Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--NEW YORK.) "Veritas." To Mr. Isaac Low: Veritas Presents His Compliments. Letterpress broadside, 10 x 8 1/2 inches; uncut, faint spot of dampstaining in upper right margin. (JMR) New York, 16 March 1775

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New York merchant Isaac Low was a lukewarm patriot who served in the first Continental Congress but opposed the war. He emigrated to England after the war. This broadside was issued in reaction to his announcement that he was leaving the world of politics. Bristol B4128. 3 copies in ESTC, one of them being only a photostat; last known at auction in 1948.