Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Volume of the Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser. 70 daily issues (incomplete run) in one volume. Folio, 20 3/4 x 13 inches, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn, rebacked with duct tape; dampstaining and scrapbook remnants, 31 of the issues complete (most of them dated April), 9 somewhat defective, and 30 issues missing either the first or second of the two leaves. Philadelphia, 4 January to 21 April 1802

Additional Details

The 29 March issue includes the full text of the "Act Fixing the Military Peace Establishment of the United States," which created the United States Military Academy at West Point. This issue has a 1 1/2-inch hole on the first leaf not affecting the military act, and scrapbook remnants on the Act which slightly affect the text.