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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
THE STREETER-SANG-SLATER COPY (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1783.) Peace, Liberty, and Independence. Letterpress broadside, 10 x 9 inches; tipped to mat board along top edge, disbound and irregularly trimmed with ample margins, a bit of early tape reinforcement on verso, moderate foxing; T.W. Streeter ex libris tag on verso. (MRS) Philadelphia: Eleazer Arnold, 24 March 1783
A boldly printed announcement of a preliminary peace agreement, reporting on news which had just arrived by a French ship. Perhaps most significantly, "Great-Britain acknowledges the Sovereignty and Independence of the Thirteen United States of America." Provenance: sold by Goodspeed to Thomas W. Streeter, 1964; Streeter sale, 19 April 1967, II:804; Sotheby's Sang sale, 21 April 1978, lot 41, to the consignor. Not in Evans or Bristol; no other copies traced at auction; ESTC lists no copies outside of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
