Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 553

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(TRAVEL.) PETERSON, REVEREND DANIEL H. The Looking Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels and Labors of the Reverend Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman, Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1912 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa. Frontispiece and seven additional engraved plates. Tall 12mo, original gilt-pictorial cloth, with a dove holding an olive branch and the motto "A Land of Rest, Peace and Unity. A Government of Wisdom and Equality." An exceptional copy. New York: Wright, 1854
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Peterson's travels took him for the most part through Liberia and parts of Gambia. His narrative has been referred to as the first visit to West Africa by an African American.