London: Printed by J. Paramore, 1787. 12mo, 12pp. Title page browned. Light foxing. Inner margins archivally reinforced. Good+, in modern marbled boards. The first Methodist Bishop, Coke was "superintendent" for America and, in the course of his duties, made nine voyages to the West Indies between 1784 and..... More
London: Printed by J. Paramore, 1787. 12mo, 11, [1 blank] pp. Lower quadrants spotted. Good+, bound in modern marbled boards. The first Methodist Bishop, Coke was "superintendent" for America and, in the course of his duties, made nine voyages to the West Indies between 1784 and 1803. His Letter..... More
Richmond: Printed by T.W. White, 1833. 48pp. Disbound, early and late gatherings foxed, browned. Good+. In a modern folding case. Nat Turner's slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, brought to reality the South's worst nightmare. The incident sparked the only concerted effort by a Slave State to abolish slavery..... More
New York: October, 1854. Broadside, 9" x 14 3/4". Printed in three columns. Lightly margin-spotted, old folds, else Very Good. A rare broadside, issued by Northern Democrats opposed to the Kansas- Nebraska Act, which authorized the entry of slaves into that Territory and, its opponents feared, would nationalize slavery. The..... More
[Philadelphia: 1866]. Caption title, as issued. 7, [1 blank] pp. Signed and dated at the end in type: "William Nesbit, Joseph C. Bustill, William D. Forten, On behalf of the Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League. Feby. 20th, 1866." Stitched, light margin toning, several contemporary manuscript corrections. Detailed contemporary pencil essay..... More