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Auction archive: Lot number 58

America.- Slavery.- Benezet (Anthony) A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions, James Phillips, 1784; and others (3)

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$243 - US$364
Price realised:
£4,200
ca. US$5,105
Auction archive: Lot number 58

America.- Slavery.- Benezet (Anthony) A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions, James Phillips, 1784; and others (3)

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$243 - US$364
Price realised:
£4,200
ca. US$5,105
Beschreibung:

America.- Slavery.- Benezet (Anthony) A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions, advertisement leaf at end, preserved in marbled wrappers, James Phillips 1784 § Pitt (William) The Speech...on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave Trade..., first edition, title lightly browned, James Phillips 1792 § [Bertin (Antoine de)] Des Moyens de Conserver la Santé des Blancs et des Négres, aux Antilles ou Climats Chauds et Humides de l'Amérique, first edition, half-title, staining to final two leaves, original blue wrappers, uncut, rubbed and soiled, lacking spine and lower wrapper, Sainte-Domingue, et se trouve a Paris, chez Méquuignon l'ainé, 1786, [Sabin 4670, 63097 & 5011], 8vo (3) ⁂ The first is an important abolitionist tract by a Philadelphia Quaker, first published in 1766.

Auction archive: Lot number 58
Auction:
Datum:
8 Aug 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

America.- Slavery.- Benezet (Anthony) A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions, advertisement leaf at end, preserved in marbled wrappers, James Phillips 1784 § Pitt (William) The Speech...on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave Trade..., first edition, title lightly browned, James Phillips 1792 § [Bertin (Antoine de)] Des Moyens de Conserver la Santé des Blancs et des Négres, aux Antilles ou Climats Chauds et Humides de l'Amérique, first edition, half-title, staining to final two leaves, original blue wrappers, uncut, rubbed and soiled, lacking spine and lower wrapper, Sainte-Domingue, et se trouve a Paris, chez Méquuignon l'ainé, 1786, [Sabin 4670, 63097 & 5011], 8vo (3) ⁂ The first is an important abolitionist tract by a Philadelphia Quaker, first published in 1766.

Auction archive: Lot number 58
Auction:
Datum:
8 Aug 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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