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 1-23 of 23. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Photograph album of an African American family Heading(African American)HeadlineEarly 20th c. African American photograph albumDate PublishedEarly to mid 20th century View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #3 Printed newsletter to plantation owners about the depressed cotton crop during the economic recession of the 1840s Heading(African American, 1843)AuthorWhite, MaunselHeadlineFrom Andrew Jackson’s slave-cotton brokerDate PublishedJuly 14, 1843 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #4 Letter from a Pennsylvania Quaker woman travelling near the Virginia and Maryland borders, who stays with an Underground Railroad conductor Heading(African American, 1858)AuthorLewis, HannahHeadlineHiding a fugitive slave hunted by dogsDate Published[August] 22, 1858 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #5 Letter from a 21 year-old Union soldier declaring that some Ohio troops would not fight just to free the slaves Heading(African American, 1862)AuthorStrine, PeterHeadlineA racist anti-war Ohio soldier in the Union ArmyDate Published1862 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$143.75StatusSold 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 Heading(African American, 1863)Author[Van Evrie, John H.]HeadlineRacist northern anti-abolition tractPublisherVan Evrie, Horton & Co.Date Published1863 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #7 Letter from wounded Union officer, a McClellan Democrat Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorHoskinson, Thomas J. [Captain, Pennsylvania Infantry]HeadlineUnion Captain calls Emancipation “military despotism”Date Published1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #8 Letter from a professional woman anti-Slavery lecturer Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorKingsbury, Mrs. Elizabeth A.HeadlineAbolitionist speaker, later first Los Angeles suffragetteDate PublishedJuly 1, 1864 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #9 Civil War letter from a Quaker missionary teacher of formerly enslaved children in Union-occupied Williamsburg, Virginia Heading(African American, 1864)AuthorLewis, JohnHeadlineCivil War Quaker teacher of ex-enslaved children in VADate PublishedDecember 25, 1864 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold 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... Heading(African American, 1917)AuthorLarkin, JohnHeadlineAfrican American comedian on tour in AustraliaPublisherH. Pole & Co.Date Published[1917] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #11 Ebony Rhythm: An Anthology Of Contemporary Negro Verse Heading(African American, 1948)AuthorMurphy, Beatrice M., ed.HeadlineForgotten Black poets of Harlem RenaissancePublisherExposition PressDate Published1948 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #12 History of Sigma Pi Phi: First of the Negro-American Greek-Letter Fraternities Heading(African American, 1969)AuthorWesley, Charles H.HeadlineHistory of Sigma Pi Phi 1969 rarePublisherAssociation for the Study of Negro Life and HistoryDate Published[1969] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold 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 Heading(Anti-Masonic)AuthorHutchinson, TitusHeadlineALS from Anti-Mason turned Underground Railroad conductorDate PublishedJuly 19, 1834 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #24 Wild Flowers Drawn and Colored From Nature AuthorBadger, Mrs. C.M.HeadlineWith 22 chromolithograph plates of Wild Flowers alongside poetryPublisherCharles ScribnerDate Published1859 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #90 Manuscript description of criminal case and fight between Cuban Black Slave and Chinese Indentured Servant Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Criminal Case and Fight between SlavesDate Published1870 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #100 Book of Recipes for Uncle Remus Brand Peanuts Heading(Food & Drink)HeadlineRare 1920s recipe book, 'Uncle Remus' Georgia peanutsPublisherTransit Storage and Distributing Co.Date Publishedc. 1920 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #105 The Edna Lewis Cookbook Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorLewis, Edna and Evangeline PetersonHeadlineFirst Edition in unclipped jacketPublisherThe Bobbs-Merrill CompanyDate Published[1972] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #106 A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorLyford, Carrie AlbertaHeadlineBook of Recipes for the Cooking SchoolPublisherThe Hampton Normal and Agricultural InstituteDate Published[1921] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold 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 Heading(King, Martin Luther, Jr.)HeadlineNonviolence discourse in 1963PublisherFellowship of ReconciliationDate Published[c.1964] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #238 Copy of Bill of Sale of enslaved laborer by Joseph Peralta to his wife Heading(Slavery)HeadlineCopy of Bill of Sale New Orleans SlaveryDate Published1851 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #239 Estate appraisal, with enslaved workers Heading(Slavery)HeadlineEstate Appraisal Including Slaves GeorgiaDate Published1807 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #240 Mortgage on an enslaved woman Heading(Slavery)HeadlineMortgage document for enslaved woman in GADate Published1805 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #241 Notarized manumission manuscript document, freeing a Black woman, in French Heading(Slavery)HeadlineFreedom for enslaved woman in NOLA, 1834Date Published1834 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #242 Notice of sheriff's office seizing property including slaves Heading(Slavery)HeadlineMortgage Foreclosed South Carolina Slavery 1824Date Published1824 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next