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PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
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Date of the auction: 10.06.2021

Lot number 1
66 Black-themed sheet music pieces, 1843-1957

Approx. 2-5 pp. each. Decorative color front covers, lyrics and musical notations. Represents a...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$593
Lot number 2
Early printing of the Negro National Hymn

3 pp. 6¾x10”. With cover page for “Popular Male Quartette Arrangements” by C.F. Shattuck, which...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$1,062
Lot number 3
African-American literary and military reference

Three volumes: Analytical Guide and Index to THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO, 1904-1907. Westport, Ct...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 4
1830 Letter, Kentucky grandee to ex-slave

3 pp. including 1pg. handwritten manumission certification + integral stampless address leaf. 8x12...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$562
Lot number 5
Letters from an ill-fated white missionary in Liberia

Two letters. Comprising: 4 pp. Written aboard the Ship Saluda as Canfield was returning from a visit...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$468
Lot number 6
Ill-fated Black American's letter from Liberia

2 pp.+ outer stampless address leaf. To the Presbyterian Missionary Board, New York. The...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,250
Lot number 7
Rare letter from Black missionary’s widow in Liberia

2pp.+ stampless address leaf. To Walter Lowry [Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions], New...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$3,125
Lot number 8
Rare letter from famed ex-slave missionary in Liberia

2pp.+ stampless address leaf. To Charles D. Drake, [Presbyterian] Mission House, New York. An...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$900 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$2,000
Lot number 9
Booker T. Washington, First edition

ix, 330 pp. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature of Washington. 8vo. Maroon cloth...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$250
Lot number 10
Signed by Nobel winner Robert William Fogel

Half-cloth and boards, jacket, supplied slipcase. First Edition. Signed by Robert William Fogel on...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 11
Black actor inscribed to New York real estate mogul

255 pp. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on title-page...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 12
Early Black military scholar on Haiti’s Revolution

292 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth binding. First Edition. Theophilus Gould Steward was the son of...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 13
10 stereoviews depicting the Alaska Gold Rush

Ten stereoviews. A collection of ten stereoviews showing scenes from the Alaska Gold Rush, depicting...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 14
Four government reports on the Territory of Alaska

Includes: Data Relating to Alaska. [1910]. Staple-bound at left edge, cover lacking. Includes a...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 15
Gold Hunting in Alaska as told by Joe Grinnell

96 pp. Edited by Elizabeth Grinnell. Title page portrait of the author, plus photograph...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 16
Alaska at midcentury

17 maps, brochures, and promotional items of ephemera from midcentury Alaska. Various formats...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 17
Six items related to the Alaska Railroad

Includes: The Alaska Railroad Time Table, 1923. Saddle-stitched self-wrappers with 2 holes punched...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 18
US Science and Computer Technology landmark vision

182 pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titles, in original pictorial dust jacket. First Edition...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$875
Lot number 19
US Combat Scientists in World War II

Two volumes: Thiesmeyer, Lincoln R. and John R. Burchard. Combat Scientists [Science in World War II...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 20
Color pictorial bird's-eye airline route maps 1929

[12] pp. including color pictorial self-wrapper. With 4 double-page color pictorial cartoon-style...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,062
Lot number 21
A rare Barnum edition, 1884

vi, [ix]-xii, [4], 17-355 pp. Illustrated. Green cloth stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt. A...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 22
Signed with an inscription by P.T. Barnum

viii, [13]-785 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of a rather dapper P.T. Barnum. Illustrated...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$375
Lot number 23
Barnum's Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles, 1889

[2], 505 pp. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait of P.T. Barnum with 4 chromolithograph plates and...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 24
Scarce Grand Canyon history of early explorers

38 pp. Illustrated with reproduction photographs and facsimiles, 8x5½", original printed wrappers...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$343
Lot number 25
Plains land for sale in 1888

[4] pp. Single sheet folded to 11x5¾", printed pink paper. An appealing and scarce piece of ephemera...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$237
Lot number 26
A German's account of travels in Western U.S.

373, [1] pp. Text in German. With frontispiece portrait of author from photograph and floriated...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 27
Canadian Missionary's 10 Years on Pacific Coast

100, [1] ad pp. Text in French. 17.5x10 cm (7x4"), rebound in modern cloth lettered in gilt; new...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$593
Lot number 28
Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel

xii, [2], 364 pp. Illus. with 12 wood-engraved plates. (8vo) original blue cloth, spine lettered in...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 29
Early California historical information

Illustrated, including folding facsimile maps, etc. 30.8x23.5 cm (12x9"), blue buckram; gilt spine...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$175
Lot number 30
Anti-slavery speech by California Senator Broderick 1858

16 pp. 21x13.5 cm (8¼x5¼"), modern quarter leather & marbled boards. Speech by the anti-slavery...

PBA Galleries, 10 Jun 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
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