Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Issue of the Boston-Gazette and Country Journal. 4 pages, 15 1/4 x 10 inches, on one folding sheet, with masthead engraving by or after Paul Revere; stitch holes, minor foxing, dampstaining and wear, separation along center fold. Boston, 27 April 1777

Additional Details

Includes a proclamation offering pardons to double enlistees in the Continental Army, signed in type by General Washington; a lengthy act regarding inoculations in Massachusetts hospitals; an act for the payment of Continental troops signed in type by John Hancock; and a threatening notice to Tories from the pseudonymous uber-patriot Joyce Junior. Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, page 201 (illustration of similar cut by Revere).