Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WITH AN AUGUST 1776 PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION (REVOLUTION.) The Scots Magazine. January to December 1776. Together, 12 issues, with the Appendix. Folding map titled "Map of the Country round Philadelphia." 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn; bookplates on the front pastedown (James Weddell and Harrison D. Horblit). [Edinburgh], 1776

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A very early non-American printing of the Declaration, appearing in the August 1776 issue. This complete run of 1776 issues of the Scots Magazine contains a wealth of Revolution-related content, including a complete printing of Thomas Paine's Common Sense in the June through September issues.