Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BANNEKER, BENJAMIN.) NORRIS, J. SAURIN. A Sketch of the Life of Benjamin Banneker; From Notes Taken in 1836. 20 pages. Tall 8vo, original printed brick-red wrappers, sewn; small label and small stamp on front cover; very slight wear to the spine extremities. [Baltimore?]: John Toy, for the Maryland Historical Society, 1854

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first edition of the second biography of banneker, most probably on the occasion of re-naming the Young Man's Mutual Instruction Society of Philadelphia the Banneker Institute in 1854. Not in Sabin, or Work.