Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CLARKSON, THOMAS. Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African. 259 pages. Small 8vo, original full sheep with red morocco spine label; joints cracked, but firm; damp-stains to title-page and preliminaries and the rear 10 leaves; contemporary ownership signature. Philadelphia: Wiley, 1804

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first american edition. Clarkson's work, together with that of William Wilberforce and other British abolitionists helped bring about the end to the African slave trade in 1807. While OCLC locates numerous copies in institutions, a scarce book in commerce.