Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BRAZIL.) Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. Frontispiece titled "Sections of a Slave Ship," leaf of music. 2 volumes. 12mo, modern 1/4 calf; uncut and partly unopened, foxing. Boston, 1831

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first american edition. "One of the best about that period"--Borba de Moraes, page 934. Includes a detailed first-hand account of the capture of a Brazilian slave ship, II:259-69. Sabin 101153.