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Auction 196, Lot 228

Subject: Colonial Georgia

[2 Volumes] A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737..., 1742

Size: 5.3 x 8.1 inches (13.5 x 20.6 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
Important Overview of the Colony of Georgia with Only 70 Copies Printed
Sold for: $6,000
Closed on 2/7/2024

Auction 196, Lot 754

Subject: Document - Republic of Texas

[2 Volumes - Republic of Texas] Niles' Weekly Register ... From September 1826, to March, 1827... [and] ... From March to September, 1827..., 1826-27

Size: 6.5 x 10 inches (16.5 x 25.4 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $230
Features the Short-Lived "New Republic of Texas, Alias Fredonia"
Sold for: $140
Closed on 2/7/2024

Auction 196, Lot 755

Subject: Document - Texas Independence

[Texas Independence] Niles' Weekly Register ... From March, 1836, to September, 1836..., 1836

Size: 6.5 x 10.1 inches (16.5 x 25.7 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $230
Texas Independence and Much More
Sold for: $275
Closed on 2/7/2024

Auction 195, Lot 824

Subject: Document - Texas

[Texas] Niles' Weekly Register ... From September, 1819 to March, 1820 - Vol. XVII. or, Volume V. - New Series, 1820

Size: 6 x 9.5 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Second Texas Declaration of Independence and Florida Cession
Sold for: $275
Closed on 11/15/2023

Auction 195, Lot 825

Subject: Document - Texas Revolution

[Texas Revolution] Niles' Weekly Register - Vol. XLVIII, Nos. 15; 22; 23; & 25, 1835

Size: 7.3 x 10.4 inches (18.5 x 26.4 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Events Leading to Texas Revolution "Fast Approaching a Crisis"
Sold for: $275
Closed on 11/15/2023

Auction 195, Lot 826

Subject: Document - Human Rights

[Amistad] "The Case of the Amistad" [in] Niles' National Register, 1841

Size: 9.3 x 13.3 inches (23.6 x 33.8 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Sold for: $50
Closed on 11/15/2023

Auction 195, Lot 827

Subject: Document - Mexican-American War

Gallatin, Albert

[Mexican American War] Peace with Mexico, 1847

Size: 6.2 x 9.9 inches (15.7 x 25.1 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Sold for: $100
Closed on 11/15/2023

Auction 194, Lot 304

Subject: Document - Texas

[Texas] "Mexico and Texas" [in] The North American Review. Vol. XLIII, 1836

Size: 5.7 x 8.8 inches (14.5 x 22.4 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Informed Cautious Analysis of Texas Independence in 1836
Sold for: $350
Closed on 9/13/2023

Auction 194, Lot 716

Subject: Document - Louisiana Purchase

[Louisiana Purchase] Columbian Centinel & Massachusetts Federalist, 1803

Size: 13.1 x 20.4 inches (33.3 x 51.8 cm)
Estimate: $150 - $180
Multiple Articles Critical of the Louisiana Purchase
Sold for: $100
Closed on 9/13/2023

Auction 194, Lot 717

Subject: Document - Oregon Trail

[Oregon Trail] "American Enterprize" [in] The Weekly Register. No. 17 of Vol. IV , 1813

Size: 6.3 x 10 inches (16 x 25.4 cm)
Estimate: $250 - $325
Discovery of Oregon Trail by First Major Expedition to the Pacific After Lewis & Clark
Sold for: $150
Closed on 9/13/2023

Auction 194, Lot 718

Subject: Document - Mexican-American War

[Mexican-American War] Niles' National Register, Containing Political, Historical, Geographical, Scientifical, Statistical, Economical, and Biographical Documents, Essays and Facts ... [July 4, 1846, to January 2, 1847...], 1846

Size: 8.9 x 12.5 inches (22.6 x 31.8 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Contemporary Documentation of the Mexican-American War
Sold for: $120
Closed on 9/13/2023

Auction 193, Lot 301

Subject: Document - Texas

[Texas] "The Mexicans, in 1830. By a Mexican Citizen" [in] Atkinson's Casket, Gems of Literature, Wit & Sentiment, 1831-32

Size: 5.8 x 9.1 inches (14.7 x 23.1 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
1830 Mexican View of Relations with the United States and Texas
Sold for: $300
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 302

Subject: Document - Texas Independence

[Texas Independence] Niles’ Weekly Register, Containing Political, Historical, Geographical, Scientifical, Statistical, Economical and Biographical ... from March, 1836, to September, 1836..., 1836

