Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MARITIME.) The Boston Price Current and Marine Intelligencer. Volume 3, Numbers 1-25 and 27-51, Volume 4, Numbers 1-25. Together, 75 issues. Folio, bound together in contemporary 1/4 calf, worn; first leaf browned and worn; signatures of later Boston merchant John Simpson Emery on endpapers. Boston, September 1797 to May 1798

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Important early run of this uncommon and important newspaper. Almost every issue gives current prices for the most traded commodities, including whale products (bone and types of oils). The papers also include news of sailings.