Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2697, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [Corydon C. Randall, photographer?]

(ABOLITION.) One of the last carte-de-visite portraits taken of Sojourner Truth

[Detroit, MI?] [11 April 1882?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
2

(ABOLITION.) "Am I Not a Man and a Brother" wax seal fob. Relief image in red stone (carnelian?)

London? circa 1790s-early 1800s USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
3

(ABOLITION.) An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered . . . for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade

London 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
4

(ABOLITION.) An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered . . . for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade (second edition)

London 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
5 Maria Cowper.

(ABOLITION.) Letter of a wealthy English woman describing her opposition to the slave trade

No place 20 December 1791 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
6 Thomas Clarkson.

(ABOLITION.) History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

Philadelphia 1808 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
7 [Thomas Fisher.]

(ABOLITION.) The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, by an Abolitionist

London 1825 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
8 David Walker.

(ABOLITION.) Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World

Boston 1830 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
9 Richard Allen of Dublin.

(ABOLITION.) Letter announcing "The cause is won!!" after the final passage of emancipation by Parliament

London 22 May 1838 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
10

(ABOLITION.) "Alas the poor Africans!": a lawyer is congratulated upon joining the defense team for the Amistad captives

Philadelphia 14 September 1839 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
11 Wilson Armistead.

(ABOLITION.) A Tribute for the Negro, being a Vindication of the . . . Coloured Portion of Mankind

England 1848 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Unknown
12

(ABOLITION.) The first (and only?) issue of a colonization newspaper, "The Separationist, and Advocate of Freedom."

Indianapolis, IN November 1849 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
13

(ABOLITION.) Run of the Anti-Slavery Bugle

Salem, OH January to December 1850 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
14

(ABOLITION.) Turn Out! Turn Out!! No Compromise with Slavery!!!

Oswego, NY 3 May 1850 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
15

(ABOLITION.) Uncle Tom's Cabin bandanna

No place circa 1850s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
16 John G. Whittier and Manuel Emelio.

(ABOLITION.) Little Eva Song: Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel

Massachusetts 1852 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
17

(ABOLITION.) Cabinet card portrait of the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet

Brooklyn, NY circa 1876-1878 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 Unknown
18 Richard D. Webb.

(ABOLITION.) The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown

London 1861 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
19

(ABOLITION.) Early Southern printing of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in an issue of "The New South."

Port Royal, SC 4 October 1862 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
20

(ABOLITION.) Letter describing two refugee women being violently removed from a Washington Civil War camp. Autograph Letter Signed from William Schouler to an unidentified major

Washington 24 October [1864] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
21 E.G. Hutchins, artist.

(ABOLITION.) The American Crisis of 1864

White Plains, NY 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
22

(ABOLITION.) General Granger's "Juneteenth" order, in an issue of the New York Herald

New York 7 July 1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
23

(ABOLITION--HAITI.) Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo

Mexico 1806 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
24

(ABOLITION--MONTSERRAT.) Compensation claim for slaves registered in Montserrat at the time of abolition

London circa 1834 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
25

(ABOLITION--MEXICO.) Dictamen de la comision de esclavos

Mexico 1821 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown