$140
Estimate: $250 - $400
Auction: June 20, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
The Pennsylvania Evening Post (Philadelphia: B. Towne), August 22, 1775. Volume I, Num. 91. 4to. 4pp. Contains [continuation of] “The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775”; also with notices relating to Revolutionary War events, “ We here that the riflemen have killed upwards of forty of the light horse near Bunker’s Hill.” Disbound; dampstaining at edges. The New-Jersey Gazette (Trenton: Isaac Collins), September 1, 1779. Volume II, Num. 88. Folio. 4pp. Includes account of the examination of Lord Cornwallis and General Grey at the bar of the British House of Commons. Disbound; dampstaining and some abrasions. Bringham p. 931ff. & p.519ff. .
The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to print the U.S. Declaration of Independence (July 6, 1776, one day after the publication of the Dunlap Broadside).