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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorAdams, AnselHeadlineExamples: The Making of 40 Photographs, signedPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published[1983] Lot #2 Photograph album of an African American family View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American)HeadlineEarly 20th c. African American photograph albumDate PublishedEarly to mid 20th century Lot #3 Printed newsletter to plantation owners about the depressed cotton crop during the economic recession of the 1840s View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1843)AuthorWhite, MaunselHeadlineFrom Andrew Jackson’s slave-cotton brokerDate PublishedJuly 14, 1843 Lot #4 Letter from a Pennsylvania Quaker woman travelling near the Virginia and Maryland borders, who stays with an Underground Railroad conductor View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1858)AuthorLewis, HannahHeadlineHiding a fugitive slave hunted by dogsDate Published[August] 22, 1858 Lot #5 Letter from a 21 year-old Union soldier declaring that some Ohio troops would not fight just to free the slaves View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$143.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1862)AuthorStrine, PeterHeadlineA racist anti-war Ohio soldier in the Union ArmyDate Published1862 Lot #6 Free Negroism: or, Results of Emancipation in the North and West India Islands, with Statistics of the Decay of Commerce–Idleness of the Negro–His Return to Savageism, and the Effect of Emancipation upon the Farming, Mechanical and Laboring Classes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(African American, 1863)Author[Van Evrie, John H.]HeadlineRacist northern anti-abolition tractPublisherVan Evrie, Horton & Co.Date Published1863 Lot #7 Letter from wounded Union officer, a McClellan Democrat View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorHoskinson, Thomas J. [Captain, Pennsylvania Infantry]HeadlineUnion Captain calls Emancipation “military despotism”Date Published1864 Lot #8 Letter from a professional woman anti-Slavery lecturer View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorKingsbury, Mrs. Elizabeth A.HeadlineAbolitionist speaker, later first Los Angeles suffragetteDate PublishedJuly 1, 1864 Lot #9 Civil War letter from a Quaker missionary teacher of formerly enslaved children in Union-occupied Williamsburg, Virginia View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorLewis, JohnHeadlineCivil War Quaker teacher of ex-enslaved children in VADate PublishedDecember 25, 1864 Lot #10 The Empire. Holland's Vaudeville Entertainers Commencing Saturday Next, July 7th...Last Week! Last Week! of the Popular Favourites Paul Stanhope's Breezy Revue Coy... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1917)AuthorLarkin, JohnHeadlineAfrican American comedian on tour in AustraliaPublisherH. Pole & Co.Date Published[1917] Lot #11 Ebony Rhythm: An Anthology Of Contemporary Negro Verse View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(African American, 1948)AuthorMurphy, Beatrice M., ed.HeadlineForgotten Black poets of Harlem RenaissancePublisherExposition PressDate Published1948 Lot #12 History of Sigma Pi Phi: First of the Negro-American Greek-Letter Fraternities View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1969)AuthorWesley, Charles H.HeadlineHistory of Sigma Pi Phi 1969 rarePublisherAssociation for the Study of Negro Life and HistoryDate Published[1969] Lot #15 Letter from a former Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, with a political footnote about his opposition to Masonic influence in government View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Anti-Masonic)AuthorHutchinson, TitusHeadlineALS from Anti-Mason turned Underground Railroad conductorDate PublishedJuly 19, 1834 Lot #22 Five volumes on WWII aviation View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Aviation - World War II)Headline5 WWII aviation books, one signed by pilotsDate Published1987-1995 Lot #31 Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706, editor View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorBolton, Herbert EugeneHeadlineSpanish Exploration signed by BoltonPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published[1916] Lot #33 Diary of Thaddeus H. Capron, First Lieutenant Company C, 9th U.S. Infantry in the Sioux Campaign of 1876 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Brininstool, E.A.)AuthorCapron, Thaddeus H.HeadlineDiary of Thaddeus H. Capron from the library of E.A. BrininstoolPublisherE. A. BrininstoolDate Published1926 Lot #34 Journal of the Washita Campaign of 1868-'69 Detailing the Experiences of David L. Spotts As a Trooper in Company L, Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Brininstool, E.A.)AuthorSpotts, David L.HeadlineSpotts Washita Diary Typescript, Custer SourceDate Published1926 Lot #38 Three early documents of Mexican Los Angeles View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(California - Los Angeles)Headline3 Documents of Mexican Los AngelesDate Published1836-1848 Lot #41 Celebrate Days of ’49, Sacramento Poster View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(California - Sacramento County)HeadlineDays of '49 Sacramento Gold Rush PosterDate Published1922 Lot #64 Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society of New York, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Civil War - Loyal Publication Society)HeadlineNY Loyal Publication Society tracts, 1863-4PublisherLoyal Publication SocietyDate Published1864-1865 Lot #66 Five state of Arkansas War Bonds View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Civil War)Headline5 Civil War Bonds from ArkansasDate Published1861 Lot #67 Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorMaxwell, James RobertHeadlineSigned