Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings from Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776. Volume I only. [2], 310 pages. 8vo, original boards, moderate wear, without backstrip; lacking front free endpaper, rehinged, moderate dampstaining, lacking the 6 index leaves at end; uncut; inked library stamps with withdrawal stamps on inner board and page 1, no other library markings. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1777

Additional Details

The first collected printing of the early sessions of Continental Congress, including the first months of the Revolution. Evans 15683. Provenance: Milton Slater collection; Swann sale, 4 February 2016, lot 18, to the consignor.