Freeman's | Hindman: How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X, 6515, Philadelphia

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Auction Date
June 30, 2026 - June 30, 2026
Page Size: 316 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Palmer John M.

Proclamation State of Illinois, Executive Department...$1000 Reward

Springfield, Illinois 1870 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,664.00
2 Hall Charles N.

Manuscript copybook

Bridgewater, Massachusetts ca. 1844 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3

Group of Five Manuscript Documents, Being Official Receipts Paid by the Corporation of Albany

Albany 1826-32 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 192.00
4

Emancipator--Extra

New-York 1839 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
5 Walker N.W.

The Shell Point Meeting

Shell Point, Florida Territory ca. 1835 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,200.00
6

The Weekly Recorder

Chillicothe, Ohio 1816; 1817 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 512.00
7 Gurley Ralph Randolph; Sumner Charles

Address of the Managers of the American Colonization Society, to the People of the United States

Washington; New York 1832; 1861; 1866 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,024.00
8 Seale Bobby; Newton Huey P.

6 Items, including: Ball & Chain Review

San Francisco; Palo Alto, California; New Jersey 1969; 1971; 1985 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 448.00
9

An Act to Perpetuate Testimony in cases of Slaves abducted or harbored by the Enemy

Richmond, Virginia 1861 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,088.00
10 Buttre J.C.

Engraved portrait of the Rev. Francis Burns

Cincinnati 1859 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 128.00
11

7 Books, including: Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Ninth Congress of the United States; Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion's Herald; National Intelligencer; New-York Daily Times; The Reports of the Committees of the House of Representatives

New-York; Washington; Gunnison 1807-1881 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 320.00
12 Bungay George W.; Fisher George P.; Smith Gerrit

13 Items, including: The London Chronicle; Epistle From the Yearly Meeting; The Anti-Slavery Record; Herald of Freedom; Emancipator and Free American; Democratic Standard and Whig of '76; Alton Telegraph-Extra; New-York Weekly Tribune; Cabinet card of Wen

London; Concord; Boston; Cincinnati; New York 1786-1863 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 704.00
13 Du Bois W.E.B.

Typed Letter

New York 1913 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,408.00
14

Manuscript Receipt; Manuscript Appraisal Document; Partially-Printed Tax Receipt

Newport; Frederick County; Petersburg 1760; 1789; 1861 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,152.00
15

Chancery Sale of Town Property & A Slave!

Springfield 1858 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,880.00
16 Rogers Henry C.

Partially-Printed Document

St. Paul 1867 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 57,600.00
17 Douglass Frederick

Frederick Douglass' Paper

Rochester 1860 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,880.00
18 Johnson R.M.

Congressional Joint Resolution; Report On colonizing the free people of colour of the United States; The Examiner--Extra; Liberia As It Is; Statute Laws of Liberia From 1957 to 1974-75

Washington; Philadelphia; Monrovia 1817; 1835; 1853; 1957-1975 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 448.00
19

7 General Orders

Folly Island; Montgomery; Raleigh 1864-1866 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 448.00
20

Isaac and Rosa, Emancipated Slave Children, From the Free Schools of Louisiana

New York 1863 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,176.00
21

Come to the Mass Civil Rights Rally; 5 Books, including: My Ordeal In Oxford

Philadelphia 1966 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,560.00
22

Two Hundred and Fifty Dollar Special Complete Protection Whole Life Policy

Jacksonville 1939 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 256.00
23

New-Hampshire Gazette

Portsmouth 1831 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,880.00
24 Franklin Benjamin

Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks

New York 1789 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,152.00
25

The Boston-Gazette and Country Journal

Watertown 1775 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 640.00
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.