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An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency Of the American Colonization, and American Anti-Slavery Societies
by Jay, William
THE MARTYR AGE IN THE UNITED STATES
by MARTINEAU, Harriet
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co (and Otis), Broaders and Co/ NY: John S Taylor, 1839. First Edition, this appeared in the UK in 1840. 12mo, pp. 84. Bound in original printed wraps (rear detatched), with several nicks and marginal tears, not affecting any text. Lightly soiled but a good copy. Scarce, we have not seen this before. Afro Americana 6389. Reprinted from the Westminster Review, Matineau reports on the activities of the Boston Famale Anti-Slavery Society.This is a review of "Right and wrong in...
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£291.02
KANSAS; ITS INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR LIFE; Including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc.
by ROBINSON, Sara T[appan] L[awrence]
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Samson Low, 1856. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 366. Engraved frontispiece. Bookplate of "Carlingford" on the end paper. Bound in later 3/4 calf and marble boards, a very good clean tight copy. Rampaging Herd #1921; Rader 2F04; Sabin 72178; Wagner-Camp 380a; Afro-Americana 8934. Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson (née Lawrence) was the wife of the first governor of Kansas, Charles Robinson (1818-1894). This book has been described by the Kansas historian F. W. Blackmar as "one of the...
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£670.64
AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Sketch of Life and Labors of Miss Catherine S.
by LAWRENCE, Catherine S
Albany, NY: Amasa J Parker, 1893. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 175. Bound in little worn publisher's cloth, stains on rear e.p., front hinge loose, a good copy. The scarce first edition. Lawrence was an ardent abolitionist and temperane worker. She labored as a nurse during the civil war and wrote this book to supplement her $12 monthly pension.
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£291.02
KANSAS; ITS INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR LIFE; Including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc.
by ROBINSON, Sara T[appan] L[awrence]
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Samson Low, 1856. Sixth Edition. 8vo, pp. 366. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in publisher's cloth (little worn at the top of the spine), a very good clean tight copy. Rampaging Herd #1921; Rader 2F04; Sabin 72178; Wagner-Camp 380a; Afro-Americana 8934. Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson (née Lawrence) was the wife of the first governor of Kansas, Charles Robinson (1818-1894). This book has been described by the Kansas historian F. W. Blackmar as "one of the best works on the...
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£156.89
A World On Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by FOREMAN, Amanda
New York: Random House, 2010. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good. Illustrated in black and white. xlvi, 958 pages. Thick 8vo, black boards, d.w. (head and corners bumped, small scratch at rear). New York: Random House, (2010). First American Edition. Corners, head, and tail bumped -- internally clean and tight. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>
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£12.19
Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave
by BLAKE, William
London: Joseph Johnson, 1793. unbound. very good(+). William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Sheet toned and shows minor foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" (London: Joseph Johnson, 1796). This book, with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World, became an important reference for early...
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£609.68
Autograph Letter Signed
by GILMORE, James Roberts (1822 - 1903)
New York, 1891. unbound. fine. Fine content A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages, New York, Jan. 11th 1891, to his publisher, in part: "...I have written out a brief account of a young Confederate, who is worthy to be remembered. If you like it, I can send another, of about the same length, in regard to Joseph Sowards, a Union scout who acted for Garfield in his East Kentucky campaign, and whose career had in it many resemblances to that of 'Harry Birch' in Cooper's "Spy". I had the story...
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£284.52
A Surinam Planter in his Morning Dress
by BLAKE, William
London: Joseph Johnson. unbound. very good(+). William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Shows light toning and minor foxing at edges, otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" (London: Joseph Johnson, 1796). This book, with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World, became an important reference for early...
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£528.38
A private Marine of Col. Fourgeoud's Corps
by BLAKE, William
London: Joseph Johnson, 1793. unbound. very good(+). William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Minor toning and light foxing at edges, otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" (London: Joseph Johnson, 1796). This book, with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World, became an important reference for early...
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£487.74
A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows
by BLAKE, William
London: Joseph Johnson, 1792. unbound. very good(+). William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Shows light toning and minor foxing at edges, otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" (London: Joseph Johnson, 1796). This book, with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World, became an important reference for early...
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Slavery and Human Progress
by DAVIS, David Brion
hardcover. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Oxford UP, 1984. vg<br/> <br/>
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£12.19
The Works of John Woolman, in Two Parts
by WOOLMAN, John
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1774. hardcover. very good(-). xiv, 436 pages. 8vo, full contemporary calf, leather rather worn but sound, some light foxing, front flyleaf lacking bottom half. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1774. First Collected Edition. "Includes his famous Journal, of which innumerable separate editions, both American and English, have since appeared. An autobiographical masterpiece, rivalled in 18th century America only by that of Franklin." Howes W-669....
