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Fleischer's Auctions: Day 1: Historic Americana & African American History

Auction Reports

Auction Name Day 1: Historic Americana & African American History Total Sales (USD) 690,031.25
Auction Date April 25, 2025 - April 25, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 188,750.00
Sale Number #18140 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 361,000.00
Total Lots 236
Sold Lots 229.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 197,000.00
% of Lots Sold 97.03% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 377,000.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 183.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] Washington Signed Officer's Commission & Portrait

 USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 53,750.00
46

[MORMON] Diaries of Augustus Chetlain, 1867-1873

 1867-1873 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 48,750.00
25

[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE] 1833 Force Printing

 1833 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 46,250.00
167

[AFRICAN AMERICANA] Enslaved Guide of Mammoth Cave, CDV Album

 n.d. USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 38,750.00
253

[AMBROTYPE] Rehn Portrait of a Photographer w/ Camera

 ca 1854. USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 28,750.00
53

[TEXAS] Heartsill's "Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army"

 [1876] USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 26,250.00
9

[JEFFERSON, THOMAS] Signed 1824 Letter re: Univ. of Virginia

 1824 USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,250.00
122

[SLAVERY] The Scourged Back

 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,000.00
123

[ABOLITION] Signed Sojourner Truth CDV

 1864 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,000.00
124

[LINCOLN] 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Pamphlet

 1862 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,000.00
66

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] Alexander Gardner "Mountain Man" Self-Portrait

 [1863]. USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 16,250.00
154

[SLAVERY] 1862 "Fugitive Negroes Fording Rappahannock"

 1862 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 11,250.00
200

[LINCOLN] Lincoln Signed Officer's Commission for Rufus Ingalls

 6 July 1864. USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,250.00
212

[CIVIL WAR] Adm. Fyffe Grouping ft. Arctic Medal

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,625.00
83

[SLAVERY] Massive NC Slave-Owning Family Archive

 1804 to 1869 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,000.00
230

[WWII] Top Secret Invasion Plans of Okinawa

 1945 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 9,375.00
205

[LINCOLN] Frederick Douglass 1865 Lecture on Lincoln's Assassination

 1865 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,750.00
196

[LINCOLN] Lincoln Signature w/ Biography & John Wilkes Booth CDV

 1866 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,125.00
11

[SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI] Identified Member's Gold Eagle

 early 20th century. USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,875.00
132

[AFRICAN AMERICANA] Sketch by Formerly Enslaved Boy, 55th USCT

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 6,875.00
259

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] Matthew Brady & Prominent Group

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,875.00
47

[MEXICO] Second Mexican Empire, Maximilian I CDV Album

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,250.00
4

[COLONIAL AMERICA] 18th c. North Carolina Land Grant Archive

 18th c. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 5,625.00
197

[GETTYSBURG ADDRESS] 20 Nov. 1863 New York Tribune

 1863 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,625.00
70

[NATIVE AMERICANS] Impressive Group of Ten (10) Native American Cabinet Cards

 c. 1890-1910 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,312.50
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  • <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.
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    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.
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.