Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 3,840
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WITH ATTACHED BROADSIDE EXTRA ON LEXINGTON AND CONCORD (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) The Pennsylvania Ledger. 6 pages, 16 x 10 inches; disbound, minor foxing. Philadelphia, 10 June 1775
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Includes a first report of the Battle of Chelsea two weeks previous. More locally, three battalions of Philadelphia troops drilled "with a dexterity scarcely to have been expected from such short practice, in the presence of the Honourable Members of the Continental Congress."
The attached supplement of the same date is devoted to William Gordon's "An Account of the Commencement of Hostilities between Great-Britain and America," which describes the Battles of Lexington and Concord.