Light And Truth Collected From The Bible And Ancient And Modern History Containing The Universal

by Robert Benjamin Lewis

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Boston: A Committee of Colored Gentleman, 1844. Second and expanded edition of this Afrocentric history and ethnography, the first of its kind published in the United States. 400 pp. Bound in modern blue buckram, maroon morocco title label to spine, all edges marbled. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and edge toning to first and last pages; title edges strengthened with mending tissue. Light offsetting and bleedthrough

• Binding: Leather

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