Sold for:
$5,400
$5,400
Newspapers, Revolutionary War: The American Journal and General Advertiser . Providence: Southwick and Wheeler, March 18, 1779-December 30, 1779. Forty-one issues, lacking only one: volume I, numbers 1-42 (lacking number 40); all issues stab sewn together, some printed on bluish paper, all with deckle edges throughout, some issues browned, some with torn corners or marginal rodent damage, generally well-preserved, with a rugged contemporary feel; a quarter-sheet post-press slip inserted into the October 28 issue entitled, Important Intelligence, with information from General Gates on the fall of Georgia.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
