[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of 9 works related to enslavement and abolition, comprising:

The Liberty Bell. Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1842. Original wrappers on board (possibly recased). FIRST EDITION of the third annual of the abolitionist periodical with submissions by William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, and John Quincy Adams. -- MAYER, Brantz. Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. (Recased with original cloth and spine laid down, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with page 191 misprinted as ‘19’. [With:] 1854 later issue, with page 191 printed correctly. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked with modern calf spine gilt -- HILDRETH, Richard (1807-1865). Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis of the Slave-Holding System in the United States. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1854. Original brown cloth (recased, original cloth laid down). Provenance: John Clapp (ownership inscription). FIRST EDITION. -- Walter Browning; Or, The Slave’s Protector. Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1856. FIRST EDITION. -- The Yankee Slave Driver; Or, The Black and White Rivals. Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1858. Original brown cloth (recased, original cloth and spine laid down). Later edition of the abolitionist novel. -- BLAKE, William O., editor. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. Columbus, OH: H. Miller, by subscription, 1860. Original black morocco gilt. Second edition. [With:] 1863 edition. Original black morocco boards, rebacked with modern black calf. -- Chase, Ezra B. Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen; Or, The “Founders of the Republic” on Slavery. Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1860. Original brown cloth gilt (recased, original cloth and spine laid down). FIRST EDITION. Sabin 12174. -- Together, 9 works in 9 volumes, 8vo and 12mo, bindings and editions as described, condition generally very good to fine, except where noted.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota

This lot is located in Cincinnati.