Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 18th-century American newspapers. 54 issues of 24 newspapers from 6 states; various sizes and conditions. (MRS) Vp, 1765-99

Additional Details

Highlights include a Pennsylvania Journal with the act granting John Fitch a steamship monopoly, 9 December 1786; and an early printing of the Northwest Ordinance in the Pennsylvania Packet of 21 July 1787. 4 issues date from the active period of the Revolution: Connecticut Courant (Hartford), 25 Jan 1780; Continental Journal (Boston), 17 July 1777; Independent Chronicle (Boston), 26 Aug 1779; and State Journal (Exeter, NH), 6 May 1777. Full inventory available by request.