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Lot 1069
Portfolio of 15 Newspapers Nearly Spanning the 19th Century
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: Boston Gazette, November 11, 1805, wholesale prices table; New England Palladium, Boston, June 15, 1813, U.S.S. Constitution sinks H.M.S. Java; The War, New York, May 10, 1814, Battle of Lake Erie; Niles' Weekly Register, Baltimore, November 10, 1821, Andrew Jackson new governor of Florida; Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, Virginia, July 24, 1827, advertisements for slaves and "Negro Cloth"; National Gazette and Literary Register, Philadelphia, September 8, 1829, "servants" poison Virginia doctor and his family; Columbian Reporter, Taunton, MA, May 2, 1832, astronomical discoveries; American Traveller, Boston, January 27, 1837, Revolutionary pensions; Essex County Washingtonian, Salem & Lynn, MA, December 15, 1842, temperance paper, numerous ads with engravings; The Times and Compiler, Richmond, VA, July 26, 1847, Martin guitar ad; National Intelligencer, Washington, December 25, 1858, "Curious Fossil Remains"; The New York Times, three issues, January 16, 1860 (Frederick Douglass in Britain), October 5, 1865 (Andersonville's Wirz trial), November 10, 1865 (Jefferson Davis trial); The Call, San Francisco, July 24, 1899, U.S.-Canada boundary dispute in the Yukon.

Mostly large folio

Good estate condition.