?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Fiske, Nathan. An Oration Delivered at Brookfield . . . in Celebration of the Capture of Lord Cornwallisand his Whole Army . . . by the Combined Army under the Command of His Excellency General Washington. 4to, self-wrappers; wide margins, some edge wear, minor dampstaining, light creases; inscribed on title page from D. [Dwight?] Foster to noted military surgeon Solomon Drowne, discreet library deaccession stamp on last page. Boston, [1781]
A rousing patriotic speech: "''Tis enough to make us proud of our country, and to glory in the name of Americans; yea, even to make it criminal to be destitute of this pride." Although several libraries have copies of this 8-page pamphlet, we find no auction records since 1929. Evans 17153; Sabin 24550.