Autobiography of Confederate SoldierPublisherGreenbergDate Published1926 Lot #68 The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: The Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers from Kansas to Georgia 1861-1865 [with] Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers 1861-1865, an Appendix to "The Story of a Cavalry Regiment." View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorScott, William ForseHeadlineScott's Iowa Cavalry Presentation CopyPublisherThe Knickerbocker Press; J. J. Little & Co.Date Published1893-1902 Lot #69 Sixth Wisconsin Battery broadside View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Civil War)HeadlineBroadside for Civil War artillery batteryPublisherCharles Shober, lithographerDate Publishedc.1865 Lot #70 Thirty-eight speeches by United States Senators and Representatives View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Civil War)HeadlineMoments before outbreak of Civil WarDate Published1860-1861 Lot #71 Two volumes on early Kansas regiments View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)HeadlineKansas military men during Civil WarDate Published1867-1902 Lot #76 The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorCorbett, James J.HeadlineSigned Corbett's Roar of the CrowdPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1925 Lot #77 The Crittenden Memoirs View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorCrittenden, H.H., compilerHeadlineSigned by author w/ 2 TLSPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1936 Lot #78 Four documents related to the drowning of a Chinese indentured servant in Cuba View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlinePapers re Drowning of Chinese Laborer w/ IDDate Published1857 Lot #79 Manuscript document reporting the deaths of 25 laborers bound from Macau to Port Mariel, Cuba, listing the locations at sea of their deaths View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeaths of Cuba-Bound Chinese Laborers ChartedDate Published1867 Lot #80 Manuscript investigation into deaths of Chinese laborers en route to Cuba View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineInvestigation re Chinese Laborers Death at SeaDate Published1866 Lot #81 Manuscript investigation into the drowning of two Chinese settlers on board a Portuguese frigate with signatures of Chinese witnesses View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineReport on Drowning with Chinese SignaturesDate Published1866 Lot #82 Manuscript letter from an imprisoned Chinese indentured servant seeking freedom View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineLetter from Chinese Laborer Imprisoned in CubaDate Published1866 Lot #84 Contrata for Chinese worker in Cuba 1861 [with] Cedula View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineContract & ID for Chinese Worker in Cuba, 1861Date Published1861-1863 Lot #85 Contrata for Chinese worker in Cuba 1877 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineContract for Chinese Worker in Cuba, 1877Date Published1877 Lot #86 Cuban document requesting rehire of Chinese laborers 1870s View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Request to Rehire Chinese Workers 1870sDate Publishedc. 1870 Lot #87 Cuban identification paper for Chinese laborer 1863 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Filiacion Paper Chinese Worker 1863Date Published1863 Lot #88 Cuban War of Independence manuscript signed by Antonio Maceo, 1895 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Independence Maceo Signed Promotion 1895Date Published1895 Lot #90 Manuscript description of criminal case and fight between Cuban Black Slave and Chinese Indentured Servant View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Criminal Case and Fight between SlavesDate Published1870 Lot #91 Padron adiccional de asiaticos contratados profugos View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRegistry of Chinese Workers in Cuba, 1872Date Published1872 Lot #93 Tenencia de Gobierno de Sagua La Grande View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineContrata for Chinese Worker in Cuba, 1868Date Published1868 Lot #97 Celebrated Criminal Cases of America View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorDuke, Thomas S.HeadlineScarce criminal case anthology signedPublisherThe James H. Barry CompanyDate Published1910 Lot #100 Book of Recipes for Uncle Remus Brand Peanuts View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Food & Drink)HeadlineRare 1920s recipe book, 'Uncle Remus' Georgia peanutsPublisherTransit Storage and Distributing Co.Date Publishedc. 1920 Lot #101 Southern Cooking View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorDull, Mrs. S.R. [Henrietta Stanley]HeadlineInscribed and signed by Henrietta Stanley DullPublisherThe Ruralist PressDate Published1928 Lot #105 The Edna Lewis Cookbook View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorLewis, Edna and Evangeline PetersonHeadlineFirst Edition in unclipped jacketPublisherThe Bobbs-Merrill CompanyDate Published[1972] Lot #106 A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorLyford, Carrie AlbertaHeadlineBook of Recipes for the Cooking SchoolPublisherThe Hampton Normal and Agricultural InstituteDate Published[1921] Lot #141 Minutes of the Kingstown Township School District's Board of Directors regarding the first school in DeKalb County, Illinois View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Illinois)HeadlineEarly Illinois School District MinutesDate Published1862-1879 Lot #146 Golf is My Game View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorJones, Robert Tyre (Bobby), Jr.HeadlineSigned Bobby Jones Golf is My Game in DJPublisherDoubledayDate Published1960 Lot #148 Program for Pacem in Terris, Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(King, Martin Luther, Jr.)HeadlineSigned by Martin