Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(LOUISIANA.) El Pelayo: Periodico Politico, Literario y Mercantil. Volume I, Numbers 1-39. Together, 39 issues bound in one. Small folio, modern buckram; few scattered cellotape repairs and minor dampstaining. New Orleans, 17 September to 28 December 1851

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The strength of the French influence in New Orleans overshadowed a rather sizable Spanish population. This newspaper called itself the "organo de la poblacion española." A true New Orleans curiosity.