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Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views

PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
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Date of the auction: 16.12.2021

Lot number 1
Planning a large slave sale in antebellum South Carolina

Autograph Letter Signed. 2 pp. To G. B. Browne “…As regards the price of the negroes Father thinks...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$300
Lot number 2
Letter mentioning a runaway slave who hung himself in jail

1 page of a 4 pg. autograph letter. In the middle of family chit-chat, Amanda Bethune interjects: “I...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$390
Lot number 3
Letter possibly written by a freed slave in South Carolina

Autograph Letter Signed. 1 pg.+stampless address leaf. To William A. Fox, Georges Station, South...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$240
Lot number 4
First publication of “When the Saints Go Marching In”

Pg. 59 (72 total pp.) in Song of the Soul, No. 2 / for use in Sunday Evening Congregations...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$330
Lot number 5
Connecticut native writes about slaves

Autograph Letter Signed. 4 pp. To his sisters, Jerush[a] and Lydia Brainard, care of Abraham...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$450
Lot number 6
Antebellum Letter from an ex-slave American missionary

1 pg. of text + 1 pg. detached stampless address leaf. To Walter Lowrie [Corresponding Secretary of...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$360
Lot number 7
John Adams in-law inquires about jailed ex-slave

1 pg. + stampless address leaf. To John Clapp, Post Master, Norwick (Norwich), New York Ann (Smith...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 8
Letter about Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina

Autograph Letter Signed. 3 pp.+ original mailing envelope. To Robert R. Hamphill, Abbeville Court...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 9
Black housekeeper honored by early American woman poet

4 pp. including stampless address leaf. To Sarah P. Baldwin, care of Hon. James H. Baldwin, Boston...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 10
Portrait of first African Americana congressmen

Approximately 9½x6". Portrait of the five most prominent African-American members of the U.S...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$660
Lot number 11
Alaska Trip c. 1910

78 pp. 19 photograph plates with tissue guards. 18x14 cm (7x5½") green-blue cloth, lettered in gilt...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$216
Lot number 12
Photos of the Apollo 11 mission signed by Buzz Aldrin

(Small 4to) silver leather and black cloth. One of 500 numbered copies. First Edition. Signed by...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$450
Lot number 13
With folding map of New Spain circa 1877

221 pp. With folding Hysometric map of New Spain, showing ocean currents and rail lines colored in...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$180
Lot number 14
Mourning the traitor Major Andrè, 1781

[2], iv, 47, [1] pp. (4to) 25.7x21 cm (10¼x8¼"), later leather-backed boards, gilt spine. First...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$420
Lot number 15
Letter from Boston SPCA about protecting animals in California

Autograph Letter Signed as Chairman of the Committee on Humane Education. 2 pp.+ original decorative...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 16
Anti-slavery letter by Prudence Crandall’s step-daughter and poet Emerson’s...

Autograph Letter Signed. 4 pp.+ stampless address leaf. To her brother, Calvin Whipple Philleo...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,020
Lot number 17
Appleton's Hand-Book of American Travel 1873

[12] ad (incl. front free endpaper), x, 321 + [12] ad pp. (incl. rear free endpaper). With 8 maps, 7...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 18
Arizona & New Mexico on verge of statehood

9 pp. 23x14.7 cm (9x5¾"), unbound, stapled. Rare, unidentified separate printing, beginning with...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 19
Arizona write McKinley about their Secretary 1897

Handwritten and typed letters, signed. On letterhead or plain paper, approx. 26.5x21 cm (10½x8¼...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$240
Lot number 20
Promotional book on Tucson, 1897

160 pp. Illustrated profusely from black and white photographs, a few engraved devices throughout...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 21
Early draft of homicide laws in Arizona Terr.

One page manuscript. 12½x8", two glued sheets to form half lined ledger paper / half un-lined...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$360
Lot number 22
Hotels & Motels in American West

Includes: List of official hotels and garages under contract with the California State Automobile...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 23
Young woman's travel diary on west coast

17 pages, on 9 leaves, plus several unused leaves. Handwritten in ink. 17.4x22.4 cm (6¾x8¾...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$660
Lot number 24
Bancroft's History of California nicely bound

7 volumes only (of the 39 volume Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft); these 7 volumes however, comprise...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$390
Lot number 25
With signed letter from Clara Barton

684. With numerous illustrations from photographs including frontispiece portrait of Barton. 23x15.5...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$900
Lot number 26
Disenos of California Ranchos 1/500

64 California maps, two folding. (Oblong folio) original brown suede-backed cloth, spine stamped in...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 27
The Springfield Somnambulist 1834

134, [6] + 4 ad pp. (12mo) 14.5x9 cm (5¾x3½"), original brown cloth, paper spine label. First...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 28
Mammoth Tree Grove lithograph 1860

177-254 pp. Num. 3, Marzo de 1860, Tom. 1. With a large folding sheet of lithograph scenes of the...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,280
Lot number 29
Borein etching of wagon drawn by ox-team

Etching and drypoint. Signed in pencil in lower right margin. 14.8x35.3 cm (5¾x14") plus margins...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Lot number 30
Borein etching of cowboys on the trail, signed

Etching and drypoint. Signed in the plate, and signed in pencil in lower right margin. 12.5x19.9 cm...

PBA Galleries, 16 Dec 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
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