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Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Unique slave emancipation document signed by an anti-slavery Virginia woman who was declared insane Heading(African-American, 1822)AuthorBarbary [Barbara] WilsonHeadline1822 Document Emancipating slaves by a Virginia womanDate Published1822 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #5 Letter - Black woman, possible Underground Railroad fugitive from Massachusetts to Vermont Heading(African-American, 1824)AuthorC. LeavittHeadline1824 letter - possible Black woman fugitive on the Underground Railroad View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #7 Slave prices in Georgia and South Carolina, letter and document Heading(African-American, 1844-63)HeadlineSlave prices in Georgia and South Carolina, 1844-1863Date Published1844-1863 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #8 New York inter-racial marriage scandal – letter to Ulysses Grant’s future brother-in-law Heading(African-American, 1846)AuthorHollister, Mrs. AmosHeadline1846 letter, NY inter-racial marriage scandalDate Published1846 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #9 5 autograph documents about one (West) Virginia family’s slave-holding before and during the Civil War Heading(African-American, 1849-62)AuthorAndrew Aldridge, et alHeadline5 autograph documents about a Virginia family’s slave-holdingsDate Published1849-1862 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #10 Mentally-ill North Carolina woman’s anti-slave “delusions” - letter from her husband to her Doctor Heading(African-American, 1851)AuthorJohn W. NorwoodHeadlineMentally-ill N. Carolina woman’s anti-slave “delusions”, 1851 letterDate Published1851 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #11 Astonishing legal deposition about an Alabama slave owner who violently assaulted his wife for slighting his slave mistress Heading(African-American, 1853)Headline1853 Testimony about man assaulting wife over slight to slave mistressDate Published1853 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #12 New York Quaker denounces Stephen’s Douglas’ “infamous” compromise allowing slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories – letter to a Republican Party founder Heading(African-American, 1854)AuthorSearing, JohnHeadlineNY Quaker denounces Douglas’ compromise allowing territorial slaveryDate Published1854 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #13 Reactionary Alabama clergyman’s printed prospectus, with handwritten letter, for a pro-slavery magazine Heading(African-American, 1857)AuthorWilliams, Rev. J.V.Headline1857 Alabama clergyman’s proposal for a pro-slavery magazineDate Published1857 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #14 President Washington descendant and namesake rents out his slave Heading(African-American, 1859)AuthorDrew, F. W.Headline1859 George Washington descendant rents out his slaveDate Published1859 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #16 Letter as 20 year-old teacher Heading(African-American, 1877)AuthorWashington, Booker T.HeadlineBooker T. Washington letter as 20 year-old teacher, 1877Date Published1877 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #20 Alain Locke letter, "Father" of the Harlem Renaissance, passion for “Negro artistic and cultural development” Heading(African-American, 1927)Headline1927 Alain Locke letter, "Father" of the Harlem RenaissanceDate Published1927 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #21 Famed Black woman sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance encounters racism on a Boston bus, 1928 letter Heading(African-American, 1928)AuthorFuller, Meta V.W.HeadlineFamed Black woman sculptress of the Harlem Renaissance, 1928 letterDate Published1928 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #23 “Father” of Black history Carter Woodson Heading(African-American, 1928)AuthorWoodson, C.[arter] G.Headline“Father” of Black history Carter Woodson, 1928 letterDate Published1928 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #24 NAACP leader’s history of lynching in the South Heading(African-American, 1929)AuthorWhite, Walter F.HeadlineNAACP leader’s history of lynching in the South, 1929 letterDate Published1929 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #33 Early American bank-note engraver whose firm designed the first US postage stamps, printed and handwritten Document Signed Heading(American Engraver)AuthorRawdon, FreemanHeadlineEarly American bank-note and postage stamp engraver, 1844 Document SignedDate Published1844 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #91 Psychiatrist, Stockton State Hospital [Mental Asylum] writes to Sacramento Bee publisher V. S. McClatchy, about his daughter's medical problems Heading(California - Mental Illness)AuthorHoisholt, M.D., A.[ndrew] W.HeadlineLetter to Sacramento Bee PublisherDate Published1909 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #124 Letter written at the start of an historic overland trek to the California gold fields in a wagon train led by famed Texas Ranger and Mexican-American War hero, “Jack” Hays, soon to become the first Sheriff of San Francisco. Heading(California Gold Rush)AuthorCaperton, JohnHeadline1849 letter from trek to gold fields led by Texas Ranger “Jack” HaysDate PublishedJune 4, 1849 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #195 Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A Description Of Works Relating To America Published Between the Years 1492 And 1551 AuthorHarrisse, HenryHeadlineDescription Of Works Relating To America from the Years 1492 to 1551PublisherGeo. P. PhilesDate Published1866 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #254 Manuscript indenture on vellum, relating to the deed of conveyance transferring the province of East New Jersey from the estate of George Carteret to William Penn and his associates Heading(New Jersey)HeadlineKey document in founding of New JerseyDate Publishedc.1681-1682 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #266 