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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(American Imprints) |
| Author: |
Wheatley, Phillis |
| Title: |
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral |
| Place: |
Albany |
| Publisher: |
Re-Printed, from the London Edition, by Barber & Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, Bookseller |
| Date: |
1793 |
| Item # : |
195217 |
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| Sale Number |
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387 |
| Lot Number |
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13 |
| Sale Name |
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| Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography |
| Sale Date |
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09/11/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 3900 |
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| Description: |
| viii, 9-89, [3] pp. ([A]4, B-L4, M2). 5½x3¾, original leather-backed boards. |
| Early American edition of the poems written by Phillis Wheatley, "Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England," first published in London in 1773. |
| Condition: |
| Boards rubbed, paper covering peeled off in places; soiling to title-page, final leaf, the table of contents, with 1½x½" piece missing from lower fore-margin, just touching a few page numbers, else very good or better, rare in this original state. |
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