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Jay T. Snider Collection
Bloomsbury Auctions is proud to announce for sale the collection of Jay T. Snider, featuring the history of Philadelphia and important Americana. This unique collection is comprised of a combination of text and iconography representing the growth and development of the City of Brotherly Love. The sale includes impressive colonial material, important revolutionary and federal period items and a wealth of 19th century graphic representations. Also featured in this collection are the two famous printers, William Bradford and Benjamin Franklin, along with 17th and 18th century important manuscripts relating to the Logan, Norris and Dickinson families.
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![CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. A Declaration By the Repres: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. A Declaration By the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, Now Met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Seting [sic] forth the Causes and Necessity of their](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912322_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)


![FISHER, Thomas. Father Abraham's Pocket Almanack: FISHER, Thomas. Father Abraham's Pocket Almanack for the Year 1776.Philadelphia: John Dunlap, [1775]. 24 leaves, interleaved with 10 blanks, 12mo (110 x 60 mm). Marbled paper wrappers, disbound.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912325_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)


![LA VALIERE, Chevalier de; and Monsieur de LAMONT.: LA VALIERE, Chevalier de; and Monsieur de LAMONT. The Art of War.Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1776. [8], 264 pp., 8vo (192 x 115 mm). [And:] Major General de GRANDMAISON. A Treatise on the Military](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912328_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)

![EAS[T]BURN, Benjamin [but after Nicholas SCULL, M: EAS[T]BURN, Benjamin [but after Nicholas SCULL, Matthew CLARKSON and Mary BIDDLE]. A Plan of the City of Philadelphia, the Capital of Pennsylvania, from an Actual Survey.London: Andrew Dury, 4](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912330_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![EAS[T]BURN, Benjamin [but after Nicholas SCULL, M: EAS[T]BURN, Benjamin [but after Nicholas SCULL, Matthew CLARKSON and Mary BIDDLE]. Philadelphie, par Easburn, Arpenteur Général de Pensilvanie.Paris: Le Rouge, [c. 1776]. Engraved map (245 x 370](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912331_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)







![FISHER, Thomas. Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for: FISHER, Thomas. Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1777.Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, [1776]. 12 leaves, interleaved with 12 blanks, 12mo (100 x 60 mm). Contemporary floral "wallpaper"](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912339_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![FISHER, Sarah Logan. Poor Will's Pocket Almanack,: FISHER, Sarah Logan. Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1777.Philadelphia: J. Crukshank, [1776]. 12 leaves, interleaved with 12 blanks. 12mo (100 x 60 mm). Contemporary floral "wallpaper"](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912340_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![[PEMBERTON, Israel; and others.] To the President: [PEMBERTON, Israel; and others.] To the President and Council of Pennsylvania. The Remonstrance of the Subscribers, Freemen, and Inhabitants of the City of Philadelphia, now confined in the](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912341_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![[PEMBERTON, Israel; and others.] An Address to th: [PEMBERTON, Israel; and others.] An Address to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by Those Freemen, of the City of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason's Lodge, by virtue of a General](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912342_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)

