The Pennsylvania Journal and The Weekly Advertiser. No. 1510.

Estimate

$400–$600

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA). [SALOMON, HAYM]

printer

Thomas Bradford

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

20 July 1782

Description

4pp. Prominent advertisement top of first page by Haym Salomon(s) notifying the public of his brokerage services.

summary

Haym Salomon (1740-85) was an early American merchant and Revolutionary patriot, who aided the war effort by way of his business as a broker and commission merchant, extending liberal advances of cash to officers of the Government. Salomon was an important contributor to the founding of Congregation Mikve Israel of Philadelphia and worked asssiduously to attain political rights for Jews in America. “…(Salomon) constitutes an outstanding example of devotion to the American cause.” DAB, XVI 313-14.

Foxed, torn along central fold, folio

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