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ABOLITION
generally,
“BLACK STUDIES”
Quintessential 19th-Century Evangelical Literature — With Anderson Illustrations 
American Tract Society. The publications of the American tract society.
Vol. I. New York: American Tract Society, [1826]. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). [4], 404 pp.; illus.
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the
first 33 tracts published by the ATS, including 
“The
Happy Negro,” “The Dairyman's Daughter,”
the popular “Evils of Excessive Drinking,” and Hannah More's “Shepherd
of Salisbury Plain” and “Parley the Porter.” These pieces
are illustrated with
25
wood-engravings, one of which is signed by Alexander Anderson;
Pomeroy identifies at least two others as having come from Anderson's hand.
Provenance: Front free endpaper and fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscription of James [Brown?]; title-page with pencilled inscription of Mary M. Bancroft.
• Shoemaker 23503; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 777. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; moderately rubbed overall, spine moreso, leather tender at front joint. Vol. I only (of 12), though, of course, complete as “what it is.” Ownership inscriptions as above. Light to moderate foxing and spotting/staining; one leaf with paper flaw resulting in ragged lower outer portion. (29705)
A
Southerner
Calls forABOLITION
in 1767
(Anti-Slavery
Statement published in 18th-Century VIRGINIA). [Lee, Arthur].
[drop-title] Extract from an address in the Virginia Gazette, of March 19, 1767.
[Philadelphia?: Pr. by Joseph Crukshank?, 1780?]. Small 12mo. 4 pp.
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the image for an enlargement.
• Evans 16773; Hildeburn, The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685–1784, 4006. Five-digit number stamped above the title; pp. 1 and 2 separated from 3 and 4, and gutter margin repaired, reattaching the halves. Semicircular tear in lower, inside area of all pages, costing a total of 9 or 10 words.
An
Address tothe
“Livery”(Abolition).
To the livery of London. [London, 1791?]. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25").
24 pp. (lacking pp. 9–16).
• Not in ESTC. Marbled paper–covered boards, old style, front cover with printed paper label. Lacking pp. 9–16. Pages cockled and slightly browned; edges untrimmed.
Back
to Africa?
American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. [drop-title] Memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. January 14, 1817. Read and ordered to lie on the table. [Washington: William A. Davis, 1817]. 8vo. 5 pp. 
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the image to the left • Shaw & Shoemaker 42652. Removed from a nonce volume; inner edge slightly irregular. Leaves once separated, now re-attached at inner edge with transparent tape. Clean, with only a little darkening along inner margins. (18246)
A
Dobson Printing
of
Asplund's
Annual Register
Anti-Slavery
Content
Asplund, John. The annual register of the Baptist denomination, in North-America; to the first of November, 1790. Containing an account of the churches and their constitutions, ministers, members, associations, their plan and sentiments, rule and order, proceedings and correspondence. Also remarks upon practical religion. [Philadelphia: Pr. by Thomas Dobson, 1792]. Small 4to. iv, 5-57, [1], 69-70 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. As is the case with the 70 p. issue, the first 16 p. are the same sheets as appear in the original [Richmond, April 1792] edition (Evans 26580), and were probably printed in 1791. Evans, however, postulates that the first 16 p. were printed by Dobson in September 1792. He accounts for their presence in copies of the [Richmond] edition of 60 p. by suggesting that Asplund substituted the corrected Philadelphia sheets for the unsatisfactory sheets of the earlier edition. Cf. the prefaces to the 1794 and 1796 editions, with title: The universal register of the Baptist denomination.”
In addition to its exhaustive account of who's who and what's where, this lists both principles of belief and “Rules of Decorum”; the latter, e.g., forbid laughing and whispering when another member of the association is speaking in assembly. Between the “Rules of Decorum” and the Index, Asplund remarks on the un-Christian “inconsistency” of “Keeping our fellow-creatures in bondage, who have as good a right was we, both to civil and religions liberty — Not only so; but misusing them, concerning common blessings, which certainly is a violation of the rights of nature and inconsistent with a republican government.”
• Evans 26582; ESTC W37302. Uncut copy. In 20th-century black buckram binding. Ex-library with bookplate but no other markings. (24467)
Letters to a
Sister
in Stockholm — A Swedish Feminist
AmericaBremer, Fredrika. The homes of the New World; impressions of America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 12mo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). 2 vols. I: xii, 651, [1 (blank)] pp. II: 654,2 (adv.) pp.
