Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(NEWSPAPERS.) Group of 15 issues of the New Haven Gazette, all but one from Volume I. Each 4 pages, bifolium sheets; some foxing, a few tears, several with contemporary ink inscriptions. New Haven, 1784-85

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Includes: Volume I, Numbers 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 23, 29, 30, 33, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51; Volume II, Number 64. The issues include much news from abroad, votes in Congress, financial information and local doings. Several of the issues contain portions of Carver's travels, which was first printed in America the year of this newspaper publication, and one issue announces the publication of Morse's Geography. Several of the issues are signed by "Doct. J. Goodrich," and a few contain advertisements for New Haven druggist and apothecary John Goodrich. Brigham, page 48.<