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Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Two ground-breaking histories of African-American pioneers in California View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(African-American - California)HeadlineAfrican-American pioneers in California, 2 classic historical studies Lot #4 Black immigrant 'stumps' California for Democrats - Autograph Letter Signed View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(African-American - Los Angeles)AuthorJacobs, Louis T.Headline1888 Black immigrant 'stumps' California for DemocratsDate PublishedAug. 7, 1888 Lot #5 Manuscript deed of sale for two slaves to William Bibb, for the use and benefit of Harriet M. Goodwin and her children View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African-American - Slavery)AuthorTaylor, William H.HeadlineSlavery document from the 1840sDate PublishedFebruary 14, 1845 Lot #6 Virginia slave auction proceeds View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(African-American - Slavery)AuthorTrabue, MaconHeadlineAntebellum Virginia slave auction proceeds, Document SignedDate PublishedNov. 17, 1855 Lot #7 Frederick Douglass the Orator View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African-American)AuthorGregory, James M.HeadlineFrederick Douglass the Orator by James M. GregoryPublisherWillley CompanyDate Published[1893] Lot #8 A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Preceded by a Review of the Military Services of Negroes in Ancient and Modern Times View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(African-American)AuthorWilliams, George W.HeadlineImportant work on African American soldiers in the American Civil WarPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1888 Lot #9 Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812 - Autograph Letter Signed View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1813)AuthorParker, Daniel, Chief Clerk, US War DepartmentHeadlineFugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812Date PublishedJuly 19, 1813 Lot #10 Legal battle over a Virginia slave mother and her children - Document Signed View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1843)AuthorJohn M. Perkins.Headline1843 Legal battle over a Virginia slave and her childrenDate PublishedOct. 17, 1843 Lot #11 Deed of Manumission of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1850)AuthorTurpin, Philip O.Headline1850 Slave emancipation document, KentuckyDate PublishedFeb. 11, 1850 Lot #12 Account of slave Christmas in Kentucky by a Pennsylvania Yankee View details Estimate$300 - $400Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1850s)AuthorS.W.MitchellHeadline1850s slave Christmas in Kentucky - letter by a Pennsylvania YankeeDate PublishedDec. 24-25, [ca. 1851-53] Lot #13 Four early catalogs of African-American rare books and ephemera, including the classic Heartman catalog of 1946 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1941-1961 - Reference)Headline4 early catalogs of African-American rare books and ephemera, 1941-61PublisherVarious publishersDate Published1941-61 Lot #14 Menu, “Café Society Presents Purveyor’s Night”: for investors San Francisco Black Jazz Club View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1948 – San Francisco Jazz Club)AuthorBlackshear, HaroldHeadline1948 Menu for upscale San Francisco Jazz ClubDate PublishedJan. 29, 1948 Lot #15 Two elegantly produced imprints View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1989-96 – Reference)Headline2 fine printings about African-American rare books and epehemeraDate Published1989-1996 Lot #16 Prejudice-themed African-Americana antiques View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1993-2010 – Reference)HeadlinePrejudice African-American antiquesDate Published1993-2010 Lot #17 Complete set of the 1st 19 annual NY auction catalogs of Printed & Manuscript African-Americana View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1996-2014 – Reference)AuthorSwann GalleriesHeadlineAfrican-Americana auctions, set of 19 Swann Galleries NY catalogsDate Published1996-2014 Lot #19 Magnificent Desolation: Images from the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission with the Words of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorAldrin, BuzzHeadlinePhotos of the Apollo 11 mission signed by Buzz AldrinPublisherJack Bacon & CompanyDate Published2009 Lot #26 My Travel Diary [manuscript cover title) View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Automobile Travel Diary)HeadlineYoung woman's travel diary on west coastDate Published1916-1927 Lot #33 Three letters from Daniel Beard, illustrator and youth leader, to William T. Hornaday, naturalist and zoologist View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBeard, Daniel CarterHeadlineDan Beard writes to William T. HornadayDate Publishedc.1910-15 Lot #74 Archive of approx. 25 letters relating to the cattle industry in the western United States View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cattle Industry)HeadlineOriginal letters relating to cattle industry 1883-97Date Publishedc.1883-1897 Lot #75 Letter from a prospective cowboy to the President of the Wyoming Stock Association, requesting that he be removed from the employment blacklist so he could get a job, with a letter from a judge attesting to the supplicant's good character View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Cattle Industry)AuthorAughey, William H.HeadlineLetter from blacklisted cowboyDate PublishedMay 15th & 16th, 1895 Lot #76 Fifteen manuscript announcements of round-ups on the western cattle ranges View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Cattle Industry)HeadlineAnnouncements of western cattle roundupsDate PublishedLate 19th-early 20th centuries? Lot #81 New York murder scandal, inter-racial Chinese-Irish marriage View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Chinese-American, 1859)AuthorGorham, HenryHeadline1859 NY murder scandal, inter-racial Chinese-Irish marriageDate PublishedMarch 9, 1859 Lot #93 Handwritten letter from Fitzhugh Lee to W.D. Hill View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Civil War)HeadlineLetter from Confederate general and later VA governor Fitzhugh LeeDate Published1885 Lot #120 [Genealogy of Barnabas Horton] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Genealogy)HeadlineGenealogy of Barnabas HortonDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #137 My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. - Inscribed by Coretta Scott King View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorKing, Coretta ScottHeadlineCoretta Scott King on MLK, inscribedPublisherHolt, Rinehart and WinstonDate Published[1969] Lot #138 My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. - Signed by