The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade Ancient and Modern. The Forms of Slavery that Prevailed in Ancient Nations, Particularly in Greece and Rome. The African Slave Trade and the Political History of Slavery in the United States; Compiled from Authentic Materials
Columbus, Ohio: J. & H. Miller, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 18-832, [4] pp. Full contemporary black sheep with decorations stamped in blind on the boards, gold lettering and gold decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a few plates, engravings (all in black and white). With a publisher's advertisement slip for a different work, a Bible, laid in. With a passage on John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry and an appendix on the Dred Scott decision. Hogg 88. Sabin 5800. Blake begins his history with the practice of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome, and includes chapters on slavery in the West Indies, and discusses slavery in the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. His work ends with a discussion of the annexation of Texas, the Missouri Compromise, and the conflict in Kansas. A timely history, published shortly before the U.S. Civil War. Very Good. Item #000017110
The boards' edges rubbed without much loss to the leather, light foxing to the versos of the plates.
Price: $750.00