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PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
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Date of the auction: 19.12.2019

Lot number 1
1846 Maine teacher letter on Mississippi slavery

Autograph Letter Signed. 4pp.+address leaf. To J. P. Carpenter, Montgomery, Alabama. Maine teacher...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$360
Lot number 2
Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave

x, 13-207 pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of author by P.H. Reason with...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$8,400
Lot number 3
1854 Slave sale dispute - Tennessee legal documents

[Legal Deposition] James W. Nowlin vs. James McCallum. 1pg. printed Document (signed by Court clerk...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$420
Lot number 4
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

239 pp. (8vo), publisher's paper wrappers. First Edition. First edition of the report of the Dred...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 5
Elizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868

371, + [8] ad pp. Portrait frontispiece. (8vo) 18.4x12.8 cm (7¼x5"), maroon cloth rebacked with...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$960
Lot number 6
William Still's The Underground Railroad

4 ad, [4], 780 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with 24 engraved plates. (8vo...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$780
Lot number 7
1877 Texas lynching described by New York travelling salesman

Autograph Letter Signed (“John”). 4pp. With original mailing envelope to his uncle, E. S. Hughes...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$1,200
Lot number 8
1877 NY travelling salesman observes Black life in rural Texas

Autograph Letter Signed. 4pp. To his uncle, E. S. Hughes, South Trenton, New York. With original...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$360
Lot number 9
Somewhat racist juvenile in rare dust jacket 1897

[8], 118 + [6] ad pp. Illustrated by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker. 8x12 cm (7x4¾"), pictorial...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Lot number 10
Freedom and Slavery by William Kittle Signed

108 pp. 19.4x13.4 cm (7¾x5¼"), gray cloth, title stamped in gilt, rule blindstamped. First Edition...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$228
Lot number 11
Early NAACP to CORE - rare ephemera of Civil Rights movement

Includes: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Membership card issued for 1...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$228
Lot number 12
Classic 1939 Black Jazz ‘Dictionary’ and quiz book

Comprises: The New Cab Calloway’s Cat-ologue / a Hepster’s Dictionary. 14pp. 11.5x7.1 cm (4.5x2¾...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$1,920
Lot number 13
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Signed Limited Edition

264, [1] pp. Illustrated with musical notations. 20.3x13.3 cm (8x5"), black cloth backed patterned...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 14
E.S. Harrison's Nome and Seward Peninsula

392. Illustrated with numerous mounted photographs, many by B.B. Dobbs. 26x18.3 cm (10¼x7¼"), full...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 15
Old Yukon by Judge James Wickersham, 1st Edition

xi, 514 pp. Illustrated with map frontispiece and numerous photographs. 22.7x14.2 cm (9x5½"), blue...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 16
Louis Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist inscribed

292 pp. Illustrated from photographs. (8vo) burgundy cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 17
Women aviators crash in the Poconos

Printed in black on red background, with large halftone illustration reproducing two photographs...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Lot number 18
Baedeker's United States first edition 1893

c, 516 pp. With 39 color maps & plans, most double-page or folding. (12mo) 16x10.5 cm (6¼x4¼...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$144
Lot number 19
The colonization of Baja California 1857

249 + [1 errata] pp. (4to) disbound. First Edition. Scarce volume that has been characterized as a...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$840
Lot number 20
US / Mexico boundary document with 7 maps

515 pp. With 7 folding maps. modern morocco-backed cloth-covered boards, ruled and lettered in gilt...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$300
Lot number 21
Our Base Ball Club & How it Won the Championship

202 + [1] ad pp. Woodcut illustrations. (8vo), original chromolithograph pictorial boards. First...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 22
Bell, New Tracks in North America, Color Lithographs

lxix, [2], 564, [1] pp. Illustrated with 20 color lithograph plates including frontispiece; 3 black...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$450
Lot number 23
Pioneer Artists of Taos, signed by Bert G. Phillips

93 pp. Introduction by Ernest L. Blumenschein. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$180
Lot number 24
George Bishop, Quakers in New England 1703

[10], 231, 232-302, 303-498, 1-212, [20]. 18.3x10.7 cm (7¼x4¼"), rebound in brown cloth, lettering...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$240
Lot number 25
Omar Bradley A Soldier's Story 1st Edition Signed

Illustrated with various photographs, maps, etc. 22.8x15 cm (9x6"), tan cloth, lettering in red, red...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$420
Lot number 26
Hardware merchant in Boston, 1805

Printed broadside, with manuscript receipt on the reverse. 30x19.4 cm (11¾x7½"). The receipt on the...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$192
Lot number 27
J. Ross Browne Resources of the Pacific Slope

2 volumes in 1. 678; 200 pp. (8vo) 23.5x14 cm (9¼x5½"), original green pebbled cloth. Important...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$450
Lot number 28
Bruff's Gold Rush Journals, Drawings, and Papers

2 volumes. Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. Foreword by F.W. Hodge. Illustrated with...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$180
Lot number 29
Spanish Exploration, Cartography of the Southwest

[10], 104 +[1] pp. Frontispiece portrait; maps and plates throughout. (Folio) 44x32 cm...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 30
1st annual report of Audubon Society of California 1907

36 pp. With 4 illustrations from photographs, including portrait of David Starr Jordan, Society...

PBA Galleries, 19 Dec 2019
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$270
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