Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Group of pamphlets and ephemera from the war years. 7 items, various sizes and conditions. (MRS) Vp, 1776-83

Additional Details

4 early American imprints: $7.00 banknote signed by Jacobs and Whelen. Moderate wear. Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, 9 May 1776 At the General Assembly of . . . Rhode Island. Assembly minutes for May 1777 session. 14 pages. Providence: John Carter, [1777] Journals of Congress, from Monday, August 2d, to Saturday, August 7th, 1779. 11 pages. Philadelphia: Claypoole, [1779] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An Act for Apportioning and Assessing a Tax of Three Hundred and Three Thousand Six Hundred and Thirty-Four Pounds. [8] leaves. Boston: Benjamin Edes, 1781.
3 British imprints relating to America: Smelt. An Account of Some Particulars relative to the Meeting Held at York. viii, 28 pages. London, 1780 An Act for Preventing Certain Instruments from Being Required from Ships Belonging to the United States of America. Pages [733]-736. London, 1783 London Gazette, printing a revision of this same act. London, 17 May 1783.