Click the image to the left The first London edition appeared in three volumes, but the present edition in two, as stated on the title-page.
• Howes B-745. Publisher’s charcoal blind-stamped cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; cloth showing mild wear overall, with spine gilt attractively oxidized. Front free endpapers with pencilled owner’s inscription dated 1869. Pages slightly age-toned, with scattered small spots of staining. Quite a nice set.
ExplainingHaiti to the U.S. in 1837 Brown, Jonathan. The history and present condition of St. Domingo. Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., 1837. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). 2 vols. I: iv, 307 pp. II: 289 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's brown ribbon-embossed cloth with original paper spine labels.
• Sabin 8530; Palau 36231; Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 1701. On binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, Fs 1. Publisher's cloth, light spotting on covers with spine label of one volume chipped and the other faded; discoloration to head of spine head, vol. I, and strips of black cloth tape at head of spine and onto boards of vol. II. Ex–social club library: each volume with a 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Title-page and front free endpaper of vol. I neatly joined/reinforced with old paper tape; a firm, decent set. (26410)
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He Tried. Burrows, Julius C. Civil rights. Speech of Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, February 5, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. 12mo. 10 pp.
• Very good. Removed from a nonce volume. (936)
Davis Himself
on the Civil War
— Many
Plates &
Maps
Davis,
Jefferson. The rise and fall of the Confederate government.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). 2 vols. I: xxi,
[3], 707, [5 (adv.)] pp.; 9 plts., 1 map. II: xvii, [3], 808, [4 (adv.)] pp.;
10 plts., 13 fold. maps.
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the images for enlargements.
• Howes D120. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, covers framed in blind with central gilt-stamped horse and rider medallion on front, spines with gilt-stamped title; edges/extremities lightly rubbed and spines each with a patch lightened (moreso to vol. I). Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, title-pages rubber-stamped. Minor offsetting from some plates, pages otherwise clean. (26900)
Proudly American Liberal Arts — The Port Folio's Debut Dennie, Joseph, ed. The port folio. Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1801. 4to (32.2 cm, 12.7"). [8], 416 pp. (lacking pp. 103/04, 11/12, 255–64, 271/72, 339/40).
Click the images for enlargements. diatribe
against the phrase “people of colour” (and in defense of slavery),
original poetry, theatrical and musical reviews, a humorous brief on how most
efficiently to inconvenience other people in the coffee-house, on the street,
or at the play-house, and many other items. This collection, which contains
51 of the 52 issues of 1801, includes theoriginal
prospectus (with a handful of names
pencilled in the “names” column provided at the close).
This volume is in the large ambitious quarto format of the journal's first years, not the octavo format of the later, “New Series”
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked presentation inscription to New Salem Academy from the Honorable Ethan Allen Greenwood (1779–1856), the Massachusetts lawyer who established the New England Museum.
• Sabin 64182. Contemporary quarter sheep and light blue
paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and
gilt-stamped date; rubbed and stained overall, spine leather with cracks and
chips, spine head with remnants of small paper label, refurbished: spine caps
readhered, front cover reattached, edges reinforced, leather consolidated.
Front free endpaper with inscription as above. A later hand has laid in a
number of leaves of annotations and commentary on various pieces herein, along
with some account of the lacking portions; occasional pencilled annotations
in text as well. One leaf with inner margin neatly reinforced; some tears
repaired and loose leaves secured. Pages occasionally creased; varying degrees
of browning and foxing. Outer edges trimmed closely, occasionally with loss
of final letters. Upper portion of one leaf torn away, with loss of weekly
header and about three paragraphs of text; one leaf chipped along fold, with
loss of several letters; lower outer portion of one leaf torn away, with loss
of roughly two paragraphs. Nos. 13, 14, 32, and 34 each lacking final leaf;
no. 33 lacking. Pp. 395/96 bound in out of order. Several pieces of dried
plant matter laid in at various points. This
volume of the Port Folio is as
meaty and full of just plain interesting stuff as they all were, despite its
lacking bits; and, it represents the journal's beginnings.
(29227)
“Apology”
NOT Accepted!
[Dexter, Franklin]. A letter to the Hon. Samuel
A. Eliot, representative in Congress from the city of Boston, in reply to his
apology for voting for the fugitive slave bill. Boston: Wm. Crosby & H.P.
Nichols, 1851. 8vo. 57 pp.
First
edition.
