(AMERICAN REVOLUTION ALMANACS) [Daboll Nathan] Freebetters

Sale 2223 - Lot 32

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--ALMANACS.) [Daboll, Nathan.] Freebetter's New-England Almanack, for the Year 1776. Woodcut on title page. 12mo, stitched; minor edge wear and foxing. In cloth folding case with library bookplate. New London, CT: T. Green, [1775]

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The cover woodcut is a crude copy of the Revere engraving "The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught," with the caption "Boston Cannonaded." Also includes the patriotic poems "Thoughts on Tyranny" and "The Unnatural Parent," and a long genealogy of George III tracing back to "William the Conqueror, who was a son of a whore." Drake 305; Evans 14001; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 75. Not seen at auction since this copy was sold by Swann, 17 November 1977, lot 193. Provenance: Bequest of Benjamin DeForest Curtiss (1851-1920) to the Watertown (CT) Library Association; Swann Curtiss sale, 17 November 1977, lot 193 to Lawrence Feinberg; Feinberg estate.