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THE EPISTLES OF LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA...The Tenets Of The Antient Philosophers Are Contrasted With The Divine Precepts Of The Gospel, With Regard To The Moral Duties Of Mankind. In Two Volumes.

London, 1786. Hardcover. Fair. Item #21-9586

12 x 9", highly gilt decorated old panelled calf including spine, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers, 308, 368pp. Ex-library, covers well worn, rubbed, scuffed, front cover of volume I detached, hinges roughly broken and covers loose, scattered foxing, contents very good. Text block tight. Armorial bookplates of Abraham Wildey Robarts, 1779-1858, member of Parilament for Maidstone 1818-1837, a director of the East India Company and the New Zealand Company. In the "Legacies Of British Slave-Ownership" Robarts was a slave trader who was recompensed due to Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which ended slavery in most of the British empire. He owned 566 slaves in Jamaica and Dominica and was reimbursed approximately 1.4 million (in 2022 dollars). FIRST EDITION OF THE MORELL TRANSLATION. SCARCE.

Price: $495.00