Early American: History Auction - rescheduled , 122725, Rancho Santa Fe

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 27, 2025 - December 27, 2025
Page Size: 134 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
131

Confederate Currency, April 6, 1863, Civil War (4) T62, $1 Confederate Currency notes issued in Richmond

Richmond 1863 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 650.00
132 Abraham Lincoln and William Seward

May 7, 1864-1865 (Ratified), Civil War Period, Official Government Printed Imprint, Treaty Between the United States and the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota,

1864-1865 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
133

ALS from Union Civil War Veteran Honor Guard for Assassinated President Lincoln

USD 2,400.00 - 3,200.00 Not Sold
134 Alexander Hesler

c. 1860 Photograph Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

c. 1860 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,800.00
138

EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES, - Proclaimed on the 22d September 1862, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President, Scarce Black History Emancipation Engraving

1862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,950.00
139

c. 1869 Mammoth Size Steel Plate Engraving titled, LINCOLN of President Abraham Lincoln, the Largest LINCOLN Engraving Made,

New York. c. 1869 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
140

1865 Stereoview Photograph Card titled, LINCOLN MEMORIAL. DISSECTED LEAVES., with Lincoln's Portrait by Anthony, New York City

1865 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 195.00
141

October 4th, 1846-Dated, Historical Black History and Slavery related Partially-Printed Document, being an Arrest Warrant to the Sheriff of Washington County, Tennessee for the Joseph Murry's offense of Selling Alcohol to a Slave

1846 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 520.00
142 George McDowell Stroud,

1856-Dated Pre Civil War, Black History + Slavery Related Book titled, A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America.,

Philadelphia 1856 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 455.00
144

c. Early 1900s, Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour Wooden Sign with nice graphics

c. Early 1900s USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 390.00
145

c. 1940 Vintage Colorful Hand-Painted Wooden Advertising Sign of an African American Woman holding half of a watermelon with the large caption ICE COLD

c. 1940 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 520.00
146

c. 1940 Black History Segregation WHITES ONLY Original Hand-Painted Wood Sign

c. 1940 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 780.00
147

c. 1940 Heavy Brass Metal Sign that has one word on each side: "WHITE" and "COLORED" for Black Segregation purposes

c. 1940 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 520.00
148 William Cowper

1788 The Negros Complaint, Manuscript Poem Written + Composed by William Cowper

1788 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,340.00
149

April 1862-Dated Civil War Period, Political Cartoon with President Abraham Lincoln titled, "Oberon and Titania", Satirical Black History and Slavery Related

Britian 1862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,040.00
150

1942-Dated World War II, Official U.S. Army Japanese Internment Broadside Poster NOTICE, Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41, large size measuring 22 x 14, Presidio of San Francisco, California, Crisp Extremely Fine.

1942 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,860.00
151 Charles Julien de Saint-Memin,

c. 1798, Original Artwork Conte-Crayon Profile Portrait of "John Morgan Price" listed and illustrated in the reference, "Charles Julien de Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America" by Ellen G. Miles

c. 1798 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
157 E.H. Shepard

E.H. Shepard Artist Signed WWII Original Illustration Artwork, FDR Warns Europe

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,560.00
160 Clarence S. Brigham,

(PAUL REVERE). "PAUL REVERE'S ENGRAVINGS," Reference book by Clarence S. Brigham, 1969

NY 1969 USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 156.00
161 Jeremiah M. Greene

c. 1860 Civil War Era, Presentation Photo Album containing 14 Albumen Photos by Photographer Jeremiah M. Greene of Elyria, Ohio, + Two Choice Content Civil War Date Letters written by the Albums Owner, Peter A. Bishop of Elyria, Ohio

c. 1860 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
162

c. 1960, Trans World Airlines Travel Poster titled, Arizona, with a Large Image of a Smiling Western Woman,

U.S.A. c. 1960 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 650.00
164 Nathaniel Currier,

1844 Presidential Campaign Clay and Frelinghuysen, GRAND NATIONAL WHIG BANNER.

1844 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 422.50
165

January 1, 1849-Dated Autograph Letter Discussing President-Elect Zachary Taylor Presidential Election with Political Content and Integral Address Leaf with 5 PAID (1849 postage rate),

Newton Upper Falls, (Mass.), 1849 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 715.00
166

c. 1849, Silk Broadside Textile Printed to Celebrate the Inauguration of 12th United States President, Zachary Taylor, (this item is Not Recorded in Threads of History by Collins),

Baltimore. c. 1849 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
168

c. 1875, President James Garfield Engraving with Three related Contemporary Stereoview Cards.

c. 1875 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 182.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
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