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Auction archive: Lot number 152

BOUND ALBUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST NEWSPAPER YEAR 1776. WITH 6 JULY DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ISSUE

Estimate
US$300,000 - US$400,000
Price realised:
US$722,500
Auction archive: Lot number 152

BOUND ALBUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST NEWSPAPER YEAR 1776. WITH 6 JULY DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ISSUE

Estimate
US$300,000 - US$400,000
Price realised:
US$722,500
Beschreibung:

Declaration of Independence "In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled," in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Saturday, July 6, 1776, (vol. II, Num. 228). Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Towne, 6 July 1776 4to in half-sheets (9 3/4 x 8 in.; 246 x 202 mm). The Declaration issue bound in a full year's run of the Evening Post, Vol. II, Num. 148 (2 January 1776) to Vol. II, Num. 295 (28 December 1776), issues for 4 July and 6 July printed on blue paper, also bound in, chronologically with the newspapers, are 20 handbills and small broadsides issued by the Philadelphia Council of Safety, the Pennsylvania Assembly, and the Continental Army, several of which are evidently unrecorded, as well as a "Postscript to the Pennsylvania Journal, August 28, 1776" (about 4 additional fragmentary handbills are also present); lacking Nums. 149, 186, 195, 200, 203, 215, and 293, first page of first issue and last page of final issue loose and severely frayed with loss, scattered foxing and staining, occasional browning, scattered marginal tears, a very few pages shaved, a few of the broadsides and handbills with some minor marginal fraying, tears, and loss, a few broadsides and handbills with imprints cropped or shaved. Contemporary calf; very worn, covers detached, spine split and worn, shaken, with a number of issues loose.

Auction archive: Lot number 152
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Declaration of Independence "In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled," in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Saturday, July 6, 1776, (vol. II, Num. 228). Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Towne, 6 July 1776 4to in half-sheets (9 3/4 x 8 in.; 246 x 202 mm). The Declaration issue bound in a full year's run of the Evening Post, Vol. II, Num. 148 (2 January 1776) to Vol. II, Num. 295 (28 December 1776), issues for 4 July and 6 July printed on blue paper, also bound in, chronologically with the newspapers, are 20 handbills and small broadsides issued by the Philadelphia Council of Safety, the Pennsylvania Assembly, and the Continental Army, several of which are evidently unrecorded, as well as a "Postscript to the Pennsylvania Journal, August 28, 1776" (about 4 additional fragmentary handbills are also present); lacking Nums. 149, 186, 195, 200, 203, 215, and 293, first page of first issue and last page of final issue loose and severely frayed with loss, scattered foxing and staining, occasional browning, scattered marginal tears, a very few pages shaved, a few of the broadsides and handbills with some minor marginal fraying, tears, and loss, a few broadsides and handbills with imprints cropped or shaved. Contemporary calf; very worn, covers detached, spine split and worn, shaken, with a number of issues loose.

Auction archive: Lot number 152
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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