John H. RussellLivre Rare Book
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1913189271913. Baltimore The Johns Hopkins Press 1913 - Broché 16 cm x 24 5 cm VIII+ 194+XII pages de catalogue éditeur - Texte en anglais de John H. Russell bibliographie - Non coupé bon état
1831WRCAM40189Washington 1831. xxv1357pp. plus one folding map. Original cream printed wrappers. Minor chipping to head and foot of spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Titlepage foxed light tanning to some leaves else clean and bright. Very good. Untrimmed. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States preferably in Africa thereby "separating them WITH THEIR OWN CONSENT from the white race." The Society established the colony of Liberia in 1822 assisting African Americans to resettle there. The colony continued to grow for the next twenty years and Liberia declared itself an independent state in 1847. The folding map shows the colony of Liberia. This copy belonged to the Rev. Leonard Worcester of Peacham Vt. Worcester was a member of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of the State of Vermont. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. A nice association copy. unknown books
The first two lectures in this important series. 8vo. Original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT.
1937FD1-936Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Pr, 1937. original Broschur, 8?, XXV, 249 pages, a good copy
Light browning to DJ spine. Dustjacket has very light chipping to head of spine. Minor shelfwear. Minor pencil marginalia. ; In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing the process of the enserfment of the Russian peasantry. This book illustrates this process with fifty-six documents of the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, almost all unabridged and translated for the first time. They relate mainly to the central and northern area of European Russia known, in the sixteenth century, as Muscovy. ; 194 pages
254 pages. The powerful true story of a man who was a twentieth-century plantation slave. Beatings and burnings of black Americans a half century after the Emancipation Proclomation! "The book vibrates with action... an exceptional reading experience." - Christian Bookseller. Includes several pages of black and white photographs. Prior owner's details atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Book
1893100148465Thomas Y. Crowell & Co 1893 in12. 1893. Cartonné. Ce recueil rassemble les premiers poèmes de John Greenleaf Whittier poète américain du XIXe siècle. Il est notamment connu pour son engagement dans le mouvement abolitionniste utilisant sa poésie comme une voix efficace dans la lutte contre l'esclavage. L'ouvrage comprend également une esquisse biographique de l'auteur
545p.,frontis. Wright II - 299 Hardcover Good condition, hinges cracked, lacking front free endpaper
ORD-6942With Map and Illustrations. London. Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle. 1873. In-8 (145 x 204mm) dos à 5 nerfs et coins veau vert foncé, pièce de titre veau rouge, plats toile chagrinée, XIV, (2), 304 pages, grande carte rempliée hors texte (piquée et réparée sans perte), frontispice, illustrations en noir dont 8 hors texte. Des rousseurs éparses sinon assez bon exemplaire.
1988RO80245183Picador. 1988. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 417 pages. Texte en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 326-Esclavage
428p 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner Hardcover Very good condition good
192 p. Damp stain. Age stain. 12mo. 190 mm. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Boards damp stained with loss. Paper spine label perished. Hardbound. Fair. Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. Politically, he played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation. While Haliburton gained a reputation as a local businessman and as a judge, his greatest fame came from writing. He wrote a number of books on history, politics, and farm improvement. He rose to international fame with his Clockmaker serial, which first appeared in the Novascotian and later published as a book throughout the British Empire, becoming popular light reading. The work recounted the humorous adventures of the character Sam Slick. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada. S&S/AI 56101. First edition of the second series. PAIMP 23
1794126550London no printer 1794 or later. First edition variously dated by ESTC and WorldCat between 1794 the date given at the end of the preliminary "Short Account of the origin and present state of the charitable fund" and 1823. The short account dated March 1794 is followed by a tipped in leaf reporting on the first meeting of the society which took place on Thursday April 3 1794 electing the Lord Bishop of London as president. The Charter of the Society 18 pages in length is dated at Westminster "this thirtieth Day of October in the thirty-fourth Year of our Reign" which again falls in 1794. Octavo 190 x 123 mm pp. ix 18. Sometime in a pamphlet vol. now disbound. Spine shows evidence of earlier binding sometime folded vertically; title lightly dust soiled page ix trimmed down and tipped onto p. viii; a good copy. Sabin 85881. unknown
274 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "Kiple's detailed examination of diet, disease, and demography in the Caribbean and West Africa raises significant issues for all concerned with the history of medicine, slavery, and European overseas expansion." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Minimal markings to contents. Book would be graded as Good if not for moisture damage affecting upper portion of back half of book. All text legible. No odour detected. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this informative work. Book
1713370449London: Printed for John Baskett 1713. 2 48pp. printed in English and Spanish in parallel columns. Without the Privilege leaf preceding the title. Quarto. Trimmed and inlaid into folio sheets and bound within a folio volume of treaties between Great Britain and Spain assembled by the British Foreign Office Library approx. 850pp in total. 19th century half roan and marbled paper boards worn some restoration at joints. Provenance: British Foreign Office Library bookplate on the front pastedown. 2 48pp. printed in English and Spanish in parallel columns. Without the Privilege leaf preceding the title. Quarto. First edition in English of one of the most important documents in the history of slavery in the Americas and in the political and financial history of Europe and the Americas in the early 18th century. <br /> <br /> Though the term "assiento" could refer to any number of Spanish contracts "the Assiento" almost always refers to the "Assiento de Negros": a monopoly contract granted by the Spanish crown between 1528 and 1779 for the sole right to import slaves from Africa into the Spanish colonies. Normally granted to individual companies the 1713 Assiento was granted directly to the British crown as part of negotiations for the Treaty of Utrecht which ended the War of Spanish Succession. In the decades following this 1713 Assiento an estimated 200000 enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic.<br /> <br /> The document grants sole privilege for the trade to the British crown for a period of thirty years expiring in 1743. The agreement consisting of forty-two articles allows for a maximum of 4800 slaves to be introduced to the colonies each year with a provision for increasing that annual amount each year by paying an added duty places limits on sale prices sets the cost of the duty to be paid for each enslaved person allows for the use of British or Spanish ships and mariners in the slave trade provides for the French Guinea Company's extraction from the colonies and establishes the details of precisely where British ships would be allowed to travel and trade. The British were also granted the unique privilege to send one vessel with a cargo of up to 500 tons of other trade goods to the Spanish colonies each year. <br /> <br /> While the Assiento seemed a lucrative deal most Assientists over the years saw considerable losses due to the difficulty of cross-Atlantic trade and the duties paid to the Spanish king. The real benefit to its grantees was not profits from the slave trade but rather the illegal ability to send other contraband on board their vessels to the otherwise closed-off Spanish markets in the New World. Britain was eager to get their own products overseas and to deny this revenue stream to the French who had held the Assiento since 1701 thereby preventing them from refilling their coffers too quickly and upsetting the balance of power in Europe after the costly War of the Spanish Succession. <br /> <br /> Queen Anne delegated the Assiento privilege to the South Sea Company which had recently been established to pay off Britain's considerable national debt. The privilege was largely granted to them as an encouragement to investors in order to allow the Company to achieve its original purpose more readily. Ultimately however it proved to be a costly and unprofitable endeavor for the South Sea Company who were able to import only about one-third of their allowed quota of slaves each year were frequently interrupted by war and were required to render twenty-five percent of their profits to King Philip V of Spain. <br /> <br /> The present example comes from the British Foreign Office Library inlaid and bound into a folio volume of other treaties between Great Britain and Spain arranged chronologically by treaty date. Over the course of many years the library of the Great Britain Foreign Office inlaid copies of nearly every treaty involving Great Britain to folio size and bound them together by region. The library was dispersed in the late 20th century with most of the volumes and particularly the American volumes broken up and sold by the William Reese Company.<br /> <br /> Most of the other treaties with Spain within this volume are clippings or extracts from larger works or true copies in manuscript of treaties dated between the years 1176 and 1739. Included in the volume however is a separately-printed English edition of the Treaty between Great Britain and Spain as part of the Treaty of Utrecht 1713: Tractatus pacis & amicitiæ . Treaty of peace and friendship between The most Serene and most Potent Princess Anne by the Grace of God Queen of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. and the most Serene and most Potent Prince Philip the Vth the catholick King of Spain concluded at Utrecht the 2/13 day of July 1713. London: Printed by John Baskett 1714. 115 1pp. ESTC T51509.<br /> <br /> There are two issues of the Assiento treaty; this is the issue with a semicolon after "Assiento" and no punctuation after "or" on the titlepage. A crucially important document in the history of colonial trade Spanish-British relations English finances and slavery in the Americas. Sabin 2227; European Americana 713/85; Hanson 1896; Sperling 34; JCB 1III:175; ESTC T4476 Printed for John Baskett unknown
1984Ge1324New York/London, W.W. Norton, 1984. Kartoniert. Ebd. u. Schnitt mit minimalen Gerbrauchs- u. Lagerspuren.- Sonst sehr gut erhaltenes Expl. 8° Buch Softcover
194225070London: Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society 1942. First Edition. Octavo 24.5cm.; staplebound self-wrappers; 53-66pp. Dust-soiling edge wear from handling with very shallow separation at spine crown; about Very Good. Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society unknown books
244017Londres-New York-Toronto, Oxford University press, 1969 in-8, [5] ff. n. ch., 197 pp., toile Bradel havane sous jaquette illustrée (reliure de l'éditeur).
196942016NY: Negro Universities Press 1969. Reprint of the 1861 edition. 8vo pp. 337. Appendix index. Top edge spotted o/w a VG tight copy. Negro Universities Press unknown books
1970z015630Westport CT: Negro Universities Press 1970. Reprint. Very Good. Facsimile reprint. 8vo. in black cloth. Varying internal paginations. Very good. Boards and top edge foxed. Light penciling to contents else internally unmarked in a sound binding. Negro Universities Press unknown
183682919New 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.<br /> <br /> 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
1961ABC_45244London: Anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society 1961. Original pictorial wrappers. Vol. 2 no. 7 April 1961. Pamphlet journal which includes obituaries articles reports news and reviews. Cover photo shows Nigerian children boarding a plane for Saudi Arabia where a story on page 73 states that they are to be sold as slaves to cover the costs of pilgrimage. A vertical crease some slight wear. Otherwise in good condition. Anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, unknown
0483584681.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Two volumes bound in one. 423p. Lacks two preliminary leaves. 12mo. Crudely rebound. First American Edition from the London edition of Longman. Howes G-449. Francis Joseph Grund (1805-1863) was a German-born American journalist and author. He spoke several languages, including German, English, and French. In his writings and public speeches, Grund campaigned in favor of various politicians, including Martin van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and James Buchanan. The Buchanan administration hired him as a special agent who was sent to Europe in order to report on political and commercial developments there. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMERICANA BOX 3
198115264Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 262pp; Removed from a non-circulating private library with ink ownership markings to front flyleaf and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession on front endpaper. Very mild rubbing to jacket; else clean and unmarked copy. Princeton University Press unknown books
