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The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans. Translated From the French. To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.

1801

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Book with The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans by Joseph Lavallée and Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. Works were originally bound together but have been disbound. Works are dependently numbered, with Poems on Various Subjects beginning on page 167. Title page of the Lavallée is missing. There are significant losses along the edges, and the leather is actively flaking. Cover is detached; interior pages are loose with yellowing and foxing. 244 numbered pages.

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Catalog reference: A2021.113.1.13

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