Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[ABOLITION]. BENEZET, Anthony (1713?1784). A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions. London: James Phillips, 1784. 8vo. 1pp. publisher?s ad at end. Original sewn drab wrappers (spine chipped with losses, corners creased). FIRST LONDON EDITION, originally published in Philadelphia in 1766. A seminal anti?slavery work distributed on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition ?served as a reminder that despite the American victory in the Revolution the stated ideals of the Declaration of Independence had yet to be achieved? (Reese catalogue note). Howes B345; Sabin 4671.