Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 1,092
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ARMISTEAD, WILSON. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind. Frontispiece and 9 additional engraved plates of noted people of African descent. Large, thick 8vo, original elaborate pictorial gilt and blind-stamped plum-colored cloth, with the famous kneeling slave-"Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" on the front cover and a complex gilt-pictorial scene on the spine; re-cased and re-backed with the original spine laid down. Manchester: William Irwin, 1848

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first edition, cloth issue.