“AMONG THE TRUE HIGH POINTS OF MAN’S EFFORTS TO BRING REASON AND DIGNITY TO HIS WORLD”
PLATO. Republic. Glasgow, 1763.
First edition in English of the greatest of Plato's dialogues, printed at the Foulis Press by Glasgow's renowned Foulis brothers, in contemporary calf boards. $26,000.
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"THE LEADING CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR FOR GARRISON AND THE RADICAL ABOLITIONISTS"
BOWDITCH, William I. Slavery and the Constitution. Boston, 1849.
First edition of abolitionist attorney Bowditch's incendiary 1849 work declaring the Constitution a proslavery document, defiantly announcing—"we are a nation of slaveholders"—a crucial work in the highly public dispute that split apart Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. $2100.
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INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN
TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen. New York, 1960.
First trade edition, inscribed and signed by President Truman on the half title, "To William W. Stanhope from Harry S. Truman with kind regards, 12-16-61," with 32 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. $1450.
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