Auction Catalogue

20 June 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1556

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20 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£180

Godwin, Revd. B., The Substance of a Course of [Four] Lectures on British Colonial Slavery, delivered at Bradford, York and Scarborough, London, 1830, xi, fold-out chart, 171pp. Original boards; inside front cover with the bookplates of the Barnstaple Literary & Scientific Institution and the North Devon Athenaeum, Barnstaple, from which it has been withdrawn and de-accessioned; title and last page with North Devon Athenaeum library stamps, otherwise fine, rare (£100-150)

Provenance:
Presented to the Barnstaple Literary & Scientific Institution by the Rt Hon Earl Fortescue, April 1845
North Devon Athenaeum, Barnstaple