Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 1,500
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) 19 issues of the Claypoole serial printing of the Journals of Congress from 1779. 56; 19; 24; 16; 15; 14; 24; 20; 15; 19; 10; 13; 15; 9; 10; 14; 16; 11; 9 pages. 19 issues. 8vo, separately stitched as issued; early inked numbers on each title page; uncut and unopened. The 31 May to 5 June 1779 issue supplied from another disbound set, and without the inked number. All in a modern cloth folding case. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, March to August 1779
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The work of the Continental Congress was somewhat hindered by the yearly publication schedule of their journals. To allow reference to more recent decisions in the face of a fast-moving war, in 1779 David Claypoole issued the Journals of Congress as a monthly serial through March, and then as a weekly serial. Offered here are the March monthly issue, and a complete run of weekly issues covering sessions from 12 April to 14 August 1779. Evans 16587, 16589-16606.

With duplicates of two weekly issues (Evans 16590, 16597), both disbound.