Luther King, Jr.PublisherPaulist PressDate Published[1963] Lot #149 "Unwise and Untimely"?: A Letter from Eight Alabama Clergymen to Martin Luther King, Jr. and his reply to them on order and common sense, the law and justice, nonviolence and love View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(King, Martin Luther, Jr.)HeadlineNonviolence discourse in 1963PublisherFellowship of ReconciliationDate Published[c.1964] Lot #150 Koufax View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorKoufax, Sandy with Ed LinnHeadlineKoufax, signed by Sandy KoufaxPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published[1966] Lot #158 New England Loan Office Bond, 1739 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Massachusetts)Headline1739 Bond Manuscript in Plymouth MADate Published1739 Lot #180 My People the Sioux View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Native American)AuthorChief Standing BearHeadlineInscribed by Chief Standing BearProvenanceJ. Lowell Groves (bookplate)PublisherHoughton Mifflin companyDate Published1928 Lot #199 The Ironic Temper [with] Days of Wrath View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Oppenheimer, J. Robert)AuthorChevalier, Haakon.HeadlineSigned works by Oppenheimer's Communist friend at BerkeleyDate Published1932-1936 Lot #200 Men and Decisions [with] The Alsos Mission View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Oppenheimer, J. Robert)AuthorStrauss, Lewis and Colonel Boris PashHeadlineSigned antagonists of the “father” of the Atomic bombDate Published1962-1969 Lot #212 Autograph letter signed by Lincoln's Secretary of State to the German noble who served in the Civil War View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents, 1861)AuthorSeward, William H.HeadlineLincoln’s Secretary of State to Fremont’s titled mapmakerPublisherUS State DepartmentDate PublishedFebruary 20, 1862 Lot #213 Letter from a drama-loving Washington clerk critiquing the new Ford's Theater and its owner View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents, 1861)AuthorStrohm, IsaacHeadlineALS about ill-fated Ford's Theater before its completionDate PublishedFebruary 10, 1862 Lot #216 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 1869)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineNicely bound set of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirsPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 Lot #218 De Re Metallica, translation of Georgius Agricola View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Presidents, 1929)AuthorHoover, Herbert and Lou Henry HooverHeadlineDe Re Metallica with Herbert Hoover TLSPublisherThe Mining MagazineDate Published1912 Lot #223 A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents, 1974)AuthorFord, Gerald R.Headline1st edition signed by President FordPublisherHarper & RowDate Published[1979] Lot #224 George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents, 1989)AuthorValdez, David, compilerHeadlineA Photographic Profile of Bush Signed LimitedPublisherTexas A&M University PressDate Published[1997] Lot #232 Life in California Before the Conquest: Hispano-Californians, Leperos, & Indians; Franciscan Misioneros & Misiones; American & English Comerciantes; Puertos, Presidios, Castillos; Sailors & Backwoodsmen; Revolutions & Strife View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorRobinson, AlfredHeadlineSigned by Thomas C. RussellProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1925 Lot #233 The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorShirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineLarge paper copy, signed by Thomas C. RussellProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1922 Lot #234 The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Russell, Thomas C.)AuthorShirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineCA Gold Rush from a Woman's EyeProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1922 Lot #238 Copy of Bill of Sale of enslaved laborer by Joseph Peralta to his wife View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Slavery)HeadlineCopy of Bill of Sale New Orleans SlaveryDate Published1851 Lot #239 Estate appraisal, with enslaved workers View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Slavery)HeadlineEstate Appraisal Including Slaves GeorgiaDate Published1807 Lot #240 Mortgage on an enslaved woman View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Slavery)HeadlineMortgage document for enslaved woman in GADate Published1805 Lot #241 Notarized manumission manuscript document, freeing a Black woman, in French View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Slavery)HeadlineFreedom for enslaved woman in NOLA, 1834Date Published1834 Lot #242 Notice of sheriff's office seizing property including slaves View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Slavery)HeadlineMortgage Foreclosed South Carolina Slavery 1824Date Published1824 Lot #322 Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction Into India. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorMarkham, Clements R.HeadlineInscribed Travels in India and PeruPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1862 Lot #327 The Ascent of Everest View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Mountaineering)AuthorHunt, JohnHeadlineSigned by 4 Everest explorersPublisherHodder and StoughtonDate Published[1953] Lot #340 A History of Israel View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorRobinson, Theodore H. and W.O.E. OesterleyHeadlineSweet inscriptions to author's wifePublisherClarendon PressDate Published1932 Lot #373 Harewood Hospital, Washington D.C. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War)AuthorMagnus, CharlesHeadlineLitho of Civil War hospitalPublisherCharles MagnusDate Published[c.1864] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next