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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--ALMANACS.) George, Daniel. George's Cambridge Almanack or, The Essex Calendar, for the Year of Our Redemption, 1776. Portrait illustration. 12mo, later wrappers; moderate edge wear and toning, last 2 leaves tightly cropped just touching text; Curtiss bookplate inside front wrapper. In cloth folder with library bookplate, and full morocco slipcase by Bradstreet. Salem, MA: E. Russell, [1775]
Second edition, distinguished by the addition of a portrait of General Joseph Warren and an account of his death at Bunker Hill. Noted for its accurate account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, with a listing of the names of the minutemen killed. The author is described as a Haverhill astronomy student, "now in the seventeenth year of his age, and has been a cripple from his infancy." This copy has one intact marginal inscription, but it is a noteworthy one: "March ye 17th the Brittish troops left Boston." Drake 3257; Evans 14063; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 75a ("A vivid portrayal of the hero of Bunker Hill"); Swann Curtiss sale, 17 November 1977, lot 206. Provenance: Curtiss-Watertown Library-Swann-Feinberg as above.
