Lot n° 685
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Slavery - GURNEY (Joseph-John). Un Hiver aux Antilles en 183 - Lot 685
Slavery - GURNEY (Joseph-John). Un Hiver aux Antilles en 1839-40, ou Lettres sur les résultats de l'abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises des Indes Occidentales, addressed to Henri Clay, of Kentucky. Translated from the English 3rd edition by J. J. Pacaud. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1842.
In-8, XI-358 pp, fawn half-calf, smooth spine decorated (period binding).
Letters written from St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Christopher, Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica and Cuba, and which are an unequivocal plea for abolition, the English colonies to serve as an example to the French colonies.
Tail cap gnawed, otherwise a very good copy.
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