Fleischer's Auctions: Premier Sale: Civil War and African American History, 31123, Columbus

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 11, 2023 - March 11, 2023
Page Size: 322 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
307

Portrait of Flora Stewart, 117 Years Old

 1867 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,845.00
308

Enslaved Family, Charleston South Carolina

 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 1,845.00
309

[African American] Portrait by J.P. Ball

 1845 USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 USD 1,168.50
310

[Civil War] African American Soldier, Bugler

 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,781.00
311

White Child Mourned by African American Child, Historic Photograph

 c.1855 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 32,595.00
312

1847 Charleston Slave Badge “Mechanic”

 1847 USD 2,250.00 - 2,750.00 USD 4,428.00
313

Plantation Scene w/ African American Man

 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,214.00
314

[SLAVERY] HISTORIC VIEWS OF NEW BERN, NC

 1864 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,687.50
315

1856 Slave Sale Broadside (Jackson, Tennessee)

 1856 USD 7,500.00 - 12,500.00 USD 9,225.00
316

[Letter] Enslaved Mother to Child After Separation

 1859 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,295.00
317

Signature of Frederick Douglass

 1888 USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 USD 3,198.00
318

Signature of John Brown

 USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 USD 1,722.00
319

Letter Discussing John Brown’s Raid, Christmas of 1860

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 861.00
320

1876 [ALS] Letter by Horace Greeley

 1876 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 338.25
321

Scarce French Lithograph, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 338.25
322

[CDV] Portrait of Thaddeus Stevens

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 738.00
323

[Letter] Slave Murders Master, Burned Alive

 1864 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,599.00
324

Confederate Compensation Claim re: Dead Slave

 1863 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 430.50
325

Slaves Conscripted into Confederate Service

 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 553.50
326

Confederate North Carolina Letter re: “20 Negro Law”

 1863 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 676.50
327

[African American] Historic Letter re: Fort Pillow Massacre

 1864 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 2,214.00
328

[Civil War] African American Soldier, Portrait

 1864 USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 USD 2,583.00
329

54th Massachusetts, Inscribed Regimental History

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,214.00
330

[CDV] African American Soldier

 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 Not Sold
331

1865 Letter re: Death of Black Soldier

 USD 750.00 - 1,250.00 USD 799.50
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Hooke, Robert. <i>Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.</i> London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Chappuzeau, Samuel. <i>The history of jewels,</i> first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Sowerby, James. <i>Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions,</i> London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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