Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BANNEKER, BENJAMIN. Benjamin Bannaker's [sic] Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1795; Being the Third After Leap-Year. 34 pages. 12mo, string-tied self-wrappers; incomplete; lacking a portion (21/2x31/2 inches) from the center of the front wrapper; the second leaf and the final leaf; some general wear chips and soiling, paper evenly toned. Phildelphia: For William Gibbons, 1794

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a poor copy only of an exceedingly rare piece.