Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
OLDSCHOOL, OLIVER [pseudonym for Joseph Dennie]. The Port Folio. Volume 1, Number 1 - Volume 4, Number 52, containing 208 consecutive issues of the weekly newspaper. 4to, early 1/2 morocco, worn, a few covers detached; scattered foxing and browning, a few early signatures. With the prospectus and publisher's ads bound at the front of volume 1. Philadelphia, 3 January1801 - 29 December 1804

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This Federalist paper and literary magazine was issued through December 1805, and then continued in several new series by different editors. Volume IV, Number 29 is devoted to the death of Alexander Hamilton. "This interesting periodical . . . includes many articles relating to Pennsylvania, as well as an authentic history of the second war with Great Britain. The most eminent men in the country were contributors [including John Quincy Adams]"--Sabin 64182.