Swann Printed & Manuscript African Americana
MARCH 28
Preview: March 23, 12-5;
March 25 to 27, 10-6;
March 28, 10-12
104 East 25th St,
New York, NY 10010 •

Specialist: Rick Stattler • rstattler@swanngalleries.com
David Ruggles, The Mirror of Liberty, first issue of the first magazine edited by an African-American, New York, 1838. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, edited by Victor H. Green, New York, 1958. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500.
Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, London, 1773. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
Benjamin Banneker, Bannaker’s Maryland . . . Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1796, Baltimore, 1795. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
Important archive of letters and photographs of artist Charles White and his wife Frances Barrett White, Pasadena, CA, 1956-60. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Dramatic file on an American military deserter trying
to gain asylum with Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria, 1971. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.
Frederick Douglass, previously unknown carte-de-visite by Samuel M. Fassett, Washington DC, 1878. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Stock certificate of the Negro Factories Corporation, signed by Marcus Garvey, 1920. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
Ambrotype of Caesar, an officer’s servant near Washington, 1862. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500.
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