Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WITH A LARGE MAP AND SLAVE-SHIP DIAGRAM (BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.) Two volumes on the illicit slave trade. Report From the Select Committee of the House of Lords, Report From the Select Committee of the House of LordsAppointed to Consider The Best Means which Great Britain can adopt for the Final Extinction of the African Slave Trade * Report from the Select Committee on the West Coast of African, together with Minutes of the Evidence. Two volumes. Extra large (33x50 inches) tinted folding map of the West Coast of Africa, numerous charts and a folding plate of the noted diagram of a slave-ship in the first volume; folding map of West Africa and numerous charts in the second. Tall, thick folios, original printed blue wrappers as issued; some splitting at the rear joint of the first volume; second volume with spine cracked, covers loose, internally fine. London: Ordered to be printed by the House of Commons, 1850; 1842