Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 20

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay. 126 pages. 8vo, disbound; minor foxing and dampstaining, lacking bottom corner of leaf K4 with slight loss of text, errata corrected in ink; partial early owner's signature on title page. (MRS) Boston: Edes & Gill, 1773

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Hutchinson's speech of 6 January 1773 responds to the charges against the Crown in Samuel Adams's Circular Letter and in the resolves of the Committees of Correspondence. This work also includes several official letters responding to the speech. Adams, American Independence 97; Evans 12856; Howes H854; Sabin 34086.