Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 496

Price Realized: $ 1,955
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
"SMALL POX RAGES" TRAVIS, DANIEL. An Almanack of Coelestial Motions . . . 1721 * . . . 1722. Together, 2 issues, each with a woodcut of the astrological man on page 2. Each 8 leaves. 8vo stitched self-wrappers, chipped with some loss, soiled and worn; contemporary ink notations to the first, including "small pox rages in Boston" on page 9. Boston: B. Green, 1721; 1722

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The almanac for 1721 includes a chronology of important events in New England on page 15, including the arrival at Cape Cod, the founding of Harvard, the printing of the Eliot Bible, and the Great Fire in Boston. Evans 2189 and 2296; Drake 2995 and 2997.