• Sabin 19890; Dumond 63. Sewn, in original printed wrappers, slightly chipped. Five-digit number stamped on front wrapper, and a neat paper label at upper left corner. A very nice copy.
The Party of Lincoln
Ferry, Orris S.
Speech of Orris S. Ferry, of Connecticut. Delivered in the House of Representatives,
February 10, 1860. [Washington?: 1860]. 8vo. 7, [1] pp. Uncut and unopenned.
(1068)
• Folded, never bound.
New York's Gubernatorial Election 1820 — The Issue of Slavery “Forty Thousands”. Broadside. Begins, “To the 40 gentlemen who have addressed the independent federal electors of the state of New-York.” New York state: no publisher/printer, [1820]. Folio (34 cm, 12.75"). [1] f. (verso blank).
Nearly half of the text deals with the slavery issue. Ends as follows, “We shall not vote for Mr. Tompkins. This is the voice, not merely of forty, but of FORTY THOUSANDS.” A window into a turbulent period in New York politics
Rare. Not located via OCLC.
• Not in Shoemaker. As issued, with some later folds; edges a little irregular. Lightly foxed. (24634)
What You Saw Depended
onWhere You Stood
Giddings, [Joshua
R.]. [drop-title] Privilege of the representative -- Privilege
of the people. Speech of Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, on the trial of Preston
S. Brooks,
for an assault on Senator Sumner. Before the House of Representatives,
July 11, 1856. [Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1856]. 8vo. 8
pp. 
• Removed from a nonce volume; respined with archival tissue. (576)
AnAbolition Sermon (1836)Green, Beriah. Things for Northern men to do: a discourse delivered Lord's Day evening, July 17, 1836, in the Presbyterian Church, Whitesboro’, N.Y. New York: Pub. by request, 1836. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.4"). 22, [2 (blank)] pp.
The author, a pastor and educator, was one of the most determined abolition activists in the United States; the DAB notes that while his dedication to the cause led to the closing of many doors in his career, his sermons on the subject “attracted wide attention,” contributing greatly to the catalyzing of American Christian opposition to slavery.
• On Green, see: Dictionary of American Biography, VII, 539–40. Sabin 28512. Recent wrappers. Foxing throughout.
A
Radical
Republican's
CONTROVERSIAL
Civil War
Critique
Gurowski, Adam,
count. Diary, from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 [and]
from November 18,1862, to October 18, 1863. Boston: Lee & Shepard; & New York: Carleton, 1862–64.
8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). 2 vols. I: [4], 315, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4], [7]–348
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 29319; Howes G465. Publishers' brown cloth very close in color but Boston's textured while New York's is smooth; covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped author, title, and variant place information in parallel places and in typestyles not exactly matching but very close; corners rubbed, spine extremities chipped, spine heads with small strip of brown cloth tape, vol. I with binding very slightly cocked and cloth starting to split at front joint. Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-pages and two others, no other markings. Front free endpaper of vol. I lacking. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean and paper good. (26252)
Anti–Slave
Trade[Harrison,
George]. An address to the right reverend the prelates of England and Wales,
on the subject of the slave trade. London: J. Parsons, 1792. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5").
15, [1 (blank)] pp.
• ESTC N46161. Marbled paper–covered boards, old-style, front cover with printed paper label. Pages skillfully reinforced at inner margins; clean throughout.
All 6 Volumes: Everything theAMERICAN BUSINESSMANHazard, Samuel, ed. Hazard's United States commercial and statistical register, containing documents, facts, and other useful information, illustrative of the history and resources of the American union, and of each state. Philadelphia: Wm. F. Geddes, 1840. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.5"). 6 vols. I: xix, [1], 432 pp. II: xv, [1], 416 pp. III: xvi, 432 pp. IV: xii, 416 pp. V: xii, 416 pp. VI: xv, [1], 416 pp.
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the
Amistad incident; steamboats and locomotives; tea; the
“Generous Indian” (III, 13) along with notes on less friendly, more
violent Native Americans; banking reports; the Mercantile Libraries (and public
libraries) of Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, and Boston; coal mining; imports
and exports from and to various nations; “the troubles in China”
(I, 209); public school system reports; vegetable and mineral resources of various
states; whaling; the founding of Girard College; “the integrity of the
legal character” (II, 233); and many, many other topics — with brief
news oddities such as the death of a healthy, active 103-year-old run over by
a frightened horse, a town of 5575 people containing 300 widows, unexpected
snow storms, a gift apple grown on the tree planted by “the first male
white person born in New England” (III, 272), etc.
