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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 #7 List of Commissary Stores and Rations on board the USS Roanoke 1861 Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorTaylor, W. R.HeadlineCivil War expedition frees 1000s of slavesDate 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 #25 Two religious tracts Heading(American Imprints - Religion)AuthorChauncy, CharlesHeadline2 religious tracts by Charles ChauncyDate Published1766-1773 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #26 The Scripture-Bishop Vindicated… [with] Euseius Inermatus: Just Remarks on a Late Book Intitled Eleutherius Enervatus Heading(American Imprints - Religion)Author[Dickinson, Jonathan, and Thomas Foxcroft]HeadlineThe Scripture-Bishop Vindicated…PublisherKneeland & Green for D. HenchmanDate Published1733 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #27 Five sermons preached at ordinations Heading(American Imprints - Religion)Headline18th c. sermons given at ordinationsDate Published1761-1791 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #28 Four religious tracts with links to American historical figures Heading(American Imprints - Religion)HeadlineReligioius tracts related to American historyDate Published1763-1801 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #29 A letter, a funeral and a racist sermon Heading(American Imprints - Religion)HeadlineThree 18th c. religious tractsDate Published1762-1797 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #30 Five sermons delivered by David Tappan Heading(American Imprints - Religion)AuthorTappan DavidHeadline5 sermons by a noted 18th c. clergymanDate Published1784-1798 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #31 Three religious collections Heading(American Imprints - Religion)HeadlineThree c. 1800 religious writing collectionsDate Published1792-1805 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #32 Three religious discourses Heading(American Imprints - Religion)Headline3 late 18th c. religious discoursesDate Published1793-1798 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #33 Two sermons Heading(American Imprints - Religion)AuthorTucker, JohnHeadline2 sermons by John Tucker, 1768-69PublisherJ. and T. FleetDate Published1768-1769 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #49 Letters from five Episcopal Bishops in the United States to Anne Mackenzie, British writer and sometime missionary in Africa Heading(Bishops - United States)HeadlineBritish writer collects U.S. Bishop's autographsDate Published1867 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold 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 #68 The Pacific Coast Pulpit containing Sermons by Prominent Preachers of San Francisco and Vicinity. Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineWith albumen portraits of S.F. Preachers, 1875ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherWestern Reporting and Publishing CompanyDate Published1875 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #93 Instruction for Heavy Artillery; Prepared by a Board of Officers, for the Use of the Army of the United States. Heading(Civil War)HeadlineCivil War Era Instruction for Heavy ArtilleryPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1863 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #95 Oil painting of a Civil War battle Heading(Civil War)HeadlineCivil War battle oil paintingDate PublishedAfter 1864 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold 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 #130 Across the Threshold AuthorFerris, Anita B.HeadlineScarce children's book for Missionary programsPublisherMissionary Education MovementDate Published1914 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #157 Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosure of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah AuthorHickman, William A.HeadlineBill Hickman - Brigham's Destroying AngelPublisherGeo. A. CrofuttDate Published1872 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #165 The Presbyterian Church in Alaska. An Official Sketch of its Rise and Progress 1877-1884 AuthorJackson, SheldonHeadlinePresbyterian Church in Alaska, 1886 reportPublisherPress of Thomas McGillDate Published1886 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #199 Sketches of Mission Life Among the Indians of Oregon AuthorMudge, Zachariah AtwllHeadlineMission Life Indians Oregon 1st ed. 1854ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherCarlton & PorterDate Published1854 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold 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 #256 Three Years and a Half in the Army; or, History of the Second Colorados. AuthorWilliams, EllenHeadlineCivil War history of the Colorado 2nd CavalryPublisherPublished for the Author by Fowler & Wells CompanyDate Published1885 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #273 Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois... Heading(1861)AuthorLincoln, Abraham and Stephen A. DouglasHeadlineLincoln-Douglas Debates 1860ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherFollett, Foster and Company et al.Date Published1860 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #275 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Heading(1869)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineNicely bound set of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirsPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #286 Letter from Howell Cobb, written as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, to the director of the Mint at San Francisco AuthorCobb, HowellHeadlineFuture rebel leader writes as U.S. Treasury SecretaryDate Published1859 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #312 History and General Views of the Sandwich Islands' Mission Heading(Hawaii)AuthorDibble, SheldonHeadlineDibble's History of Sandwich Islands 1839ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherTaylor & DoddDate Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next