Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Massachusetts Gazette. 4 pages, 15 x 10 inches, on one sheet; stitch holes in margin, folds and minor wear; subscriber Joseph Lee's name in margin near masthead. Boston: Mills and Hicks, 15 August 1774

Additional Details

Includes a long extract from the recent "America Vindicated from the High Charge of Ingratitude and Rebellion"; and the newly passed "Act for the Better providing Suitable Quarters for Officers and Soldiers . . . in North-America." The printer has inserted two of his own advertisements, one selling "a likely Negro boy," and the other seeking to purchase "a Negro boy or lad."