Sale 667: Rare Americana - Travel & Exploration - Hawaii - World History - Cartography (#667) 02/21/2019 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/21/2019 11:00 AM PST 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 1-39 of 39. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Pauline’s Practical Book of the Culinary Art for Clubs, Home or Hotels Heading(African American - Cookery)AuthorLynch, Carrie PaulineHeadlineEarly cookbook by African-American woman, 1919Date Published1919 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #2 $100 Bond Certificate Heading(African American)Headline1923 Bond Certificate, Chicago Black Masonic TemplePublisherPrince Hall Masonic Temple AssociationDate Published1923 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #3 Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Heading(African American)AuthorArmstrong, Mrs. M.F. & Helen Ludlow.HeadlineHampton and Its Students, 1st editionPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1874 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #4 Picture of Slavery in the United States of America Heading(African American)Author[Bourne, George]Headline1834 anti-slavery volumePublisherEdwin HuntDate Published1834 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #5 Negro-Mania: Being an Examination of the Falsely Assumed Equality of the Various Races of Men; Heading(African American)AuthorCampbell, JohnHeadlineAntebellum racist tractsPublisherCampbell & PowerDate Published1851 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #6 Along This Way Heading(African American)AuthorJohnson, James WeldonHeadlineSigned autobiography of Harlem Renaissance writerPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1933 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #7 The Autobiography of Malcolm X - inscribed by Alex Haley Heading(African American)AuthorMalcolm X with Alex HaleyHeadlineAutobiography of Malcolm X inscribed by Alex HaleyPublisherGrove PressDate Published[1965] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #8 Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To which is added a selection of pieces in poetry Heading(African American)AuthorMott, AbigailHeadlineAbigail Mott Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of ColourPublisherStereotyped for and printed by order of the trustees of the residuary estate of Lindley Murray, M. Day, printerDate Published[1838] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #9 Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South Heading(African American)AuthorPollard, Edward A.HeadlineBlack Diamonds, first editionPublisherPudney & RussellDate Published1859 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #10 Wait Till Next Year: The Life Story of Jackie Robinson - twice inscribed Heading(African American)AuthorRobinson, Jackie and Carl T. RowanHeadlineInscribed by Jackie Robinson to David Wallerstein ,PublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1960] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #11 Baseball Has Done It - inscribed Heading(African American)AuthorRobinson, JackieHeadlineInscribed by Jackie Robinson to David WallersteinPublisherJ. B. Lippincott CompanyDate Published[1964] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #12 Second National Negro Congress: Official Proceedings, October 15, 16, 17, 1937 Heading(African American)HeadlineSecond National Negro Congress 1937PublisherNational Negro CongressDate Published[1937] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #13 Complete set of the 1st 19 annual NY auction catalogs of Printed & Manuscript African-Americana Heading(African American)AuthorSwann GalleriesHeadlineAfrican-Americana auctions, set of 19 Swann Galleries NY catalogsDate Published1996-2014 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #14 Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition Heading(African American)AuthorVan Evrie, J.H.HeadlinePseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1863.PublisherVan Evrie, Horton, & Co.Date Published1863 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #15 Photograph album depicting African American life in South Carolina, 1929 Heading(African American)AuthorWhipple, GraceHeadlinePhotographic scenes of African American life in Hartsville, SC in 1929Date Published1929 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #16 Deed of Manumission of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed. Heading(African American)AuthorTurpin, Philip O.Headline1850 Slave emancipation document, KentuckyDate PublishedFeb. 11, 1850 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #38 Letter from boxer James J. Corbett Heading(Boxing)AuthorCorbett, James J.HeadlineLetter from a World Heavyweight ChampionDate Published1929 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #89 Diaries of a California chiropractor Heading(California Chiropractor)AuthorChute, CharlesHeadlineDiaries of a Los Angeles chiropractor, 1921-1952Date Published1921-1952 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #91 Letter by 49er on famed voyage "round the Horn" Heading(California Gold Rush)AuthorHatch, R.S.HeadlineGold Rush Letter by a 49er sailing 'round the Horn'Date PublishedMarch 4, 1849 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #112 Letter from Y.D. Patterson to his sister Lydia, presenting a "brief history" of the 15th Illinois Regiment from May 1861 to November 1862, his period of enlistment Heading(Civil War)AuthorPatterson, Y.D.HeadlineCivil War letter of Illinois soldier 1862Date PublishedNov. 