Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 143

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BANNEKER, BENJAMIN. An almanac for 1792 is published at Baltimore by Benjamin Banneker, a Free Negro, Born in Baltimore. A notice in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser for November 28, 1791. 4 pages, small folio, disbound. Very clean with good margins. Philadelphia, 1791

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A contemporary notice of Benjamin Banneker''s almanac. Early reports of Banneker''s almanac are scarce. Printer John Dunlap published the first printing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.