Search Results: Abolitionism from Charles Agvent

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1878. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Front endpaper detached; hinges cracked. Slight fraying to the spine head. Good. Original cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank to a noted abolitionist: "Mrs. Maria W. Chapman/with the respects of/John Bartlett/1878." With Chapman's early pencil signature using her maiden name above Bartlett's inscription. Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. She edited THE LIBERATOR, a widely-circulated abolitionist publication.

London: Mary Hinde, 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Early owner name of Maria Gurney on the front endpaper and remnant of early bookplate of Henrietta Gurney on the front pastedown. Light wear to the spine tips and edges, but a clean, Near Fine copy. Duodecimo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in contemporary calf leather with blind rules and stamping on the covers; [vi], 137, [3] pages. Contains the following, with separate title pages for each section: Considerations on Pure Wisdom, and Human Policy. * Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind, &c. * An Epistle to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends. * Remarks on Sundry Subjects (includes a chapter On a Sailor's Life). * Some Expressions of John Woolman in his Last Illness. Sabin 105207.