Coretta Scott King View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorKing, Coretta ScottHeadlineCoretta Scott King on MLK, inscribedPublisherHolt, Rinehart and WinstonDate Published[1969] Lot #145 Eleven 18th century land deeds, nearly all for land in North Yarmouth, not in Maine, but then part of Massachusetts Bay Colony or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Massachusetts/Maine)HeadlineColonial land deeds from Massachusetts/MaineDate Published1761-1784 Lot #150 Manuscript petition by Indians in western New Spain accusing a friar of having a lover living with him, whom he claims is just his cook View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineMexican Indians accuse friar of having lover, 1805Date Published1805 Lot #159 Four military appointments for William Cox, two in the Nevada National Guard, two in the United States Volunteer Cavalry View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Nevada)HeadlineNevadan serves in Spanish American WarDate Published1896-1904 Lot #179 Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette... - With presentation from J.Q. Adams to Isaac Hill View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 1825)AuthorAdams, John QuincyHeadlinePresented by John Quincy Adams to Isaac HillPublisherGales and SeatonDate Published1835 Lot #183 Four pieces of correspondence relating to Theodore Roosevelt's investment in the Teschemacher & DeBillier Cattle Company View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 1901)HeadlineTheodore Roosevelt invests in cattle industryDate Published1886-1890 Lot #186 Signed letter to J.H. Edwards of Seattle from former President William H. Taft on Palace Hotel, San Francisco stationary dated Sept 6, 1915. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 1909)AuthorTaft, William H.HeadlineSigned William Taft letterDate Published1915 Lot #187 Military appointment signed by President Taft, with appointment letter signed by Major General Henry P. McCain, relative of the late Senator John McCain View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents, 1909)AuthorTaft, William HowardHeadlineTaft signed military appointment of John McCain relativeDate Published1913 Lot #190 Letter from President Harry S. Truman to John Franklin Carter, thanking him for a copy of his book View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 1945)AuthorTruman, Harry S.HeadlineTruman thanks newspaperman for a bookDate PublishedFebruary 8, 1947 Lot #193 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 2009)AuthorObama, BarackHeadlineSigned by Barack ObamaPublisherCrown PublishersDate Published[2006] Lot #209 Letter from John Philip Sousa to General James H. Wilson, stationed in Cuba, thanking him for a 6th Army Corps badge View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSousa, John PhilipHeadlineJohn Philip Sousa writes to general in Cuba 1900Date Published9th August 1900 Lot #210 Army soldier in the Black Hills 10 years after Wounded Knee - letter View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(South Dakota - Cavalry Fort, 1901)AuthorReynolds, FultonHeadline1901 Cavalry trooper in Black Hills of South Dakota, 10 years after Wounded KneeDate PublishedAug. 5, 1901 Lot #226 Archive of letters, documents, receipts, stock certificates, and other items relating to business transactions of the Tyler-Goodwyn family, and to the bridge of which they were principal owners View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Tyler-Goodwyn Family - Business documents, papers & letters)HeadlineBusiness transactions of Tyler-Goodwyn familyDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #228 Archive of manuscript, printed & typed materials relating to political activities of members and descendants of the Tyler-Goodwyn family, their minor literary endeavors, and education View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Tyler-Goodwyn Family - politics, literary & education)HeadlinePolitics of descendants of President TylerDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #233 Legal complaint about property taxes at the Zoar communal colony of German immigrants View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Utopian colony, Zoar, Ohio, 1853)AuthorHance, Judge Joseph C.Headline1853 Zoar, Ohio utopian colony of German "separatists" - LetterDate PublishedMay 1, 1853 Lot #236 Four letters, a wedding certificate, and a weights and measures workbook - a miscellany from early Americana to the Civil War View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Weights & measures, etc.)AuthorVarious authorsHeadlineAn American miscellanyDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #238 Manuscript ledger recording accounts for two whaling voyages undertaken by the Eunice H. Adams of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Whaling - account ledger)HeadlineAccount ledger for two whaling voyages, 1884-5Date Published1884-1885 Lot #240 Four manuscript folio ledger books recording the daily accounts of Frank Spencer Witherbee and the management of the estate of his father John Gilman Witherbee View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Witherbee Family account ledgers 1875-1906)HeadlineLedgers of Witherbee iron ore family 1875-1906Date Published1875-1906 Lot #352 Restricting US trade with Cuba at the start of the Latin American wars of independence from Spain View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Cuba, 1810)AuthorJuan Stoughton, Spanish Consul in BostonHeadlineUS trade with Spanish Cuba during Latin American wars of independence - 1810 letterDate PublishedMay 7, 1810 Lot #372 High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorHillary, Sir Edmund and Desmond DoigHeadlineSigned by Sir Edmund HillaryPublisherDoubledayDate Published1962 Lot #399 The Life of Benito Mussolini - with clipped signature View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Mussolini, Benito)AuthorSarfatti, Margherita G.HeadlineWith signature of Benito MussoliniPublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published[1926] Lot #427 Letter by a US General about the death of a famed American war corespondent during the Russo-Turkish War View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Turkey, Russia - 1877 War)AuthorGeneral Francis V. GreeneHeadlineUS General's letter about the Russo-Turkish War of 1877Date PublishedOct. 10, 1907 Lot #483 Racism in slave-free Ohio - Letter View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1848)AuthorWilliam F. SmithHeadline1848 Racist letter in slave-free OhioDate PublishedMay 4, 1848 Lot #543 The Downing Street Years View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorThatcher, MargaretHeadlineSigned by Thatcher, Downing Street YearsPublisherHarper/CollinsDate Published1993 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next