Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--ALMANACS.) [West, Benjamin.] Bickerstaff's New-England Almanack, for . . . 1776. Map. 12mo, later boards; faint but extensive dampstaining, moderate edge wear; bookplates on pastedowns. Norwich, CT: Robertsons and Trumbull, [1775]
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Features a military plan of Boston, with a key showing the location of batteries, forts, and Bunker Hill. Also includes detailed instructions for making gunpowder at home. Goodspeed's bookplate depicts the Boston Massacre. Drake 304; Evans 14618; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 73; Swann sale, 17 November 1977, lot 39. Provenance: Charles E. Goodspeed, then Curtiss-Watertown Library-Swann-Feinberg as above.