Sale 849: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views (#849) 10/23/2025 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 10/23/2025 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 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 1-34 of 34. Previous|1|Next 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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