![Item #24996 The Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend, [Series 5] Vols. 19-24 (Apr. 1929...](/pictures/thumb/24996.JPG?v=1650399091)
London: 1929-1935. Hardcover. Bound volume (library buckram). 24cm. Ex lib. (Ginn Library at World Peace Foundation) Includes less than a handful of articles on race relations in the United States; most of the this periodical's focus is on slavery and human rights issues elsewhere - Hong Kong, Malaysia, Kenya, Ethiopia..... More
Boston: David Hale, n.d. (1817?). American edition of this Anglican publication. Hardcover. index, 890p. Original paper-covered boards. 24 cm. Backstrip chipped at ends. Front joint splitting at top. Ex. lib. (Ministerial Library Wilton bookplate overstamped with Andover-Harvard Theological Library "discard" stamp. Name stamp of a more recent owner on verso..... More
Frederick, Maryland: 1808. Folded four-page newspaper. 29 x 46 cm. Later horizontal fold. Modest chipping and wear along edge of right margin. A few dark (ink?) spots obscuring a few letters on first two pages. We bought this because of the advertisements on the fourth page. Among those advertisements are..... More
Concord, New Hampshire: (1846)q. 4p. newspaper. 49 x 34 cm. A few later folds. Foxing, soiling and other wear, including some splitting along folds. A reasonably decent copy of a rather scarce weekly newspaper supportive of abolition and edited by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, who was only 52 when he died..... More
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. 1st ed. Hardcover. 214p. Original cloth. 19cm. Modest corner crease. Significant foxing throughout, and quite heavy on many leaves including the title-leaf. A former owner's pencil signature ("R. J. Haldeman") in pencil on front free endpaper and the half-title. The anonymous author identifies his..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969). Hardcover. xxxix, 248p. 22cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1823 edition. More
London: HMSO (Printed by George E. B. Eyre and William Spottiswoode), 1882. Paperback. 52p. No separate wrapper present. 34cm. Modest chipping and wear. Browning around edges. Later stitching. 1878 death of a slave girl in Onitsha (Nigeria) after W. F. John, her master, beat and had her beaten and then..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1826. Paperback. 40p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 21 cm. Moderate vertical crease. Minor foxing. No separate wrapper present. The extracts focus on the state of the slave trade and efforts to restrict or end that trade. More
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. Paperback. 46p. Original green wrapper. 23cm. Minor foxing. Light vertical crease. INSCRIBED by Allen (as "Geo. Allen") on title-page. Cover title: Mr. Allen's Speech Before the Convention of Ministers of Worcester County, Mass. More
New York: [American Anti-Slavery Society], 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1838. 1st eds. Paperback. 64, 87, 97, and 152p. The first 3 reports are disbound (removed from a bound volume) and the 1835 and 1836 report lacks their original wrappers. The 1838 report has its original yellow wrapper. 21-22 cm. All..... More
London: A. W. Bennett; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1859. Hardcover. frontis, xv, 144p. Original cloth. 18 cm. Backstrip faded. Modest splitting at head of joints. Front endpaper neatly split at hinge. Almost entirely unopened. Revision of Vaux's "Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet" originally published in 1817. The Indian medal pictured..... More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights..... More
Holograph. Approximately 19 x 18 cm. Later folds. Document says: "I have this day sold to John Manton his heirs or assigns a certain Negro girl named Phillis for the price of ninety pounds and [hereby?] by these presents warrant for ever and defend from me my heirs and from..... More
Sale on behalf of I. S. Quarle [?] by Pulham & Davis to Moore & Mitchell. Check-sized, partly-printed broadside slip specifically printed for the sale of slaves. Approximately 21 x 8 cm. Old vertical and horizontal folds. Some browning along folds. Handwritten on back: "We assign the within Negro to..... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xiv, 439p. Original tan cloth. dj. 23cm. More
Printed for the Author, by John W. Scott, 1804. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, 282p. plus [2]p. advertisement for another work by Branagan. Rebound -- recent quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in dark brown leather). 17 cm. One text leaf torn. Contents sound with general foxing, spotting and soil. Some corners creased..... More
New York: Follett, Foster, 1863. 3rd ed. Paperback. 171p. Fragile wrapper (front cover detached and chipped, ends of backstrip chipped). 24cm. Unopened and untrimmed. Minor foxing throughout. More
Single long narrow sheet folded to form four pages and then further folded into a stampless letter. 20 x 17 cm. when folded into four pages. Brown ink. Letter written on only one of the four pages with the addressee's name and address written on the adjacent page after folding..... More
New York: Joseph H. Ladd, 1857. Hardcover. viii, 272p. Original cloth. 19cm. Chipping at ends of backstrip. Contents moderately browned. INSCRIBED -- but not signed -- in an unknown hand (presumably Cheever's) The inscription reads: "Rev. Wm. Roberts with the kindest paternal regards of the Author May 14, 1857 New..... More
London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 1852. Second Edition. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, viii, 112, 8p. Original brown cloth. 14cm. Cover wear (and some regluing) at extremities. Lacks folding map which appears to have preceded the frontis. An uncommon biographical work for young readers about Samual Ajayi Crowther, 1809-1891, who was ordained as..... More
New York: Appleton, 1854. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, vignette on second title-page, illustrations, xvii, 448p. plus 12p. publisher's adverts. Original brown cloth. 20cm. Spine sloped. Moderate chipping and wear at ends of backstrip. Minior foxing. Compiled by Brantz Mayer from Conneau's letters, journals, etc. More
n.p. n.d. [dated 1787 but really a typed and undated 20th century -- 1980s? -- reprint of the text of the 1787 edition]. Paperback. iv, 148p. 25cm. Softcover in light blue covers backed in black tape. 25cm. More
London: T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793. 1st ed. Hardcover. folding map as frontis (27 x 47 cm.), 6 plates, xxxi, [1], xxvi, [4], 230p. Recently quarterbound marbled paper on boards and backed by leather. Contents sound with significan foxing and browning throughout plus staining in lower right corner of text..... More
Washington: The Neale Company, 1900. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos (of varying quality, some blurry or pooorly reproduced), index, 201p. Original blue cloth. 22 cm. Chipping and fraying at ends of backstrip. Cover corners rubbed (some loss of cloth). Forner owner's name and address ("Mary V. Denegre .. New Orleans")..... More
Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1842. Hardcover. 54p. Original blind-stamped cloth. Title lettered in gilt on front cover. 16cm. Moderate cover wear. New endpapers. Backstrip appears to have been pasted down, perhaps when the new endpapers were added. Evangelicus, whose identity appears to have remained unknown, appears to argue that..... More
