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Fleischer's Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Day 1: Historic Americana & African American History
Auction Date
04/25/2025 - 04/25/2025
Sale Number
#18140
Total Lots
236
Sold Lots
229
Lots Sold
97.03%
Unsold Lots
7
Total Sales (USD)
690,031.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
188,750.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
361,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
197,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
377,000.00
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
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
122

[SLAVERY] The Scourged Back

 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
200

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

 6 July 1864. USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,250.00
154

[SLAVERY] 1862 "Fugitive Negroes Fording Rappahannock"

 1862 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 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
259

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] Matthew Brady & Prominent Group

 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
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
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    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
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