Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 450
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1781.) Group of 3 issues of the Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser. Each 4 pages, 15 x 10 inches or larger; stitch marks, closed tears; name of subscriber George Thatcher inked on first page of each. Boston, 18 October 1781, 24 October 1782, and 12 February 1784
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The 1781 issue features a report on the Battle of Eutaw Springs, one of the last battles of the war. The 1782 issue has a long advertisement for Aitken's Bible, the first English-language Bible published in America. The 1784 issue announces the ratification of the Treaty of Paris by the Continental Congress.