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Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Letter from a Baptist white woman shocked by an account of a Black church service Heading(African American, 1858)HeadlineBlack church service disgusts white BaptistsDate Published1858 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #4 Letter written by a young Illinois woman who had gone South to teach in Louisiana Heading(African American, 1860)HeadlineSecret Abolitionist in Secessionist LouisianaDate Published1860 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #5 Letter by a paper mill worker in 1861 Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorAdgate, Edwin HawleyHeadlineNorthern worker lauds slavery in early 1861Date Published1861 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #6 Our Missionary Picture Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorDurbin, John PriceHeadlineRare statement of racist “Colonization”PublisherMissionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchDate Published1861 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #8 The New South Heading(African American, 1863)AuthorSears, Joseph H., publisherHeadlineImportant news for ex-slaves of Union-occupied Port RoyalDate Published1863 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #9 Letter from a Williams College student to his father with impassioned argument against slavery Heading(African American, 1863)AuthorThomas, William RussellHeadlineDenuciation of slavery and CopperheadismDate Published1863 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #10 Indenture signed by Frederick Douglass as Recorder Heading(African American, 1885)HeadlineIndenture signed by Frederick Douglass 1885ProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherThe Real Estate Title Ins. Co.Date Published1885 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #12 The Southern Negro – His Recent Erotic Tendencies – the Causes – Suggestion as to Prevention Heading(African American, 1900)AuthorBaker, Dr. S.C.HeadlineRacist medical diatribe about would-be Black rapistsDate Published1900 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #13 Negro Baptism in Fox river at foot of Lake St., Elgin, Ill., about 1900 Heading(African American, 1900)HeadlineBlack baptism in Fox River, IL, c.1900PublisherChicago Historical SocietyDate Published1900, printed later View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #14 A Crusade of Brotherhood, History of the American Missionary Association Heading(African American, 1909)AuthorBeard, Augustus FieldHeadlineFirst Abolitionist missionaries to aid ex-slavesPublisherPilgrim PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #16 Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil Heading(African American, 1920)AuthorDuBois, W.E.B.HeadlineW.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater, First EditionPublisherHarcourt, Brace and HoweDate Published1920 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #17 Proceedings of First Session of the Montana State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs... Heading(African American, 1922)AuthorArnold, Angie Mills, editorHeadlineMeetings of Montana Negro Women's Clubs, 1921-22PublisherMontana State Federation of Negro Women's ClubsDate Published1922 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #18 Four imprints on Negro Housing, racial housing segregation and discrimination Heading(African American, 1927-1951)AuthorWever, Robert C.; Charles S. Johnson, et al.Headline1st Black in a Presidential CabinetDate Published1927-1951 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #19 Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America Heading(African American, 1928-1932)Headline2 vols. Who's Who in Colored AmericaPublisherWho's Who in Colored America Corp.Date Published1928-1932 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #20 A Survey of the Negro Boy in Nashville, Tennessee Heading(African American, 1932)HeadlineUnique Depression-era study of Black Tennessee youthPublisherAssociation PressDate Published1932 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #21 Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1937 Heading(African American, 1937)HeadlineConnie's Hot Chocolates 1937 posterDate Published1937 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #22 Four titles regarding Civil Rights Heading(African American, 1994-2017)Headline4 volumes on American Civil RightsDate Published1994-2017 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #36 Mineral Springs and Health Resorts of California with a Complete Chemical Analysis of Every Important Mineral Water in the World AuthorAnderson, WinslowHeadlineImportant work of California BalneologyProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherThe Bancroft CompanyDate Published1892 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #37 United States and Cuba, Eight Years of Change and Travel Heading(Anti-Slavery - Cuba)AuthorTaylor, John GlanvilleHeadlineAdventurous Englishman sees Cuban slaveryPublisherBentleyDate Published1851 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #43 Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun of January 1, 1889 Heading(Astronomy)HeadlineWith mounted albumen print of Total EclipseProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherJ.D. Young, Supt. State PrintingDate Published1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #50 The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians AuthorBonner, T.D.HeadlineLife of James P. Beckwourth First EditionProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1856 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #52 Heavy-Weight Champions: Graphic Description of Every Heavy-Weight Championship Contest from Sullivan and Corbett to Jeffries and Johnson.... Heading(Boxing)AuthorNaughton, W.W.HeadlinePrimer for the Fight of the Century, 1910ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherJohn Kitchen, Jr. Co.Date Published1910 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #54 Memoria sobre a Fundação e Estado Actual da Fazenda Nova Louzã Heading(Brazil)AuthorCarvalho Monte-Negro, João Elisário deHeadlineBrazilian farm without slaves, 1870PublisherTypographia--ConstitucionalDate Published1870 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #110 Contract for an emancipated female slave in Cuba to work in the copper mines Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineFreed female slave hired for Cuban copper minesDate Published1863 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #111 Labor contract for an emancipated African slave Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineLabor contract for freed Cuban slave 1871Date Published1871 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #112 Manuscript listing of 80 slaves sold by one individual to another Heading(Cuba – Slavery)Headline80 slaves sold in Cuba, 1868Date Published1868 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #128 Atlas to Accompany a Monograph on the Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado [with] Geology of the Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado AuthorEmmons, Samuel FranklinHeadlineLeadville CO mining atlas + text vol. 1883-86PublisherUnited States Geological Survey/Government Printing OfficeDate Published1883-1886 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #145 Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe AuthorGenthe, Arnold and Will IrwinHeadlineGenthe's pre-quake photographs of ChinatownProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherMitchell KennerleyDate Published1913 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #176 Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U.S. Brig Dolphin... AuthorLee, Samuel PhillipsHeadlineLee's Cruise of the Dolphin, w/ atlasPublisherBeverley TuckerDate Published1854 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #189 Manuscript medical and surgical notebook Heading(Medical)AuthorAdams, Dr. HiramHeadlineNY Doctor’s manuscript medical notebookDate Publishedc.1845 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #194 Manuscript in diary format, with diseases, maladies and traumatic injuries listed alphabetically with treatments Heading(Mexico - Manuscript medical dictionary)HeadlineManuscript Mexican medical dictionary 1894Date Published[1894] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #218 The Facts of Reconstruction Heading(Reconstruction)AuthorLynch, John R.HeadlineJohn Lynch's defence of Reconstruction policiesPublisherNeale Publishing CompanyDate Published1913 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #222 The Science of Mechanics As Applied to the Present Improvements in the Useful Arts Heading(Science and Technology)AuthorAllen, ZachariahHeadlineScientific guide to early 19th c. machineryPublisherHutchens & CoryDate Published1829 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #223 First Report of The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to the Board of Regents Heading(Science and Technology)AuthorHenry, JosephHeadlineThe beginnings of the SmithsonianDate Published1847 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #291 Arte de los Metales, en que se enseña el verdadero beneficio de los de oro y plata por azogue. El modo de fundirlos todos, y como se han de refinar y apartar unos de otros AuthorBarba, Alvaro AlonsoHeadlineEarliest work on South American mineralsPublisherEn la oficina de la viuda de Manuel FernandezDate Published1770 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next