Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS AND MANUSCRIPTS (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Hopkinson, Francis. The Battle of the Kegs. 4to, full later morocco, minor wear. Philadelphia: Oakwood Press, 1866

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A limited-edition (one of 82) printing on blue paper of a humorous poem on a Revolutionary War incident. Extra-illustrated with the following: Francis Hopkinson (New Jersey signer of the Declaration of Independence) as treasurer of loans. Document Signed. Pay order for Joseph Carleton as paymaster for the Board of War. [Philadelphia?], 6 October 1780 Joseph Loring, Jr. Autograph Letter Signed to John Swift. Philadelphia, 3 February 1772 6 engravings of related figures and scenes. Sabin 32977.