Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Low, Nathaniel. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for . . . 1777. Map. [24] pages. 12mo, stitched; soiling to title page, dampstaining, printing flaw on 5th leaf with slight loss of text; pencil inscription on title page. Boston: J. Gill, [1776]

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Featuring a full-page map of the New York City area, "A View of the Present Seat of War, at and near New-York," which shows General Washington's position on Manhattan. Also Low's extended "Address to the Tories," and a poem beginning "Let tyrants rage." Drake 3264; Evans 14829; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 77; Sabin 42402.