RACE RELATIONS AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION - 1 - AN ANONYMOUS TARTAR

Oct 13, 2026

Booth G58 May 15-17, 2025 presents rare books and manuscripts from the London Firsts International Antiquarian Book Fair, featuring cataloged items with bibliographic and condition notes. The selection includes black utopian literature set in Melbourne after a comet strike, a mid-18th-century treatise on anger, and a record of remonstrances between Parliament and Charles I, alongside logical and natural-history works. Each listing supplies edition details, publication data, and assessed rarity with pricing.

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RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTS

Selection of featured books (Booth G58)

Race relations after the collapse of civilization

Eighteenth century anger management

When Parliament and the King were not on the same page

The Port-Royal Logic

Observations and experiments on natural history

ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTS: A Selection of Books Exhibited at the London Firsts International Antiquarian Book Fair Booth G58 May 15-17, 2025 RACE RELATIONS AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION 1. AN ANONYMOUS TARTAR The comet. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857. 8vo. [ii], 91 pp. Original publisher’s red cloth, illustration of a comet in gilt on front cover. An excellent nearly perfect copy. First and only edition of this fascinating work of black utopian literature. Our story is set thirty years in the future (from the publication date of 1857) and details the events that occurred in the city of Melbourne of the Dis-United States. In 1857, a comet collided with the earth, resulting in the collapse of civilization. Ethnic roles reversed, with black people assuming superiority over the white race. (Apparently, according to the narrator, black people were better able to handle the increased heat resulting from the comet.) Satirical in tone, this uncommon book examines race, religion and contemporary society as it stood in the midnineteenth century. Rare; OCLC locates 3 copies worldwide (Stanford; Wagner Free Institute of Science Library; British Library) . $ 2500.00 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ANGER MANAGEMENT 2. [ANONYMOUS] An earnest appeal to passionate people: wherein the re ise, progress, and consequences of that unhappy disposition of mind are fully displayed; and the possibility of conquering that temper, illustrated from several characters in real life. To which is added, an essay on envy, malice, and detraction. London: printed for W. Owen, 1748. 8vo.[iv], 63 pp. Woodcut initials, headand tailpieces. Wrappers; minor spotting, sizeable piece torn from the last leaf not affecting the main text, but deleting several lines of the advertisements on the verso. First edition. Bad temper, road rage, fights on airplanes, public displays of anger, these are all things we have become both used to and inured by. It is, apparently, not a condition born out of our fast-moving and technologically-advanced society. Advice for countering seemingly uncontrollable rage has been offered by ancient philosophers, pious men, and modern psychologists. The anonymous author, in addressing the problems associated with passion (or the “over-passionate” person), treats the condition as a “disease of the mind.” He describes that person as one “who is on fire upon every trifling occasion, raves, rants and tears for a moment, and next minute subsides to a perfect calm: he is pleased and displeased at the turning ofa straw, is angry with himself and all about him, without being able to give any rational account of the rise of his passion; his whole life in one continued circle of offending and asking pardon.” The mental issues, which (apparently) stem from pride, self-conceit and “want of thought,” are closely examined. Of particular interest is a discussion of nature versus nurture. Many suffer from this psychological malady as a hereditary condition, and those are not incurable. Others, however, slowly sink into the despair brought on by bouts of anger by environmental reasons, which can happen at any time during one’s life. The author of course describes specific cases to illustrate each situation. $ 2500.00 WHEN PARLIAMENT AND THE KING WERE NOT ON THE SAME PAGE 3. ANONYMOUS An exact collection of all remonstrances, declarations, votes, orders, ordinances, proclamations … and other remarkable passages betweene the Kings most excellent Majesty, and his high court of Parliament beginning at his Majesties return from Scotland, being in December 1641, and continued until March the 21, 1643 … London: Printed for Edward Husbands, T.[homas] Warren, R. Best, 1642 [1643] . 4to. [x], 60, 65-224, 227-730, 733-772, 763-955,[20] pp. (lacking I3 -4, pp. 61-64) . Engraved frontispiece of Parliamentary chambers and Charles I. Contemporary full calf; interior excellent. From the library of the Birmingham Law Society. F

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The text lists the London Firsts International Antiquarian Book Fair and specifies Booth G58 with dates May 15-17, 2025.

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It describes a nearly perfect black utopian work involving a comet impact, a collapse of civilization, and reversed racial roles in a future-set story connected to Melbourne.

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Entries include edition information, publication place and year, physical format and materials, condition notes, and rarity assessments such as OCLC copy counts, often alongside a listed price.

Oct 13, 2026

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