PBA Galleries: Americana - U.S. Presidents - Travel and Exploration - Maps, Prints and Views, 825, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 07, 2024 - November 07, 2024
Page Size: 539 items in 22 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102 Clinton, Bill

Selected Speeches of President William Jefferson Clinton--2000

Washington 2000 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
103 Bush, George W.

Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors

New York [2017] USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
104 Obama, Barack

A Promised Land

New York [2020] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
105 Biden, Joe

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

New York [2017] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 437.50
106 Cheney, John Vance, editor

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Johnson to Roosevelt

Chicago 1905 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
107

Two inauguration First Day Covers and one presidential postcard

c.1953-1977 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
108

Eight volumes signed by Presidents and their family members

New York and elsewhere 1959-2015 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
109

Album of United States Presidents from George Washington to James A. Garfield

c.1880 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
110

Three Volumes by Vice Presidents

1954-1975 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
111

Three Volumes Signed by Vice Presidents

1968-1999 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
112 Shaffer, David Henry

The Cincinnati, Covington, Newport and Fulton Directory, for 1840: Comprising the Names of Households, Heads of Families, and Those Engaged in Business, Together with the State or Country of their Birth, &c

Cincinnati [1839] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
113 Massie, Nathaniel

Letter from a slave owner's lawyer setting uncommon restrictions on the rental of a female slave

Waynesboro, Virginia 1843 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 593.75
114 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

Remarks...Before the [Massachusetts State] Committee on Federal Relations, on the Proposed Removal of Edward G. Loring, Esq. from the Office of Judge of Probate

Boston 1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
115 Poe, Thomas C.

Letter about hiring a slave woman

Selma, Alabama 1855 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
116 Smith, William A.

Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves

Nashville 1856 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 812.50
117 Guptill, Charles H.

Letter by New England man working in the slave South on the eve of Civil War

Pamplins Depot, Virginia 1860 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 406.25
118 Hendry, Samuel

Letter from the Mayor of Oberlin. a passionate Abolitionist, supporting Black military service in the Union Army

Oberlin, Ohio 1862 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 750.00
119

2 Senate Executive Documents regarding mistreatment of American Blacks in Cuba and Haiti

Washington, DC 1866 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
120 Ashly, L. G.

Letter from Massachusetts Infantry Private battling Confederate troops in Louisiana

Berwick City, Louisiana 1863 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
121

Three Civil War memoirs by White officers of Black troops

1885-1924 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
122 McMillan, State Senator Thomas

Letter from a Republican Iowa legislator outraged by President Andrew Johnson's abandonment of Reconstruction and the rights of Negro ex-slaves

Des Moines, Iowa 1866 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
123 Stoneman, Gen. George

Riot at Memphis. Letter from the Secretary of War...

Washington, DC 1866 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
124 Fairchild, James H.

Letter and published memoir of aiding fugitive slaves during the Civil War

Oberlin and Columbus, Ohio 1866-1895 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
125 Peregrino, Francis Zaccheus Santiago

South African Spectator Newspaper

4870 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
126 Oneal, James

The Next Emancipation

New York 1922 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD