Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) An Answer to the Citizen's Address to the Public . . . By a Plebeian. 3 pages. Folio leaflet, 13 1/2 x 9 inches; uncut; library release stamp and mount remnants on final blank. (JCB) New York, 23 December 1769

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An impassioned protest against the New York assembly's grant of money to British troops. "Was it by our passivity that the stamp act was repealed? No, but by our declaring our abhorrence of it, in every way that could be devised; except treason and rebellion." Evans 11159. ESTC lists 4 copies.