Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
INCLUDES ETHAN ALLEN'S CAPTIVITY ACCOUNT (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1780.) Russell's American Almanack for the Year of our Redemption, 1780. Woodcut portrait of Ethan Allen on the title, illustrations of eclipse and astrological man within. [24] pages. 12mo, stitched; minor wear, minor staining and a few early ink marks, trimming to fore-edge just touching text on final leaf. (MRS) Danvers, MA: E. Russell, [1779]
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Contains a selection from Ethan Allen's newly published Narrative of Captivity, recounting his capture by the British and his travels and sufferings from 1775 to 1778. Also includes part of the serialized poem "America Invincible." Russell only published this almanac under this title from 1779 to 1781. Drake 3293; Evans 16675; Sabin 74327. Only one other copy known at auction since 1920, at a Swann sale, 4 December 2003, lot 506.