Size: 6.8 x 10.1 inches (17.3 x 25.7 cm)
Estimate: $800 - $950
Texas Fight for Independence Documented in 1836 Volume of the Niles Weekly Register
Sold for: $500
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 742

Subject: Document - Lewis & Clark

[Lewis & Clark] "History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark..." [in] The Analectic Magazine ... Volumes V & VI, 1815

Size: 5.5 x 8.6 inches (14 x 21.8 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Sold for: $170
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 743

Subject: Document - Daguerreotype

[Invention of the Daguerreotype] "The 'Daguerreotype'" [in] The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine. December, 1839, 1839

Size: 6 x 9.2 inches (15.2 x 23.4 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Early American Report on the Invention of the Daguerreotype
Unsold
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 744

Subject: Document - New Mexico & Arizona

U.S. Government

[New Mexico & Arizona] New Mexico – Convention of Delegates. Journal and Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates ... Presenting a Plan for a Civil Government of Said Territory of New Mexico, and Asking the Action Congress Thereon, 1850

Size: 5.7 x 8.9 inches (14.5 x 22.6 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Important New Mexico & Arizona Territorial Formation Document
Sold for: $120
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 745

Subject: Document - Anti-Slavery

[Anti-Slavery] Specimen Copy – Supplement to the Era. Facts for the People, 1855

Size: 6 x 9.6 inches (15.2 x 24.4 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Rare National Era Anti-Slavery Pamphlet
Sold for: $100
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 746

Subject: Document - Reconstruction & Arkansas

[Reconstruction & Arkansas] Governor's Message to the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, at the Adjourned Session of 1868, 1868

Size: 5.6 x 8.9 inches (14.2 x 22.6 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Remarkable Report on Reconstruction Chaos in Arkansas
Sold for: $90
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 193, Lot 747

Subject: Document - Women's Suffrage

[Women's Suffrage] Memorial of Mr. Vere Goldthwaite ... Memorial of Mr. Vere Goldthwaite, a Natural-Born Citizen of the United States, and a Resident of the City of Boston..., 1909

Size: 5.8 x 8.9 inches (14.7 x 22.6 cm)
Estimate: $110 - $140
Women’s Suffrage Memorial - A Decade Before the 19th Amendment
Unsold
Closed on 6/21/2023

Auction 192, Lot 307

Subject: Monticello, Virginia

[Engraving with Report] Sketch of Mr. Jefferson's Seat, Monticello [with] The Literary and Scientific Repository Vol. I. No. 2, 1820

Size: 6.2 x 4.2 inches (15.7 x 10.7 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Scarce Early View of Monticello
Sold for: $100
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 733

Subject: Document - Louisiana Purchase

[Louisiana Purchase] An Oration, on the Cession of Louisiana to the United States, Delivered on the 12th of May, 1804, in Charleston, (S.C). [in] Political Observatory Vol. I. No. 33, 1804

Size: 12.4 x 19.3 inches (31.5 x 49 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Contemporary Arguments For and Against the Louisiana Purchase
Sold for: $100
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 734

Subject: Documents - Louisiana Purchase

[Louisiana Purchase] "An Account of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River, from St. Louis, to its Source…" [and] "Observations Made in a Voyage Commencing at St. Catharine's Landing..." [in] The American Register..., 1809

Size: 5.8 x 9.3 inches (14.7 x 23.6 cm)
Estimate: $150 - $180
Journal Extracts of Louisiana Purchase Explorations
Sold for: $100
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 735

Subject: Document - Oregon Trail

[Oregon Trail] "American Enterprize" [in] The Weekly Register. No. 17 of Vol. IV , 1813

Size: 6.3 x 10 inches (16 x 25.4 cm)
Estimate: $300 - $375
Discovery of Oregon Trail by First Major Expedition to the Pacific After Lewis & Clark
Unsold
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 736

Subject: Documents - Texas Independence

[Texas Independence] Niles' Weekly Register, Containing Political, Historical, Geographical, Scientifical, Statistical, Economical and Biographical ... From September, 1836, to March, 1837 - Vol. LI. or, Volume XV. - Fifth Series, 1837

Size: 8.6 x 12.6 inches (21.8 x 32 cm)
Estimate: $250 - $325
Documents the Early Stages of Texas Independence
Sold for: $275
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 737

