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 1-38 of 38. 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 #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 #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 #40 Magnificent Desolation: Images from the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission with the Words of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Astronauts)AuthorAldrin, BuzzHeadlinePhotos of the Apollo 11 mission signed by Buzz AldrinPublisherJack Bacon & CompanyDate Published2009 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 #43 Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun of January 1, 1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Astronomy)HeadlineWith mounted albumen print of Total EclipseProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherJ.D. Young, Supt. State PrintingDate Published1889 Lot #44 Official Programme of the International Aviation Tournament at Belmont Park October 22 to 30, 1910 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Aviation)HeadlineInt'l Aviation Tournament 1910 ProgrammePublisherIssued by the Aero Corporation/Isaac H. Blanchard Co.Date Published1910 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 #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 #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 #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 #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