Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--ALMANACS.) Low, Nathaniel. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for . . . 1777. Map. 12mo, later cloth-backed boards; all leaves mounted to stubs, several leaves tightly trimmed with a few letters grazed; Curtiss bookplate on front pastedown, library bookplate on rear pastedown. Boston: J. Gill, [1776]
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Featuring a full-page map of the New York City area, "A View of the Present Seat of War, at and near New-York," which shows General Washington's position on Manhattan. Also Low's extended "Address to the Tories," and a poem beginning "Let tyrants rage." Drake 3264; Evans 14829; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 77; Sabin 42402; Swann sale, 17 November 1977, lot 295. Provenance: Curtiss-Watertown Library-Swann-Feinberg as above.