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Lot 103

Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019 8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[African Americana] Sancho, Ignatius. Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, An African. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, by Joseph Jekyll.

London: for William Sancho by [Wilks and Taylor], 1803. "The Fifth Edition," first one volume edition. 8vo. [iv], (i)-xvi, (1)-310pp., plus frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, folding facsimile letter; complete with half-title. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Sancho by Francesco Bartolozzi after Thomas Gainsborough, an additional engraved title-page by Bartolozzi, engraved facsimile letter from Laurence Sterne to Sancho. Lightly toned, scattered, generally light spotting, light to moderate foxing to frontispiece and additional engraved title-page, minor dampstaining to upper blank margins, scattered small marginal tears, repaired tears to facsimile letter, some pencilled marginalia. Blockson 263; OCLC 15314805; see Sabin 76310.

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