The Star Spangled Banner. Written During the Bombardment of Fort McHenry on the 12th & 13th Set. 1814

by Francis Scott Key

$25,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Baltimore: Published and Sold by T. Carr, 1821 . 4to 13.125” x 10” , early three-quarters burgundy morocco. 2 pp. in larger volume of sheet music, engraved vignette picturing the bombardment of Fort McHenry. CONDITION: Very good, moderate foxing and toning; exterior of volume rubbed with some splitting to lower spine, but solid. The second Baltimore edition of the Star Spangled Banner, and the first to

• Binding: Leather

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