PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views , 808, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 07, 2024 - March 07, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bellinger Jr., ['Landgrave'] Edmund | Letter by a brutal slave owner in a legal dispute involving slave ownership |
Barnwell Court House, South Carolina | October 26, 1832 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 2 | Five pamphlets of African American history and literature |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 250.00 | |||
| 3 | Pennypacker, Elijah F. | Autograph Letter Signed by Underground Railroad conductor about meeting with Isaac T. Hopper |
Schuylkill, Pennsylvania | Aug. 31, 1842 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 4 | McClure, Alexander Wilson | Letter from a New England Minister about his two years preaching in St. Augustine, Florida to Black slaves and Mexican American War soldiers |
Portland, Maine | July 25, 1846 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 5 | Cossitt, Emily Ruth | Letter from New England woman visiting Southern relatives |
Lebanon, Tennessee | December 29, 1850 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 6 | Slave purchase document from New Orleans, 1852 |
New Orleans, Louisiana | 1852 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,250.00 | |
| 7 | Curtis, N. | Letter from one Republican to another during the 1860 presidential campaign |
Ithaca, New York | June 8, 1860 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 8 | Milmine, William S. [Private, 32nd New York Infantry] | Autograph Letter Signed (with initials) from racist New York soldier |
Camp Newton, Maryland | Dec. 23, 1861 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 9 | [Oliver Johnson, ed.] | National Anti-Slavery Standard |
New York, Philadelphia | March 23, 1861 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 10 | Letter from Union solider in Tennessee disgusted with slavery |
Tennessee | May 18, 1862 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,125.00 | |
| 11 | [McKoy, Christina and Millie] | History and Medical Description of the Two-Headed Girl: sold by her agents for her special benefit, at 25 cents |
Buffalo, NY | 1869 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 12 | Simmons, William J. | Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising. |
Cleveland, Ohio | 1887 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 13 | Johnson, Edward A. | A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890, with a short introduction as to the Origin of the Race; also a Short Sketch of Liberia |
Chicago | 1897 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 14 | Campbell, E. Simms; Lorenzo Harris; Robert Blackburn | Collection of ephemera by three African-American artists of the early 20th century |
1905-1944 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 15 | Waring, Robert Lewis | As We See It |
Washington, D. C. | 1910 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 16 | Mayo, Marion J. | The Mental Capacity of the American Negro |
New York | 5054 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 17 | DuBois, W.E.B., et al. | Two issues of "The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science" focused on African Americans |
Philadelphia | 1913 and 1928 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | Wever, Robert C.; Charles S. Johnson, et al. | 4 imprints on Negro Housing, racial housing segregation and discrimination |
New York, Washington, DC, Richmond, Va. and Miami | 1927-1951 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America |
New York | 1928-1932 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 20 | Lewis, Julian Herman | The Biology of the Negro |
Chicago | 1942 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 21 | Robeson, Paul; Lorraine Hansberry, et al | Freedom (newspaper), Vol. II, No. 4 |
New York | 19085 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Twelve Black Panther and related radical booklets and newspapers |
United States | 1959-1970 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 437.50 | |
| 23 | Archive of the Wild Goose Mining and Trading Company, operating in Nome, Alaska, with ledgers of minutes of meetings and other proceedings, plus bound volumes of stock certificates |
San Francisco, etc. | 1899-1929 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 | |
| 24 | Badlam, Alexander | The Wonders of Alaska |
San Francisco | 1890 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 25 | Olympia Transcript |
Washington Territory | 1867 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 375.00 |
