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Cunynghame (Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow). A Glimpse at the Great Western Republic, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley 1851, [6] 337 pp., half-title, contemporary bookseller's ticket (J. Rodwell) to front pastedown, original pink wavy-grain cloth stamped in blind, spine and section of front board sunned, lower fore corner of front board bumped, 8vo, together with: Lowe (Willoughy P.). The Trail that is Always New, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1932, 22 halftone plates from photographs and from drawings by H. Gronvold or J. P. Lowe, map, occasional spotting, damp-stain to lower fore corner of frontispiece, signed by the author on the title-page, autograph letter signed from the author to one Lady Waller (18 August 1940) tipped to front pastedown, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped and damp-stained), 8vo, and 2 others (not collated): Boynton, The History of the Navy during the Rebellion, 2 volumes, New York, 1868 (original green pictorial cloth gilt), and Kane, Arctic Explorations, Hartford, 1881 (original maroon cloth gilt) (Qty: 5) Howes C958 (Cunynghame); cf. Sabin 17979 (Cunynghame, 1863 edition). Cunynghame's account of a 5000-mile tour across North America commencing in Montreal is uncommon, with no other copy traced in auction records. It includes a lengthy passage on slavery, which concludes that 'the increased value of labour, the increased price of slaves, and the daily increasing cultivation of the sugar-cane together with the large amount of mortgaged property, are the principal causes which will prevent its abolition'.