Trinidad. April 29, 1828. [1]p. on a folded folio sheet, addressed on the fourth page with remains of wax seals, postmarks, and docketing. Old folds. Slight loss at seal, otherwise very good. A brief but informative letter from Robert Neilson on the management of the Brechin Castle Estate, a sugar.....
London: Printed by James Phillips, 1787. 16pp. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Spine chipped, wraps faded and somewhat worn. Light soiling to titlepage, otherwise internally clean. Very good. A letter printed for distribution arguing in favor of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by England. Nickolls, describing himself as, "a native.....
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Jacksonville, Fl. Norman Film Mfg. Co., [ 1921]. Stone-lithographed three-sheet poster, 77 x 40 3/4 inches. Stone-lithographed three-sheet poster. Old folds and creases. Some expertly repaired tears (mostly along folds and in the black background). Backed on linen. In very good condition. A large, striking, three-sheet stone-lithographed poster advertising the.....
[Edenton, N.C. Hodge & Wills, 1796]. 20pp. Folio. Dbd., slightly later paper backstrip. Evenly toned. Outer margin of leaf D2 torn, with a few words affected in the printed side notes on the verso. Good overall. A rare variant printing of the 1795 session laws of North Carolina, this being.....
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[Lexington, N.C.?]: Oct. 10, 1906. Broadside, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Printed on salmon-colored paper. Previously folded, with small separations and chips along old fold lines, sometimes affecting text. Some larger chips and loss along edges. Good. A striking wanted poster from North Carolina in 1906, offering a $250.....
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[Oklahoma City: Fred L. Stone, ca. 1913]. Four-panel panoramic silver gelatin photograph, each panel approximately 8 x 10 inches. With an additional 3 1/2 x 6-inch silver gelatin photograph mounted on the inside front cover. Each of the four panels mounted on linen and folded into a black pebbled cloth.....
Muskogee: Phoenix Directory Company, 1915. [6],500,[4]pp., plus [32]pp. designated "Memoranda". Later green buckram, black spine titles. Mild edge wear and soiling to boards. Ex-Sutro Library, with shelf mark on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, barcode on front free endpaper, and small ink stamps on front free endpaper, first ad leaf.....
Tulsa, Ok. May 27, 1947. 8pp. Facsimile folio newspaper. Old folds, minor soiling. Very good. Facsimile of the 1947 graduation issue of the school newspaper from Booker Washington High School, an all African-American high school in Tulsa established in 1913. The center two pages display the yearbook photographs for every.....
London. 1876. [4],264pp. plus colored folding map and folding plan. Half title. Original cloth. Ex-lib. with shelf label, bookplate and stamps. Hinges broken, contents shaken with one signature nearly detached, some light scattered foxing, else internally good. The author only spent two weeks in Dutch Guiana visiting friends, but compiled.....
Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1856. 92pp. Paper wrappers. Spine worn at head and foot. Wrappers tanned, bottom right corner torn. Overall a very good. The text of a speech given by Joel Parker, at the time a professor of constitutional law at Harvard and later the Governor of New.....
Boston: Printed by John Boyle, for Thomas Leverett, 1773. 48pp. Dbd. Short diagonal cut through most of textblock, not affecting text. Two unobtrusive ownership signatures on titlepage. Title leaf and final leaf worn and stained, some soiling, final leaf reattached at gutter. Withal, a good copy. An early and quite.....
New York: The American Church Institute for Negroes, [n.d., but ca. 1930]. 28pp., including illustrations. Original printed wrappers, string tied. Wrappers lightly spotted, minor edge wear. Small adhesive remnant on titlepage. Very good condition. Ostensibly a report on four African-American schools under the management of the American Church Institute for.....
Harrisburg. 1837-1839. Twelve (of fourteen) volumes. Uniform 20th-century tan buckram, leather spine labels. Minor shelf wear and shelf marks. Institutional ink stamps on titlepages and some leaves. Overall good. Lacking volumes eight and thirteen. An almost-complete set of the work recording the 1837-38 Pennsylvania state constitutional convention. According to the.....
[Camp McGrath, near Batangas, Philippines. September 2 - November 1, 1914]. [95]pp., numbered 376-470, written on rectos only, approximately 19,000 words. Quarto. Original "Homespun Linen Bond" notebook, pictorial front wrapper, cardboard rear board, bound by a cloth strip and string along top edge. Moderate wear and soiling, a few short.....
London: Trubner and Co., 1866. [vii],72pp. plus advertisement on verso of front wrapper. Half title. Printed blue wrappers. Lacking rear wrapper. Front wrapper detached and lightly chipped and soiled. Internally clean. Good. An "anthropological" speech delivered in London following the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. The brutal suppression of.....
London: Printed by James Phillips, 1792. 32pp. Dbd. Titlepage nearly detached and lightly foxed, otherwise very good. "The debate of this date was one of the most important in the history of the anti-slavery struggle. It resulted in a victory for the colonial party, the latter securing a pledge from.....
London. 1808. 48pp. Contemporary stiff marbled wrappers, detached. Internally clean. Very good. An address by the Bishop of London - also the President of the Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands - calling for the introduction of.....
Boston: Published by the author, 1853. 89pp. 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Front hinge and cloth on extremities expertly mended. Previous owner's signature on titlepage and following leaf (dated 1865 and 1870, respectively). Occasional marginal pencil notations, minor scattered foxing. Old pencil notes on endpapers. Very.....
Guayama, Puerto Rico. July 6, 1843. [1]p. Quarto. Old folds, a few short closed tears, minor wrinkling. About very good. A record of a slave sale in Puerto Rico during the late Spanish colonial period. The document records various expenditures for "Senora Dna Yrma de Gott" for the spring and.....
Upland, In. 1896. 19,[1]pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. Rear cover with lower corner chipped away, covers lightly stained and worn. Ink ownership stamps inside front cover and on titlepage, ex-library markings to rear leaf and inside rear cover. Text clean. Good. The biography of Sammy Morris, an African boy.....
Boston: Haytian Bureau of Emigration, 1861. 180,12pp. plus frontispiece portrait and colored folding map. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Boards stained, soiled, and lightly worn, corners bumped. Moderate tanning throughout, uneven toning to upper margin of some leaves, occasional minor foxing, old tideline.....
Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. 513,[3]pp. 12mo. Brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Hinges shaken but sound. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Internally very clean. Very good plus. First edition of a collection of papers regarding the actions of John Brown at Harpers Ferry, by journalist and anti-slavery.....
Boston: William V. Spencer, 1866. 199,[2],3pp. 12mo. Original gilt pictorial brown cloth. Spine sunned, and with two short tears to head of spine; minor bubbling to cloth. Faint tideline to first thirty leaves, minor scattered foxing. Good plus. A scarce memoir of Civil War medical service by William Howell Reed.....
Llanelli. 1891. 69pp., including eight plates. Original printed blue wrappers. Wrappers stained and soiled, two chips in spine. Internally clean and very good. An interesting and rare Welsh-language work on the status of Welsh missions in Jamaica, as well as a civil and religious history of the island. Specific attention.....
Boston. 1925. 75pp. Portrait. Gilt cloth. Very good. Richards was an active abolitionist. In 1874, due to ill health and an interest in geology and mineralogy, he travelled to California and investigated mining practices there during the 1870s.
