Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 413

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WEST INDIES.) [Allen, James.] At a Meeting of the West-India Planters and Merchants . . . Considerations on the Present State of the Intercourse between his Majesty's Sugar Colonies and the Dominions of the United States of America [caption title]. 54 pages. 8vo, disbound; inked library stamps on last two leaves. [London, 1784]

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An unusual work issued for members of parliament and not for general sale (perhaps accounting for the lack of any title page). "A reply to Lord Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the American States . . . Opposes the maintaining of restrictions on American-West Indian trade . . . declaring that the welfare of the Caribbean possessions demanded absolute freedom of intercourse with the United States"--Ragatz, page 246. Sabin 834 and 102789.