Autographs
Benjamin Franklin's Printing of The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1750
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN).
This is a scarce printing of a historic Colonial newspaper, "The Pennsylvania Gazette," Printed by "B. Franklin, Post-Master, and D. Hall," Philadelphia, PA, June 7, 1750, No. 1121, three-column layout, 4 pages, 13" x 8", Choice Extremely Fine. The subtitle of the masthead reads, "Containing the freshest Advices, foreign and domestick", with news from abroad, as well as numerous advertisements for land, goods, services, notices of runaways of servants and slaves, and other ads. In part: "...To be sold very reasonably A Negroe woman, about 40 years of age, well acquainted with all sorts of work, and is an excellent good cook...", also "...Two likely Negroe boys. Enquire at the post office..."; "A likely Negroe boy, about 15 of age, has had the small pox and measles..." Finally, there are reports of runaways, such as: "...Run away from the Subscriber, nearly Chestertown... a servant man, named Richard Crawford, an Irishman, tall and well made, several red specks in his cheeks, speaks good English and some French; had when he went away a country cloth mill'd waistcoat streaked black and white... and a wig..." Naturally, there is even more interesting content from within the colonies and around the world. In unusually clean condition, with the slightest browning to extreme edges and a couple of insignificant stains.
Benjamin Franklin's Printing of The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1750
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN).
This is a scarce printing of a historic Colonial newspaper, "The Pennsylvania Gazette," Printed by "B. Franklin, Post-Master, and D. Hall," Philadelphia, PA, June 7, 1750, No. 1121, three-column layout, 4 pages, 13" x 8", Choice Extremely Fine. The subtitle of the masthead reads, "Containing the freshest Advices, foreign and domestick", with news from abroad, as well as numerous advertisements for land, goods, services, notices of runaways of servants and slaves, and other ads. In part: "...To be sold very reasonably A Negroe woman, about 40 years of age, well acquainted with all sorts of work, and is an excellent good cook...", also "...Two likely Negroe boys. Enquire at the post office..."; "A likely Negroe boy, about 15 of age, has had the small pox and measles..." Finally, there are reports of runaways, such as: "...Run away from the Subscriber, nearly Chestertown... a servant man, named Richard Crawford, an Irishman, tall and well made, several red specks in his cheeks, speaks good English and some French; had when he went away a country cloth mill'd waistcoat streaked black and white... and a wig..." Naturally, there is even more interesting content from within the colonies and around the world. In unusually clean condition, with the slightest browning to extreme edges and a couple of insignificant stains.
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Autographs-Coins-Currency-Americana
9:00 AM PT - Feb 10th, 2008
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Early American
P.O. Box 3507
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
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