Beschreibung:

Account of a Battle fought in America, on the 17th of June, 1775.
London: c. 25 July 1775]. Broadside (295 x 170 mm). Text in two columns. Three contemporary manuscript insertions. Inlaid and bound into modern vellum boards. Condition : heavily toned, chipped at edges with some losses, silked. Sold with all faults. Provenance : Goodspeed’s (typed letter signed from Clarence Brigham to Goodspeed’s authenticating the broadside, mounted to the inside cover). contemporary british broadside account of bunker hill. This rare broadside begins with notice that of the arrival of the HMS Cerberus with a letter from Thomas Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth. That letter is then quoted in full, providing a highly detailed account of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Following that letter, and occupying most of the second column, is a listing of all the wounded and killed. The manuscript insertions include at the bottom “total killed 229.” This broadside repeats the text found in the 25 July 1775 issue of the London Gazette; this, however, is blank on verso. The letter bound with this broadside written from Brigham, at the time the Librarian at the American Antiquarian Society, identifies the source and opines that “If the reverse of your item is blank, there is little question but that it is a London broadside.” Goodspeed’s would offer this copy in a 1929 catalogue for $125, describing it as “excessively rare and possibly unique.” We could locate no other extant copies.