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Published by Printed and Sold by John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole, Philadelphia, 1786
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Newspaper. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Newspaper. Approx. 18" x 11". 4 pages. Folded. Edge chips, tears and splits to the paper. Contents include advertisements for shipping, dry goods, personal ads, Foreign intelligence, news on America, and local Massachusetts news. Fair.
Published by [Philadelphia, 1774
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Broadsheet, approximately 16 1/4 x 10 inches. Edges slightly chipped, a few small holes not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. Good. Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800. At this time, the periodical was printed weekly, and often carried important first public printings of revolutionary and early federal news and government documents. After the end of the Revolution, it went on to become the nation's first successful daily paper. This issue contains a report from London speculating as to whether more forces will be sent by the English to America, as well as several other small news items.
Published by [Philadelphia, 1775
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Broadsheet, approximately 16 1/4 x 10 inches. Edges slightly chipped, a few small binding holes not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. Good. Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800. At this time, the periodical was printed weekly, and often carried important first public printings of revolutionary and early federal news and government documents. After the end of the Revolution, it went on to become the nation's first successful daily paper. This issue contains a copy of a speech by Lord Belhaven before Parliament on the union of England and Scotland and decrying English animosities toward the Scots, as well as resolutions from the Committee of York County, Pennsylvanie in response to those of the Continental Congress.
Published by [Philadelphia, 1774
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Broadsheet, approximately 16 1/4 x 10 inches. Edges slightly chipped, two small binding holes not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. Good. Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800. At this time, the periodical was printed weekly, and often carried important first public printings of revolutionary and early federal news and government documents. After the end of the Revolution, it went on to become the nation's first successful daily paper. This issue contains a letter from an anonymous English officer reporting on his attempted negotiation with American patriots, relating his demand that their "return to obedience must be established by means the most coersive and severe; but such is their fatal obstinancy that every effort for conciliation was refuted." It also contains resolutions of the Massachusetts provincial congress from late October, 1774, which take up issues such as non-importation and non- consumption of English goods.
Published by [Philadelphia, 1775
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Broadsheet, approximately 16 1/4 x 10 inches. Edges slightly chipped. One 4 1/2 inch tear at the conter of the bottom edge. Several small binding holes, not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. About good. Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800. At this time, the periodical was printed weekly, and often carried important first public printings of revolutionary and early federal news and government documents. After the end of the Revolution, it went on to become the nation's first successful daily paper. This issue contains a copy of a letter from Lord Dartmouth ordering colonial governors and assemblies to prevent the selection of delegates for the Second Continental Congress, and a resolution from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress exhorting citizens to be on guard against the depredations of the occupying British army, and reminding them that "our implacable enemies are unremitting in their endeavors by fraud and artifice, as well as by open force, to subjugate this people.".