Lot n° 878

19 decrees by Queen Victoria of England on the abolition of slavery.  1838-1853London,G. Eyre & A. Spottiswoode,folio, some sewn, all as issued, from 4, 20 to 38 pp. Very good copies.

Estimation : 150 / 250
Adjudication : 650 €
Description
Issued from the 1st through the 17th year of her reign. I.a. (1) “Treaty with the Netherlands relating to the slave trade” (27 July 1838), (13) on the “East India Company” (10 August 1842), (17) “for the relief of certain of her Majesty’s colonies and plantations in the West Indies" (6 June 1844), (19) “to remove doubts as to the rights of the liberated Africans in Sierra Leone” (20 August 1853). 
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