Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 307

Price Realized: $ 1,035
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(REVOLUTION.) Gordon, William. The Separation of the Jewish Tribes . . . in a Sermon Preached Before the General Court, On Friday, July 4th, 1777 . . . Being The Anniversary of the Declaration of Independency.<> 3-37 pages; lacks the half-title. bound with<>: Dickinson, John. A Speech, delivered in the House of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, May 24th, 1764.<> [xv], 31 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, later 1/2 morocco, backstrip chipped; some foxing, small area of loss to E2 of first title; bookplate on the front pastedown. With a contemporary manuscript true copy of a Massachusetts House of Representatives bill dismissing Gordon as the chaplain to the House of Assembly. 1 page, single 4to sheet; tipped to the front endpaper of the volume. Boston, 1777; London, 1764

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"Perhaps the first anniversary sermon printed"--Evans 15317; Sabin 28009. Adams, American Controversy 64-5b; Howes D334; Sabin 20049.<