Novice New York photographer, 1859 Autograph Letter Signed Heading(Photography – Ambrotypist, 1859)AuthorDelos RobertsHeadline1859 letter, novice New York photographerDate Published1859 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #279 Writings of Junipero Serra AuthorSerra, JuniperoHeadlineWritings of Junipero Serra in 4 vols 1955-66PublisherAcademy of American Franciscan HistoryDate Published1955-66 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #296 Military appointment signed by President Taft AuthorTaft, William HowardHeadlineWilliam Howard Taft signed military appointmentDate Published1913 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #318 Israel: A Personal History AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidHeadlineBen-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History 1/2000PublisherFunk & Wagnalls / SabraDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #346 Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; Containing Armorial Bearings, Fac Similes, Maps, and Military Plans. Heading(Duke of Marlborough)Author[Coxe, William, editor]HeadlineAtlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough 1820PublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & BrownDate Published1820 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #347 The Story of Civilization AuthorDurant, Will and ArielHeadlineDurant's Story of Civilization Easton PressPublisherThe Easton PressDate Published[1992] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #348 Signature on vellum document authorizing the appointment of an Ensign Heading(England)AuthorGeorge III, King of EnglandHeadlineDocument signed by King George IIIDate PublishedJune 25, 1816 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #350 Histoire de la Guerre d'Espagne et du Portugal sous Napoleon,... AuthorFoy, Maximilien SebastienHeadlineFoy's History of the Peninsular WarPublisherBaudouin FreresDate Published1829 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #361 Manuscript survey with sketch map for land in Hamakua on the island of Hawaii Heading(Hawaii)AuthorLyons, Curtis J.HeadlineManuscript survey of Hawaii 1851Date PublishedJune 13, 1851 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #368 Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: the Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse AuthorJesch, JudithHeadlineNautical vocabulary of the Viking AgePublisherThe Boydell PressDate Published[2001] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #370 The Heimskringla or The Sagas of the Norse Kings, from the Icelandic of Snorre Sturlason AuthorLaing, Samuel.HeadlineThe Sagas of the Norse Kings 1889PublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #373 Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians AuthorLayard, Austen HenryHeadlineLayard, Nineveh and Its Remains 1852PublisherGeorge P. PutnamDate Published1852 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #376 Greek and Roman Artillery AuthorMarsden, E.W.HeadlineE.W. Marsden Greek and Roman ArtilleryPublisherOxford at the Clarendon PressDate Published1999 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #377 A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter A.D. 1697. Also a Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again. Translated from a Manuscript Written by the Perfecto of Egypt by Right Rev. Robert. Clayton AuthorMaundrell, HenryHeadlineA Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem, 1810PublisherPrinted for J. White and Co. & J. NunDate Published1810 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #387 Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones, of Aberdaron, in the County of Carnarvon, in North Wales; exhibiting a Remarkable Instance of a Partial Power and Cultivation of Intellect AuthorRoscoe, WilliamHeadlineMemoirs of an eccentric polyglotPublisherCadell and ArchDate Published1822 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #388 Herculanum et Pompei Recueil General des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques, Etc. AuthorRoux, H. & M.L. BarreHeadlineHerculanum et Pompei by Roux and BarrePublisherDidot FreresDate Published1863 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #390 Soviet Aviation [&] The Red Army & Navy Heading(Russia)HeadlineSoviet military on eve of WWIIPublisherState Art PublishersDate Published1939 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #394 The History of England, From Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George II AuthorSmollett, TobiasHeadlineSmollet's History of EnglandPublisherBaynes and Son, et alDate Published1822 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #497 The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq. AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineGoldsmith's biography of the dandy Beau NashPublisherJ. Newbery and W. FrederickDate Published1762 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #499 The Wealth of Great Britain in the Ocean, Exemplified from Materials Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons,... to Examine into the State of the British Fisheries. Heading(Great Britain)HeadlineReport on British Fisheries 1749PublisherM. Cooper and W. OwensDate Published1749 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Lot #547 Eleven volumes of Americana and history Heading(Americana and History)HeadlineEleven volumes of Americana and historyDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #558 Eleven volumes of exploration and world history Heading(Travel and Exploration)HeadlineEleven volumes of exploration and world historyDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Lot #575 The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing March, 1877, Embracing a General Directory of Residents and a Business Directory; also A Directory of Streets, Public Offices, Etc. Heading(Directories - California)AuthorLangley, Henry G., compilerHeadlineSan Francisco Directory 1877PublisherHenry G. LangleyDate Published1877 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next