"THE OFFICIAL WHISTLE-BLOWER OF THE HORRORS OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY": EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THOMAS CLARKSON'S FIRST WORK, ESSAY ON THE SLAVERY AND COMMERCE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, 1786
(CLARKSON, Thomas). Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species. London, Printed: Philadelphia, 1786.
First American edition of Clarkson's extremely scarce first published work, preceded by the same year’s first English edition, his “famous prize essay”” on the abolition of slavery,” igniting the campaign “for one of the fundamental rights of man” (PMM 232). $4500.
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“INGENIOUS AND TASTEFUL”
PRICE, Uvedale. An Essay on the Picturesque. London; Hereford, 1796, 1798, 1795. Together, three volumes. Expanded and best edition of Price’s engaging and practical study of the picturesque and the sublime in landscape and garden design (enlarged second edition of Volume I; first editions of Volumes II and III), handsomely bound. $1400.
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1975 BULLETIN OF THE CHAGALL MUSEUM, SIGNED BY CHAGALL
(CHAGALL, Marc). Amis du Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall. Nice, 1975.
Limited first edition, number 45 of 500 copies produced for benefactors, of the annual bulletin for 1975 of the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice, signed and dated by Chagall on the title page. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and friend of Chagall who was one of the benefactors of the Museum and an honorary member. $1200.
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