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A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of liverpool...together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive african trade..
de [WALLACE, James]
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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Liverpool: Printed for and sold by R. Phillips, 1795. vi, 301pp, [3]. With an engraved folding plan and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in later gilt-ruled calf-backed black paper boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting, small hole to leaf P5, touching text without loss of sense, occasional inked/pencilled annotations. The first edition of an authoritative history of Liverpool, with particular attention paid to the regions involvement in the slave trade. From original documents, the author constructs yearly tables revealing the intense concentration in the Liverpool slave trade from 1783 to 1793; for example, in 1783, 85 ships transported 39,170 slaves with a total sterling value of a staggering £1,958,500. Wallace concludes his statistical analysis with a summation of the remarkable dominance of the city in relation to the slave trade in the late eighteenth century; firstly, that 'one- fourth of the ships belonging to the port of Liverpool are employed in the African trade', secondly that 'it has five-eights of the African trade of Great Britain' and thirdly that 'is has three-sevenths of the African trade of all Europe'. . First edition. 8vo.
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- Librería
- Antiquates Ltd
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- AQ13680
- Título
- A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of liverpool...together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive african trade..
- Autor
- [WALLACE, James]
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Printed for and sold by R. Phillips
- Lugar de publicación
- Liverpool
- Fecha de publicación
- 1795
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- History, Local Interest
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Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Antiquates Ltd
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Wareham, Dorset
Sobre Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
