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Arabia.- Niebuhr (Carsten) Description de l'Arabie, first edition in French, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 25 engraved plates and maps, many folding, one map and 2 plates of Arabic text with partial hand-colouring, folding table, occasional light foxing, modern calf, spine slightly faded, 4to, Copenhagen, Nicholas Moeller, 1773.⁂ Contains important maps of the region including Oman, the Arabian Gulf and the first reliable map of the Nile delta. There are also views of Mecca and Medina. At the end is bound in a prospectus for the 1774 expanded 2-volume Paris edition (title and 10pp.)
NO RESERVE West Indies.- Lacroix (Pamphile, Baron) Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de la Revolution de Saint-Domingue, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding engraved battle-plan and large folding engraved map, both with partial hand-colouring, folding table, some foxing and light browning, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, 8vo, Paris, 1819.⁂ A fine copy. The plan is entitled "Plan du Siege de la Crete a Pierrot par l'Armee Francaise"; the large map, measuring 515 x 785mm., is by Lapie.
Slavery.- Pitt (William) The Speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt...on the Subject of the African Slave Trade, Newcastle, T. & J. Hodgson, 1824 § Abstract of the Acts of Parliament for Abolishing the Slave Trade, Printed for the African Institution, 1810 § A Short Review of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Birmingham, 1827 § Wilberforce (William) An Appeal...in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies, 1823 § A Calm Inquiry into...the System of British Colonial Slavery, by a Christian Minister, London & Liverpool, 1832 § Hankey (William Alers) A Letter to Thomas Wilson, 1833 § Hodgson (Adam) A Letter to M. Jean-Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour, second edition, Liverpool & London, 1823 § Cropper (James) Relief for West-Indian Distress, London & Liverpool, 1823; Letters on the Means of Abolishing Slavery in the West Indies, and Improving the Condition of the Slaves, 1827; The Support of Slavery Investigated, Liverpool & London, 1824, together 10 works in 1 vol., and East India Sugar, 1824 § [Moorsom (C.R.)] How do we Procure Sugar?, by a Naval Officer, Whitby, Printed for the Anti-Slavery Society, 1828 § Conder (Josiah) Wages or the Whip. An Essay on...Free and Slave Labour, 1823 § Negro Slavery; or, A View of...that State of Society...in the United States of America and in the Colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica, [Sabin 52269], 1823 § Slavery in the West Indies, wood-engraved illustration after George Cruikshank, [c.1830] § Facts proving the Good Conduct and Prosperity of Emancipated Negroes and Remarks on Melioration, [c.1830] § Whiteley (Henry) Three Months in Jamaica, in 1832: comprising a Residence of Seven Weeks on a Sugar Plantation, 1833 § Jeremie (John) Four Essays on Colonial Slavery, second edition, 1832 § Godwin (Rev. Benjamin) The Substance of a Course of Lectures on British Colonial Slavery, folding table, ink annotations,1830 § [Cropper (James)] A Review of...the State of the West India Colonies...secured by the immediate Abolition of Slavery, presentation copy signed by the author to C.R. Moorsom, Liverpool & London, 1833, together 10 works in 1, in total 20 works bound in 2 vol., uniformly bound in modern half calf, some foxing and browning, a few with ink or pencil annotations, 8vo⁂ A very good collection of anti-slavery pamphlets, almost all with the initials or ownership signature of Constantine Richard Moorsom (1792-1861), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy (son of a Trafalgar veteran) and later an abolitionist.
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