Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(PERIODICALS.) The American Museum. 7 scattered volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, all need binding (or disbinding); contents generally clean, but not collated; January 1788 issue signed by Joseph Bloomfield, some with inked stamps or bookplates of the American Catholic Historical Society. Philadelphia, 1787-92

Additional Details

Highlights include the Federalist Papers, Nos. 1-6 as published in the November and December 1787 issues; and 'Address of the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode-Island, to the President of the United States of America, August 17, 1790" in an appendix to Volume IX, page 40. Volume I, with subscriber list but lacking collective title page, January-June 1797 Volume II, July-December 1787 Volume III, January-June 1788 Volume VII, January-June 1790 Volume IX, January-June 1791 Volume X, July-December 1791 [Volume XII], July-December 1792.