(NEW YORK) The Balance and Columbian Repository

Sale 2380 - Lot 193

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(NEW YORK.) The Balance and Columbian Repository. [4], 416 pages. Volume VI, issues 1 through 52, bound in one volume. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear; minor dampstaining and wear, intermittent foxing, tears or clippings to a few leaves, lacking 4 pages from 19 May issue; a few issues and front pastedown inscribed with subscriber's name, small later inked stamps on collective title page and index leaf. Hudson, NY, 6 January to 29 December 1807

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A literary and political weekly with a mostly national / international focus and only modest coverage of New York's Hudson Valley. The Wilkinson-Burr conspiracy is discussed at length. A letter to the editor on 20 October discusses the recent arrival of America's first steam boat, which had made several trips up the Hudson and "excited the wonder and admiration of all the people along shore." Lomazow 53.