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Sale 505: Travel & Exploration, Cartography & Americana from the Library of Glen McLaughlin (with additions) (#505) 04/25/2013 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #3 Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... For the Year of Our Lord 1790... - With an early printing of the Bill of Rights

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(Almanack)

Title:

Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... For the Year of Our Lord 1790... - With an early printing of the Bill of Rights

Author:

Hutchins, John Nathan

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

H. Gaine

Date Published:

[1789]

Description:

48 pp. 17.5x11 cm (7x4¼"), wrappers.

Scarce issue of Hutchins' long-running series of popular almanacs. The almanac includes the United States Constitution along with an early printing of the Bill of Rights, which was first printed separately in October of 1789. Evans, 21901; Drake, Almanacs, 5971.

Condition:

Edges worn, 1" wide strip lacking along the right side of the title leaf with some loss of type, early owner's name in ink in margin of two leaves; paper browned, foxing; very good.

Item#:

234801

Headline:

Early printing of the Bill of Rights 1789
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