Sale 774: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Aeronautics - Maps, Prints & Views (#774) 10/20/2022 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 10/20/2022 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-30 of 30. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Letter about American exile's business dispute View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1799)AuthorBelin de Villeneuve, PaulHeadlineLetter by Haitian master of famous “Faithful Slave”Date PublishedMay 24, 1799 Lot #2 British Navy Captain writes Spanish Governor of Cuba about American Naval deserters View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1833)AuthorM’Quhae, Peter [Commander of His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop Fly]HeadlineAmerican sailors seized by the British in CubaDate PublishedMay 1, 1833 Lot #4 Mortgage document for sale for $700 of a slave family View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(African American, 1844)AuthorSnell, JohnHeadlineSale of entire slave family in AlabamaDate PublishedMay 29, 1844 Lot #5 Letter by a New York merchant on a business trip to Louisiana approves of slavery View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(African American, 1847)AuthorEastwood, WilliamHeadlineNY merchant writes while a slave was whippedDate PublishedFeb. 24, 1847 Lot #6 Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison… View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1852)AuthorGarrison, William LloydHeadlineInscribed by America's leading AbolitionistPublisherB. F. WallcutDate Published1852 Lot #7 An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1854)AuthorJay, WilliamHeadlineNoted Abolitionist on slavery among ancient JewsPublisherM. W. DoddDate Published1854 Lot #8 Two imprints relating to birth of the Republican Party and anti-slavery cause of presidential nominee John Fremont View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1856)HeadlineThe new Republican Party embraces anti-slaveryDate Published1856 Lot #9 Letter from a US Navy Captain describing his voyage to the West Indies, including the strange slave island of Sombrero. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1859)AuthorDove, Benjamin M., Captain, USS ReliefHeadlineSlave miners on a guano-rich West Indian islandDate PublishedSept. 17, 1859 Lot #10 Letter praising executed radical Abolitionist John Brown as “the Man of the Century” View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1860)AuthorLesley, John PeterHeadlineGeologist lauds the treasonous John BrownDate PublishedMarch 28, 1860 Lot #11 Officers of the National Freedman’s Relief Association, organized in New York, February 22, 1862 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(African American, 1862)HeadlineFirst society formed to aid freed slaves in SouthDate PublishedFebruary 22 - July 26, 1862 Lot #12 Legal letter about a woman slave-owner's compensation for 2 ex-slaves, emancipated in Washington View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1862)AuthorDuvall, George W. (for Eleanor B. Hilleary)HeadlineHeiress seeks compensation emancipated slavesDate PublishedMay 6, 1862 Lot #13 Maritime manuscript ledger of Baker, Wells & Co. Lumber Yard, New York View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1863)Author[Getty, Captain]HeadlineCivil War NY employer of Blacks ledgerDate Published1862-1863, 1868-1869 Lot #14 Freedmen’s Bureau officer's manuscript account of the allegation of a white man’s assault on a Black teenage girl View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(African American, 1866)AuthorHogarty, William P. [2nd Lt., 21st Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps]HeadlineFreedmen's Bureau investigates assault on Black girlPublisherUS Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned LandsDate PublishedJuly 5, 1866 Lot #15 Letter about a northerner’s success overseeing a postwar Mississippi plantation after slavery View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(African American, 1866)Author[Phelps, William G.?]HeadlineOhio lawyer overseer on Reconstruction plantationDate PublishedJune 26, 1866 Lot #16 Letter of a New York farmer while visiting President Grant’s Washington View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1872)AuthorWhite, J.HeadlineRacist letter by NY Democrat during 1872 electionDate PublishedJuly 22, 1872 Lot #17 Galaxy of Stars: Minstrels View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1890s - blackface portrayal)HeadlineBlackface minstrels disembark from a trainPublisherRiverside Printing CompanyDate Publishedc.1890s Lot #18 Black America, A Negro Oddity, March and Two-Step. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1895)AuthorZickel, Harry H.HeadlineScarce music of first Black extravaganzaPublisherW.C.BroadwellDate Published1895 Lot #19 Three programs for notable African American music concerts View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1941-1957)Headline3 noteworthy African American music concertsDate Published1941-1957 Lot #20 Surveyor - George Washington High School yearbook, 1944-1945 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1945)Author[Angelou, Maya]HeadlineFamed Black poet as high school teenDate Published1945 Lot #21 Racial Aspects of Reconversion: A Memorandum Prepared for the President of the United States by the National Urban League, New York City, August 27, 1945 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1945)HeadlineUrban League addresses Truman on equalityPublisherNational Urban LeagueDate Published1945 Lot #22 It's Fun to be Black View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1973)AuthorBrowning, Alice C.Headline"It's Fun to be Black" despite heartbreak & painPublisherBrowning PublicationsDate Published1973 Lot #23 Four works by Derrick A. Bell, Jr. relating to what is now "Critical Race Theory" View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1975-1998 - Critical Race Theory)AuthorBell, DerrickHeadlineDerrick Bell on Critical Race Theory, signedDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #24 Of Minnie the Moocher & Me View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1976)AuthorCalloway, Cab and Bryant RollinsHeadlineInscribed and signed by Cab CallowayPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published1976 Lot #26 Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Ali, Muhammad)AuthorHauser, Thomas with the Cooperation of Muhammad AliHeadlineSigned by Muhammad AliPublisherSimon & SchusterDate Published[1991] Lot #78 Manuscript Expediente regarding an inheritance and a young boy born free in Puerto Rico who was taken to Cuba where he was sold as a slave View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlinePuerto Rican boy sold into Cuban slaveryDate Publishedc.1878 Lot #79 Manuscript Expediente regarding permission to act as a "bounty hunter" of rebellious slaves in Cuba View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineBounty hunter of rebellious slaves in Cuba 1879Date Published1879 Lot #80 Manuscript Expediente [legal proceeding] regarding slaves "hidden" on a plantation in Cuba View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSlaves flee Cuban plantation due to choleraDate Published1870 Lot #81 Manuscript listings of slaves sold in Cuba, both of African and Asian origin View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineChinese & Black slaves sold in CubaDate Published1854-1855 Lot #82 Modela de Cedulas para los esclavos View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineListing of Cuban slaveowners c.1850Date Publishedc.1850s Lot #402 Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorKurz & AllisonHeadlineMonitor & Merrimac clash in Kurz & Allison lithoPublisherKurz & AllisonDate Published1889 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next