Name: Auction: Wilberforce, William (1759-1833) Autograph letter on the slave trade, signed, Kensington Gore, March 1814
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 875 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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'To Captn Edw[ar]d Scobell RN, This book is presented as a mark of friendly esteem &amp; regard &amp; as a grateful acknowledgement of his zealous &amp; spirited services in suppressing the slave trade in Africa, by his oblig'd friend W Wilberforce', in brown ink on single sheet of wove paper, 16.5 x 12.5 cm, tipped to card album leaf, adhesive staining on verso, concomitant darkening and a few spots on recto, unevenly cropped in top margin not affecting text, but with small chip at head causing partial loss of postnominal 'RN', lower right-hand corner torn away from main letter by adhesion to album leaf to no loss of text

Autograph letter on the slave trade, signed, Kensington Gore, March 1814

Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)

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Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)

Autograph letter on the slave trade, signed, Kensington Gore, March 1814

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