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(NEW YORK CITY.) New-York Gazette & General Advertiser. Approximately 4000 partial daily issues in 14 volumes. Folio, 21 x 16 inches, in contemporary wrappers; intermittent dampstaining and minor wear, vermin damage to several issues in one volume. New York, 1801-21, incomplete
These volumes were originally owned by a marine insurance company, which saved them solely for the marine notices printed on the first pages. Thus, half of each newspaper was discarded. The issues from 1801 through 1811 were cut in half before binding, with the fore-edges of both leaves discarded. From 1812 onward, the entire second leaf was discarded, though the first leaf was complete. Generally, the news coverage appears on the inside columns of page 2, so these partial issues include good coverage of the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and more.
