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]. UPHAM, Charles W. (1802?1875). Speech of Charles W. Upham, of Salem, in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts on the Compromises of the Constitution: with an Appendix, Containing the Ordinance of 1787. Salem: Tri?Weekly Gazette Office, 1849. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (minor dust soiling or staining to upper cover). FIRST EDITION. The Ordinance of 1787 addressed the division of slave and non-slave states. However, Article 6 of the Ordinance made it legal to reclaim slaves from non-slave states, exactly as in the later Fugitive Slave Act.