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1740 Issue of The Boston Weekly News-Letter, Featuring the First Great Awakening and Rev. George Whitefield, Plus Georgia's Oglethorpe Expedition against the Spanish
Boston: John Draper. New=England, The Boston Weekly News-letter, April 3, 1740. Complete in 2 pp., Subscriber's name "Rev.d Mr. Samll Cooke" penned in the margin.
A fresh example of this colonial paper in Very Good+ condition with untrimmed (deckled) edges (light scattered foxing and some stains in the blank margins; paper is strong), and a noteworthy provenance. A scarce opportunity to own a very early issue of America's first successful newspaper.
Content:
Great Awakening begins to take hold in America (Philadelphia)
p1/c1. A lengthy treatise on public morality by "LAICUS."
p2/c1. Rev. George Whitefield mentioned.
Good currency/coinage content from Massachusetts p2/c1
Excellent Georgia & Florida content – Gov./Gen. James Oglethorpe's Expedition against the Spanish at St. Augustine p1/c2
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Peterson's Magazine for 1864, January to December, inclusive. A complete year of Peterson's heavily illustrated fashion and literary magazine. Remarkably silent on the Civil War considering the dates! Ladies fashion, Paris fashion, poems, short and serialized stories, etc. bound with and 1856 United States Magazine featuring the U.S. Capitol Building. Ex-Libris

Ownership signature of John A. Cisco, son of John J. Cisco, Lincoln and Buchanan's assistant treasury secretary. Spine cracked, scattered foxing, front board just starting, otherwise clean. Edition Points: Seven line Note opposite Contents page - bottom margin of page 361 the letter Q with asterisk - on page 433 no letter T on margin - after page 465 six pages of ads with the first four featuring Melville titles. "Harper and Brothers, New York" blind-stamped front and back board.