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August 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, August 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/29/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #45: Albert Einstein Letter Signed in 1935 -- ''The hostile attitude of universities towards Jewish teaching staff and students has been increasing...similar to the German Jews in the time before Hitler''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1934 -- ''...All this is the result of the Hitler-insanity, which has completely ruined the lives of all those around me...''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1921, Regarding Anti-Semitism in Germany -- ''...I am supposed to go to Munich, but I will not do that, because this would endanger my life right now...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Albert Einstein Letter Signed During WWII -- ''The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive...our readiness to help one another is being put to an especially severe test''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: Hand-Colored Campaign Banner for the 1848 Free Soil Presidential Ticket That Opposed Slavery & Swung the Election to Zachary Taylor -- Featuring Martin Van Buren & Lithographed by Nathaniel Currier

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #118: David Ben-Gurion Signed Limited Edition of ''Israel: A Personal History''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $3,661

• Lot #125: Nelson Mandela Signed Luxury First Edition of His Celebrated Autobiography ''Long Walk to Freedom'' -- Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Margaret Thatcher's Personally Owned Holy Bible, Presented to Her as Prime Minister

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #153: Sabine Baring-Gould Autograph Lyrics Signed to His Iconic Hymn, ''Onward, Christian Soldiers''

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #154: First Edition of ''Slavery and the Constitution'' by William Bowditch -- Rare 1849 Anti-Slavery Treatise by One of the Leaders of the Underground Railroad

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #155: Frederick Douglass Document Signed as Recorder of Deeds

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #156: Pope John Paul II Signed German Bible -- Signed During His Historic Trip to Germany in 1980

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #157: Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Airplane Boarding Pass -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #158: British Air Force Booklet Written in Response to the 1936 Arab Revolt in Palestine -- ''Notes on Tactical Lessons of the Palestine Rebellion, 1936''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #159: Rare British Counter-Terrorism Pamphlet for Palestine -- Published December 1946

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #160: New Orleans Slave Receipt From 1853 -- Disturbing Bill of Sale From a Slave Auction at the St. Louis Exchange Hotel Itemizes Several Slaves With Purchase Price, Signed by the Auctioneer

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #161: Booker T. Washington Signed First Printing of His First Major Publication, ''The Future of the American Negro'' -- Inscribed to Massachusetts Notable Arthur T. Lyman

  

  Min Bid: $5,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #163: Rare Frederick Douglass Lecture

  

  Min Bid: $24,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #179: First Edition, First Printing of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Scarcest Variant of the First Printing, in Publisher's Wrappers

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #180: Superb Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Slavery -- ''...Nothing more is needed than to awaken the attention of the public to an expose of the slave law system...''

  

  Min Bid: $21,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: Evelyn Waugh Signed First Edition of His Heralded Biography ''The Life of Ronald Knox''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #248: Carole Lombard Personally Owned & Monogrammed Bible

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass