Freeman's | Hindman: Printed and Manuscript Americana, 6465, Philadelphia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clinton, De Witt. | Group of 3 Partially-Printed Manumission Documents |
New York | 1811 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,200.00 |
| 2 | Yardley, Samuel. | Manuscript Indenture of Servitude and Manumission |
Newtown, Pennsylvania, | April 8, 1790 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,520.00 |
| 3 | Armstrong, Louis. | Autograph Letter, signed, and Signed Photograph |
Framingham, Massachusetts, | 1967-08-11 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Baldwin, James. | Giovanni's Room |
New York | 1956 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,400.00 |
| 5 | Baldwin, James. | Go Tell it on the Mountain |
New York | 1953 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,152.00 |
| 6 | Ball, Charles. | Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man; Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave... |
Lewistown, Pennsylvania | 1836 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 704.00 |
| 7 | DeMond, Rev. | Abraham Lincoln. Inscribed Cabinet Card |
Cortland, New York | 1889 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 832.00 |
| 8 | [Douglass, Frederick] | Carte de Visite Portrait |
No place, | ca. 1868 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,048.00 |
| 9 | Kennedy, John F. | Typed Document and Three Mimeographed Sheets |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 1,280.00 | ||
| 10 | King, Martin Luther, Jr. | Signed Program |
Atlanta, Georgia, | 1965-01-27 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,760.00 |
| 11 | The Negro Caesars Cure for Poyson |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 | |||
| 12 | Peterkin, Julia, and Doris Ulmann. | Roll, Jordan, Roll |
New York | 1933 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in American and its final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870 |
Baltimore | 1870 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,880.00 | |
| 14 | Simone, Nina. | Lengthy Autograph Letter, signed |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,536.00 | ||
| 15 | [Truth, Sojourner] | I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance |
Rochester, New York | 1864 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 16 | Webb, Richard D. The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown... |
London | 1861 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,920.00 | |
| 17 | Wright, Richard. | 12 Million Black Voices A Folk History of the Negro in the United States |
New York | 1941 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,408.00 |
| 18 | 1778 Manuscript Continental Army Muster List |
Norton, Attleboro, etc., Massachusetts | 1778 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,160.00 | |
| 19 | [Aitken, Jane] Thomson, Charles (translator). | The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Covenant, Commonly Called the Old and New Testament: Translated From the Greek |
Philadelphia | 1808 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 |
| 20 | Bodrero, James. Nicls. Ludington, Esq. | charters Mr. Robt. Fulton's new steam vessel Clermont for a merry voyage on the placid bosom of the Hudson River |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 21 | Adams, Samuel. | Autograph Letter, signed |
Boston, | September 19, 1779 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 15,360.00 |
| 22 | Clinton, George. | Autograph Letter, signed |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 | ||
| 23 | (Dickinson, John, and Thomas Jefferson). | A Declaration of the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms |
USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 76,800.00 | ||
| 24 | Faden, William, and Claude Joseph Sauthier. | A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the Command of General Sr. William Howe, K.B. in New York and East New Jersey, against the American Forces Commanded By General Washington... |
London | February 25, 1777 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,400.00 |
| 25 | Force, Peter. | In Congress, July 4, 1776... [Declaration of Independence] |
Washington., D.C. | ca. 1833 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 41,600.00 |
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