Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) [Paine, Thomas; editor.] Issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine or American Monthly Museum. Illustrated title page and one other full-page illustration. [2], 57-67, 64-104 pages. 8vo, disbound, lacking wrapper; apparently lacking at least one leaf at end, uneven toning to title page only. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, February 1776

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The Pennsylvania Magazine was the only American magazine published during the first year of the Revolution. This issue includes "Method of Manufacturing Gun-Powder," an illustrated article on sign language titled "Dumb Speech, or the Art of Conversing by the Fingers Only," "General Schuyler's Account of his Expedition to Tryon County," and more. Evans 15009; Lomazow 11a.