Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CUBA.) [de Murga, Gonzalo.] De la Abolicion de la Esclavitud en las Islas de Cuba y Puerto Rico [on the Abolition of Slavery in the Islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico]. 24 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, slight wrinkling at the corners. Madrid: Tipografico de T. Fontanet, 1868

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first edition. Gonzalo de Murga, the head of the Spanish equivalent of the Anti-Slavery Society, makes an eloquent and passionate case for the abolition of slavery in the Antilles. Scarce, OCLC locates only two copies, at Harvard and the University of Puerto Rico.