BROWN, WILLIAM WELLS. The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements. 8vo, original publisher's purple cloth, stamped in blind; spine extremities lightly worn with no significant loss of cloth; tiny worm-hole at bottom of front

BROWN, WILLIAM WELLS. The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements. 8vo, original publisher's purple cloth, stamped in blind; spine extremities lightly worn with no significant loss of cloth; tiny worm-hole at bottom of front joint. New York: Thomas Hamilton, 1863 E400/600 SECOND ENLARGED EDITION; biographical sketches including Benjamin Banneker, Nat Tu rn e r, Toussaint l'Ouvert u re, Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and Denmark Ve s e y. Includes a poem, "The Slave Mother," by noted author Frances Ellen Wa t k i n s (later Harper), who wrote the second novel by an African-American woman, "Iola L e roy" (1892). Not in Schomburg Collection; Blockson Collection 2369. [SEE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE LOT 46]