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1941Best.-Nr. 200441941. African American Curtis Anna L. Stories of the Underground Railroad. New York: The Island Workshop Press Co-Op. Inc. 1941. First Edition First Printing Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 115 pages. Measures 5.25" x 7.75". Contains black and white illustrations by William Brooks. Anna Curtis a Quaker author examines her own background by compiling ten stories from the underground railroad. Stories follow historical figures like Isaac T. Hopper Levi Coffin Thomas Garrett and Harriet Tubman as well as lesser known love stories from the period. From the introduction: "In pre-Civil War times thousands of Negro slaves were helped to freedom by the Quakers. The escape system set up by them was called 'The Underground Railroad' and amazing as it now seems to us children often played an active part in this hazardous undertaking." Dust jacket is very clean with vibrant black and white illustration of a Black man and a steam ship. No marks copy is in very good to near-excellent condition. unknown
1836Best.-Nr. 175381836. This pamphlet is a return to an Address of the House of Commons from March 25 1836 whereby the Agent of Jamaica William Burge protests against the unilateral abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Ordered to be printed by the House of Commons in London April 1836. 13 pages. 13" x 8.25" inches. Included within is a copy of three letters from the Agent to Lord Glenelg the British colonial secretary as well Burge's protest to Glenelg. Burge states: He is desirous that His Majesty's Government should understand that this Protest is made not as the performance of a formal act of official duty but from his conviction that the proposed legislation for Jamaica is a direct violation of the constitutional rights of that Colony rights coeval with its establishment and which have hitherto been respected." The Agent was a colonial official who was the official representative of a British colony who was based in London and acted as lobbyists and trade negotiators for the affairs of the colony. While Burge had at other times claimed to "hate" slavery he employs the British analogue of the "states rights'" argument that many moderate politicians in the United States used to signal personal distaste for slavery but to nonetheless protect the institution's existence on the basis of constitutionality. When the institution of slavery died out in the British Empire after 1836 the abolitionist movement in the US gained tremendous momentum despite the protests of our own William Burge's. This piece is overall in very good condition. unknown
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1852Best.-Nr. 198241852. Law Howard Benjamin C. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in The Supreme Court of the United States December Term 1852. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1853. First Edition Hardcover rebound. 650 pages. Measures 5.75" x 8.75". Includes various Supreme Court decisions from the year 1852 during the December session. Cases cover a wide range of topics including issues over ownership and patents land disputes with Native Americans railroad injuries and slavery among other issues. Cases include THOMAS MOORE EXECUTOR OF RICHARD EELS PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS WHICH FOUND that the power of legislating upon the subject of fugitive slaves ought to be vested in Congress. also INCLUDED IS tHE Philadelphia AND rEADING rAILROAD cOMPANY V. eLIAS h. dERBY. Title page has stamp stating "Library of Congress Serial Record Jan. 3 1980." New boards and pastedown but all original pages are together with textblock tight and only minor foxing on title page. oFFERS A UNIQUE GLIMPSE INTO THE sUPREME cOURT DECISIONS OF 1851 during December session. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 198241852. Law Howard Benjamin C. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in The Supreme Court of the United States December Term 1852. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1853. First Edition Hardcover rebound. 650 pages. Measures 5.75" x 8.75". Includes various Supreme Court decisions from the year 1852 during the December session. Cases cover a wide range of topics including issues over ownership and patents land disputes with Native Americans railroad injuries and slavery among other issues. Cases include THOMAS MOORE EXECUTOR OF RICHARD EELS PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS WHICH FOUND that the power of legislating upon the subject of fugitive slaves ought to be vested in Congress. also INCLUDED IS tHE Philadelphia AND rEADING rAILROAD cOMPANY V. eLIAS h. dERBY. Title page has stamp stating "Library of Congress Serial Record Jan. 3 1980." New boards and pastedown but all original pages are together with textblock tight and only minor foxing on title page. oFFERS A UNIQUE GLIMPSE INTO THE sUPREME cOURT DECISIONS OF 1851 during December session. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1881Best.-Nr. 505Paris, Guillaumin et cie, 1881. Seule et unique édition. Plaquette in-8, 14 x 22 cm pour 92 pp. Reliure postérieure demi-chagrin tabac, dos à trois nerfs, nom d'auteur, titre et année en caractères dorés sur la reliure, plats marbrés chocolat, tranchefile. Couverture préservée, en partie coupée et montée sur un papier plus récent. Publié quelques années avant l'abolition définitive de l'esclavage au Brésil, ce document est le fruit d'un débat entre deux personnalités de l'époque : Louis Couty, professeur polytechnicien en poste à Rio de Janeiro, et Victor Schœlcher, sénateur anti-esclavagiste. Le second s'étant montré particulièrement virulent contre un empire brésilien à qui il reprochait d'avoir encore des esclaves sur ses terres, Couty, connaisseur et ami du Brésil, tient à défendre les efforts du gouvernement brésilien pour l'abolition. En creux, il dessine l'une des premières sociologies en français du pays. La défense de Couty est suivie d'une lettre de Victor Schœlcher. Un document rare et qui marque un jalon en termes d'histoire brésilienne vue de France.