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£812.90
Autographed Letter Signed as President of Harvard University
by QUINCY, Josiah (1772 - 1864)
Cambridge, 1840. unbound. 1 page, 9.75 x 8 inches, Cambridge, December 1, 1840. Writing to his friend, acclaimed physician and fellow alumni, Samuel Bayard Woodward, soon after the suspension of his son Rufus, who has since returned to Harvard, in full: "Your son did right in returning. It is not our custom to notify any student, under his circumstances, of the time when he should return -- it depends on the will of his friends, if he returns at all. It gives me great pleasure to state that your...
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£325.16
I've Got a Home in Glory Land; A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by FROST, Karolyn Smardz
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illus. 450pp. 8vo, yellow boards, d.w. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, (2007). Near Fine<br/> <br/>
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£10.67
Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes; With some Advice thereon,; extracted from the Epistle of the Yearly-Meeting of the People called Quakers, held at London in the Year 1748
by (BENEZET, Anthony)
Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760. Second. hardcover. very good(-). 16 pages. Slim 8vo, rebound in later 1/2 black leather, spine and edges of boards worn, small light dampstain to margins, small amount of light foxing, inner hinge weak. Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760. Second edition. A very good(-) copy.<br/> <br/> Benezet was a leading Quaker abolitionist from Philadelphia. He was a friend of John Woolman. For many years Benezet was a teacher. He founded schools for the education...
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£1,585.16
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
by KEMBLE, Frances Anne
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First. hardcover. very good(-). 337 pages + 10 pages of ads at rear. Thick 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth; spine faded & extremities worn; scattered faint stains and small spots in the text. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First American edition, first issue ("about" repeated on page 314, line 6). A very good(-) copy.<br/> <br/> FIRST PRINTING OF THE WORD "VEGETARIAN" (page 198) -- "If I had had to be my...
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£243.87
A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed
by BLAKE, William
London: Joseph Johnson. unbound. very good(+). William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Minor toning and light foxing at edges, otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" (London: Joseph Johnson, 1796). This book, with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World, became an important reference for early...
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£609.68
Autograph Letter Signed
by TILTON, Theodore (1835-1907)
Brooklyn, 1868. unbound. very good(+). A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages, Brooklyn, New York, December 5, 1868, written while he was an assistant to Henry Ward Beecher, in part: "... I have been carrying for three or four days long in my pocket the money to pay my life insurance, until the eleventh, as you see, is half worn out. This is to introduce my wife, who will call to fetch it and pay and get a receipt. I am off on a lecture program..." *Letters with any mention of Tilton's wife while he was in...
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£121.93
![Plate 163, Part of Section 8 [Washington Heights]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/006/936/1407936006.0.b.jpg)
Plate 163, Part of Section 8 [Washington Heights]
by BROMLEY, George W. and BROMLEY, Walter S
Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley, 1925. Map. Original Lithograph. 11 1/4" x 16 1/4"<br/> <br/> This ward map of Manhattan shows the area from W. 157th Street to W 163nd Street, Riverside Drive to Broadway. On the verso, it depicts from Broadway to Amsterdam. Notably, a wooden structure is visible on Riverside Drive between 160th and 158th Streets. This structure, 857 Riverside Dr., was built in 1851, possibly by John Woodhouse Audubon, son of the famous naturalist. The property was owned...
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£101.61
![The Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown, Known As Old Brown Of Ossawatomie, with a Full Account of the Attempted Insurrection at Harper's Ferry [LEATHER BINDING with SLIPCASE]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/083/155/1567155083.0.b.jpg)
The Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown, Known As Old Brown Of Ossawatomie, with a Full Account of the Attempted Insurrection at Harper's Ferry [LEATHER BINDING with SLIPCASE]
by [Brown, John]
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1859 (2017). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Originally published by Robert M. DeWitt, Publisher of New York in 1859 this is a high quality facsimilie reprint beautifully done by the Easton Press in a LIMITED EDITION of 600 copies, of which this is # 137. Apparently produced by the publisher originally to meet the demand for information on the daring raid that abolitionist John Brown (1800 - 1859) conducted on Harper's Ferry in an attempt to foment a slave...
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£203.18
THE EGO AND ITS DEFENSES
by Laughlin, Henry P
NY: Appleton Century Crofts. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ. 1st edition. 9"x6". 570pp.. (1970). 1st edition.. Hardcover. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). FEP with author SIGNED 1971 4 line gift inscription. DJ with up to 1" closed tears. .
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£32.52