Subject: Document - Lynching, KKK

The Celebrated Case of the State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank [in] Watson's Magazine Vol. XXI: No. 4. August 1915, 1915

Size: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Lynching of Leo Frank and Rebirth of the KKK
Sold for: $120
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 738

Subject: Document - Lynching

[Lynching] Southern Women and Lynching, 1936

Size: 6.1 x 9.1 inches (15.5 x 23.1 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Southern Women Organize to Stop Lynchings
Sold for: $120
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 192, Lot 739

Subject: Document - Japanese Surrender, World War II

[World War II - Japanese Surrender] Japanese Instrument of Surrender - September 2, 1945, 1945

Size: 13.9 x 19.9 inches (35.3 x 50.5 cm)
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000
Scarce Document of Japan's Surrender Thus Ending World War II
Unsold
Closed on 4/26/2023

Auction 191, Lot 154

Subject: United States

Lynchings by States and Counties in the United States 1900 to 1931 (Data from Research Department, Tuskegee Institute) [in] Lynchings and What They Mean, 1931

Size: 19.3 x 14.5 inches (49 x 36.8 cm)
Estimate: $250 - $325
Poignant Map of the United States Documenting Lynchings
Sold for: $1,100
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 191, Lot 335

Subject: Texas, Historical Documents

A Preliminary Report of the Texas Geological Survey Together with Agricultural Observations, and an Outline of the Mineral Deposits of the State, 1866

Size: 5.4 x 8.5 inches (13.7 x 21.6 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $230
Early Report of the Texas Geological Survey
Sold for: $150
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 191, Lot 810

Subject: Document - Lewis & Clark

[Lewis & Clark] "Lewis's Map of the Parts of North-America Which Lie Between the 35th and 51st Degrees of North Latitude, from the Missisippi and the Upper Lakes to the North Pacific Ocean.”, 1806

Size: 5.2 x 7.8 inches (13.2 x 19.8 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $250
Description of Original Lewis & Clark Map and Early Report of Expedition
Sold for: $130
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 191, Lot 811

Subject: Document - Texas Revolution

[Texas Revolution] Niles' Weekly Register ... From March, 1835 to September 1835 - Vol. XLVIII. or, Volume XII. - Fourth Series, 1835

Size: 6.6 x 10.4 inches (16.8 x 26.4 cm)
Estimate: $180 - $220
Events Leading to Texas Revolution “Fast Approaching a Crisis”
Sold for: $180
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 191, Lot 812

Subject: Document - Mormonism

[Mormonism] Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1885. No. 1169. Angus M. Cannon, Plaintiff in Error v. The United States, Defendant in Error...Brief for Plaintiff in Error, 1885

Size: 5.5 x 8.4 inches (14 x 21.3 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Mormon Appeal of Definition of Unlawful Cohabitation Fails
Sold for: $60
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 191, Lot 813

Subject: Document - Women's Suffrage

[Women's Suffrage] Memorial of Mr. Vere Goldthwaite ... Memorial of Mr. Vere Goldthwaite, a Natural-Born Citizen of the United States, and a Resident of the City of Boston..., 1909

Size: 5.8 x 8.9 inches (14.7 x 22.6 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Women’s Suffrage Memorial - A Decade Before the 19th Amendment
Unsold
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 191, Lot 814

Subject: Document - Lynching

[Lynching] The Mob Still Rides - A Review of the Lynching Record, 1931-1935, 1936

Size: 5.9 x 8.9 inches (15 x 22.6 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
"The Lynching Habit Seems As Strongly Entrenched As It Was in 1930"
Sold for: $120
Closed on 2/8/2023

Auction 190, Lot 172

Subject: Western United States

U.S. Government

[Oregon Trail] A Report, in the Form of a Journal, to the Quartermaster General, of the March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon, from May 10 to October 5, 1849... [in] Message from the President of the United States..., 1850

Size: 5.8 x 9.3 inches (14.7 x 23.6 cm)
Estimate: $300 - $400
First Military Expedition and Earliest Views Along the Oregon Trail
Sold for: $375
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 251

Subject: Document - Texas Independence

[Texas Independence] Niles’ Weekly Register, Containing Political, Historical, Geographical, Scientifical, Statistical, Economical and Biographical ... from March, 1836, to September, 1836..., 1836

