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]. BRANAGAN, Thomas (1774?1843). A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa consisting of Animadversions on the Impolicy and Barbarity of the Deleterious Commerce and Subsequent Slavery of the Human Species? Philadelphia: for the author by John W. Scott, 1804. 8vo. Dedication leaf, publisher?s advertisement at end. (Some browning to title?page, lacks frontispiece). Original sheep, red leather lettering?piece gilt (extremes a bit rubbed, joints tender). Provenance: ownership inscription dated 1805. FIRST EDITION written by an ex?slaver turner abolitionist who wrote several works on the immorality of slavery. Shaw & Shoemaker, Early American Imprints 5901; Sabin 7379.