasi-War

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #160: John Adams Military Document Signed as President, Appointing a Midshipman to the Navy in 1799 During the French-American Quasi-War

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $5,000

• Lot #161: John Adams Free Franked Signature -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,513

• Lot #162: John Adams Family Document -- Regarding Debts Due From the Estate of Elihu Adams, John Adams' Brother

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #165: Dwight Eisenhower WWII ALS to His Wife -- ''...about the Hollywood offer...I couldn't touch it - and would never allow such a thing to occur! We don't need it anyway - it's fun to be poor!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #169: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir, ''The White House Years'' -- Uninscribed, #923 of the Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #171: Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed During the Civil War -- Grant Writes to General Terry During the Siege of Petersburg in 1864, ''...keep your Cavalry to watch the movements of the enemy...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #174: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #185: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed as President -- With Bold ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature, Lincoln Promotes a Cavalry Soldier to Second Lieutenant

  

  Min Bid: $4,200

  Final Price: $5,250

• Lot #186: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature

  

  Min Bid: $4,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #187: Abraham Lincoln Complete 10 Volume Set of His Definitive Biography ''Abraham Lincoln: A History'' -- Written by His Secretaries John Hay & John Nicolay

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #189: James Madison Letter Twice-Signed as Secretary of State, Regarding a Change in Payment Terms for the Louisiana Purchase -- ''instructions...to Paris...to promote a modification, if possible''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #205: William Taft Letter Signed During WWI With Long Autograph Note Signed -- 5 Days After His Son Charlie Sailed Off to War, Taft Pens, ''I shall be anxious for 'those in peril on the sea' for some time''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #210: Woodrow Wilson Military Appointment Signed as President, Just Months Before the United States' Entry Into WWI

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #232: Ship's Contract From 1794 for the Ship ''William'', Owned by Moses Brown

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #233: John Hancock 1780 Naval Document Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #234: Declaration of Independence Signer Matthew Thornton Twice-Signed Document From 1769 as Justice of the Peace

  

  Min Bid: $900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #235: Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Plight of Dorence Atwater -- With General Benjamin Butler's Reply on Andrew Johnson's Impeachment: ''...So many are afraid of the impeachment...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #236: Clara Barton Letter Signed on Red Cross Letterhead

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #237: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Showing Burnside's Bridge Over Antietam Creek

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #238: Magic Lantern Slide Showing a Civil War Campsite

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #239: George A. Custer Rare Signed CDV Photo With Brady Backstamp -- ''Truly Yours / G.A. Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $9,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #240: George Custer Envelope Made Out in His Hand to His Wife -- ''Mrs. G.A. Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #241: Magic Lantern Slide of the Emancipation Memorial

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #242: Civil War Photographer Alexander Gardner Signed Check

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #243: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Showing Culp's Hill From Cemetery Hill

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #244: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- President Lincoln Meets With General McClellan After Antietam

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #245: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Showing the Infamous Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia Where Colonel Ellsworth Was Killed

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #246: Civil War Archive by the Colonel Commanding the 45th Massachusetts Infantry -- ''...The battle at Kingston was a severe initiation...One man was killed at my side and many were hit all around me...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #247: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Portrait Photograph of General George B. McClellan

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #248: Civil War Letter Archive by a Soldier in the 43rd New York Infantry, Who Describes the Battle of Fredericksburg -- ''...I have just passed through my first battle...and a severe one it was...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #249: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- Portrait Photograph of CSA General George Pickett, Infamous for ''Pickett's Charge'' at Gettysburg That Turned the Course of War

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: Civil War Magic Lantern Slide -- African-Americans Leaving Richmond With Ruined Buildings in Background

  

  Min Bid: $160

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: General Winfield Scott Document Signed -- Regarding Soldier Abuse in the Seminole Wars

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #252: Civil War Era Sewing Box Likely Used in the War -- With Supplies Inside

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #253: Bocks Car Crew-Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo of the B29 Bomber -- Signed by 9 of the Crewmen Who Flew the Mission During WWII

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #254: WWII German Luftwaffe Rare Photograph Album -- 189 Photos With Captions

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #255: General Douglas MacArthur 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo in Uniform

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #256: Admiral Chester Nimitz 14" x 11" Signed Photo of the Japanese Surrender

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #257: Nuremberg Book Signed by 18 Nazi War Criminals During the WWII Nuremberg Trials -- Includes Signatures by Goring, Donitz, Streicher & Speer, and Also Two ID Cards by U.S. Guard Who Acquired Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #258: 1942 Letter Detailing the Torpedo Damage on the U.S.S. California During the Attack on Pearl Harbor

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #259: Joe Rosenthal Document Signed From 1953 -- Also Signed by Comedian Ken Murray

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #260: Oskar and Emilie Schindler Archive Concerning Their Move to Argentina After World War II -- Including Oskar's Boarding Document to Leave Europe

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #261: U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivors Signed Photo -- Measures 14'' x 11''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #262: Dutch Van Kirk Autograph Statement Signed on a 10'' x 8'' Photo of the Enola Gay, Regarding Dropping the Atomic Bomb -- ''...The war soon ended and the killing stopped...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #439: Mata Hari Autograph Letter Signed to Her Lover, Piet van der Hem -- ''...Want to come and talk to me a little at 9 pm?...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass