Sale 812: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps, Prints & Views (#812) 05/02/2024 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/02/2024 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 812 691 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)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 1-55 of 55. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Letter from a Baptist white woman shocked by an account of a Black church service View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(African American, 1858)HeadlineBlack church service disgusts white BaptistsDate Published1858 Lot #4 Letter written by a young Illinois woman who had gone South to teach in Louisiana View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1860)HeadlineSecret Abolitionist in Secessionist LouisianaDate Published1860 Lot #5 Letter by a paper mill worker in 1861 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorAdgate, Edwin HawleyHeadlineNorthern worker lauds slavery in early 1861Date Published1861 Lot #6 Our Missionary Picture View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorDurbin, John PriceHeadlineRare statement of racist “Colonization”PublisherMissionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchDate Published1861 Lot #8 The New South View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(African American, 1863)AuthorSears, Joseph H., publisherHeadlineImportant news for ex-slaves of Union-occupied Port RoyalDate Published1863 Lot #9 Letter from a Williams College student to his father with impassioned argument against slavery View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1863)AuthorThomas, William RussellHeadlineDenuciation of slavery and CopperheadismDate Published1863 Lot #10 Indenture signed by Frederick Douglass as Recorder View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1885)HeadlineIndenture signed by Frederick Douglass 1885ProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherThe Real Estate Title Ins. Co.Date Published1885 Lot #11 Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(African American, 1894)AuthorArnett, Benjamin W., editorHeadlineAfro American League Souvenir signed by J.M. AshleyPublisherPublishing House of the A.M.E. ChurchDate Published1894 Lot #12 The Southern Negro – His Recent Erotic Tendencies – the Causes – Suggestion as to Prevention View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(African American, 1900)AuthorBaker, Dr. S.C.HeadlineRacist medical diatribe about would-be Black rapistsDate Published1900 Lot #13 Negro Baptism in Fox river at foot of Lake St., Elgin, Ill., about 1900 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(African American, 1900)HeadlineBlack baptism in Fox River, IL, c.1900PublisherChicago Historical SocietyDate Published1900, printed later Lot #14 A Crusade of Brotherhood, History of the American Missionary Association View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1909)AuthorBeard, Augustus FieldHeadlineFirst Abolitionist missionaries to aid ex-slavesPublisherPilgrim PressDate Published1909 Lot #16 Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1920)AuthorDuBois, W.E.B.HeadlineW.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater, First EditionPublisherHarcourt, Brace and HoweDate Published1920 Lot #17 Proceedings of First Session of the Montana State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(African American, 1922)AuthorArnold, Angie Mills, editorHeadlineMeetings of Montana Negro Women's Clubs, 1921-22PublisherMontana State Federation of Negro Women's ClubsDate Published1922 Lot #18 Four imprints on Negro Housing, racial housing segregation and discrimination View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1927-1951)AuthorWever, Robert C.; Charles S. Johnson, et al.Headline1st Black in a Presidential CabinetDate Published1927-1951 Lot #19 Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1928-1932)Headline2 vols. Who's Who in Colored AmericaPublisherWho's Who in Colored America Corp.Date Published1928-1932 Lot #20 A Survey of the Negro Boy in Nashville, Tennessee View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1932)HeadlineUnique Depression-era study of Black Tennessee youthPublisherAssociation PressDate Published1932 Lot #21 Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1937 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1937)HeadlineConnie's Hot Chocolates 1937 posterDate Published1937 Lot #22 Four titles regarding Civil Rights View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1994-2017)Headline4 volumes on American Civil RightsDate Published1994-2017 Lot #24 Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Alcoholics Anonymous)AuthorWilson, BillHeadlineA.A. book signed Bill Wilson to John FrankenheimerPublisherAlcoholics Anonymous Publishing, Inc.Date Published[1957] Lot #37 United States and Cuba, Eight Years of Change and Travel View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Anti-Slavery - Cuba)AuthorTaylor, John GlanvilleHeadlineAdventurous Englishman sees Cuban slaveryPublisherBentleyDate Published1851 Lot #41 Apollo 8: Voyage to the Moon View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Astronauts)HeadlineApollo 8 magazine signed by first 3 men to moonPublisherNew York Times and Cowles CommunicationsDate Published1969 Lot #42 First On the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Astronauts)AuthorArmstrong, Neil; Michael Collins; Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.HeadlineSigned by Apollo 11 crew, inscribed by ArmstrongPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published1970 Lot #49 Letters from five Episcopal Bishops in the United States to Anne Mackenzie, British writer and sometime missionary in Africa View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Bishops - United States)HeadlineBritish writer collects U.S. Bishop's autographsDate Published1867 Lot #50 The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorBonner, T.D.HeadlineLife of James P. Beckwourth First EditionProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1856 Lot #52 Heavy-Weight Champions: Graphic Description of Every Heavy-Weight Championship Contest from Sullivan and Corbett to Jeffries and Johnson.... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Boxing)AuthorNaughton, W.W.HeadlinePrimer for the Fight of the Century, 1910ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherJohn Kitchen, Jr. Co.Date Published1910 Lot #54 Memoria sobre a Fundação e Estado Actual da Fazenda Nova Louzã View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Brazil)AuthorCarvalho Monte-Negro, João Elisário deHeadlineBrazilian farm without slaves, 1870PublisherTypographia--ConstitucionalDate Published1870 Lot #105 Death certificate for a Chinese rebel slave who apparently had been freed View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineRebel Chinese slave dies in Cuban hospitalDate Published1875 Lot #106 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana + 2 death certificates View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)Headline557 Chinese laborers bound for Cuba, 1867Date Published1867 & 1870-73 Lot #107 Manuscript document (Expediante) reporting the investigation into the deaths of 25 laborers bound from Macau to Port Mariel, Cuba, and listing the locations at sea of their deaths View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeaths of Cuba-bound Chinese coolies chartedDate Published1868 Lot #110 Contract for an emancipated female slave in Cuba to work in the copper mines View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineFreed female slave hired for Cuban copper minesDate Published1863 Lot #111 Labor contract for an emancipated African slave View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineLabor contract for freed Cuban slave 1871Date Published1871 Lot #112 Manuscript listing of 80 slaves sold by one individual to another View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Cuba – Slavery)Headline80 slaves sold in Cuba, 1868Date Published1868 Lot #145 Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGenthe, Arnold and Will IrwinHeadlineGenthe's pre-quake photographs of ChinatownProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherMitchell KennerleyDate Published1913 Lot #160 Letter from J. Edgar Hoover to a Harvard professor transmitting a report on progress made by graduates of the FBI National Police Academy View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorHoover, J. EdgarHeadlineJ. Edgar Hoover letter on Police AcademyDate Published1936 Lot #189 Manuscript medical and surgical notebook View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorAdams, Dr. HiramHeadlineNY Doctor’s manuscript medical notebookDate Publishedc.1845 Lot #194 Manuscript in diary format, with diseases, maladies and traumatic injuries listed alphabetically with treatments View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico - Manuscript medical dictionary)HeadlineManuscript Mexican medical dictionary 1894Date Published[1894] Lot #204 Payroll sheet for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Nevada)HeadlinePayroll for Virginia & Truckee R.R. 1877Date Published1877 Lot #209 Archive of letters and postcards, most sent to Wm. E. Brown, some to his brother Geo. W. Brown or other family members, primarily relating to the Opera House they operated in Purcell, Indian Territory/Oklahoma View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Oklahoma)HeadlineArchive on Indian Territory Opera HouseDate Published1886-1927 Lot #218 The Facts of Reconstruction View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Reconstruction)AuthorLynch, John R.HeadlineJohn Lynch's defence of Reconstruction policiesPublisherNeale Publishing CompanyDate Published1913 Lot #237 Sutro Tunnel. [To accompany bill H.R. no. 1153] [with] collection of Adolph Sutro and Sutro Baths ephemera. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Sutro Tunnel)HeadlineCollection of Sutro books, photos, and ephemeraPublisherPress of San Francisco Photo-Engraving Co.Date Published1895; 1890's Lot #247 Letter by Christian Socialist Minister to a prospective resident in his first Co-operative View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Utopian colony)AuthorLittlefield, George ElmerHeadlineGuru of Santa Barbara Socialist communePublisherAriel /The Co-Operative Fellowship and Ariel PressDate Published1906 Lot #259 Unopened envelope sent, too late, to a U.S. Paratrooper who was killed in France a day after D-Day View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(World War II - D-Day)HeadlineLetter sent to dead D-Day paratrooperDate Published1944 Lot #260 Diary kept by a WAC who served in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Sergeant View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(World War II - Women's Army Corps diary)AuthorLis, Frances M.HeadlineDiary of WAC in North African & Italy, 1944Date Published1943-1944 Lot #261 Archive of original carbon typescript submissions by war correspondents during the first 6 months of the U.S. involvement in World War II in the Pacific, starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(World War II)HeadlineReports from WWII Pacific Theatre 1941-2Date Published1941-1942 Lot #264 Autograph Letter Signed by a Boston merchant to the leading British wine-sellers of Madeira, months after revolutionary France declared war on England and Spain, with President Washington formally proclaiming strict American neutrality View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(1789) (George Washington)AuthorVaughan, CharlesHeadlineWashington neutral in European warDate Published1793 Lot #269 Autograph Letter Signed about President James Monroe and the impending election of Monroe's successor View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(1817)AuthorBradley, William C.HeadlineMonroe remembers Ethan AllenDate Published1824 Lot #276 Document signed by Governor Rutherford B. Hayes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(1877)AuthorHayes, Rutherford B.HeadlineSigned by U.S. President Rutherford B. HayesDate Published1875 Lot #279 Typed letter signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower as President View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(1953)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineTyped letter signed by President EisenhowerDate Published1956 Lot #280 John F. Kennedy Inauguration photograph View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(1961)AuthorKennedy, John F.HeadlineSigned by 8 attendants of the InaugurationPublisher[Tim Curtin]Date Published[1961] Lot #281 Two photographs signed and inscribed by Richard Nixon View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(1969)AuthorNixon, RichardHeadlineOld and Young Nixon photos both signedDate Publishedc.1960-1975 Lot #282 Typed letter signed by Richard Nixon View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(1969)AuthorNixon, RichardHeadlineTLS from Richard Nixon on China, 1979Date Published1979 Lot #286 Letter from Howell Cobb, written as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, to the director of the Mint at San Francisco View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorCobb, HowellHeadlineFuture rebel leader writes as U.S. Treasury SecretaryDate Published1859 Lot #288 Supreme Court portrait signed by all nine judges View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(U.S. Supreme Court)HeadlineBurger Court photo signed by all nine justicesDate Publishedc. 1983 Lot #336 Document issued by Juan Suárez de Carvajal, Bishop of Lugo, of the King's Council, ordering that all the Mercury from the Almadén mines be sent to the Indies to be used in the extraction of silver from ore View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorSuárez de Carvajal, JuanHeadlineMercury for the silver mines of Potosi, 1559Date Published1559 Lot #338 Original travel diary kept by an American woman on a trip to Europe and the Middle East View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Travel Diary)HeadlineTravel diary to Europe & Middle East 1925Date Published1925-1926 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next