Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information respecting the aborigines in the British Colonies); 1-21 (Effects of the introduction of ardent spirits and implements of war amongst the natives of some of the South-Sea Islands and New South Wales … extracted from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler … …); 1-34 (Further information respecting the Aborigines … …); 1-24 (Facts relative to the Canadian Indians … …); 1-20 (The Report of the Aborigines’ Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings … …); 1-7 (An Address of Christian counsel and caution to emigrants to newly-settled Colonies … …); 1-12 (Report from the Meeting for Sufferings to the Early Meeting respecting the Aborigines … …); 1-40 (Further information respecting the Aborigines … …); very occasional light foxing, otherwise very clean throughout.

Collection of eight Quaker tracts on Indigenous peoples published in the period 1838-1842.

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