Sale 784: Americana - Travel & Exploration

Sale 784: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views (#784) 03/23/2023 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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	1	Statement of reimbursed expenses paid in May 1780 to Ruggles, Constable of New Milford for transporting a Mulatto girl to Dover	Ruggles, Samuel; Noble Fine, Jeremiah Boardman, et al	(African American, 1779)	Revolutionary War document about a mulatto woman	December 9 -31, 1779, and January 20, 1780	$600 - $900	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,500	CLOSED!
	2	Early letter from mother of important Union spy	Van Lew, Eliza	(African American, 1834)	Mother of famed Civil War spy meets rich free Black in Florida	February 26,1834	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $468.75	CLOSED!
	3	Letter from Moravian missionary to Jamaica revealing racist prejudices he brought from America	Holland, Rev. Francis Raymond	(African American, 1842)	Southern racist missionary among freed Blacks in Jamaica	Jan. 22, 1842	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $593.75	CLOSED!
	4	Letter from a whaling ship seaman, a free Black leader of the African American community of New Bedford	Brown, William H.	(African American, 1845)	Free Blacks among the whalers of New Bedford	November 11, 1845	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,125	CLOSED!
	5	Letter of a wealthy family of Virginia Quakers who intended to free their slaves	Crenshaw, Nathaniel C.; and Margaret M. Crew;	(African American, 1846)	Virginia Quakers as benevolent slave-owners	August 13-14, 1846	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	6	Letter to Scottish business partner about getting rid of a mentally ill slave woman in an asylum	Gilmour, John	(African American, 1857)	Slave woman committed to a Virginia asylum	March 7, 1857	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	7	Letter about an escaped slave recaptured by his master and a near-rescue by indignant soldiers	Carter, Zeno Allen	(African American, 1862)	Escaped slave seized by his master in Civil War Washington	July 19, 1862	$800 - $1,200	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,000	CLOSED!
	8	Letter from a young teacher about a cousin and an Abolitionist neighbor who had enlisted in the Union Army.	Emmons, Fanny M. [Francis Matilda]	(African American, 1862)	Massachusetts Abolitionist enlists in Union Army	Oct. 12, [1862]	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	9	Letter from slave-owning heiress about legal problems with newly-emancipated slaves in Washington, D.C.	Hilleary, Eleanor B.M.	(African American, 1862)	Letter about slaves freed during the Civil War	July 21, 1862	$600 - $900	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $562.50	CLOSED!
	10	Aunt Sally; Or, The Cross the Way of Freedom	Williams, Sally	(African American, 1863)	The slave narrative of Sally Williams	1863	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,062.50	CLOSED!
	11	Letter admiring John Rogers’ “Wounded Scout” sculpture depicting ex-slave supporting wounded Union soldier	Fanny [Cooper?]	(African American, 1864)	Most popular slave sculpture of Civil War	July 15, 1864	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	12	Manuscript record of court proceedings regarding a free Black in Texas who petitioned to be bound as a slave to an “owner and mistress”, one Sephrony Kerr, only to be stymied by a former owner who claimed he was never free		(African American, 1864)	Texas slave case during the Civil War	1864	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,500	CLOSED!
	13	Manuscript Quartermaster Report and printed document relating to "Colored Troops" of the Union Army during the Civil War.		(African American, 1864-1865)	Two items relating to Black troops in the Civil War	ca.1864 and 1865	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	14	Postwar letter from a Doctor and ex-Confederate Cavalry Captain, writes of property taken over by ex-slaves and the general state of depressed spirits in the “old Virginia” which was “no more”	Winfield, John Quincy	(African American, 1866)	Confederate writes about the end to “Old Virginia”	June 3, 1866	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $812.50	CLOSED!
	15	The Money of the United States / Equal Rights / Speeches of David B. Mellish of New York…in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1874	Mellish, David B.	(African American, 1874)	NY Congressman pleads for Black Civil Rights	1874	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	16	Galaxy of Stars: Minstrels		(African American, 1890s - blackface portrayal)	Blackface minstrels disembark from a train	c.1890s	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	17	Three non-fiction magazine articles by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar	Dunbar, Paul Laurence	(African American, 1900)	Black Poet’s rare magazine non-fiction	1900-1901	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	18	Two early volumes on Black economic gains and difficulties		(African American, 1912-1936)	1st two economic classics by Black scholars	1912-1936	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $375	CLOSED!
	19	Letter from clergyman who headed an early Civil Rights organization	Gunner, Rev. Byron	(African American, 1916)	Early Civil Rights pioneer among the 1900s Black elite	November 7, 1916	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	20	Women of Achievement. Written for the Fireside Schools Under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society	Brawley, Benjamin	(African American, 1919	History of prominent African American women	[1919]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $437.50	CLOSED!
	21	Three early magazine articles by the Father of the Harlem Renaissance	Locke, Alain	(African American, 1926-1931)	Dean of the Harlem Renaissance on Art and Drama	1926-1931	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	22	Selections from The Poetic Mediations of Marcus Garvey	Garvey, Marcus	(African American, 1927)	Rare prison poetry by Marcus Garvey	ca. 1927	$900 - $1,200	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $875	CLOSED!
	23	Broadway Program for Run Little Chillun, a Negro Folk Drama	Johnson, Hall	(African American, 1933)	New York premier program for Negro Folk Drama	March 1933	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	24	National Urban League promotion for its magazine Opportunity, with supporting letter from the largest Black-owned business in America		(African American, 1934)	Largest Black business promotes Urban League magazine	1934	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $343.75	CLOSED!
	25	The Legal Status of the Negro	Mangum, Charles S., Jr.	(African American, 1940)	Classic 1940 book on legal discrimination against Blacks	1940	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $343.75	CLOSED!
	26	War, Racism, the Movement: As We See It	Tyner, Jarvis	(African American, 1968)	Jarvis Tyner anti-Vietnam war speech	1968	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $237.50	CLOSED!
	27	The Mother Waddles Cook Book	Waddles, Charleszetta	(African American, 1970)	First Edition of Waddles' Soul Food Cook Book	1970	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $406.25	CLOSED!
	28	Muhammad Speaks Presents People's Questions to Angela Davis	Davis, Angela	(African American, 1972)	Interview w/ imprisoned Angela Davis c. 1970	[1972]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $437.50	CLOSED!
	29	It's Fun to be Black	Browning, Alice C.	(African American, 1973)	"It's Fun to be Black" despite heartbreak & pain	1973	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	136	Manuscript listing Asian and African rebel slaves in Cuba (Cimarrones), and descriptions of three who were caught		(Cuba - Slavery)	Manuscript list of rebel slaves in Cuba 1857	1857	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	300	Sworn statement that a horse “estrayed” by another man, was their property, “appraised at thirty dollars Spanish”, describing the animal in detail, including a simple drawing of the brand on the Bay mare’s right hip.	Tegener, Frederick and John P. Stroope	(Texas)	German-American Abolitionist in Confederate Texas	June 16, 1859	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	391	Physiologie des Nègres dans leur pays: Précédee d'un aperçu de l'état des Noirs en esclavage dans les colonies; d'un exposé de la traite et de considérations sur l'Affranchissement	Pluchonneau aîné et Hippolyte Maillard		French examination of Africans & slavery 1842	1842	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	442	Storming Fort Wagner	Kurz & Allison	(Civil War)	Black regiment storming Confederate fort	1890	$800 - $1,200	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,625	CLOSED!