Best.-Nr. 13727Poèmes sélectionnés et édités par Roberts Aris WILLMOTT, illustré avec 100 dessins de BIRKET FOSTER, J WOLF, JOHN GILBERT etc. gravés par les frères DALZIEL. LONDON ROUTLEDGE WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE FARRINGDON, 56 Walker Street NEW YORK. 1860. In 8 reliure plein chagrin vert à nerfs, titre, filets et caissons dorés plaque dorée, filets, roulette, palmette écoinçons dorés en encadrement, roulette dorée sur coupe, roulette dorée intérieure. Reliure de STKETON et MACKENSIE. Portrait de l’auteur en frontispice, gravé par Joseph BROWN, sous serpente. Table des poèmes, table des illustrations, préface, 380 pages, tranches dorées.175x230mm. Rousseurs éparses, plus ou moins concentrées par endroits. Exlibris GILBERT (MONTGOMERY James Poems selected and edited by Roberts Aris WILLMOTT, illustrated with 100 drawings by BIRKET FOSTER, J WOLF, JOHN GILBERT etc. engraved by the DALZIEL brothers. LONDON ROUTLEDGE WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE FARRINGDON, 56 Walker Street NEW YORK. 1860. In 8 full green shagreen binding with raised bands, title, gilded fillets and boxes, gilded plate, fillets, roulette, palmette, gilded spandrels in frame, gilt roulette on cut, interior gilded roulette. Binding by STETON and MACKENSIE. Portrait of the author on the frontispiece, engraved by Joseph BROWN, under serpentine. Table of poems, table of illustrations, preface, 380 pages, gilded edges.175x230mm. Scattered foxing, more or less concentrated in places. Ex-librisILBERT, frères DALZIEL.) illustrations, préface, 380 pages, tranches dorées.175x230mm. Rousseurs éparses, plus ou moins concentrées par endroits. Exlibris
1854Best.-Nr. 26154Washington: Printed at the Congressional Glove Office 1854. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Self wrappers unsewn as issued. Some browning and spotting wear along spine and edges but a very good copy. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Primarily concerning the issue of slavery in the territories this speech was part of the debates for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act initiated by Douglas ultimately repealed the Missouri Compromise allowed the local residents to determine whether the area was free or slave territory allowed for "the doctrine of popular sovereignty of the two territories" and laid the way for a transcontental railroad. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in the Senate on the 3rd of March. Clayton was a lawyer noted agriculturist and long-time member of Congress who was Secretary of State under President Taylor. As Secretary of State he is best remembered for having negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with Great Britain which provided for a neutral international canal across Central America and "contained pledges which ultimately forced Great Britain to withdraw from large tracts of territory which.it had been occupying on the Isthmus." DAB. Sabin 13576n Printed at the Congressional Glove Office unknown books
1817Best.-Nr. 378683Philadelphia: Printed for the Convention 1817. 38 2pp. Errata in the rear. 8vo. Disbound. Foxing. Library blindstamp. 38 2pp. Errata in the rear. 8vo. With much on the kidnapping of free persons of color to enslave them in the south. Also of note is a report on the printing of an edition of Clarkson's History for distribution in the south. Printed for the Convention unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 257105Washington D.C.: Globe Office 1856. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Old folds. Blind embossed " Platner & Porter Cobngress" staionary. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Globe Office unknown books
1836Best.-Nr. 82919New York: American Anti-Slavery Society 1836. 12mo 19cm. Stitched self-wrappers; pp.1-12. Removed; first and final leaves detached but present; light soil scattered faint foxing; tear to bottom inch of bound edge away from text; complete and Good. Woodcut decoration at head of text a strikingly violent image depicting the murder of a Black man by his enslaver in Woolville Mississippi. Single issue of this monthly abolitionist periodical that ran from 1835 to 1837 published by the American Anti-Slavery Society under the direction of Elizur Wright. It was "a small magazine with excellent woodcuts containing principally extracts from other publications" that was "distributed freely without charge" and "found its way into the schools and colleges everywhere" Dumond p.267. Wright stated that in September 1835 the Society published 25000 copies of the Record p.267. BLOCKSON 9174. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 622. American Anti-Slavery Society unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 46597Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society n.d. ca. 1863. First Edition. Original broadsheet handbill 22x13.5cm.; extremities chipped with shallow losses not approaching text the whole rather dust-soiled and unevenly toned else Good or better overall. Text reproduces an address delivered by the Rev. Enoch Mellor of Liverpool "in his INAUGURAL ADDRESS at the ANNUAL MEETING of the CONGREGATIONAL UNION held in London" in which he "declared his sentiments on the present American Conflict." Mellor 1823-1881 was the life-long minister of the non-conformist Square Congregational Church in Halifax West Yorkshire with the exception of a five-year period coinciding with this address when he succeeded the abolitionist Congregational minister Thomas Raffles 1788-1863. Mellor's argument begins with reference to the Lancashire Cotton Panic an economic depression caused by a dearth of baled cotton imports following the start of the American Civil War. Mellr goes on to say that "War /may/ be wrong slavery /is/ wrong" comparing its presence on the American continent with that of the propagation of polygamy "carefully and resolutely laid as a foundation-stone in the territory of Utah. Union and Emancipation Society unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 33708Philadelphia 1856. 24pp disbound three small binding holes in blank left margin. Two early signatures of Wm. Thompson Shafer on title page. Light spotting throughout. About Good. This scarce pamphlet says the "great issue" is whether "Slavery shall be allowed to overspread a territory of greater extent than that of the whole United States" and "whether the policy of our government is to continue to be that of Slavery Extension or Slavery Restriction." All the power of the presidency is "being used to force the withering and blighting scourge of Slavery upon the National domain." Pursuing this tyrannical course our government "shall lend its aid in striking a deathblow to the freedom of speech the liberty of the press and the security for life personal liberty possession and peace." LCP 4300. OCLC 22829199 4- LCP No. IL U Haverford Detroit Pub. Lib. as of April 2017. unknown books
