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1 |
Letter detailing the value of slaves who were to be sold |
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Calder, George |
(Africa-American) |
Planning a large slave sale in antebellum South Carolina |
July 27, 1859 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $300 |
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2 |
Letter with news about captured fugitive slave committing suicide in his jail cell |
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Bethune, Amanda |
(African-American) |
Letter mentioning a runaway slave who hung himself in jail |
November 6-13, 1851 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $390 |
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3 |
Letter, possibly written by an emancipated, slave in antebellum South Carolina |
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Bill, Henry |
(African-American) |
Letter possibly written by a freed slave in South Carolina |
May 10, 1849 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240 |
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4 |
First publication of “When The Saints Are Marching In” |
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Black, J. M. and Katharine E. Purvis |
(African-American) |
First publication of “When the Saints Go Marching In” |
1897 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $330 |
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5 |
Letter from a South Carolina slave-owner |
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Brooks, Samuel |
(African-American) |
Connecticut native writes about slaves |
Feb. 6, 1847 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $450 |
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6 |
Autograph Letter Signed from a Black missionary to Liberia, freed from slavery as a child in Tennessee |
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Erskine, H. W. |
(African-American) |
Antebellum Letter from an ex-slave American missionary |
[1850] |
$600 - $900 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $360 |
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7 |
Autograph Letter Signed by John Quincy Adams' in-law inquiring about her ex-slave |
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Masters, Mrs. Ann |
(African-American) |
John Adams in-law inquires about jailed ex-slave |
Feb. 23, 1832 |
$500 - $800 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $510 |
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8 |
Letter about Union Army sent to suppress KKK violence |
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Nesbitt, James |
(African-American) |
Letter about Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina |
April 27, 1872 |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
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9 |
Letter by Female Anti-slavery Poet about her Black housekeeper |
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Sigourney, Lydia M. |
(African-American) |
Black housekeeper honored by early American woman poet |
June 18, 1849 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $510 |
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10 |
Engraved Portrait of the first African-American Congressmen |
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Wellstood, William (engraver) |
(African-American) |
Portrait of first African Americana congressmen |
ca. 1885 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $660 |
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12 |
Magnificent Desolation: Images from the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission with the Words of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin |
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Aldrin, Buzz |
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Photos of the Apollo 11 mission signed by Buzz Aldrin |
2009 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $450 |
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15 |
Letter from a Boston SPCA official about forming local Societies in California |
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Hill, Henry B. |
(Animal Protection) |
Letter from Boston SPCA about protecting animals in California |
Nov. 13, 1896 |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
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16 |
Unpublished letter by the housekeeper of Ralph Waldo Emerson, describing the Emerson boarding house |
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Goodwin, Mrs. E.C. (Emeline Conor Philleo) |
(Anti-Slavery) |
Anti-slavery letter by Prudence Crandall’s step-daughter and poet Emerson’s housekeeper |
Oct. 26, 1848 |
$800 - $1,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,020 |
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19 |
Archive of 14 letters, most written to President William McKinley, relating to the appointment of Edwin S. Gill as Secretary of the Territory of Arizona |
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(Arizona) |
Arizona writes McKinley about their Secretary 1897 |
1897 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240 |
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23 |
My Auto Travels [manuscript cover title) |
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(Automobile Travel Diary) |
Young woman's travel diary on west coast |
1916-1927 |
$500 - $800 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $660 |
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25 |
The Red Cross. A History of This Remarkable International Movement in the Interest of Humanity. |
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Barton, Clara |
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With signed letter from Clara Barton |
1898 |
$500 - $800 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $900 |
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38 |
Sheet of three unused stock certificates in the Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Co., each signed in ink by Leland Stanford as President of the company |
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(California - Bodie) |
Bodie mine stock signed by Leland Stanford |
186- |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,200 |
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40 |
Letter from Lassen County D.A. office relaying account of murder in Big Valley |
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(California - Lassen County) |
Murder in Lassen County, a "cold blooded" affair |
April 20, 1880 |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
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42 |
Two ledger books from Wells, Fargo's Mendocino office listing shipments and goods and packages on hand |
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Wells, Fargo & Co. |
(California - Mendocino) |
Wells, Fargo ledgers from Mendocino, 1890s |
1890-1897 |
$800 - $1,200 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $480 |
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64 |
Autograph Document certifying a birth in mid-ocean en route from Europe to California |
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[Kolling?], J.C.C. |
(California Gold Rush) |
Certificate for birth aboard ship sailing to Gold Rush |
Jan. 19, 1853 |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
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65 |
Letter about Jewish merchant in Mississippi who had left for the California Gold Rush |
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Selling, Philip |
(California Gold Rush) |
Letter about a Jewish 49er to the California Gold Rush |
