Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
First edition, first issue of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
MAYER, Brantz.
$175.00
Item Number: 142108
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, first issue of the historian’s detailed account of the African slave trade. First issue with with page 191 misprinted as 19. Octavo, recased with the original publisher’s cloth laid down, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced and rebacked.
American author, lawyer, and historian Brantz Mayer founded the Maryland Historical Society in 1844, which is today the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. During the American Civil War, Mayer was an active Unionist, and in 1861 was appointed president of the Maryland Union State general committee, and did much to aid the Union cause.
