The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

by the British Parliament ... A New Edition, with Prefatory Remarks

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Portrait frontispiece, folding map, folding plan and folding section of the slave ship Brooks. viii, 615, 1 pp., plus 8-pages of ads in the rear. Uncut and partially unopened. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, some fading to spine and board edges, wear at head and tail of spine. Item #365072 Clarkson 1760-1846 , along with William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, was instrumental in convincing the British public and Parliament of the moral necessity

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.