• American Imprints 40-3037; Goldsmiths'-Kress 3730-3731;
Sabin 31107. 19th-century half calf and marbled paper–covered
sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; bindings moderately
rubbed overall with some spots of discoloration, three volumes with front
joints cracked, sewing holding. Ex–social club library: some spine heads
reinforced with library cloth tape, 19th-century bookplates, call number on
endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, no other markings. Variously, throughout,
sections of waterstaining, browning, offsetting; the occasional leaf torn
without loss, chipped, or with margin reinforced; varying degrees of age-toning,
with the majority of pages clean. Massive
quantities of data on early 19th-century commerce, ready to be made use of
for scholarship or simply to serve a reader's pleasure. (30395)
Popular Philosophical Dialogues Helps, Arthur, Sir. Friends in council: A series of
readings and discourse thereon. Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe & Co. (pr. by Allen &
Farnham), 1853. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"2 vols. I: [2 (adv.)], viii, [2], 291, [1] pp. II: vi, [2], 271, [1]
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Present here is an early U.S. edition of the first series; two series were published, the first in 1847–49 and the second in 1859. 
Much of the second volume of this series is dedicated to the question of slavery.
• Allibone 818. On Helps, see: Dictionary of National Biography online. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; moderate rubbing most noticeable at vol. I spine head, and vol. II with strip of dark cloth tape at head of spine extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplate and call-number sticker, front free endpapers lacking, title-pages pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining and light pencilled bracketing. (26412)
Mrs. Hening onAfrican Missions Hening, Mrs. E.F. History of the African mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, with memoirs of deceased missionaries, and notices of native customs. New York: Stanford & Swords, 1850. 12mo. xii, [13]-300 pp.; 1 fold. map.
Click the images for enlargements. • Library Company, Afro-Americana, 4726. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine and board edges sunned, cloth torn (repaired) and chipped at spine, spine with call number label. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, title-page and map each with rubber-stamp, back free endpaper with circulation slip. Map and a few other leaves lightly foxed. (19500)
“The First Age of Pennsylvania”Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [Vol. I]. Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1826. 8vo (22.1 cm, 8.75"). 432, [4 (2 blank, 2 contents)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Vol. I not in Shoemaker (see 30192 for vol. II). Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; moderately rubbed and scuffed overall, spine darkened, spine head reinforced some time ago with library cloth tape. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, title-page and two others rubber-stamped, one page pressure-stamped. Mild age-toning, scattered small spots of foxing. Despite condition notes reflecting onetime residence in a lending library, this is a nice old thing. (29879)
Evaluating the American Colonization Society, 1833Hodgkin, Thomas. An inquiry into the merits of the American Colonization Society: and a reply to the charges brought against it. With an account of the British African Colonization Society. London: J. & A. Arch; Harvey & Darton; Edmund Fray; & S. Highley, 1833. Small 8vo. 62 pp., map.
Click the image for an enlargement. The map is of the colony of Liberia with an inset plan of Monrovia.
• Sabin 32351; Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 4863. Removed from a nonce volume. Small water splatter stain in lower inner area of title-page, else notably nice and clean. (26898)
Bind Your Child to the Covenant — Signed American Binding Johnson, Nathaniel Emmons. The sacred seal; or the wanderer restored, a poem. New York: John S. Taylor & Co., 1843. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.56"). Frontis., 80 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. lectures
Napoleon on his impending fate), the Mozambique
Channel (where he liberates
a slaver's hold full of Moors),
and Palestine. The
steel-engraved frontispiece, done by Dick, depicts the family's “Ancestral
Mansion.”
Signed binding: Publisher's finely ribbed brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with arabesque designs, spine gilt extra in foliate patterns; binding stamped by Colton & Jenkins of New York. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription of Louise D. Brown.
• Binding as above, gently cocked, extremities mildly rubbed, front joint with tiny pinhole spots of insect damage, lower back joint with slightly larger spots. Ownership note as above. Foxing to some portions of the volume, never very dark; frontispiece image bright and clean. (30203)
Printed to Commemorate theFirst AnniversaryKing, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Small quarto. [8 (4 blank)], 17, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
• Stiff printed wrappers, center bit of top edge a trifle bumped. Near fine. (23499)
A
Novel of
that
“Peculiar
Institution”
Kirke, Edmund [pseud. of James R. Gilmore]. Among the pines: Or, South in secession-time. New York: J.R. Gilmore & Charles T. Evans, 1862. 8vo. 310 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Wright, II, 1003. Publisher's dark green textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities rubbed, spine slightly sunned, sides with spots of lighter discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled and inked inscription (partly) dated 1862. Light to moderate foxing throughout. (25992)
Quaker
Meditations —
A Neat CompendiumTwo
Women in the Contents —
Womanly Provenance, Too
[Law, William].