1854Best.-Nr. 26154Washington: Printed at the Congressional Glove Office 1854. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Self wrappers unsewn as issued. Some browning and spotting wear along spine and edges but a very good copy. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Primarily concerning the issue of slavery in the territories this speech was part of the debates for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act initiated by Douglas ultimately repealed the Missouri Compromise allowed the local residents to determine whether the area was free or slave territory allowed for "the doctrine of popular sovereignty of the two territories" and laid the way for a transcontental railroad. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in the Senate on the 3rd of March. Clayton was a lawyer noted agriculturist and long-time member of Congress who was Secretary of State under President Taylor. As Secretary of State he is best remembered for having negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with Great Britain which provided for a neutral international canal across Central America and "contained pledges which ultimately forced Great Britain to withdraw from large tracts of territory which.it had been occupying on the Isthmus." DAB. Sabin 13576n Printed at the Congressional Glove Office unknown
1817Best.-Nr. 378683Philadelphia: Printed for the Convention 1817. 38 2pp. Errata in the rear. 8vo. Disbound. Foxing. Library blindstamp. 38 2pp. Errata in the rear. 8vo. With much on the kidnapping of free persons of color to enslave them in the south. Also of note is a report on the printing of an edition of Clarkson's History for distribution in the south. Printed for the Convention unknown
1856Best.-Nr. 257105Washington D.C.: Globe Office 1856. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Old folds. Blind embossed " Platner & Porter Cobngress" staionary. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Globe Office unknown
1863Best.-Nr. 46597Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society n.d. ca. 1863. First Edition. Original broadsheet handbill 22x13.5cm.; extremities chipped with shallow losses not approaching text the whole rather dust-soiled and unevenly toned else Good or better overall. Text reproduces an address delivered by the Rev. Enoch Mellor of Liverpool "in his INAUGURAL ADDRESS at the ANNUAL MEETING of the CONGREGATIONAL UNION held in London" in which he "declared his sentiments on the present American Conflict." Mellor 1823-1881 was the life-long minister of the non-conformist Square Congregational Church in Halifax West Yorkshire with the exception of a five-year period coinciding with this address when he succeeded the abolitionist Congregational minister Thomas Raffles 1788-1863. Mellor's argument begins with reference to the Lancashire Cotton Panic an economic depression caused by a dearth of baled cotton imports following the start of the American Civil War. Mellr goes on to say that "War /may/ be wrong slavery /is/ wrong" comparing its presence on the American continent with that of the propagation of polygamy "carefully and resolutely laid as a foundation-stone in the territory of Utah. Union and Emancipation Society unknown
1836Best.-Nr. 82919New York: American Anti-Slavery Society 1836. 12mo 19cm. Stitched self-wrappers; pp.1-12. Removed; first and final leaves detached but present; light soil scattered faint foxing; tear to bottom inch of bound edge away from text; complete and Good. Woodcut decoration at head of text a strikingly violent image depicting the murder of a Black man by his enslaver in Woolville Mississippi. Single issue of this monthly abolitionist periodical that ran from 1835 to 1837 published by the American Anti-Slavery Society under the direction of Elizur Wright. It was "a small magazine with excellent woodcuts containing principally extracts from other publications" that was "distributed freely without charge" and "found its way into the schools and colleges everywhere" Dumond p.267. Wright stated that in September 1835 the Society published 25000 copies of the Record p.267. BLOCKSON 9174. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 622. American Anti-Slavery Society unknown
1856Best.-Nr. 33708Philadelphia 1856. 24pp disbound three small binding holes in blank left margin. Two early signatures of Wm. Thompson Shafer on title page. Light spotting throughout. About Good. This scarce pamphlet says the "great issue" is whether "Slavery shall be allowed to overspread a territory of greater extent than that of the whole United States" and "whether the policy of our government is to continue to be that of Slavery Extension or Slavery Restriction." All the power of the presidency is "being used to force the withering and blighting scourge of Slavery upon the National domain." Pursuing this tyrannical course our government "shall lend its aid in striking a deathblow to the freedom of speech the liberty of the press and the security for life personal liberty possession and peace." LCP 4300. OCLC 22829199 4- LCP No. IL U Haverford Detroit Pub. Lib. as of April 2017. unknown
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