Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress. 59 pages. 8vo, disbound; moderate dampstaining. Newport, RI: S. Southwick, 1774

Additional Details

Southwick printed 132 copies of these extracts, and billed the colonial legislature to cover his expenses (per Alden, Rhode Island 568). Evans 13722; Howes E247; Sabin 15528. We trace no other examples of this Newport printing at auction since 1972.