An extract from a treatise on the spirit of prayer, or the soul rising out of
the vanity of time into the riches of eternity. With some thoughts on war. Remarks
on the nature and bad effects of the use of spirituous liquors. And considerations
on slavery. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1780. 12mo (16.3 cm, 6.45"). 84
pp. [bound with] Webb,
Elizabeth. A letter...to Anthony William Boehm, with his answer.
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1783. 44 pp. [with]
[Benezet, Anthony]. In the
life of the lady Elizabeth Hastings... [Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1784].
8 pp. 
Considerations
on Slavery are designated simply as those of a "number
of different authors"; the Remarks on . . . Liquors, which aims to
promote health and happiness rather than directly religious concerns, is attributed
by ESTC to Anthony Benezet, as is the volume's last piece, the title of which
is taken from its opening lines. Lady Elizabeth Hastings was the original for
Aspasia in Steele's "Tatler" and a major donor to Oxford University Queen's
College.
Elizabeth
Webb, "an acknowledged minister among the people called Quakers," first encountered
Prince George of Denmark's chaplain Boehm while on a visit to Great Britain;
the missive with which she opened her subsequent correspondence with him, here,
greatly inspired him and a number of his friends.
Provenance: With inscription reading "Miss
Hannah Amelia Moore / Book a Present from her worthy / Friend Ruth Patton / 1789."
Free Speech for theSenate Chamber?
Lincoln, Levi.
Speech of Mr. Lincoln, of Massachusetts. Delivered in the House of Representatives
of the United States, Feb. 7, 1837, on the resolution to censure the Hon.
John Q. Adams, for inquiring of the Speaker, whether a paper, purporting to
come from slaves, came within the resolution laying on the table all petitions
relating to slavery. Washington: Gales & Seaton, printers, 1837. 8vo.
9, [1 (blank)] pp. 
• Stitched, never bound. Small piece torn from upper outer area of title-page just touching two letters of the title. Five-digit number stamped on title-page. (934)
Racism & Insanity on the High Seas — The NonesuchBenito Cereno Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno. London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 8vo (31 cm, 12.25"). Frontis., [2], 122, [2] pp.; 6 col. plts.
Click the image for an enlargement. This is numbered copy 932 of 1650 printed on grey Van Gelder paper at the Curwen Press.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of prominent New Yorker E. Coster Wilmerding.
• BAL 13726; McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 36. Publisher's red cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in black-printed dust-wrapper; spine slightly sunned with extremities rubbed, dust-wrapper split and significantly chipped with most of spine paper lost. Provenance as above, and the volume clean. (28230)
Quaker Meetings & Meditations, as Witnessed by Irish Woman Minister Neale, Mary Peisley. Some account of the life and religious exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley, principally compiled from her own writings. Dublin: John Gough, 1795. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.55"). 120 pp.
Click the images for enlargement. Quakers
in North Carolina, Maryland, and other parts of America were failing to prosper
spiritually due to their “buying and keeping of slaves, which we could
not reconcile with the golden rule of doing unto all men as we would they should
do unto us” (p. 92).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate and front free endpaper with pencilled inscription of George M. Haverstick, an early proprietor of the company that eventually became the Whitall Tatum glass factory in Millville, New Jersey.
• ESTC T92500; Sabin 52167. On Mary Peisley Neale, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Contemporary treed calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt rules, expectably acid-pitted overall; spine chipped, front cover with spots of discoloration and abrasion, edges and extremities rubbed. Occasional scattered light spots, most noticeable on last three pages; some lower outer corners bumped. One pencilled text correction. An interesting item, and not tremendously common in the U.S. (29674)
TheGlorious Revolution's Centennial Revolution Society (London). An abstract of the history and proceedings of the Revolution Society, in London. To which is annexed a copy of the Bill of Rights. [London]: Pr. by Order of the Committee, 1789. 8vo. 40, 7, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f., pp. 41–78, [1 (blank)] f., pp. 79–87, 90–92, pp. 79–86, 93–96 (page numbers 88, 89 not used).
