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[Herzen, Alexander].MareMagnum

Vom anderen Ufer. Aus dem Russischen Manuskript. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1850.

Benezet, [Anthony].MareMagnum

Some Historical Account of Guinea, its Situation, Produce, and the general Disposition of its Inhabitants. With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, its Nature, and lamentable Effects. London, W. Owen, 1772.

12mo. V, IV, 198, (6) pp. Nineteenth century quarter calf with green vellum corners. First printed in Philadelphia the year prior, this title was intended specifically as an "impartial enquiry" to assess the oft-cited pro-slave trade justification that "the slavery of the Negroes took rise from a desire, in the purchasers, to save the lives of such of them as were taken captives in war, who would otherwise have been sacrificed to the implacable revenge of their conquerors". By examining a variety of first-hand accounts of trade and exploration on the African continent, Benezet sets out to fully discredit this assertion. He does this through outlining the influence of European factors and trading posts on local conflict, in particular emphasizing the corrupting influence that tax on slave ships had on local rulers. Alongside this, the frank descriptions of African society, government, agricultural and religious practices is designed to give a humanizing portrait of African people in their native land. This is then vehemently contrasted with accounts of the conditions of slavery, the circumstances of transportation and the treatment of enslaved people in the colonies. - Benezet published a series of pamphlets, at his own expense, explicating the horrors of slavery with a view to its abolition, most notably "A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies […]" (1767). Ragatz writes that along with John Wollman, Benezet was one of the "chief early anti-slave trade agitators in the new world […] Benezet carried on universal propaganda and was in very close touch with British Abolitionists. This work gave young Thomas Clarkson most of the information he used in writing the Cambridge Latin prize which resulted in dedicating his life to the abolition movement". - Slightly rubbed, preliminary pages a little foxed, with the armorial bookplate of John Molesworth. Cf. Evans, 11985 (first edition). Ragatz, p. 479. Sabin 4689.

Inlibris · Wien, AT2 500,00 €

Limiers, [Henri Philippe].MareMagnum

Annales de la Monarchie Françoise, depuis son établissement jusques à présent [...]. Amsterdam, Honoré & Châtelain, 1724.

Folio (295 x 452 mm). 3 parts in 1 vol. (10), 335 [but: 329], (1) pp. (2), 290, (26) pp. (2), 127, (1) pp. All three title pages printed in red and black. With 3 engraved title vignettes, 1 engr. frontispiece (B. Picart inc. & sculp.), 7 large, folding engr. genealogical tables, and 63 page-sized engravings in the text in part 3. Contemporary calf with giltstamped red label to elaborately gilt spine and giltstamped arms on the covers. All edges in faded red. Marbled endpapers. First edition of this work important for French historiography after the death of Louis XIV. The first part provides an overview of the history of the French monarchy, the second part treats the genealogy of the French ruling houses. Part three contains various coins and medals of the monarchs. The genealogical plates show a large number of arms and maps; one of them contains four engraved views of Paris. The 63 text engravings (each bordered by ten medaillons) depict a total of 242 views of French castles and cities. - Some brownstaining; occasionally slightly waterstained. Front hinge and defect to upper spine-end professionally restored. From the library of Pierre-Philibert de Blancheton, seigneur de Chevry, de Vaux, de Meursault et des Auxey (1697-1756), with his gilt-stamped arms on both covers (illustrated in Olivier pl. 1919, fer no. 2: "lion d'or, tenant entre ses pattes un épi de blé"). Blancheton entered the Metz parliament in 1724 and later was made royal counselor. "Il mourut sans enfants [...], laissant une très importante bibliothèque" (Olivier). Later in the possession of Archduke Franz Joseph (1905-75) with his stamp on the front pastedown. Franz Joseph, son of Leopold Salvator of Austria and Tuscany, had emigrated to Spain with his family in 1918. During WWII, he lived in the United States as an interior architect. He returned to Austria in 1955, where he was active as an agronomist and forester (cf. Hamann, Habsburger, 145). The present volume remained in the possession of the Habsburg family and was acquired directly from Patricia Federica Maria Valeria Nella von Habsburg-Lothringen.

Inlibris · Wien, AT2 500,00 €