[Slave Trade]. Class D. Correspondence with Foreign Powers, Not Parties to Conventions Giving Right of Search of Vessels Suspected of the Slave Trade. From June 1st to December 31st, 1839, inclusive.

London, William Clowes and sons, 1840.

Folio. (III)-XI, (1), 213, (1) pp. Modern blue wrappers with cover label.

 4,500.00

Includes the extract of an 1839 letter to Viscount Palmerston regarding the slave trade between Zanzibar and Muscat and negotiations for the suppression of the slave trade there, reprinting Article XV of the Treaty entered into by His Highness the Sultan of Muscat, and with intelligence on the profits accruing to the Imaum from slavery.

Paginated "221-443" by a contemporary hand. Well-preserved.

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