AUCTION  / 

Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

Auction CurrencyUSD Auction LocationPO Drawer 821, Yonkers, New York, 10702, United States

Auction Details

Original Historical Documents, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Autographs, Letters, Newspapers, Photographs, Ephemera, Coins, Postal History, and more. 20 Subjects include: Americana, Aviation, Black History, Colonial, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Jazz, Maps & Atlases, Medieval & Religion, Naval & Military, Numismatics, Old Letters, Presidents & Politics, Transportation, World Wars I & II ... and more.
< Prev# Rows102050100Next >123. . .1011121314. . .171819
 Choose Your Layout > Switch to Grid View Switch to List View
"Oh! ny name is Darkey Sam...."1008"Oh! ny name is Darkey Sam...."
Cohasco, Inc.
Civil War period pro-abolition songsheet, "The Contraband's Adventures," printed by Charles Magnus. Judged pre-Emancipation Proclamati...
Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 120.00
Lament of a Southern Black on "Bobolition."1009Lament of a Southern Black on "Bobolition."
Cohasco, Inc.
Civil War period songsheet intended for the Northerner craving peace but not necessarily abolition. "Young Eph's Lament," combination ...
Start Price : 40.00 | Estimate : 80.00 - 110.00
Satirizing Blacks' Tools as Contraband of War.1010Satirizing Blacks' Tools as Contraband of War.
Cohasco, Inc.
Unusual pair of Union patriotics, postally unused, with same multi-color artwork and fine text - but different titles and subtitles. One entitled &q...
Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 120.00
"Prince Sauce-pan."1011"Prince Sauce-pan."
Cohasco, Inc.
Satirical Union patriotic, with full-height pseudo-ambrotype of a plump black soldier, with epaulettes, sword dragging on the ground, "C.S.A.&q...
Start Price : 25.00 | Estimate : 50.00 - 70.00
A Cry for Freedom.1012A Cry for Freedom.
Cohasco, Inc.
Union patriotic cover, postally unused, with blistering cameo-like anti-slavery woodcut of kneeling slave, in chains, being whipped by his master in t
Start Price : 22.00 | Estimate : 45.00 - 65.00
Guaranteeing the Eyesight of a Teenage Slave.1013Guaranteeing the Eyesight of a Teenage Slave.
Cohasco, Inc.
Manuscript bill of sale for $550 for "Negro Girl Edny, aged about Sixteen Years, the sight and title of Said girl I warrant and defend against ...
Start Price : 70.00 | Estimate : 140.00 - 180.00
Rare Volume of Black Poet.1014Rare Volume of Black Poet.
Cohasco, Inc.
Advance copy of Survival, by Herbert Simmons, twentieth-century black poet and one of the earliest black genre crime writers. Self-published by his Wa
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 225.00
"Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement."1015"Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement."
Cohasco, Inc.
Printed "Biographical Sketch" of Rosa Parks, boldly signed in blue at top. 8 1/2 x 11, on cream linen. Possibly prepared by Rosa and Raymo...
Estimate : 140.00 - 180.00
Sold to CMB for 96.40
The Revered - and Forgotten - Protectors of Rights of Newly-Freed Black Plantation Workers.1016The Revered - and Forgotten - Protectors of Rights of Newly-Freed Black Plantation Workers.
Cohasco, Inc.
Printed Circular No. 4, Headquarters, Beaufort, N.C., Apr. 1, 1864, issued by Brig. Gen. and Military Gov. R(ufus) Saxton. The personal copy of his ai
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
"The problem of the Negro."1017"The problem of the Negro."
Cohasco, Inc.
Printed playbill for small-town screening of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," Gardner (probably Mass.) Theatre, Apr. 3-5, 1916...
Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 120.00
Civil War Black Caricatures in Postwar Pulp Amusement.1018Civil War Black Caricatures in Postwar Pulp Amusement.
Cohasco, Inc.
Satirical Black humor set in Civil War, Fred Douglas and his Mule; A Story of the War, by Bricktop, published by M.J. Ivers & Co., N.Y., 1888, 5...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 190.00
"The signal for the uprising of the Southern States."1019"The signal for the uprising of the Southern States."
Cohasco, Inc.
"Soldiers & Sailors Almanac for 1869, and History of the Late Rebellion from 1860 to 1865," Soldiers' & Sailors' Publishin...
Start Price : 85.00 | Estimate : 170.00 - 220.00
"To divide the negroes...."1020"To divide the negroes...."
Cohasco, Inc.
Manuscript document dated midpoint between the Emancipation Proclamation and fall of the South. Alabama, Feb. 13, 1864, 6 x 7 1/4, on Confederate-grey
Estimate : 70.00 - 100.00
Sold to brsko for 120.50
Colored Infantry to a Freedmens Bureau Outpost in Arkansas.1021Colored Infantry to a Freedmens Bureau Outpost in Arkansas.
Cohasco, Inc.
Scarce, somewhat crudely printed Special Orders, Head-Quarters, District West Tenn., Memphis, Aug. 1, 1865, 7 x 8 3/4. Listing men relieved from duty
Start Price : 55.00 | Estimate : 110.00 - 140.00
"Bobb a slave" Jailed for 244 Days.1022"Bobb a slave" Jailed for 244 Days.
Cohasco, Inc.
Highly unusual manuscript document, Cahaba (Ala.), May 17, 1854, 7 x 8. Bill for keeping "Bobb a slave...244 Days in Jail at 30C/ pr. Day...Con...
Start Price : 80.00 | Estimate : 160.00 - 200.00
Big Charlotte and Little Charlotte - for hire.1023Big Charlotte and Little Charlotte - for hire.
Cohasco, Inc.
Manuscript "Account of the hire of the negroes for the year 1837, belonging to Jas. C. Irving'?], dec(ease)d...," listing ten slaves a...
Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 130.00
Disapproved for Freedmens Hospital!1024Disapproved for Freedmens Hospital!
Cohasco, Inc.
A.L.S. of Asst. Surg(eon) W.H. Miles, 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry, Freedmens Hospital, Home Farm, La., Mar. 1, 1865, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4. To Lt. Col. A.L. Mi
Start Price : 65.00 | Estimate : 130.00 - 160.00
"The Pinetown Darky Debating Society."1025"The Pinetown Darky Debating Society."
Cohasco, Inc.
Pulp book of popular literature of the Gilded Age, including black, German-, and Irish-American parodies - and Shakespearean excerpts! Dick's Re...
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 130.00
Congo Chocolate Cards.1026Congo Chocolate Cards.
Cohasco, Inc.
Scarce group of 11 different color candy cards, "Notre Congo / Onze Kongo," issued c. 1948 by Jacques Superchocolat, text on verso in Fren...
Start Price : 20.00 | Estimate : 40.00 - 60.00
"Their Voodoism and magic charms...."1027"Their Voodoism and magic charms...."
Cohasco, Inc.
Two interesting pamphlets: "Slave-Conversion in South Carolina, 1830-1860," by Susan Markey Fickling, issued as a "Bulletin of the Un...
Start Price : 25.00 | Estimate : 50.00 - 70.00