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A rare Philadelphia title from 1796...
A rare Philadelphia title from 1796...
Item # 705078
November 18, 1796
GALES'S INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER, Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1796
* Rare 18th century American publication
A quite rare title which lasted just one year from Sept. 16, 1796 till Sept. 12, 1797. Actually the continuation of the "Independent Gazetteer", which was later sold to "The Universal Gazette". Just 7 American institutions have scattered issues of this title.
Page 3 has a chart of election results for President & Vice President, by county in Penna. And a note that: "...informed that the returns of the Electors for this state were received complete & that the majority was in favour of the Jefferson Ticket. This, it is supposed, will decide the fate of the whole election."
Archivally rejoined at the spine, damp staining & mild wear at the fold, wide untrimmed margins. Great, patriotic engraving in the masthead.
AI notes: Gales’s Independent Gazetteer was a short-lived Jeffersonian Republican newspaper published in Philadelphia by Joseph Gales Sr. from September 1796 to September 1797. It succeeded earlier versions of The Independent Gazetteer, originally founded by Eleazar Oswald. Gales, a radical English émigré and associate of Thomas Paine, used the paper to report political news and congressional debates with a Republican slant. Though it lasted only a year, the paper is historically significant for its role in early American political journalism and as the starting point for the influential Gales publishing family.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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