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Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760. Second. hardcover. very good(-). 16 pages. Slim 8vo, rebound in later 1/2 black leather, spine and edges of boards worn, small light dampstain to margins, small amount of light foxing, inner hinge weak. Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760. Second edition. A very good(-) copy.<br/> <br/> Benezet was a leading Quaker abolitionist from Philadelphia. He was a friend of John Woolman. For many years Benezet was a teacher. He founded schools for the education of Blacks and young women. --Evans 8542; Sabin 4676.<br/> <br/>

8vo, modern 1/2 morocco and marbled boards, gilt title on spine, 16 pp. Final text leaf neatly remaringed, no loss of text, minor foxing and normal aging; otherwise very good, a very nice copy. Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) was born into a French Huguenot family that moved to London when he was two years old. At seventeen, his family moved to Philadelphia, and he became a Quaker. He became a teacher and established the first public school for girls in America, and along the way he managed to teach slave children from his home. In 1770, with the help of the Quakers, he set up the Negro School at Philadelphia, which he taught at until his death. The current work has the distinction of being one of the earliest and most important anti-slavery efforts printed in America before the Revolutionary War. ANB. Evans 8542. Sabin 4676.

8vo, original bull sheep with four raised boards, iii-viii, 280,168, 16pp. Benezet title is bound at the end (16 pp.). Binding very worn and rubbed, hinges weak, binding slightly warped, missing endpapers, pages 53-56 are torn, page 5 and 6 is torn in half in Harley’s A Discourse on Mistakes Concerning Religion, last page chipped and folded a bit, but with no material impact on text, internally somewhat, soiled, foxed and aged. Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) was born into a French Huguenot family that moved to London when he was two years old. At seventeen, his family moved to Philadelphia, and he became a Quaker. He became a teacher and established the first public school for girls in America, and along the way he managed to teach slave children from his home. In 1770, with the help of the Quakers, he set up the Negro School at Philadelphia, which he taught at until his death. The current work has the distinction of being one of the earliest and most important anti-slavery efforts printed in America… Read More

Germantown: [Bromley/Dell title-page] Reprinted and sold by Christopher Sower, Also sold by Solomon Fussell and Jonathan Zane in Philadelphia; [Hartley/Dell title-page] Germantown reprinted by Christopher Sower; and {Benezet title-page] Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760. Editions not given other than for the Benezet pamphlet which is identified on its title-page as Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 3 volumes bound in 1 [and probably published as a single volume by Sower]. vii, 280, 168, 16p. Old (contemporary?) leather. 19 cm. Cover has substantial scuffing and significant edge-wear, and is also split along top half of front joint. Original endpapers and a blank before the rear endpaper have ownership names of early owners ( "Sarah Thorns Book 1770, John Tho. Glover Book 1774. John Thorne Glover ... 1779, John Glover 4th Mo 25th 1811, and also a later Glover in 1895). OCLC locates lots of copies of this Colonial American publication. Few, if any, of those appear to include the Benezet pamphlet,… Read More

Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760. Three separately published works in one volume. Second printing of the first edition of Benezet's tract. First American editions, first printings of the other two works, which precede it. Bound in rustic period sheep. viii, 280; 168; 16pp. Head chipped, wear and stains to binding. Very Good internally with leaves browning, light foxing, some marginal staining, front hinge cracked, one leaf in Bromley torn with slight loss to corner; overall better than usually seen for early American imprints, though given the poor paper stock used in this period. Early marks to endpapers. A nice collection of early American imprints by Christopher Sower, notable printer of religious materials in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Includes works by Thomas Bromley and Thomas Hartley, usually found bound together, along with an early anti-slavery pamphlet by Anthony Benezet (1713-1784). Benezet was a leading Quaker abolitionist, founder of the Negro School at Philadelphia and of… Read More

Germantown [Pa.]: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759.. Soft cover. Very Good. 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.

Germantown, PA: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of this scarce and important colonial-era antislavery pamphlet, and one of the earliest antislavery tracts to be printed in America. 8vo. [ii], 15 pp. Stitched in contemporary plain waste paper wrapper. From the library of James Moon, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker who played a leading role in the long-running Quaker campaign against slavery in the 18th Century. Moon's ownership signature dated 1760 inked on the inside of the front wrapper, the inside of the back wrap, and the title leaf verso. Short-title in manuscript presumably in Moon's hand on the front wrap, and an additional early, small ownership signature there as well ("JHM", possibly another Moon). Near Fine. Some worming, rubbing and fraying to the edges of wraps, the top third of the wrapper is split along spine. The left-most 1/2 inch of text at the bottom eleven lines on page 7 have been neatly underlined in red ink where the letterpress type… Read More