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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 #6 Dissertation On Servitude: Embracing An Examination Of The Scripture doctrines on the subject, and An Inquiry Into The Character And Relations Of Slavery - New Haven clergyman’s rare Anti-Slavery book in original boards Heading(African-American, 1837)AuthorSawyer, Leicester A.Headline1837 Rare Connecticut anti-Slavery book in original boardsPublisherDurrie & PeckDate Published1837 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #15 Report of the Committee on Negro Lodges to the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, 5865 - White Masons oppose Masonic lodges for freed slaves Heading(African-American, 1866)AuthorReade, E.G, H.H.Smith and Daniel ColemanHeadline1865 White North Carolina Masons oppose Masonic lodges for freed slavesDate Published1866 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold 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 #17 Rare Black Baptist broadside for a Richmond, Virginia Religious Exhibition with a Jewish Old Testament theme - only known copy Heading(African-American, 1880s)HeadlineRare 1880s Black Baptist broadside for a Richmond, Virginia Religious ExhibitionDate Published1882 ca. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #18 Countee Cullen teenaged poetry in 1921 high school yearbook Heading(African-American, 1921)HeadlineBlack poet Countee Cullen early verse in 1921 high school yearbookDate Published1921 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #19 Proceedings of the First [Second, Fourth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth] Annual Session of the National Negro Insurance Association Heading(African-American, 1921-35)HeadlineNational Negro Insurance AssociationDate Published1921-1935 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold 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 #22 Original printed wedding invitation, Countee Cullen and W. E. B. DuBois’ daughter – Black “social event of the decade” Heading(African-American, 1928)Headline1928 wedding invitation, Black poet Countee Cullen and W.E.B.DuBois’ daughterDate Published1928 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold 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 #25 First voluminous census of African-Americans in the 20th century Heading(African-American, 1935)Headline1935 First voluminous census of African-Americans in the 20th centuryDate Published1935 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #26 Four textbooks for segregated Negro schoolchildren Heading(African-American, 1938)HeadlineFour 1938 textbooks for segregated Negro schoolchildrenDate Published1938 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #27 A Brief History of 75 Years of Negro Progress / Souvenir of the… Negro Progress Exposition, Detroit, May 1940 Heading(African-American, 1940)AuthorWesley, Charles H. and John C. DancyHeadline1940 "Negro Expositions" memorabilia, Detroit and ChicagoDate Published1940 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #28 Negro Buyer’s Guide and Directory / Respectfully Dedicated to the American Negro Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives - Columbus, Ohio Negro Business Directory of World War II, only known copy Heading(African-American, 1944)AuthorFletcher, L. P., ed.HeadlineRare Columbus, Ohio Negro Business Directory of World War IIPublisher(L. P. Fletcher and Associates)Date Published1944 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #29 The “Bronz”, Volume IV, Nos. 10 and 11, 1944-45 - only known copies of the last issues of a Los Angeles Black magazine with important Hollywood association Heading(African-American, 1944-1945 – Los Angeles, Hollywood)AuthorGreene, Bene, editorHeadlineVery rare 1944-45 Black Hollywood magazineDate PublishedDec. 1944 and Jan.-Feb. 1945 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #70 Blind Boone, His Early Life and His Achievements: Including "Early Life Stories;" Professional Life Incidents; Concert Reminiscences; Brief Life of His First and Only Manager Also His Musical Compositions Arranged in Instrumental Selections of the Waltz, Gallop, Caprice, Serenade, Polka, Together With His Reveries and Songs Heading(Boone, John William)AuthorFuell, MelissaHeadlineBlind Boone 1915PublisherBurton Publishing Co.Date Published1915 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 #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 #259 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$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #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 #366 Japanese hand-painted architectural manuscript plan of the Taki Gashira Mura Mitsu Zoin temple Heading(Japan)HeadlineJapanese hand-painted architectural plan 1880Date Published[c.1880] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #425 Six framed hand-colored views of California, mostly San Francisco Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSix framed hand-colored views of California, mostly San FranciscoPublisher[Harper's Weekly]Date Published[Late 1800's] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #433 Eight hand-colored scenes of California Heading(California)Headline8 hand-colored California scenesDate Published[c. late 1800's] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #443 Five engraved plates from Captain Cook's Voyages Heading(Cook, James)AuthorWebber, J.HeadlineFive engraved plates after J. WebberPublisher[Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell]Date Published[c.1784] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #465 Black Missouri fraternal order, once an Underground Railroad secret society Heading(African-American, 1927)AuthorDickson, Rev. MosesHeadlineIllinois Underground Railroad secret society to Black Missouri fraternal orderDate Published1927 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #496 Without Consent Or Contract: the Rise and Fall of American Slavery AuthorFogel, Robert WilliamHeadlineFogel's Without Consent Or Contract, inscribed with letterPublisherW. W. Norton & Co.Date Published[1989] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next