Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Group of 13 prints, many of them satirical cartoons relating to English politics and the Revolution. Various sizes (most 8vo) and conditions, all apparently taken from period books and magazines; 3 laid down on later paper. Vp, circa 1765-1800

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"The Unfortunate Death of Major Andre." Folio, from Barnard's New and Complete History of England, [1783?] "The Convivial Associates, or the Modern Method of Signing a Treaty." Source unidentified, circa 1783 "The Pillars of State," from the Political Register, nd "Hieroglyphics," nd "The Colonies Reduced, Its Companion," from the Political Register, nd (2 copies) "Oh, Liberty do Thou Inspire Our Souls," frontispiece from an unknown volume, nd "An Attempt to Land a Bishop in America," [from the Political Register, September 1769], laid down "The Last Shift," source unknown, laid down, apparently re the Stamp Act, circa 1765 "News from America, or the Patriots in the Dumps," from London Magazine, laid down, November 1776 "American Stage Waggon," [from Weld's Travels through the states of North America, circa 1798] ["Hibernia in Distress, from London Magazine, February 1772, caption cropped] "Dress of the Inhabitants of California, with their Manner of Rafts for Fishing," folio, [from Millar's New, Complete & Universal System of Geography, circa 1782].