Benezet, Anthony. [PROBABLY ONLY COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS].

Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes with some advice thereon extracted form [sic] the Yearly Meeting epistle of London for the present year also some remarks on the absolute necessity of self-denial, ...

Germantown [Pa.]: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 15, [i]pp. First edition. Disbound. Evans 8298; Sabin 4676; ESTC W1272. Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Evans. This first edition of Benezet's has not been seen in auction rooms for well over one hundred years. Very Good.

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Book number: 2532

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Wolcott, Roger.

Poetical meditations, being the improvement of some vacant hours; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester.

New London: Printed and Sold by L. Green, 1725. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], lvi, I, 78, [iv - 1 of errata and 3 of advertisements]. Lacks half-title. First edition. Contemporary sheep. The first book of poetry printed in Connecticut and one of the earliest in North America. ESTC W28923; Evans 2722; Trumbull 1696; Johnson 207; Wegelin 465. Good.

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Book number: 2748

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Americana