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Rare 1783 Speech for Peace: America and Britain

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American Revolution
1783 Boston Imprint "The Happy Restoration Of Peace"

April 29, 1783, Printed Speech on Peace between America and Great Britain, Boston, MA, Distributed by E. Russell, Boston, About Fine.
Printed Booklet, "AN ORATION DELIVERED AT IPSWICH, At the Request of a Number of the Inhabitants, On the Twenty-ninth of April, 1783; ON ACCOUNT OF THE HAPPY RESTORATION OF PEACE, Between Great Britain and the United States of America." Written by Levi Frisbie. This is a first edition, still bound to the original printed wrappers, although most of the pages are dog-eared and the last leaf of the booklet is missing, making the speech incomplete. 7.5" x 6", 22 pages, various degrees of soiling, toning, and foxing, bound with string. A historic American Revolutionary War era imprint.

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Coins-Currency-Autographs-Americana
9:00 AM PT - May 18th, 2008

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