Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(REVOLUTION.) Orations delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770. 200 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, cover detached; foxing; early owner's inscription on the title facing Morton's Oration regarding his father joining the Continental Army as a drummer at the age of 10; early booklabel on the front pastedown. With the half-title. Boston: Peter Edes, [1785]

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Includes orations commemmorating the Boston Massacre by Joseph Warren, Benjamin Church, John Hancock and others. Evans 18997; Sabin 6737.