Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 594
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1783.) [David Rittenhouse.] Weatherwise's Town and Country Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1784. Full-page woodcut illustration with a representation of victorious George Washington. 24 pages. 8vo, stitched; minor wear, toning, a few inked marks; uncut. Boston: Norman and White, [1783]
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The woodcut is captioned in verse: "Washington--Victory doth thy Trumpets sound, Who are with Laurals cover'd round!" On verso is a proposal for publishing the Boston Magazine. The almanac leaves include key dates from the Revolution. We are reminded that on the 4th of July, "Independence declared, 1776." Drake 3337; Evans 18164.