Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
INCLUDING ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY IMPRINTS BENEZET, ANTHONY. Observations On the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes . . . The Uncertainty of a Death-Bed Repentance [with] two other titles. Together, three titles, bound together; the Benezet title (16 pages) is bound at the end, the last leaf with some wear to the margins. 8vo, original full sheep with four raises bands, rubbed and worn. London Printed, Germantown, Reprinted by Christopher Sauer, 1759-60

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The other titles are Bromley, Thomas. The Way to the Sabbath of Rest, [and] Hartley, Thomas. A Discourse on Mistakes Concerning Religion, Enthusiasm, Experiences &c. [lacking 3 pages.]
first american editions. The Benezet piece is one the most important pre-Revolutionary anti-slavery pamphlets printed in America. Only a handful precede it. Evans, 8542; Sabin, 4676.