Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839. Large title-page vignette and copious woodcut illustrations throughout. 48 pages. 12mo, original pictorial printed yellow front wrapper, hand-stitched, lacking rear wrapper; moderate wear, toning to final leaf. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, [1838]

Additional Details

One of the better almanacs issued by the American Anti-Slavery Society, with quarter-page woodcut illustrations to accompany each event reported from the previous year. with--a second copy of the same, lacking wrappers The Anti-Slavery Record I:7 (July 1835) Union Almanac for 1852 Richmond, "The African Servant" (American Tract Society) Sumner, "Freedom National, Slavery Sectional: Speech . . . on his Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill," Washington, 1852 2 issues of the Pennsylvania Freeman, 7 January and 11 March 1847.