Sale 625: Rare Cartography - Americana - Travel & Exploration (#625) 09/21/2017 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/21/2017 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-22 of 22. Previous|1|Next Lot #98 Scarce Appeal for early short-lived African School, New Jersey Heading(African-American, 1817)AuthorEdward D. GriffinHeadlineScarce 1817 Appeal for short-lived African School, New JerseyPublisherGould, PrinterDate Published1817 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #99 Wanted in Philadelphia: Fugitive slave or kidnapped free Black? Heading(African-American, 1827)AuthorRoe, DavidHeadline1827 Wanted in Philadelphia: Fugitive slave or kidnapped free Black?Date Published1827 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #100 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$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #101 President Washington descendant and namesake rents out his slave Heading(African-American, 1859)AuthorF.W.DrewHeadline1859 George Washington descendant rents out his slaveDate Published1859 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #102 The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book, Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children, and Stories of Slave Life Heading(African-American, 1859)AuthorJulia Colman and Matilda ThompsonHeadlineRare 1859 Children’s Anti-Slavery BookDate Published1859 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #103 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$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #104 What Is The Marcus Garvey Movement, or the Universal Negro Improvement Association? - Rare leaflet, only known copy Heading(African-American, 1922)AuthorW.A.Wallace, Commissioner for Michigan.HeadlineRare 1922 Marcus Garvey Movement leafletDate PublishedCa. 1922 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #105 Black Missouri fraternal order, once an Underground Railroad secret society Heading(African-American, 1927)AuthorRev. Moses DicksonHeadlineIllinois Underground Railroad secret society to Black Missouri fraternal orderDate Published1927 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #121 Manuscript by Ralph Belanger, flight engineer aboard the observation plane on the Nagasaki bombing mission, describing the events and his role Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorBelanger, Ralph D.HeadlineMs. observations of Nagasaki atomic bombDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #134 Manuscript notebook for surveys at Chili Camp Gulch, Calaveras County Heading(California - Calaveras County)AuthorLivermore, W.W.HeadlineSurveyor's notebooks of Chili Gulch Cal.Date Published1890 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #152 Menu card and flyer for Topsy's Roost at Playland at the Beach in San Francisco Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineMenu for Playland at the Beach restaurant San FranciscoDate Publishedc.1935? View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #163 Document Signed as President Pacific Electric Railway Co. Heading(California – Henry Huntington, 1904)AuthorHuntington, Henry E.HeadlineLos Angeles railway magnate Henry Huntington, 1904 Document SignedDate Published1904 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #164 Archive of thirty-six letters and notes written by brothers John and Thomas Emery from California during the Gold Rush, to their family in New Brunswick, Canada Heading(California Gold Rush Letters)AuthorEmery, John or ThomasHeadline36 Letters from Canadians in California Gold RushDate Published1855-1858 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #183 Ailing visitor to Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs - Letter Heading(Colorado – Garden of the Gods, 1878)Headline1878 letter, Garden of the Gods, Colorado SpringsDate Published1878 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #192 Four volumes of handwritten diaries kept during the early 20th century chronicling travels in the United States and Canada Heading(Diaries)HeadlineDiaries of travels in the U.S. and CanadaDate Published1907-1913 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #239 Rare dissent from the war fever in the US conflict with Mexico - printed fund-raising letter Heading(Mexican-American War – Peace Movement, 1847)AuthorGeorge BeckwithHeadlineMexican-American War – Peace Movement, 1847Date Published1847 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #242 Future Civil War General plans Oregon troop route to the Utah “Mormon War”, Letter Heading(Mormon War, Utah - Oregon troops, 1857)AuthorNewell, Robert, & Rufus IngallsHeadline1857 letter Utah 'Mormon War', future Civil War General plans Oregon troopd routeDate Published1857 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #249 Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveler's Observations On Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. AuthorOlmsted, Frederick LawHeadlineOlmsted's Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom w/folding mapPublisherSampson, Low, Son & Co.Date Published1862 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #259 Army officer scalped by Osceola in Florida Seminole War Heading(Seminole War, Florida – Osceola ‘massacre’)AuthorConstantine SmythHeadline1834 Army officer scalped by Osceola in Florida Seminole WarDate Published1834 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #298 Seven ephemeral items - 6 letters and 1 imprint - from war-torn China, 1921-47 Heading(China)Headline6 letters from war-torn China, 1921-1947Date Published1921-47 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #371 Two letters from George Balsley to his friend Bertie, written from New York, in one describing the America's Cup yacht race Heading(America's Cup)AuthorBalsley, GeorgeHeadlineLetter about watching America's Cup races 1899Date Published1899 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #381 Influential American missionary to Korea who also directed the New York Chinese Sunday School,1903 letter Heading(Chinese-American, Korea, 1903)HeadlineInfluential American missionary to Korea, 1903 letterDate Published1903 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next