Slavery.- State Papers, British and Spanish Claims; Relations between Great Britain and Portugal; and Correspondence respecting the Slave Trade, vol. XXVI, tape repairs at inner margin front endpaper and title, original cloth, spine gilt with black morocco label, some light surface soiling, folio, ex-libris Home Office, 1829.

⁂ Covering correspondence with British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, The Havana, Rio de Janeiro and Surinam, as well as with foreign powers such as Spain, Brazil, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Denmark and Sweden. Fascinating exchanges regarding British efforts to halt the slave trade from five years before slavery itself was abolished in the British Empire. Much detail about individual ships involved in the trade. Parliamentary papers prior to 1835, when they were made more generally available, are very scarce.