Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 505

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
[WEST, BENJAMIN.] Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack . . . 1777. Portrait of Hancock on the title. 26 pages only; lacks terminal leaf. 8vo, stitched self-wrappers; foxed, terminal 3 leaves with partially repaired tears. Salem, [1776]
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An uncommon almanac, with a nice portrait of Hancock and a poem in his honor on the title beneath the portrait "By a Lady." Also includes the definition of the word "Patriot" and a nice preface by Bickerstaff discussing the "heroes . . . striving for the salvation of their country." Evans 14777; Drake 3266.