Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 156
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(FRANCE.) The New-York Gazette and General Advertiser. 4 pages, 21 1/2 x 14 inches, on one sheet; disbound, a bit of hand-coloring on front page, "Buonaparte's Constitution" inked on third page. New York, 18 March 1800

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Featuring an early American printing of the new French constitution. This constitution eliminated the pesky Declaration of Rights from the revolutionary versions, and granted Napoleon nearly dictatorial powers.