The Journal of William H. Richardson…, sold for $2,750 (£2150) by PBA Galleries.
Accounts of wars and skirmishes in the southern states of North America and Mexico were one notable feature of an August 23 sale held in San Francisco.
Three printed versions of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended a long-running conflict between America and Mexico were the most expensive of these lots.