Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
INDIAN CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE (ALMANAC.) [West, Benjamin.] [Bickerstaff's Genuine Boston Almanack for 1787.] Title-page with a full-page illustration with a caption along the side "The Sons of Coke and Littleton returning from a rich Feast at Concord Court." 24 pages. 12mo, stitched self-wrappers, restitched; browned, minor staining, a few chips at edges. [Boston, 1786]

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Contains the first American appearance of Isaac Stewart's Indian captivity. Also includes a long preface signed by Bickerstaff discussing the spurious printings of his almanacs. Not in Ayer. Evans 20136; Drake 3379; Phelps 897.