Nov 04, 2010 - Sale 2228

Sale 2228 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ABOLITIONIST ALBUM DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Autograph Quotation dated and Signed, six lines on a page in an autograph album containing approximately 35 Signatures, or Autograph Inscriptions Signed, by 19th-century abolitionists and others. Most written one to a page. 8vo, gilt pictorial morocco, very worn with front board detached and backstrip perished; some dampstaining on front and rear blanks. Vp, vd

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Frederick Douglass. AQS: "Right is of no sex, truth is of no color. We are the equal children of a common Father and all men are Brothers." Np, 31 March 1868 Wife and two daughers of John Brown: Mary Ann Day Brown. Signature ("Mrs. John Brown") and date; Sarah Brown. Signature and date; Ellen Brown Fablinger. Signature and date. [Saratoga], 17 June 1881 John S. Adams. Autograph Inscription Signed, "Accept the kind regards of your friend, J.S. Adams." Np, nd J. Renwick Thompson. Signature. Np, nd Frances E.W. Harper. Signature; faded. Franklin Co., OH, nd Wife of Samuel Morse: Sarah E[lizabeth] Morse. Signature. Craftsbury, VT, nd Aaron M. Powell. AQS: "All of every nationality are children of the loving All-Father; all should [be] helpers of each other; thus shall a true Christian civilization be attained." Np, nd others.