Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PRINCE, NANCY. A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince. Written by Herself. Small 12mo, original cloth stamped in blind. An exceptionally nice copy. Boston, 1856
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third edition. Nancy Prince (1799-1856) was born in Newburyport of American Indian and Negro blood. She worked at various jobs to support her mother and several siblings. In 1824, she married Nero Prince, who worked for the Tsar of Russia. She spent the next nine years in St.Petersburg. In 1841, she returned to the United States, but was widowed before her husband could rejoin her. She then became a missionary to Jamaica.