Click the interior images for enlargements. Abolition
of the slave trade, repeal of religious tests, freedom
of the press, expansion of the franchise, and revision of the code of criminal
laws. Others were more general (“welfare of all mankind” or “religious
liberty”) or pithy (“when kings lose their utility may the people
find their dignity”). Still others praised the navy or the militia, “King
and Royal Family,” or called for the principles of the Glorious Revolution,
the Magna Charta, and the Bill of Rights to “be deeply engraven for ever
on every British breast.”
Uncommon: No U.S. copy of this issue located via OCLC and ESTC locates only the Harvard copy. There were other, less complete editions of 40 pp., 58 pp., and 78 pp.
• ESTC N15187. Recent full calf, period style; spine with raised bands accented in gilt, oxblood leather gilt-lettered title, publication date and place in gilt at base; covers framed and paneled in gilt rules with gilt-stamped corner fleurons. Shallow chip to top outer corners of final two leaves. One word on p. 32 is blotted out in ink by an early owner with the correction supplied above it. Penned signature (partly cropped) at top edge of p. 79. Pp. 79–92 duplicated, nothing missing. (23766)
Canvassing Book: Illustrated History of the Great War“Victory Edition” w/ Inspirational, Informational Additions Russell, Thomas Herbert. American's war for humanity: Pictorial history of the world war for liberty. [Chicago: L.H. Walter], © 1919. 8vo. [132] pp.; illus.
Click the image for enlargement. embellished
with affixed clippings of poetry and motivational sayings, obscuring some of
the publisher's instructions to salespeople on exactly how to pitch the work.
The talking points still visible include detailed descriptions of exactly when
the agent's eyes should light up with enthusiasm and of how
to “sell the book to every Negro” by describing the chapter “Our
Colored Troops Win Credit” (p. iii). Present in this
mock-up are many representative examples of the illustrations to be found in
the complete volume, along with excerpts of text.
The title-page is rubber-stamped by D.E. Cunningham & Co. of Chicago. No subscribers are noted in the subscription section.
Binding: Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover with red-stamped title and affixed chromolithographed American flag vignette, spine plain, back cover with sample of blue-stamped decorative spine title. Gilt-stamped red cloth spine title sample affixed to inside back cover.
• Arbour, Canvassing Books, 1410. Binding as above, with spine/edges darkened and some soiling/rubbing; lower outer corners bumped. Front pastedown, printed front free endpaper, and next leaf of selling talk with affixed clippings as above. A few margins with spots of light dust-soiling, pages generally clean. (29614)
TheFIRST Dominican-Born Writer to Publish a BookSánchez Valverde, Antonio. Idea del valor de la isla Española, utilidades que de ella puede sacar su monarquia. Madrid: Impr. de Pedro Marin, 1785. 4to. [4] ff., xx, 208 pp., [2] ff., table; without the map.
Click the images for enlargements. slaves,
the climate, the topography, the hydrology, the ports, and the prospects.
Provenance: Ownership stamp of John Carter Brown on title-page; later in the John Carter Brown Library (bookplate); note at end “Collated with G.G. Church copy. July 31, 1912. dup.” Deaccessioned 2008.
Evidence of readership: Scattered marginalia in French through p. 50, almost invariably giving the French for obscure words and phrases in Spanish in the text. Perhaps owned by someone living in the Haitian area of the island?
• Palau 296409; Medina, BHA, 5154; Sabin 76309. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, vellum split at fore-edge of front one exposing the substrate; vellum cockled and old, faint inked writing on it. Front hinge (inside) open; without the map; stamp as noted above. A good copy. (28324)
Native Plant Lore — Indiana's First Medical Work Selman, S.H. The Indian guide to health, or a valuable vegetable medical prescription, for the cure of all disorders incident to this climate. Columbus, IN: James M'Call, 1836. 12mo (17 cm, 6.75"). 200 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. “Negro
Poison” (p. 45), a.k.a. tuberculosis.
The final portion of the volume is dedicated to American materia medica, an extensive listing of native plants and how to use them to cure various ailments that offers a good number of entries that may well have had legitimate medicinal value, e.g., bowman's root (“Indian physic”), plantain juice, mountain birch bark, Seneca snakeroot, etc.