14, 1862 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #128 Letter Signed as Commissioner of the US Patent Office, about patent of the first electric motor in America Heading(Electric "Car" - 1838 Patent)AuthorEllsworth, Henry L.Headline1st pateneted electric motor in america 1838PublisherPatent OfficeDate PublishedJune 16, 1838 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #137 Letter from former Georgia governor George Gilmer about his reassessment of the Cherokee Indians and their enforced removal west to Indian Territory AuthorGilmer, GeorgeHeadlineEx-George governor rethinks Cherokee removalDate PublishedFeb. 27th, [18]59 View details Estimate$2,500 - $4,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #167 Shipping papers for the Albatross, bound from Boston to Leghorn (Livorno) & other Mediterranean ports, about five years before she entered the Columbia River Heading(Maritime - Ship Albatross)HeadlineShip that entered Columbia River in 1810Date Published1805 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #169 Eleven 18th century land deeds, nearly all for land in North Yarmouth, now in Maine, but then part of Massachusetts Bay Colony or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Heading(Massachusetts/Maine)HeadlineColonial land deeds from Massachusetts/MaineDate Published1761-1784 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #174 Manuscript petition by Indians in western New Spain accusing a friar of having a lover living with him, whom he claims is just his cook Heading(Mexico)HeadlineMexican Indians accuse friar of having lover, 1805Date Published1805 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #205 Life and Times of Silas Wright - presented to Gen. Zachary Taylor weeks before his election as President Heading(Presidents)AuthorHammond, Jabez D.HeadlineRare 1848 book owned by President Zachary TaylorPublisherHall & Dickson and A.S. BarnesDate Published1848 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #217 Letter from Edwin Wesson regarding gun manufacturing Heading(Smith & Wesson)AuthorWesson, EdwinHeadlineLetter by Smith & Wesson brother about gun manufacturingDate Published1844 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #223 Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from her "Book of Life." AuthorTruth, SojournerHeadlineAutobiography of Sojourner TruthPublisherPublished for the AuthorDate Published1875 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #228 Legal complaint about property taxes at the Zoar communal colony of German immigrants Heading(Utopian colony, Zoar, Ohio, 1853)AuthorHance, Judge Joseph C.Headline1853 Zoar, Ohio utopian colony of German "separatists" - LetterDate PublishedMay 1, 1853 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #230 Finding the Winning Edge AuthorWalsh, Bill with Brian Billick and James A. PetersonHeadlineFinding the Winning Edge signed by Bill WalshPublisherSports Publishing LLCDate Published[1998] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #241 Four manuscript folio ledger books recording the daily accounts of Frank Spencer Witherbee and the management of the estate of his father John Gilman Witherbee Heading(Witherbee Family account ledgers 1875-1906)HeadlineLedgers of Witherbee iron ore family 1875-1906Date Published1875-1906 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #244 U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87): Ship's Diary Heading(World War II)AuthorWilson, Willard J.HeadlineOriginal handwritten diary kept aboard the U.S.S. Duluth (CL-87) View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #263 Hawaiian Shipping Articles Heading(Maritime)HeadlineRecruiting Hawaiians for whaling cruise, 1868Date PublishedMarch 1868 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #274 A Pilgrimage to My Motherland: An Account of a Journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-1860 AuthorCampbell, RobertHeadlineEarly Back-To-Africa movement work 1861PublisherThomas HamiltonDate Published1861 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #353 Manuscript Civil War era map, likely of Confederate origin, depicting portions of West Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Mississippi Heading(Civil War - manuscript map)HeadlineCivil war ms. map of Shiloh regionDate Publishedc.1862 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #400 Racist-themed African-Americana antiques Heading(African-American – Reference)HeadlineRacist African-American antiquesDate Published1993-2010 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #402 Jack Johnson - In the Ring - and Out Heading(Boxing)AuthorJohnson, jackHeadlineFirst African American world heavyweight boxing championPublisherNational Sports PublishingDate Published1927 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #424 Army soldier in the Black Hills 10 years after Wounded Knee - letter Heading(South Dakota - Cavalry Fort, 1901)AuthorReynolds, FultonHeadline1901 Cavalry trooper in Black Hills of South Dakota, 10 years after Wounded KneeDate PublishedAug. 5, 1901 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #425 Letter by a US General about the death of a famed American war corespondent during the Russo-Turkish War Heading(Turkey, Russia - 1877 War)AuthorGeneral Francis V. GreeneHeadlineUS General's letter about the Russo-Turkish War of 1877Date PublishedOct. 10, 1907 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next