Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 338

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WAR OF 1812.) Broadside extra of the Albany Gazette on the Battle of Queenston Heights. Letterpress broadside, 18 x 10 1/2 inches; moderate dampstaining, archivally repaired at folds with slight loss of text. Albany, 27 October 1812

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Tells the story of the first major battle of the war, in which an American force made a disastrous effort to cross the Niagara River into Canada.