New-York: R. G. Williams, [1836]. 12pp, illustrated. Original printed and decorated wrappers, stitched. Illustrations. Very Good. The contents of this issue: The Humanity of the Africo-Americans, The Consistency of Lafayette, The Disruption of Family Ties, and Receipts of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The rear wrap has advertisements, a sonnet..... More
Dublin: H. Watts, Bookseller, 1794. pp x, 31, [1 blank]. Disbound, lightly foxed, The signatures suggest that this is part of a larger volume. Good+. Fearne was an eminent English real property lawyer and barrister of the Inner Temple who wrote a treatise on contingent remainders and executory devises..... More
Westmoreland, Jamaica: 1820. Single folio sheet, folded to [4]pp, 8" x 10." Completely in neat ink manuscript. Text on first two pages, third page blank, fourth page with address, remnant of wax seal [hole in blank portion resulting from breaking the seal], and a few postal cancels. Very Good. This..... More
Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1795. Original sheep [rubbed, worn, hinges starting]. Early ownership inscriptions of Nathan W. Adams [1814] on front endpapers. Half title, xi, [1 blank], 276, 19, [1 blank], [4 publ. advts.] pp Text lightly tanned and lightly foxed. Good+. "Apparently reprinted from the first London edition of..... More
[London: 1839]. 12, [1 blank], [1 docket] pp. Folio, with caption title as issued. New stitching. Very Good. Reports are printed "on the actual state of the labouring population and sugar cultivation," with disturbing news that the local magistrate prevents "the labourers from settling and working upon the properties on..... More
London: Arthur Miall, 25, Bouverie Street, E.C., [1866]. 92pp + folding table. Disbound, light tanning, blank edges of final leaf chipped. Good+ or so. Cardwell was Secretary of the Colonies; Reverend Underhill says he published this Letter "in self-defence," because Jamaica's Governor Eyre blamed Underhill's Letter for "exciting to..... More