View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 Image Lot Item Title Time Left Your Bids 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 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold View details 26 Four textbooks for segregated Negro schoolchildren Heading(African-American, 1938)HeadlineFour 1938 textbooks for segregated Negro schoolchildrenDate Published1938 Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold View details 266 Novice New York photographer, 1859 Autograph Letter Signed Heading(Photography – Ambrotypist, 1859)AuthorDelos RobertsHeadline1859 letter, novice New York photographerDate Published1859 Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold View details 296 Military appointment signed by President Taft AuthorTaft, William HowardHeadlineWilliam Howard Taft signed military appointmentDate Published1913 Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold View details 318 Israel: A Personal History AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidHeadlineBen-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History 1/2000PublisherFunk & Wagnalls / SabraDate Published[1971] Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold View details 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] Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next