Banneker: The Afro-American Astronomer. From Data Collected by Will W. Allen. Assisted by Daniel Murray, An Assistant Librarian of the Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. Will W. Allen, 1921.
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Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 80pp. Frontispiece portrait. Nicely rebound in sympathetic brown cloth gilt. Old, small archival repair on the last leaf, cheaper paper a trifle toned, a very good or better copy. Early biography of the colonial-era genius, among Banneker’s many achievements, he built the first clock in the New World and reproduced the complete plans for Washington, D.C. from memory when the original designer quit and took them with him. Not in *Work*.
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