1832 · New-Haven
by Gibbs, Josiah W.
New-Haven: Hezekiah Howe, et al., 1832. Second edition revised and enlarged, 8vo, pp. [4], 236; recent black buckram; contemporary ownership signature on flyleaf, top edge dampstained, very good and sound. Gibbs was a linguist and theologian, remembered most for his work with the Mende language, which he learned in order to aid the captured Africans in the Amistad case.
(Inventory #: 54637)