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De la Litterature des Negres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultes intellectuelles, leurs qualites morales et leur litterature; suivies de Notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des Negres qui se sont distingues dans les Sciences, les Lettres et les Arts
by Gregoire, Henri
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Maradan, Libraire, 1808. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. Hardcover rebacked in tan quarter leather. The binding shows moderate wear and is sound. Top edge of the front cover is sunned. A sound copy with sturdy hinges. The front pastedown has two bookplates. The top bookplate is an early engraved plate of "Mr. A. G-du Plessis" featuring a lion and gryphon on either sides of a shield. There is a crown above the shield. The second bookplate is a mid-20th century owner's bookplate. A very nice copy. The text is clean and the margins are wide. A rare volume, this is the first work of the Literature of Blacks. Part of the book is devoted to anti-slavery views with anti-slavery writers listed and discussed. Henri Gregoire (1750-1831) was an abolitionist and the first historian of literature of the Blacks. He offered that the writings of Blacks were equal to Whites and mentions Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, and Jamaican poet Francis Williams.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049793
- Title
- De la Litterature des Negres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultes intellectuelles, leurs qualites morales et leur litterature; suivies de Notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des Negres qui se sont distingues dans les Sciences, les Lettres et les Arts
- Author
- Gregoire, Henri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Chez Maradan, Libraire
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1808
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1808; Henri Gregoire; Negroes; Negro; Blacks; Literature; History; Historical; Rare; Collectible; French; 19th Century; Leather Binding.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; General Antiquarian & Rare;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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