SLAVE TRADE: 'INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE CAPTAINS AND COMMANDING OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY’S SHIPS OF WAR EMPLOYED IN THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE'
printed by Harrison & Sons, London for HMSO, 1892, two vols bound in contemporary blue half calf -- 9 x 6½in. (23 x 16.5cm.)
(2)
Volume I prints the various Acts of Parliament dealing fully with the Suppression of the Slave Trade, in 1825, 1843, 1873 (bis), 1876, 1879 and 1880 and the description of the General Act of the Brussels Conference (1888-1890) signed by 17 crowned heads including the Ottoman Emperor and the Sultan of Zanzibar and the states of some African and Arab countries. Volume II publishes treaties with 15 states 'other than those whose instructions admit of domestic slavery, who are not parties to the Brussels Act', including Haiti, Liberia and Madagascar.
SLAVE TRADE: 'INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE CAPTAINS AND COMMANDING OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY’S SHIPS OF WAR EMPLOYED IN THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE'
printed by Harrison & Sons, London for HMSO, 1892, two vols bound in contemporary blue half calf -- 9 x 6½in. (23 x 16.5cm.)
(2)
Volume I prints the various Acts of Parliament dealing fully with the Suppression of the Slave Trade, in 1825, 1843, 1873 (bis), 1876, 1879 and 1880 and the description of the General Act of the Brussels Conference (1888-1890) signed by 17 crowned heads including the Ottoman Emperor and the Sultan of Zanzibar and the states of some African and Arab countries. Volume II publishes treaties with 15 states 'other than those whose instructions admit of domestic slavery, who are not parties to the Brussels Act', including Haiti, Liberia and Madagascar.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Zephyr), 2nd Nov, 2021
Mercantile (Sail) – 1-92A
Mercantile (Steam) – 93-151
Naval (Sail) – 155-236
Naval (Steam) – 240-340
Navigation & Scientific Instruments – 341-392
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