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A 'Papillon'- as well as a 'j'accuse' avant-la-lettre View picture(s) 1 AYMÉ, Jean-Jaques (Job). Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-législateur; suivis du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, a son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres. Paris, Maradan, (1800). 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt decorated with red morocco title label, paper board sides. 269, (26) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  France  French  History  Shipwrecks  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition Uncle Tom's Cabin View picture(s) 2 BEECHER STOWE, Harriet. Een kijkje in de Hut van Oom Tom, door tante Marie, voor hare Neefjes en Nichtjes. Met eene Toespraak van de Schrijfster aan de Jeugd. Uit het Engelsch door A.G. Bruinses. Sneek, Van Drutten en Bleeker, 1853. Orig. cloth, spine richly gilt, with central gilt ornament within blind-stamped borders on sides. With tinted lithographed title within broad decorative borders containing 10 small illustrative scenes, and 7 full-page tinted lithographed plates. X, 346, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Children's Books  Dutch  Literature  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventurous life of a black abolitionist View picture(s) 3 EQUIANO, Olaudah. Merkwaardige levensgevallen van Olaudah Equiano of Gustavus Vassa, den Afrikaan. Door hem zelven beschreeven. Amsterdam, Pieter Holsteyn, 1790. 8vo. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards. With hand-coloured aquatint portrait. [16], 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  Arctic  Enlightenment  Greenland  Slavery  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Everything you want to know about 18th century Surinam View picture(s) 4 FERMIN, Philip. Nieuwe algemeene beschryving van de colonie van Suriname. Behelzende al het merkwaardige van dezelve, met betrekkinge tot de historie, aardryks- en natuurkunde. Harlingen, V. van der Plaats junior, 1770. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with title label. Large folding engraved map of Surinam showing all plantations, accompanied by a list of their names and owners, first part, and 3 folding engraved plates, one large folding showing a Surinam tent-boat, and the other two showing the working of a mill by water and by horses in the second part. (4), XX, 228; (4), 323, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Slavery  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"By far the best work" on the Guyana's and Surinam View picture(s) 5 HARTSINCK, Jan Jacob. Beschryving van Guiana, of de wilde kust, in Zuid-America, betreffende de aardrykskunde en historie des lands, de zeeden en gewoontes der inwooners, de dieren, vogels, visschen, boomen en gewassen, als mede de eerste ontdekking dier kust, de bezittingen der Spanjaarden, Franschen en Portugeezen en voornaamelyk de volkplantingen der Nederlanderen, als Essequebo, Demerary, Berbice, Suriname, en derzelver rivieren, met de noodige kaarten en afbeeldingen der forten. Waarby komt eene verhandeling over den aart en de gewoontes der neger-slaaven. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1770. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf with spine richly gilt decorated, red morocco title label and a green morocco volume label. 6 folding engraved maps and plans, 6 engraved full page plates and 2 engraved folding views, 1 engraving in text. 1 blank, (2), XII, (4), 520; (2), 521-962, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [South]  Brazil  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Slavery  Surinam  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The purchase of freedom of slaves in 1720 View picture(s) 6 LA FAYE, Jean Baptiste de (& François COMELIN, Joseph BERNARD & Philemon de LA MOTTE). Voyage pour la redemption des captifs, aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis. Fait en 1720. Par les P.P. François Comelin, Philemon de La Motte, & Joseph Bernard de l'Ordre de la sainte Trinité, dits Mathurins, etc. Paris, Louis-Anne Sevestre & Pierre-François Giffart, 1721. 2 parts in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers,gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece with portrait of Louis XV by P.F. Giffart, engraved folding plate of an audience at the court of the Dey (Regent) of Algiers, engraved full-page plate of the 'rachat des captifs'. (8), 169, (1 blank); (10), LX, 306, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Algeria  Ottoman Empire  Slavery  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Swedish edition of Norris' journey to Africa and defence of slavery View picture(s) 7 NORRIS, Robert. Resa På Neger-kusten Til Kongl. Hofvet i Dahomej, Af Ångelske Handels Agenten Norris År 1772. Öfversatt Af Sam. Ödman. Gothenburg, Sam. Norberg, 1792. 