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Sale 2697 - Lot 6

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(ABOLITION.) Thomas Clarkson. History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Folding map, folding plate, one other plate, text illustrations. 2 volumes. 455, [1]; 468 pages. 12mo, original cloth-backed boards, one backstrip worn and the other rebacked in cloth; lacks first free endpaper, foxing, closed tears to slave ship plate; uncut; signatures of early owner on title pages and elsewhere. Philadelphia, 1808
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First American edition. "Won Clarkson worldwide fame. . . . The first major study toward complete abolition of slavery. It was largely due to Clarkson's exertion that long before his death slaveholding had come to be regarded as a crime"--Blockson One Hundred and One, 17. Includes a folding plate with an expanded diagram of the slave ship Brookes. The "Am I Not a Man and a Brother" seal is illustrated on page I:359. Afro-Americana 2390; Sabin 13486; Shaw & Shoemaker 14700.

Provenance: original owner Rachel Valentine Sharples (1786-1858) was married to George G. Ashbridge at the Quaker meeting house in Concord, PA in 1811.

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