June 1, 1849 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
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79 |
Letter from a Maine teacher about a student who fled to Canada to escape the draft |
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Bullard, Silas |
(Civil War) |
Letter about a Civil War draft dodger in Maine |
Oct. 7, 1864 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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82 |
Letter praising the oratory of Alabama Secessionist during the 1860 presidential election campaign |
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Ward, John James |
(Civil War) |
Confederate officer praises Secession on eve of Civil War |
Ca. 1858 and 1860 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $900 |
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89 |
Check signed J. Fenimore Cooper |
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Cooper, James Fenimore |
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Signed by J. Fenimore Cooper |
1845 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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93 |
Outlaws on Horseback. The History of the Organized Bands of Bank and Train Robbers Who Terrorized the Prairie Towns of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma for Half a Century |
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Drago, Harry Sinclair |
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Signed by the author, 1/150 |
1964 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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108 |
Capital and Population: A Study of the Economic Effects of Their Relations to Each Other. |
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Hawley, Frederick B. |
(Finance) |
Singed by Frederick B. Hawley |
1882 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
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136 |
Stationery autographed by Al Jolson |
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Jolson, Al |
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Inscribed by singer and comedian Al Jolson |
n.d. |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
|
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161 |
Memorie and Rime |
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Miller, Joaquin |
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Signed by Miller, w/ letter from Ella W. Wilcox |
1884 |
$500 - $800 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $300 |
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189 |
Letter from the inspiration of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Ballad of Ulalume" |
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Bronson, C.P. |
(Poe, Edgar Allan) |
Letter from the inspiration of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe |
Dec. 14, 1831 |
$400 - $600 |
Unsold |
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201 |
A Shining City. The Legacy of Ronald Reagan. |
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(Presidents, 1981) |
Signed by Nancy Reagan |
1998 |
$200 - $300 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $204 |
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207 |
The Overland Stage to California: Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean |
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Root, Frank A. and William Elsey Connelley |
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Inscribed by the author Frank A. Root |
1901 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $570 |
|
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212 |
Letter opposing South Carolina's Nullification battle with Washington |
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Hemphill, David, James, Eliza and Bell |
(South Carolina) |
Letter opposing South Carolina Nullification movement |
Feb. 24, 1834 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240 |
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215 |
Letter to New York judge Reuben Walworth nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court |
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Graham, James Lorimer |
(Supreme Court) |
Letter about a contentious Supreme Court nomination |
Jan. 28, 1845 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $330 |
|
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216 |
Former Confederate secret agent plots Supreme Court overthrow of Reconstruction |
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Washington, Littleton Quinton |
(Supreme Court) |
Letter on Supreme Court challenge to Reconstruction |
January 11, 1868 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,140 |
|
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219 |
Two letters and a receipt relating to the XIT Ranch on the Texas Panhandle |
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(Texas - XIT Ranch) |
Letters about the XIT Ranch of Texas 1888 |
Various dates |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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222 |
Deed for sale of land in Nacadoches County, Republic of Texas |
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(Texas) |
Selling land in Republic of Texas |
1839 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270 |
|
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225 |
Survey of 320 acres of land in Nacadoches County, Texas |
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Terrell, R.H. |
(Texas) |
Land survey in Republic of Texas |
1844 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $150 |
|
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228 |
Diary of Democracy |
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Toulmin, Harry Aubrey |
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Signed by Harley M. Kilgore |
1947 |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
|
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239 |
Fighting the Flying Circus |
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Rickenbacker, Edward V. |
(World War I) |
Inscribed by fighter ace 'Eddie' Rickenbacker |
1919 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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243 |
Letter offering Indian artifacts to a Congressional Medal of Honor winner |
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Moorehead, Warren |
(Wounded Knee) |
Letter from Dean of American Archaeology and Wounded Knee observer |
August 18, 1897 |
$300 - $500 |
Unsold |
|
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302 |
Letter from Major General Berthier to Brigadier General Barthelemy, then in transit to Vilna |
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Berthier, Louis-Alexandre |
(Napoleonic Wars) |
Letter from Napoleon's Chief of Staff |
2 August 1812 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
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314 |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
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Shirer, William L. |
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Signed by William L. Shirer |
[1990] |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $720 |
|
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319 |
Alexander's Campaign on the Indian North-West Frontier |
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Stein, Aurel |
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Signed with inscription by Aurel Stein |
c. 1927-29 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,080 |
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