£320
CUSTOMS, TRADE & SHIPPING: a bound collection of printed orders, handwritten letters, circulars and broadsides, sent from Custom House London to Hartlepool, 1862-63, c.120 items bound together including an order 'To cause all vessels sailing from your port for the West Coast of Africa...to be particularly watched with the view to frustrate attempts to equip vessels for the slave trade in British ports..': 'rules respecting the use of British Ports and Harbours by vessels of war and privateers belonging to the United States, and the so-called confederate states during the present war' etc: contemporary half calf, worn with both boards detached, small folio. (1)
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