8vo. Old paper boards, morocco label with title and author's name on spine. 60 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Slavery  Sweden  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The struggle for an independent black Haiti: the founding of the first independent state in the Americas, by an English admirer View picture(s) 8 RAINSFORD, Marcus. St. Domingo, of het land der zwarten in Hayti en deszelfs omwenteling. Naar het Engelsch. Met platen en kaarten. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1806. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards. With a frontispiece, 8 full-page numbered engraved plates, a folding map of Haiti (20.5 x 44 cm), a folding plan of 'Kaap François', all engraved, and a facsimile of a letter by Toussaint L'Ouverture to Edward Tyrell Smith on 3 folding leaves. XXVIII [= XXVI], 410, [2]; VIII, 416 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Haiti  Slavery  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting description of Curaçao with dedication by the author View picture(s) 9 SIMONS, G.J. Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçou, uit verschillende bronnen bijeenverzameld. Met kaarten en platen. Oosterwolde, G.S. de Tempe, 1868. 8vo. Later half cloth with marbled boards, original orange wrappers preserved. With lithographed map of Curaçao by J.W. Heldwier Vignon, two chromo-lithographed views ('Grot van Hato', and a view on Willemstad). 156 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Caribbean Islands]  Colonial History  Natural History  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most famous work on Dutch Surinam View picture(s) 10 STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Reize naar Surinamen, en door de binnenste gedeelten van Guiana; Naar het Engelsch. Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1799-1800. 4 vols. Contemporary half calf, spines divided and gilt in 6 compartments, 4 ornamented with gilt flowers, one with volume number and one with orange morocco title-label. With 4 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plan, and 37 engraved views and plates, one large folding, by R. Vinkeles, J. Wijsman, and A. Zurcher, after the English original. XVI, 339; VII, 327 (1); VIII, 351 (1); VIII, 308 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Slavery  Surinam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventures of a black servant in Ireland and Wales View picture(s) 11 [FARRAR, Eliza]. The adventures of Congo in search of his master; a tale. Containing a true account of a shipwreck. Second edition. London, John Harris, [ca. 1823]. 12mo. Original roan-backed printed boards. With 24 hand-coloured engraved illustrations on 12 plates. X, 191, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Shipwrecks  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the slave rebellion on Haiti View picture(s) 12 [PICQUENARD, Jean Baptiste]. Onbezwekene gehechtheid en trouw, of de edele negerslaaf, eene merkwaardige geschiedenis uit den opstand der Zwarten op St. Domingo. Gevolgd door een kort overzicht van St. Domingo en deszelfs geschiedenis. The Hague, A. Kloots, 1833. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt, yellow edges. [3], VIII, 243, [1 errata] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  Americana  Haiti  History  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Closing a deal with the pirates of Salé View picture(s) 13 [PIRACY - PAMPHLET]. Tractaet van vrundtschap ende verbintenisse beslooten den negenden februarii 1651. Tusschen de hoogh mog. heeren Staten Generael van de Geunieerde Nederlanden/ ten eenre: ende heeren Gouverneurs ende superieuren van de steden van Salé in Barbarye/ ter andere zyde. The Hague, Widow & heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1651. 4to. Bound. With a woodcut on title showing the Dutch lion in roundel with borders depicting armory and two soldiers. [4] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Maritime History  Morocco  Pamphlets  Piracy  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting work on slavery by an anonymous Frenchman View picture(s) 14 [SLAVERY - AFRICA - BRAZIL]. Journal d'un voyage sur les costes d'Afrique et aux Indes d'Espagne; avec une description particuliere de la riviere de la Plata, de Buenosayres, & autres lieux; commencé en 1702 & fini en 1706. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1730. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With woodcut frontispiece of a "Sauvage du Perou", woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black. (2), 372 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Argentina  Brazil  Cartography  Slavery  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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