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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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![WILL, Johann Martin. [Untitled view of the Battle: WILL, Johann Martin. [Untitled view of the Battle of Germantown].[Augsburg: c. 1778]. Engraving (200 x 295 mm). Five numbered references within descriptive text below the image. Condition: lower](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912348_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![[MONTRESOR, John.] A Plan of the City and Environ: [MONTRESOR, John.] A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, with the Works and Encampments of His Majesty's Forces under the Command of Lieutenant General Sir William Howe, K. B.London:](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912349_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![DES BARRES, J. F. W. [Untitled map of the environ: DES BARRES, J. F. W. [Untitled map of the environs of Philadelphia.]London: 1777. 2-sheet engraved map, hand-colored in outline (770 x 1055 mm). Condition: dampstaining extending from the left,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912351_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![DES BARRES, J. F. W. A Chart of Delawar [sic] Bay: DES BARRES, J. F. W. A Chart of Delawar [sic] Bay with Soundings and Nautical Observations.London: 1779. Double-page engraved map (770 x 560 mm). Printed on LVG watermarked paper. Condition: loss](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912352_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)

![PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL, Carrier's Address. New Year: PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL, Carrier's Address. New Year's Verses of those who deliver the Pennsylvania Journal, to the subscribers.Philadelphia: [Thomas Bradford], 1 January 1780. Letterpress broadside](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912354_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![(ARNOLD, Benedict). A Representation of the Figur: (ARNOLD, Benedict). A Representation of the Figures exhibited and paraded through the Streets of Philadelphia, on Saturday, the 30th of September 1780.[Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, November 1780].](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912355_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)

![[SAINTE-CROIX, Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph Guilhem: [SAINTE-CROIX, Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph Guilhem de Clermont-Lodève; Baron de.] Dello Stato e della sorte delle Colonie degli Antichi popoli."Filadelfia" [Philadelphia, but probably Florence]: 1780.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912357_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)

![[WHARTON, Samuel.] Plain Facts: being an examinat: [WHARTON, Samuel.] Plain Facts: being an examination into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America to their respective countries; and a Vindication of the Grant, from the Six United Nations of](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912359_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
![FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. Postscript to the Freeman's Jo: FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. Postscript to the Freeman's Journal, Oct. 24. How are the Mighty fallen![Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 24 October 1781]. 1 p. broadside newspaper extra (405 x 312 mm). Text in](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912360_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)





![DIRECTORY - Francis WHITE (compiler). The Philade: DIRECTORY - Francis WHITE (compiler). The Philadelphia Directory.Philadelphia: Young, Stewart and M'Culloch, 1785. [4], 98, [2] pp., 8vo (192 x 115 mm). Contemporary paper wrappers. Housed in a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912366_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)

![CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Weatherwise's Federal: CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Weatherwise's Federal Almanack, For the Year of our Lord, 1788.Boston: John Norman, [1787]. 24 pp., 8vo (165 x 105 mm). Woodcut illustration of the Grand Convention on the](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/17444/5912368_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1226588954)