Size: 6.4 x 10 inches (16.3 x 25.4 cm)
Estimate: $800 - $950
Texas Fight for Independence Documented in 1836 Volume of the Niles Weekly Register
Sold for: $900
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 593

Subject: Exploration & Surveys, China

Voyage dans l'Interieur de la Chine, et en Tartarie, fait dans les Annees 1792, 1793 et 1794, par Lord Macartney..., 1804

Size: 8.5 x 11.4 inches (21.6 x 29 cm)
Estimate: $1,400 - $1,700
Atlas Volume to the Macartney Embassey to China Complete with 3 Maps and 38 Plates
Sold for: $1,100
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 703

Subject: Document - California

[California] "Journal of a Voyage Between China and the North-Western Coast of America, Made In 1804" [in] The American Register: or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science. Part I for 1808. Vol. III, 1808

Size: 5.8 x 9.1 inches (14.7 x 23.1 cm)
Estimate: $700 - $850
First Extensive Account of California Published in the United States by an American Visitor
Sold for: $400
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 705

Subject: Document - Oregon Trail

[Oregon Trail] "American Enterprize" [in] The Weekly Register. No. 17 of Vol. IV , 1813

Size: 6.1 x 9.5 inches (15.5 x 24.1 cm)
Estimate: $250 - $325
Discovery of Oregon Trail by First Major Expedition to the Pacific After Lewis & Clark
Sold for: $300
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 706

Subject: Document - Texas Revolution

[Texas Revolution] An Address Delivered by S.F. Austin, of Texas, to a Very Large Audience of Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Second Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Kentucky, on the 7th of March, 1836, 1836

Size: 18 x 23.9 inches (45.7 x 60.7 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $230
Stephen Austin’s Louisville Speech Defending the Texas Revolution
Sold for: $325
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 707

Subject: Document - African-Americans

U.S. Gov't Printing Office

Bulletin 129 Negroes in the United States, 1915

Size: 9 x 11.5 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Comprehensive 1910 Census Report on African-Americans in the United States
Sold for: $160
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 708

Subject: Document - Harry Truman

[Harry S. Truman Judicial Appointment Signed], 1950

Size: 20.1 x 16.1 inches (51.1 x 40.9 cm)
Estimate: $800 - $950
Sold for: $300
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 190, Lot 709

Subject: Photograph Signed - Richard Nixon

[Richard Nixon Photograph Signed], 1970

Size: 8.8 x 10.5 inches (22.4 x 26.7 cm)
Estimate: $400 - $500
Sold for: $150
Closed on 11/16/2022

Auction 189, Lot 221

Subject: Documents - Slavery, Washington DC

U.S. Government

[Lot of 2 - Emancipation in the District of Columbia] Slavery in the District of Columbia [and] Emancipation in the District of Columbia..., 1862-64

Size: 5.8 x 8.9 inches (14.7 x 22.6 cm)
Estimate: $160 - $190
Emancipation in the District of Columbia
Sold for: $120
Closed on 9/14/2022

Auction 189, Lot 268

Subject: Texas Revolution

[First Texas Revolution] The Weekly Register. No. 20 of Vol. IV, 1813

Size: 6.1 x 9.5 inches (15.5 x 24.1 cm)
Estimate: $200 - $230
Declaration of Independence of the First Texas Republic
Sold for: $120
Closed on 9/14/2022

Auction 189, Lot 722

Subject: Historical Documents, Presidential

[Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Electoral Vote Certification Signed], 1945

Size: 11.5 x 27.6 inches (29.2 x 70.1 cm)
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Rare Official January 6 Electoral Vote Count for FDR's Fourth Term
Sold for: $5,000
Closed on 9/14/2022

Auction 189, Lot 723

Subject: Photograph Signed - Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Franklin D. Roosevelt Photograph Signed], 1941

Size: 9.3 x 13.2 inches (23.6 x 33.5 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,300
Sold for: $750
Closed on 9/14/2022

Auction 189, Lot 724

Subject: Document - Invention of the Bicycle

[Invention of the Bicycle] "Pedestrian's Hobby Horse" [in] The Philadelphia Register, and National Recorder. Vol. I. Saturday, May 15, 1819. No. 20, 1819

Size: 5.6 x 9.4 inches (14.2 x 23.9 cm)
Estimate: $140 - $170
Earliest American Illustration of Drais’ Proto-Bicycle “Pedestrian’s Hobby Horse”
Sold for: $325
Closed on 9/14/2022
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