Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company, comprising their correspondence with Dutch firm Geyer, De la Lande & Fynje

by Foster, William Company

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

50pp., manuscript throughout. Folio. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, with Letter Book stamped in gilt on red leather label on upper cover. Covers detached and contents loose and some leaves chipped at edges. Once used as a scrapbook with some remnants, but entirely legible. Item #315277 On 30 Aug. 1783, with Anglo-American hostilities having ceased and eager to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the

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