Sale 672: Rare Americana, including California & the West

Sale 672: Rare Americana, including California & the West (#672) 05/02/2019 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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	5	Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader to his Virginia partner	Meek, Joseph	(African American - Slave Trading)	1835 Four Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader	1835	$1,500 - $2,000	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $3,000	CLOSED!
	6	North Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun - 1 day before the Nat Turner slave revolt began in Virginia - Document Signed	Gay, William and Samuel Reeve	(African American - Slavery)	1831 No.Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun, Document Signed	1831	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $450	CLOSED!
	7	Legal battle over a Virginia slave mother and her children - Document Signed	John M. Perkins.	(African American - Slavery)	1843 Legal battle over a Virginia slave and her children	Oct. 17, 1843	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	8	Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House	Keckley, Elizabeth	(African American - Slavery)	Elizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868	1868	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $540	CLOSED!
	10	Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, In Louisiana	Northup, Solomon	(African American - Slavery)	Twelve Years a Slave, with excellent associations	1854	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $1,140	CLOSED!
	11	Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves	Smith, William A.	(African American - Slavery)	A Southern defense of slavery on eve of war	1856	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $132	CLOSED!
	13	A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor; and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of color	Torrey, Jesse	(African American - Slavery)	A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, 1st Ed.	1817	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $330	CLOSED!
	14	Virginia slave auction proceeds	Trabue, Macon	(African American - Slavery)	Antebellum Virginia slave auction proceeds, Document Signed	Nov. 17, 1855	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	15	Manumission [Emancipation] of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed.	Turpin, Philip O.	(African American - Slavery)	1850 Slave emancipation document, Kentucky	Feb. 11, 1850	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	16	Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition	Van Evrie, J.H.	(African American - Slavery)	Negroes and Negro Slavery 1861	1861	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $228	CLOSED!
	17	Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812 - Autograph Letter Signed	Parker, Daniel, Chief Clerk, US War Department	(African American - War of 1812)	Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812	July 19, 1813	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $240	CLOSED!
	18	Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.	Armstrong, Mrs. M.F. & Helen Ludlow.	(African American)	Hampton and Its Students, 1st Ed.	1874	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	19	"The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God."	Carroll, Charles	(African American)	"The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God", 1st Ed.	1900	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	20	An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans	Child, Mrs.[Lydia Maria]	(African American)	Child, An Appeal in Favor of...Americans Called Africans, 1836	1836	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	21	My Bondage and My Freedom	Douglass, Frederick	(African American)	My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass, 1855	1855	$800 - $1,200	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $1,080	CLOSED!
	22	The Philadelphia Negro: Social Study.	DuBois, W.E. Burghardt.	(African American)	First case study of a black community in the US, 1899.	1899	$600 - $900	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $1,140	CLOSED!
	23	Free Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority Reports, January 20, 1843		(African American)	Free Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority Reports	1843	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	24	The Loyalty and Devotion of Colored Americans in the Revolution and War of 1812		(African American)	In support of enlisting Black soldiers for the Union Army, 1861	1861	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $450	CLOSED!
	25	Nine pieces of sheet music relating to African Americans		(African American)	African American-related sheet music	1844-1918	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	26	Recaptured Africans		(African American)	Recaptured Africans	1828	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	27	White Supremacy and Negro Subordination or, Negroes A Subordinate Race, and (so-called) Slavery Its Normal Condition	Van Evrie, John H.	(African American)	Pseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1868	1868	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	255	Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff	Leidesdorff, William Alexander		Accounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44	1843-1844	$30,000 - $50,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	350	Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising.	Simmons, William J.		Men of Mark, biographies of prominent African American men	1887	$800 - $1,200	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $540	CLOSED!
	419	The Poetical Works [bound with] Essays, Philanthropic and Moral...principally relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America	Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret	(Abolition)	Elizabeth Margaret Chandler abolitionist poet 1836	1836	$10 - $100	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $72	CLOSED!
	420	$100 Bond Certificate		(African-American, 1923)	1923 Bond Certificate, Chicago Black Masonic Temple	1923	$10 - $100	Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium): $36	CLOSED!