Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 4,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL REVERE (REVERE, PAUL.) Ames, Nathaniel. An Astronomical Diary; or Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ 1772. 3 engraved illustrations by Paul Revere. 24 pages. 8vo, disbound; some browning and staining, trimmed with minor losses along the bottom (including the price line on the title). With 8 pages added in the rear, containing contemporary manuscript listing of expenses. [Boston: Edes & Gill, 1771]
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The cuts include portraits of the dwarf Emma Leach, "The Patriotic American Farmer" John Dickinson and Catharine M'Caulay. There are at least 3 known variants to this almanac and the unsigned cuts are attributed to Revere based on the style and charges in his day book. See Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings page 135. Evans 11961.