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HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Miami, Florida: Mnemosyne Publishing Co.,. As New with no dust jacket. 1969. 1st Edition Thus (Facsimile Reprint). Hardcover. Dark Grey cloth bound boards. With Bright Silver titling/decoration. Overall near 'As New'. An Excellent Clean, Tight and Bright copy. FACSIMILE Reprint. Reprinted from a copy in the Fisk University Library Negro Collection, originally printed in 1861. 8vo Thick. 495 pp . Frontispiece portrait of George Washington . A compilation of the views on slavery by the Founding Fathers of the USA & by early statesmen, from the Articles of the Confederation to 1854, and including the Missouri question, fugitive slaves, the Dred Scott Case & the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Speeches, articles, statutes, party platforms, debates, etc, on the question of slavery from the Revolution to the brink of Civil War; including Memorial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress on the Slave Trade, 1790; Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, drawn by Madison and… Read More

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Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo; 495, [xvi] pages (lacks leaf 21/22 of the rear publisher's ads ), second printing (?) in blind-stamped brown embossed cloth; apparently issued without the frontispiece portrait of G. Washington), brown spot on fore-edge, bottom inch of top joint torn. Ex libris G. P. Steele from E. B. Chase July 16th 1860. With five pages of inked biographical notes on the Chases, tipped to the front endpaper, and signed by William Wilcox in 1929. Ex libris M. S. Carothers. (Probably Rev. Milton S. Carothers, the long-time campus minister at Florida State University). Ezra B. Chase, at age 26, was elected Speaker of the Pennslvania House of Representatives, and later District Attorney for Luzerne County. The first portion here publishes [pages 22-43] Thomas Jefferson's "Notes" on the debates of the congress of confederation. "It will be seen that the 'Notes' relate almost exclusively to the slavery question, ... I have given the… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Paperback. New. 11x8x0.

Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860. First edition of this work on the opinions of early American statesmen on "the question of slavery." Octavo, recased in the original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece of George Washington. In good condition. Ex-library.

Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley. Good. 1860. Hardcover. ; Brown cloth cover has mothing to the extremities and along hinges but clean and bright. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. 2" chip to front end sheet. Frontispiece engraving of George Washington protected by tissue. Heavy toning/foxing to front matter and last few pages but most of the pages are very lightly toned with sparse modest foxing and otherwise clean and very good. ; 529 pages .

Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo (approx. 8" tall). 495 pages, [16] pages of advertisements, [1]. Steel engraved frontispiece of George Washington. Brown pebble cloth hardcover with ruled in blind on the borders with gilt patriotic illustration stamped on the front cover. Gilt lettered title on the spine. Cloth is chipped head and base of the spine and worn on the corners. Foxing to the tissue protecting the frontispiece. Interior contents are very clean. Previous owner name on the right front flyleaf. Contents cover political debates on various Constitutions and Acts, fugitive Slave laws, Slavery in the District of Columbia, Missouri Compromise, and more.