Dr. Selman, who seems to have operated on the fringes of the Thomsonian movement, was the son-in-law of Kentucky physician Richard Carter (“commonly called the 'indian doctor,'” p. iv); his background and education are otherwise unclear. Here, he occasionally breaks into verse (!).
• American Imprints 40126; Byrd & Peckham, Indiana Imprints, 658. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rebacked with compatible leather preserving original spine label, corners rubbed. Front pastedown and free endpaper with early pencilled inscriptions. Pages age-toned, with mild foxing and cockling. A nice copy of an uncommon item. (30147)
Educational & Career Rights forBlacks in the Spanish EmpireSpain. Sovereigns, etc., 1808–33 (Ferdinand VII). Broadside. Begins: “Don Francisco Xavier Venegas...`Exmô, Señor = La Regencia del Reyno se ha servido dirigirme el Decreto que sigue...Deseando las Córtes generales y extraordinarias facilitar á los súbditos Españoles,
que por qualquiera línea traigan su orígen del Africa, el estudio de las ciencias, y el acceso á la carrera eclesiástica....’” Mexico, 25 September 1812. Folio extra (48 cm; 17.25"). [1] p.
Click the image to the left While Ferdinand VII remained the prisoner of Napoleon, the Regency promulgated several important human rights acts, and this was one of the most important. The Regency ratified and published it 29 January and on 31 January it was ordered distributed throughout the empire.
• Not in Medina, Mexico; not in Garritz, Impresos novohispanos; not in Sutro. One horizontal fold, top margin a little crumpled and irregular; left margin with a V-shaped bit of blank margin missing at fold, otherwise only a little irregular. Revenue stamps on the verso. Viceroy Venegas’s paraph (“rúbrica”) below his printed name. A very good copy.
Loving the Sinner, Hating the Sin — SLAVERY Taylor, Thomas J. Essay on slavery; as connected with the moral and providential government of God; and as an element of church organization. With miscellaneous reflections on the subject of slavery. New York: Pub. for the author (pr. by Joseph Longking), 1851. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.45"). 270, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Not in Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.); not in Sabin. Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and elaborate decorations; spine and edges moderately sunned, extremities rubbed, front joint with small spot of insect damage. Back pastedown with pencilled calculations. Foxed, with a few lower outer corners bumped. (30358)
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United States. Congress. [drop-title] Report on colonizing the free people of colour of the United States. February 11, 1817. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. [Washington: William A. Davis, 1817]. 8vo. 5 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Shaw & Shoemaker 42738; Library Company, Afro-Americana, 10602. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly pencilled librarian's notation on p. [1]. Leaves separated. (18440)
Abolishing “Traffick” — Proposing “Colinization” United States. Congress. [drop-title] Joint resolution for abolishing the traffick in slaves, and colinization [sic] of the free people of colour of the United States. February 11, 1817. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. [Washington: William A. Davis, 1817]. 8vo. 2 pp.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 42596; Library Company, Afro-Americana, 10583. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly pencilled librarian's notation on p. [1]. Very mild foxing. (18436)
Search
& SeizureVan Buren, Martin
(President, 1837–41). [drop-title] Search or seizure
of American vessels on coast of Africa, &c. Message from the President of the
United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in relation
to seizures or search of American vessels, &c. March 3, 1841. Read, and laid upon
the table. [Washington, 1841]. 8vo. 766 pp.
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the image
for an enlargement. • Disbound; three holes in inner margin, not touching text. Ink notation and numeral on first page. Some dog-earing and tattering in corners and outer margins. Pencillings in several margins. Occasional mild spotting. Now housed in a simple archival phase box. (13455)
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Warfield, Charles. The kingdom and glory of the branch, and testament of the west. Baltimore: William Wooddy [sic], 1833. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). 261, [3 (blank)], 263–341, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking port.).
Click the interior images for enlargements. Scarce. Only 11 institutions, all in the U.S., report holdings via OCLC.
• Sabin 37866; American Imprints 22538. Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Frontispiece portrait lacking. Light to moderate foxing. (23903)
No, No, No. Woodward, George W. Negro suffrage -- The Reconstruction laws. Speech... delivered in the House of Representatives, March 21, 1868. Washington, [D.C.]: F. & J. RIves, & George A. Bailey, 1868. 8vo. 14 pp.
• Folded, never bound. Uncut, mostly unopened. (456)
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• Original illustrated wrappers. Ink and pencil markings on front cover. Address label on rear.
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