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Lot 114

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. The Duty of a Freeman, Addressed to ...

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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. The Duty of a Freeman, Addressed to the Electors of Great Britain. N.p., [1780]. 8vo. 7pp. printed pamphlet (old folds, re?inserted into modern wrappers, early shelf number on title?page). FIRST EDITION of this very rare pamphlet authored by an unknown ?Anglo?Saxon?. We could only locate one copy selling in the rooms which was in 1920 at the American Art Association. ?An exhortation to the Electors of Great Britain to raise their country from the inglorious state into which it has fallen through the actions of a wicked administration and a corrupt Parliament, responsible for the American Revolution? (entry note from the 1920 auction catalogue). Sabin 21474; not in Evans.