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OBSERVATIONS ON THE BILL INTRODUCED LAST SESSION, BY MR. WILBERFORCE, FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING THE UNLAWFUL IMPORTATION OF SLAVES, AND THE HOLDING FREE PERSONS IN SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES by [Slave Trade]

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Title: OBSERVATIONS ON THE BILL INTRODUCED LAST SESSION, BY MR. WILBERFORCE, FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING THE UNLAWFUL IMPORTATION OF SLAVES, AND THE HOLDING FREE PERSONS IN SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES
Author: [Slave Trade]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: London: Printed for J. M. Richardson, Cornhill, Opposite the Royal Exchange, 1816. [3]-28pp. Light scattered foxing. Bound in modern cloth [withdrawal stamp on front pastedown; inoffensive faint blindstamp on blank corner of title leaf]. Else Very Good. Our collation matches that of the bibliographers. The nameless author disclaims any "intention to advocate the revival, or regret the abolition, of the Slave Trade. . . [I]t is a traffic so objectionable in almost every respect, that being abolished for the most part, I hope never to see it revived, and that every endeavour will be made to realize those advantages, which the zeal of the authors of the Abolition has induced them to expect." However, "The passage of the registration bill would constitute an unwarranted interference of the central power in the planters' private affairs" [Ragatz]. The property right of the West Indian colonists in their slaves is non-negotiable. Slaves comprise "the most valuable property of our colonists." Parliament's interference with "the private rights and private property of our colonists. . . would absolutely and tyrannically deprive the individuals, whose property it is proposed to regulate and affect, of those constitutional means of redress, which all British subjects are entitled to." The pamphlet prints resolutions of West Indian Planters objecting to any such intrusions on their rights. The anonymous author objects to the African Institution's "representations of the miseries and hardships of slaves, and in circulating (ignorantly and unguardedly no doubt) the most unfounded calumnies on the subject. If these gentlemen were to compare the situation of the Irish peasantry, with that of our colonial slaves, they would find they were comparing the extreme of wretchedness with comparative comfort." Ragatz 442. LCP Supp. 1608. Sabin 56509. OCLC records 16 locations worldwide as of March 2025.

Journal d'Un Voyage Fait dans l'Interieur de l'Amerique Septentrionale by (ANBUREY, Thomas)

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Title: Journal d'Un Voyage Fait dans l'Interieur de l'Amerique Septentrionale
Author: (ANBUREY, Thomas)
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description: hardcover. Traduit de l'Anglois et enrichi de notes par M. Noel. Complete with folding map, 2 folding plates, and Frontis. 2 vols. 12mo, contemporary 1/2 calf over marbled boards, leather labels; (rubbed, boards faded, previous owner's rubberstamp and ink notations on front flyleaf of each volume, glue residue on front endpaper of vol. I, a small amount of foxing to some pages). Paris: La Villette, 1793. Third French Edition. "Capt. Anburey served with Burgoyne, but this account of his travels was largely plagiarized from Burnaby, Smyth and Others." Howes A-226. Map depicts the United States from New Hampshire to Virginia. Sabin 1369.

Barva vladne svetem by HALEIZOVU

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Title: Barva vladne svetem
Author: HALEIZOVU
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Description: 1928. HALEIZOVU. Barva vladne svetem. 216 pp., illustrated with 6 full page plates, 5 of which are in colour. 8vo, 192 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's colourfully designed wrappers. Prague: Zmatlik a Palicka, 1928. A scarce little book on the basics of spectrology and the effects of colour on human life. A rare book, with OCLC listing only one copy worldwide, in the Czech National Library. The Book of Colour Concepts 470.

Washington Irving: A Sketch by Curtis, George William

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Title: Washington Irving: A Sketch
Author: Curtis, George William
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Grolier Club, 1891 Illustrated with two plates. First edition. One of 344 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's red morocco binding, with Grolier Club insignia in gilt to front board, board edges triple-ruled in gilt, five raised bands to spine, with spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, and brown endpapers. Near fine, with bright gilt, light rubbing to spine ends, some black ink staining to spine, corners, and a tiny spot to front board, a few nicks to spine bands, bookplates of Edwin B. Holden (seventh president of the Grolier Club and founding member of the Club bindery) and George A. Zabriskie (former New York Historical Society president) to front pastedown, and clean and untoned pages. With messages from the Grolier Club laid in, including an internal message from Secretary S. W. Marvin about Washington Irving not being ready for delivery until Jan. 20, 1892. Overall, a tight and attractive copy. In this book, George William Curtis writes about the life of the great 19th century American author, Washington Irving. Perhaps the most notable of Washington's works is The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. A collection that Irving published serially between 1819 and 1820, The Sketch Book includes two of the first, and most influential, short stories in American history, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." George William Curtis (1824 - 1892) was a 19th century author, essayist, and orator. In his illustrious life, he lived at Brook Farm with Emerson and Thoreau, traveled the world and wrote travelogs like Nile Notes of a Howadji (1851) and The Howadji in Syria (1852), and, later in life, was appointed chairman of the commission on civil service reform by Ulysses S. Grant (1871). This copy was formerly owned by Edwin B. Holden, who served as president of the Grolier Club in 1906. Holden also co-founded the Club Bindery (1895 - 1909), which was created "in order to make available in America craft binding qualitatively competitive with European artisans" and was closely linked to the Grolier Club (Grolier Club). George A. Zabriskie was a Grolier Club member who served as the president of the New York Sons of the Revolution and of the New York Historical Society.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

The Case of the Philosophers' Ring by Watson, (Dr.) John H.; unearthed by Randall Collins

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Title: The Case of the Philosophers' Ring
Author: Watson, (Dr.) John H.; unearthed by Randall Collins
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Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1978). First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible shelfwear, a nice clean book except for the former owner's name, date & place of purchase, and brief editorial commentary, all in ink on the front endpaper; the jacket shows just a touch of surface-soiling]. (B&W photographs) "Amid the drugs and cult mysticism of the Edwardian Underworld, Sherlock Holmes encounters the world's most evil genius, and his plan to destroy Western civilization." The Sherlockian-pastiche adventure begins when a telegram arrives at 221B Baker Street from Bertrand Russell, begging Holmes to come to Cambridge to investigate "the theft of a uniquely precious treasure -- the mind of Ludwig Wittgenstein" who has mysteriously become lethargic and paranoid. John Maynard Keynes, G.E. Moore, and other members of the Cambridge Apostles figure into the narrative, as do Aleister Crowley, Lytton Strachey, and even Virginia Woolf. .

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